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How the Shotgun Became a Favorite Among Civil War Soldiers

In the 1840s and 1850s, companies in Liege, Belgium, produced thousands of double-barreled percussion shotguns. These imported 12-gauge models were ...
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How Salsa Music Took Root in New York City

Decades before the twirling, hip-shaking grooves of salsa music exploded into a global phenomenon, it emerged from the glitzy New ...
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Why Are All These Pioneering Aviators Buried in Burbank?

All pilots must make that mysterious final flight and leave their mortal remains behind. Some choose to have their ashes ...
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Talking to Ghosts: How Two Sisters’ Hoax Sparked a Spiritualism Craze

In March 1848, two young sisters in Hydesville, New York came up with what they may have considered a fun ...
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P-47D Thunderbolt: The Plane Brazilian Pilots Flew in WWII

REPUBLIC P-47D THUNDERBOLT Wingspan: 40 feet 9 inchesWing area: 300 square feetLength: 36 feet 1 inchHeight: 14 feet 2 inchesEmpty ...
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Edward May’s Strange Monster

In 1639, doctor Edward May published a 40-page text about a serpent he found in the heart of a 21-year-old ...
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How G.I. Joe Jump-Started the Action Figure Craze

Action figures were originally toys that were ready for “action,” because they were more flexible than similar-sized dolls. Designed with ...
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That One Time the US Navy Torpedoed FDR

During World War II, the U.S. Navy almost achieved what the Axis powers could only dream of: killing President Franklin ...
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When Chinese Americans Were Scapegoated for Bubonic Plague

When bubonic plague hit Honolulu and San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, officials in those cities quickly ...
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8 Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Were Overturned

It’s extremely rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn one of its own decisions. Of the more than 25,500 ...
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The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival

On 30 January 1959, the late Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party in St Pancras Town Hall in ...
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The Mennonite National Anthem

Lester Glick’s year in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment cost him his hoped-for career and also left him with an eating ...
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The Harder They Come

In 1972, a low-budget Jamaican film and its legendary soundtrack helped popularise reggae music in the world. Ben Henderson spoke ...
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The fall of Slobodan Milosevic

On 5 October 2000, protests in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade spiralled into an attack on the parliament building. Hours later ...
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The release of Gilad Shalit

On 18 October 2011, Israeli solider Gilad Shalit was freed after spending over five years in captivity in Gaza. His ...
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The funk and soul club that changed Manchester

In 1962, Nigerian man Phil Magbotiwan opened a brand new nightclub in Manchester, England. In part because of his own ...
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Dassler brothers’ rift

In 1948, brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler who lived in a small German town fell out. They went on to ...
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Episode 199: Nee Blinky

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Sunset Village by Group Listening Winter Memory by ...
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The Rise of the Guinea Pigs

The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for ...
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The raising of the Mary Rose

It’s 40 years since a wrecked English Tudor warship was brought back to the surface. On 11 October 1982, 60 ...
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Leibniz (1646-1716) and the Curve of Quickest Descent – Professor Jan Van Maanen

The main speaker, Professor Jan van Maanen will discuss Leibniz (1646-1716) and the Curve of Quickest Descent The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham ...
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Why Businesses Fail and What Can Be Done About It – Morgen Witzel

Why do businesses fail and what can we do about it?: gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/why-businesses-fail-and-what-can-be-done-about-it Businesses fail all the time. They either go broke, destroying value and throwing people out of work, or ...
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The London Accord Autumn Conference – Whose Brains? ESG Data and Intellectual Property [Part 2]

The London Accord Autumn Conference Whose Brains? ESG Data and Intellectual Property Hosted by City of London Corporation, Gresham College, Securities and Investment Institute, Tomorrow's Company, UKSIF - the Sustainable ...
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Geometry: A New Weapon in the Fight Against Viruses – Professor Reidun Twarock

The Joint London Mathematical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture: gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/geometry-a-new-weapon-in-the-fight-against-viruses Viruses like the common cold look like tiny footballs and mathematics can therefore help to understand how they form and evolve ...
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Joseph Haydn, Op 76 No 2 in D minor

This quartet is sometimes known as the "Quinten" or "Fifths" Quartet, because of the opening descending intervals in its first movement. This movement is tightly structured around the "fifths" motive, ...
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The Making of Modern Celebrity: Famous for fifteen minutes – and longer

The historian Daniel Boorstin famously defined a celebrity as "a person who is well-known for his well-knownness." A person who is famous for ...
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Time for a Change: Introducing irreversible time in economics

An exploration of the remarkable consequences of using Boltzmann's 1870s probability theory and cutting-edge 20th Century mathematics in economic settings. An understanding of risk, market stability and economic inequality emerges ...
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Haydn in London: Papa Haydn or genial revolutionary?

This concert looks at Haydn's posthumous reception and his influences on the other composers. Haydn taught Beethoven briefly on his return from London in 1795 and both Mozart and Beethoven ...
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Set Square and Stethoscope: The Architecture of London’s Medical Profession by Professor Simon Thurley

This lecture follows the architectural journey of the medical profession in the capital from a closed shop to a nationalised democratic institution. The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture ...
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