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**Retropod**

Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters – forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.

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Why isn’t lynching illegal? Dec 03, 2019

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It is one of the worst expressions of racism in American history. And there’s no federal law to prevent it.

A letter from home Dec 02, 2019

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A German woman discovered that her childhood home was stolen from a Jewish family who fled Nazi Germany. Last year, she tracked down the address of one of the children, and wrote him a letter.

The test that changed childbirth Nov 29, 2019

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In the 1950s, Dr. Virginia Apgar created a quick test that nurses have since performed on millions of babies just after birth. She is considered one of the most important figures in modern medicine — a world that almost pushed her away.

A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve? Nov 28, 2019

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Beginning in the earliest days of baseball, fans, journalists and even physicists disputed whether or not pitchers could make a ball curve.

Benjamin Franklin's complicated relationship with turkeys Nov 27, 2019

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Benjamin Franklin, the most colorful of America's Founding Fathers, had a misunderstood, electrical and ultimately homicidal relationship with turkeys.

The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food Nov 26, 2019

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Weeks before Thanksgiving, 1959, cranberries were declared unsafe to eat. The race was on to save America’s favorite holiday side dish.

How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman" Nov 25, 2019

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No women served on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991. The ugly Anita Hill hearings changed that.

The man who filmed JFK's assassination Nov 22, 2019

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For many, memories of that devastating day quickly revert to that silent, flickering sequence captured by Abraham Zapruder. It is as chilling as it is familiar: the approaching convertible, the waves of a crowd about to lose its innocence.

The 'Night Witches' Nov 21, 2019

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During World War II, around 80 Russian women took to the skies and risked their lives to fight against the Germans.

Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena Nov 20, 2019

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The history of subpoenas, and the fiery congressional hearings that have captivated Americans for centuries began with a Founding Father raising his hand to say, “Investigate me!”

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