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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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The first campus shooting Oct 21, 2019

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A professor at The University of Virginia was fatally shot by a student in 1840.

The origins of the Unknown Soldier Oct 18, 2019

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The story of how the anonymous soldier came to rest inside the famous tomb is almost as unknown as his identity.

America and warfare were never the same after World War I Oct 16, 2019

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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.

The campus massacre before Kent State Oct 15, 2019

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The first mass police shooting on a U.S. college campus happened two years before the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University.

Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter Oct 14, 2019

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Mark Twain first laid eyes on a “newfangled typing machine,” as he called it, sometime in the early 1870s.

The presidential pardon the country never forgot Oct 11, 2019

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When Gerald Ford took over the presidency after Richard Nixon’s resignation, he soon made a controversial choice: he pardoned Nixon.

How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials Oct 10, 2019

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

Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions Oct 09, 2019

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In 1950, Mary Ann Van Hoof gathered an estimated 100,000 people to see the Virgin Mary on a farm in Necedah, Wisconsin.

Close encounters with the Capitol's Demon Cat Oct 08, 2019

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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.

New York's mad bomber Oct 07, 2019

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In 1956, New York City’s bomb squad used criminal profiling to catch a terrorist known as “The Mad Bomber.”

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