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The Eruption at Heimaey Jun 01, 2016

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In 1973, after a series of earthquakes, a fissure opened up on the eastern side of the Icelandic island of Heimaey. As the eruption developed over time, it became more dangerous, and a variety of measures were undertaken to stop the flow of lava.

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The Women of Bauhaus May 30, 2016

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While the Bauhaus school is well known, and its original manifesto proclaimed an environment of equality, most of the women who went to the school were ushered into specific courses, rather than given their choice of studies.

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April Calahan on France's Fashionable Resistance May 25, 2016

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Fashion historian April Calahan joined Holly for a talk about the surprising ways that women of France protested German occupation during WWII.

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Tarrare, a Case of Polyphagia May 23, 2016

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Insatiable hunger completely dominated every aspect of this French man's existence in the 18th century. His life took a series of twists and turns, but his condition was never truly diagnosed or cured.

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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun May 18, 2016

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No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France when she was commissioned to paint Marie Antoinette. She painted royalty and nobility throughout Europe, even as her personal life had its ups and downs.

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Six Impossible Episodes: Possible Apocrypha May 16, 2016

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We get a lot of requests for topics that are very interesting, but for which there's very little information. In some cases, those people or events may have never existed. Here's a collection of six such tales.

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Hercules Mulligan, Spy on the Inside Pt. 2 May 11, 2016

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After years of protesting and resisting British rule in New York, Mulligan passed important information on to George Washington, possibly saving his life. How did that one-time act of happenstance blossomed into a career as a full-time spy?

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Hercules Mulligan, Spy on the Inside Pt. 1 May 09, 2016

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Hercules Mulligan was indeed a real person who passed intelligence to George Washington, mostly through two means - one was an enslaved man named Cato, and the other was the Culper Spy Ring.

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Women in the USPS May 04, 2016

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Women have been part of mail delivery in the U.S. since colonial times, but it took centuries for women postal workers to become commonplace. Even through times when certain USPS jobs were off limits to them, women were still vital to the postal service.

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Live From FanX: Nazis, the Occult and Indiana Jones May 02, 2016

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It's fairly common knowledge that the Nazis were prolific looters and that there was occult interest among the officers of the organization. How weird did things actually get, and how close are the Indiana Jones movies to what really happened?

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