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When Women Crowdfunded Radium For Marie Curie
The element was hard to get and extremely expensive but essential for Curie’s cancer research Curie, who lived in France for much of her life, had done an interview with an American reporter named Marie Meloney the year before. In … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 – You’re Dead To Me, Josephine Baker
Greg Jenner is joined by historical expert Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to travel to 1920s Paris and meet the phenomenal Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was a renowned performer and entertainer, a civil rights activist and even a … Continue reading
How Aztecs told history
Camilla Townsend is distinguished professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Her research in Nahuatl-language sources has garnered numerous awards, including a Guggenheim and a Public Scholar award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her … Continue reading
Shelter in Place
March 20th through April 29th, 2020 was a very dark time for New York City, and a time we should do our best not to return to. Shot entirely from my apartment window during the first month of the city’s … Continue reading
Shot Tower: How Lead Shot is Made (1950) | British Pathé
(FILM ID:1273.07) Lead shot making in Edmonton, Greater London. L/Ss of large tower. The commentator says that the tower is “one of three in the whole of England designed for making lead shot.” M/Ss of bars of lead. C/U of … Continue reading
Valley of the Fallen – 99% Invisible
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away. Beneath the cross, there’s a sprawling Benedictine monastery and a basilica carved … Continue reading
Einstein’s divorce letters
Tibees This time we look at Einstein’s messy divorce from Mileva in order to pursue his cousin Elsa. My previous video on Einstein’s love letters: https://youtu.be/YDOWMgnWppA All letters shown in this video have been transcribed and translated (from German). Timestamps: … Continue reading
HISTORY OF IDEAS – Love
We think of love as merely spontaneous – but it is in fact an emotion acutely shaped by its history. Understanding more about the course of love in time can help us think through our options in the present.
What does a 1920s BIRTHDAY CAKE taste like?
I make myself a chocolate birthday cake using a 100 year old recipe, and I explore the history of birthday cake and why we put candles on them. Help Support the Channel with Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tastinghistory Follow Tasting History with Max … Continue reading
Freedom House Ambulance Service – 99% Invisible
Back in the 1960s and 70s, in the city of Pittsburgh, there was a nickname for guys like John Moon –The Unemployables. This nickname meant that you simply could not get hired, no matter where you went for a job. … Continue reading
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