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When the North Vietnamese Outsmarted American Bombers

On July 24, 1965, four McDonnell F-4C Phantom fighter-bombers of Leopard Flight joined an airstrike against the Dien Bien Phu ...
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Hell Hath No Fury Like… FDR? Inside the President’s Campaign to Punish Democrats

President Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933 in the depths of the Depression. Virtually all of FDR’s major New ...
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Court Packing Attempts Are Nothing New, Just Ask FDR

At the end of his first term, the biggest threat to Franklin Roosevelt’s ambitious agenda appeared to be the U.S ...
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Hospitals Are Always a Good Idea, and Other Vital Lessons From the Civil War

On August 11, 1861, Philip C. Davis, a U.S. Army surgeon, looked at the mayhem around him in Springfield, Mo., ...
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Winchester’s Burying Grounds: Where North Meets South

Winchester National Cemetery was established on land appropriated for burials during the Civil War. Although the land was used for ...
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Helen Duncan, (Not) Scotland’s Last Witch

Helen Duncan is sometimes described as Scotland’s last witch, or the last person imprisoned for witchcraft in Britain, or the ...
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SYMHC Classics: Matthew Hopkins

This 2019 episode covers England’s largest and deadliest set of witch trials. They were largely influenced by one man, Matthew ...
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Build your own P-61 Black Widow

One of the most famous Northrop P-61 night fighters was a Black Widow from the 548th Night Fighter Squadron named ...
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The Northrop P-61 Black Widow and its Deadly Web

Not counting bombers, transports and more specialized types, the United States produced just over 100,000 fighter aircraft of 11 different ...
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How the Learjet Became the Ultimate Status Symbol

You probably use one of William P. Lear’s inventions every day. No, not a Learjet—unless you’re richer than we reckon—but ...
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Castrating Pablo Escobar’s hippos

When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar died in 1993 having built a billion dollar cocaine empire, he left behind a zoo ...
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The power of Jomo Kenyatta

In the 1970s, Sharad Rao was Kenya’s assistant director of public prosecutions, working closely with Kenyan leader Jomo Kenyatta who ...
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Festival of Light

In September 1971, Christians from all over the UK held the Nationwide Festival of Light to protest against what they ...
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The Department of Physiological Hygiene

In the final year of the Second World War, 36 men spent a year in a dingy set of rooms ...
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Iran-Iraq War begins

The Iran-Iraq war began on 22 September 1980. It lasted for eight years and became one of the bloodiest wars ...
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The first Pope to visit Africa

In the 1960s, popes rarely left the Vatican City. So it was a major event when Pope Paul VI accepted ...
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Ancient fossils give new insight

In 1967, a major breakthrough was made in our understanding of the evolution of the world. A student discovered fossils ...
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The child evacuees of World War Two

The 1 September 1939 was Kitty Baxter’s ninth birthday, it was also the day her life and millions of other ...
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The last days of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901. In this programme from 2010, Claire Bowes looks back on the monarch’s last ...
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Outliers, Revisited

Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for ...
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Genius or Madness?

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide" (Dryden). There often seems to be a link between creativity and mental illness. Many great ...
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Early Christianity and Today: some shared questions

The Most Reverend and Right Honorable the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury discusses and dissolves the assumptions and accusations that the early Christian Church sometimes has to face. In doing so, ...
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Seminar: The British and American Constitutions

New York University in London jointly with Gresham College An opportunity to discuss in depth some issues raised at the public lecture on 16 Aril 2008. This event will be ...
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Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World – Blair

Professor The Lord Giddens Response by Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE FBA This is a part of the series Leadership and Change: Prime Ministers in the Post-War World. The other lectures ...
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Panel Discussion: Why Macroeconomics Needs A Rethink

A panel discussion including questions to panel members from the audience. The panel includes: John Greenwood George Tait Professor Richard Werner And is chaired by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli The ...
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After Iraq: Shall we ever Intervene again? – Lord Ashdown KBE

The former leader of the Liberal Democrats, the Rt Hon Lord Ashdown KBE, recently stood down as the International Communities' High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During his time there, ...
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Britten and Auden: Inventive Days, inebriated nights at 7 Middagh Street, Brooklyn

In 1936, Britten and Auden established a friendship and creative partnership whilst working at the GPO film unit in Blackheath, London, producing iconic films such as "Night Mail." With war ...
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Haydn in London – The Enlightenment and Revolution

Haydn was the most famous composer of his day. By the time he visited London in 1791-95, he was a celebrity courted by the monarchy and his music was widely ...
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Gresham’s Law in Economics: Background to the Crisis

Sir Thomas Gresham said that "bad money drives out good". In Economics, bad theory has driven out good. This fact shaped the decisions of bankers and regulators and thus serves ...
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