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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.

Latest Episodes:

Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project Nov 12, 2018

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Ronneberg started speaking about his experience in history in recent years.

America and warfare were never the same after World War I Nov 09, 2018

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Along with staggering death tolls, the "Great War" generated memorable literature, geopolitical upheaval, hope, disillusion, the Russian Revolution and the seeds of World War II.

Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship Nov 08, 2018

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In 1895, the United States tried to deny an American citizen entry to the country even though he was born on U.S. soil.

How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials Nov 07, 2018

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Some believed that a lottery was more democratic than a vote.

The makings of an electoral heist Nov 06, 2018

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Gerrymandering became a real electoral cudgel with a project called REDMAP.

Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006 Nov 05, 2018

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Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, had two different approaches to taking back the House of Representatives. Their feud wasn't pretty.

Fall back, spring forward Nov 02, 2018

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Why, oh, why is daylight savings a thing? It's because for roughly two decades after World War II, no one had any clue what time it was.

Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Marian apparitions Nov 01, 2018

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Van Hoof said she also has seen George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Joan of Arc.

Close encounters with the Capitol’s Demon Cat Oct 31, 2018

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From the mid-1800s to well into the 20th century, the Capitol’s Demon Cat was the top dog of Washington ghost stories.

How Pittsburgh's Mister Rogers talked to children about tragedy Oct 30, 2018

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Mister Rogers’s approach to dealing with grief began with an American tragedy.