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Behind the Scenes Minis: Robeson and Schrepfer

Tracy and Holly talk about how racism stripped Paul Robeson of his career, and Robeson’s support of the communist Soviet ...
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Robeson and Schrepfer

Tracy and Holly talk about how racism stripped Paul Robeson of his career, and Robeson’s support of the communist Soviet ...
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Shrine discovered with rituals never seen to take place before in an Egyptian temple

Researchers recently published new findings from the excavations of the Berenike site, a Greco-Roman seaport in the Egyptian Eastern desert ...
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The Nazis Had a Secret Project: Use Witchcraft to Make the Reich Last 1,000 Years

In 1935, the dreaded Nazi SS organization launched a top-secret project that took undercover agents to 260 locations across Germany ...
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7 Failed North American Colonies

The Spanish settlement of St. Augustine and the English colony of Jamestown were the first European colonies in North America ...
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How a 12-Year-Old Tricked the Navy Into Letting Him Fight in WWII

In 1942, Calvin Graham was an 11-year-old living in an abusive situation that forced him and his brother into a ...
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Why Puerto Rican Migration to the US Boomed After 1945

In the two decades after World War II, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans boarded planes for America, in what ...
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Why Ukraine Has Seen Centuries of Conflict

The land within the borders of modern Ukraine, a Texas-sized nation often called the “breadbasket of Europe,” has long been ...
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Why the Civil Rights Movement Was Really a Guerrilla War

In the war over civil rights, the two sides faced very different tasks. The enforcers of segregation were committed to ...
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Why the Civil Rights Movement Was Really a Guerrilla War

In the war over civil rights, the two sides faced very different tasks. The enforcers of segregation were committed to ...
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When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace

Queen Elizabeth II first opened her London home to the paying public on 7 August 1993. Tourists were allowed to ...
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Windsor Castle fire

In November 1992, a fire devastated Windsor Castle - a symbol of the British monarchy and Queen Elizabeth II’s weekend ...
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Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation Derby

A few days after Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, she had her best chance of owning the winner of the ...
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We’re Back … With More Experiments!

Revisionist History returns on September 15th with a saga about self-sacrifice. Plus, Malcolm offers a mea culpa for an unintended ...
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The car that charmed Brazil

Since its launch in the 1950s, the Brazilian version of the VW Beetle has had a special place in the ...
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The Candelaria child massacre

In 1993, eight homeless children were murdered outside the Candelaria church in Rio De Janeiro. The murders caused international outrage ...
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Building of Brasilia

In 1960, Brazil opened a new capital city in its remote central plains. The city was designed by modernist architect ...
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The murder that shocked Brazil

In 2002, an investigative journalist called Tim Lopes was brutally killed by a drug gang in Rio de Janeiro. The ...
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Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy

In March 1985, Brazil experienced the most traumatic moment in its transition to democracy when the first civilian president-elect in ...
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Episode 198: Weather Conditions Above Mount Fuji

The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. Music Arrival by by Domenique Dumont Bouquet by Bobby ...
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Haydn in London: The Revolutionary Drawing Room

This concert looks at 18th century music making and the demand for chamber music to be performed in the home. The talk will look at the Tavern Concert and will ...
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Brahms the progressive; Schumann the visionary

Placing Schumann and Brahms into their historical context. The programme includes: Schumann: Five pieces "im Volkston", OP. 102 Brahms: Sonata in A major for ...
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Wolfgang Amade Mozart, K 421 in D minor

This is one of Mozart's six so-called "Haydn" quartets, dedicated to his famous predecessor and, as Mozart admitted in the dedication, the fruit of "langer und mühsamer Arbeit" (long and ...
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The Case for Sustainable Business

Sustainability combines the principles of economic growth, environmental stewardship, governance and social accountability. 'Sustainable' business, commerce and finance are the buzzwords in an age of social and environmental concern. But ...
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The Challenge of the Solo

Pavlo Beznosiuk, one of the world's leading baroque violinists, explains and demonstrates the challenge of music for solo violin; works by Nicola Matteis and Heinrich Biber lead to a discussion ...
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Are You Interested or Discounted? Long Finance Conference Panel Discussion by Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli

THE LONG FINANCE SPRING CONFERENCE Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Net Present Value (NPV) analyses have long been part of the financial analyst's toolbox. By deciding on a discount rate ...
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Rethinking: Lessons We can Learn from the Success of the Japanese Growth System – Professor Richard Werner

Richard Werner gives a presentation on conventional and inductive economics, deriving lessons from the growth of the Japanese economy. His assertions challenge the very foundations of economics and banking with ...
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Two Cities: The buildings of London and Paris in music and film

The City's fabled 'square mile' contains many of London's oldest surviving buildings, and also many of its newest. So it is appropriate to the City of London Festival's ongoing theme ...
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Long Commerce: Transactions across time

Taking off from a 2007 Gresham lecture "Stealing the Silver: How We Take From The Dispossessed, The Poor and Our Own Children", Michael intends to further explore equitable inter-generational economics ...
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