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Biographics: History One Life at a Time

For better of for worse these are the people who changed our world.

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156 - Augusto Pinochet - The Great Betrayal

156 - Augusto Pinochet - The Great Betrayal

Imagine, for a moment, that you were given the opportunity to become the most powerful person in your country. To get th... Read more

26 Nov 2019

25mins

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174 - Pat Garrett - The Lawman Who Shot Billy the Kid

174 - Pat Garrett - The Lawman Who Shot Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett once admitted that the thing he feared most was having his life defined by just one moment - the killing of ... Read more

23 Dec 2019

20mins

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175 - Franz Kafka - Chronicler of Darkness

175 - Franz Kafka - Chronicler of Darkness

One hundred years ago, a reclusive Czech-Jew living anonymously amid Prague’s spires managed to change the way we see th... Read more

24 Dec 2019

23mins

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128 - Charlie Chaplin - The Tragic Life of the Little Tramp

128 - Charlie Chaplin - The Tragic Life of the Little Tramp

Over a century after he first appeared in movies, Charlie Chaplin’s name still conjures images of a funny little guy in ... Read more

16 Oct 2019

23mins

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74 - Maximilien Robespierre - The Reign of Terror

74 - Maximilien Robespierre - The Reign of Terror

 Maximilien Robespierre promised to usher a fairer, more representative form of government to the French people. What th... Read more

25 Jul 2019

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79 - Che Guevara - Doctor, Revolutionary, Murderer

79 - Che Guevara - Doctor, Revolutionary, Murderer

He is the worldwide symbol of rebellion and revolutionary struggle. His silhouette is familiar to billions, representing... Read more

5 Aug 2019

20mins

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22 - George Patton - America's Most Famous General

22 - George Patton - America's Most Famous General

The leading generals of World War Two carried a huge weight on their shoulders. Their decisions could mean the differenc... Read more

9 May 2019

22mins

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72 - Christopher Columbus - Bad Explorer, Great Conman

72 - Christopher Columbus - Bad Explorer, Great Conman

 Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 to May 20, 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator. In 1492, he sailed across the Atl... Read more

23 Jul 2019

22mins

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205 - The Black Death

205 - The Black Death

The sun was setting on the Norwegian port of Bergen. It was early July, 1349, and off in the distance, a lone ship was c... Read more

7 Feb 2020

23mins

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80 - Simon Bolivar - Today a Hero. Yesterday a Tyrant.

80 - Simon Bolivar - Today a Hero. Yesterday a Tyrant.

 His nickname is still known across the globe. Simon Bolivar, El Libertador (The Liberator), the man who almost single-h... Read more

6 Aug 2019

23mins

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71 - Niccolo Machiavelli - It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both

71 - Niccolo Machiavelli - It is Better to Be Feared Than Loved... If You Cannot be Both

Italian diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli lived over five centuries ago but his influence among unscrupulous politicians reac... Read more

22 Jul 2019

17mins

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19 - The Madness of Howard Hughes

19 - The Madness of Howard Hughes

 He was the richest man in America, the world at his fingertips, and yet he was a prisoner to his own dark fears. His ac... Read more

6 May 2019

22mins

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10 – Vladimir Lenin – The Founder of the Soviet Union

10 – Vladimir Lenin – The Founder of the Soviet Union

He is the only person whose baby picture was flown into space, and whose body has been preserved for decades after his d... Read more

23 Jan 2019

33mins

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40 - Winston Churchill - In the Darkest Hour

40 - Winston Churchill - In the Darkest Hour

We imagine Winston Churchill with his signature cane, drinking scotch whiskey, and puffing on a Cuban cigar. His mouth i... Read more

4 Jun 2019

19mins

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73 - Adolf Eichmann - The Architect of the Holocaust

73 - Adolf Eichmann - The Architect of the Holocaust

Adolf Eichmann was a thin little man with bow legs and a hook nose. In the civilian world he had been viewed as of no ac... Read more

24 Jul 2019

19mins

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235 - Nero - Romes Antichrist

235 - Nero - Romes Antichrist

Imagine, for a moment, that you could travel backwards through time and give your sixteen year old self the powers of a ... Read more

24 Mar 2020

23mins

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238 - Codename Garbo - The Greatest Deception of World War II

238 - Codename Garbo - The Greatest Deception of World War II

The story we bring to you today shows exactly that. This is the story of three individuals who through imagination, cunn... Read more

27 Mar 2020

24mins

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164 - Edgar Allan Poe - Beyond the Horror

164 - Edgar Allan Poe - Beyond the Horror

Many of us have grown reading his tales on self-destruction, revenge and violence. Tales of premature burials, of ghastl... Read more

6 Dec 2019

22mins

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221 - Spartacus - The Slave Who Made Rome Tremble

221 - Spartacus - The Slave Who Made Rome Tremble

According to legend, Spartacus’s wife walked in on her sleeping husband one night to find that a snake had wrapped itsel... Read more

3 Mar 2020

20mins

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90 - Anastasia Romanov - Finding The Lost Princess

90 - Anastasia Romanov - Finding The Lost Princess

During the Bolshevik revolution, the Romanov dynasty was killed after over a hundred-year reign in Russia. The bodies of... Read more

23 Aug 2019

16mins

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