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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:

The Romanovs, Russia's 'odious' autocratic family Oct 15, 2018

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If you think your family is overrun with controlling lunatics, please meet the Romanovs.

The gory origins of the Waterloo teeth Oct 12, 2018

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More than 50,000 soldiers died during the Battle of Waterloo, but their teeth lived on.

How the teddy bear was born Oct 11, 2018

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In the fall of 1902, a year into his presidency, President Teddy Roosevelt set off to Mississippi for a bear-hunting vacation. It ended differently than planned.

The first black female White House reporter held the powerful accountable on civil rights Oct 10, 2018

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It was rare to be a woman or African American covering the White House in the 1940s. Alice Dunnigan was both.

The teenage girl who caught a Nazi monster Oct 09, 2018

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In the fall of 1957, as the world was moving on from World War II and the extermination of 6 million Jews, Sylvia Hermann knocked on the door of a modest home in Buenos Aires.

The complicated history of swimsuits and Miss America Oct 08, 2018

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The debate was always about more than swimsuits.

The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis Oct 05, 2018

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Freddie Oversteegen was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger.

The surprising history of the 25th Amendment Oct 04, 2018

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The 25th Amendment passed after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships Oct 03, 2018

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Despite warnings of icebergs, the John Rutledge set sail from Liverpool, England, to New York.