Compact Biographies
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Oct 27, 2021
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Each week, we aim to bring you interesting information about interesting people in the form of short, compact biographies, which can be read on our website or listened to as a podcast episode. We hope you enjoy them.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Richard Feynman
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May 04, 2026 |
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Thurgood Marshall
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Sidney Poitier
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Mary Anning
|
Mar 23, 2026 |
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Scott Joplin
|
Mar 16, 2026 |
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Tina Turner
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Dorothy Hodgkin
|
Feb 23, 2026 |
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Captain Kidd
|
Feb 16, 2026 |
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Alan Rickman
|
Feb 09, 2026 |
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Ramanujan
|
Feb 02, 2026 |
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Brigitte Bardot
|
Jan 26, 2026 |
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Sally Ride
|
Jan 19, 2026 |
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Jane Goodall
|
Jan 05, 2026 |
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The Black Prince
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Alan Turing
|
Dec 22, 2025 |
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Ella Fitzgerald
|
Dec 15, 2025 |
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Sitting Bull
|
Dec 08, 2025 |
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Sylvia Plath
|
Dec 01, 2025 |
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Sir Francis Walsingham
|
Nov 24, 2025 |
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Bob Marley
|
Nov 17, 2025 |
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Darth Vader
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Frodo Baggins
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Huckleberry Finn
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Captain Ahab
|
Nov 11, 2025 |
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Odysseus
|
Nov 10, 2025 |
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Don Quixote
|
Nov 07, 2025 |
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Atticus Finch
|
Nov 06, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Bennet
|
Nov 05, 2025 |
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Harry Potter
|
Nov 04, 2025 |
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Sherlock Holmes
|
Nov 03, 2025 |
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Andrew Carnegie
|
Oct 27, 2025 |
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Quincy Jones
|
Oct 20, 2025 |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
|
Oct 13, 2025 |
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Boudica
|
Oct 06, 2025 |
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Johannes Gutenberg
|
Sep 29, 2025 |
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Robert Redford
|
Sep 22, 2025 |
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Thomas More
|
Sep 15, 2025 |
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Josephine Baker
|
Sep 08, 2025 |
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Stephen Hawking
|
Sep 01, 2025 |
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Isabella I of Castille
|
Aug 25, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 20 - James A. Garfield
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 19 - Rutherford B. Hayes
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 18 - Ulysses S. Grant
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 17 - Andrew Johnson
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 16 - Abraham Lincoln
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 15 - James Buchanan
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 14 - Franklin Pierce
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 13 - Millard Fillmore
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 12 - Zachary Taylor
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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U.S. Presidents - 11 - James K. Polk
|
Aug 11, 2025 |
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Hatshepsut
|
Aug 04, 2025 |
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Carl Jung
|
Jul 28, 2025 |
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Grace Hopper
|
Jul 21, 2025 |
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James Joyce
|
Jul 14, 2025 |
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
|
Jul 07, 2025 |
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Leon Trotsky
|
Jun 30, 2025 |
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Harper Lee
|
Jun 23, 2025 |
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Salvador Dali
|
Jun 16, 2025 |
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Katherine Johnson
|
Jun 09, 2025 |
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Genghis Khan
|
Jun 02, 2025 |
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Helen Keller
|
Apr 07, 2025 |
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Natalie Wood
|
Mar 31, 2025 |
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Frank Herbert
|
Mar 24, 2025 |
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Lucille Ball
|
Mar 17, 2025 |
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John Denver
|
Mar 10, 2025 |
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Mata Hari
|
Mar 03, 2025 |
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Ernest Hemingway
|
Feb 24, 2025 |
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Malcolm X
|
Feb 17, 2025 |
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Roy Orbison
|
Feb 10, 2025 |
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Gregory Peck
|
Feb 03, 2025 |
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William Shakespeare
|
Jan 06, 2025 |
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Aristotle
|
Dec 30, 2024 |
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Anne Frank
|
Dec 23, 2024 |
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Alfred Hitchcock
|
Dec 16, 2024 |
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Margaret Thatcher
|
Dec 09, 2024 |
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Henry Ford
|
Dec 02, 2024 |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
|
Nov 25, 2024 |
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Queen Victoria
|
Nov 18, 2024 |
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Bette Davis
|
Nov 11, 2024 |
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James Earl Jones
|
Nov 04, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 10 - John Tyler
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 09 - William Henry Harrison
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 08 - Martin Van Buren
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 07 - Andrew Jackson
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 06 - John Quincy Adams
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 05 - James Monroe
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 04 - James Madison
|
Oct 15, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 03 - Thomas Jefferson
|
Oct 13, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 02 - John Adams
|
Oct 11, 2024 |
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U.S. Presidents - 01 - George Washington
|
Oct 09, 2024 |
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Richard Pryor
|
Oct 07, 2024 |
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Gary Cooper
|
Sep 30, 2024 |
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S17E08 - Galileo Galilei
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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S17E07 - Hypatia
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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S17E06 - John Lennon
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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S17E05 - Karen Carpenter
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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S17E04 - Shirley Temple
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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S17E03 - Patrick Swayze
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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S17E02 - Buddy Holly
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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S17E01 - Catherine the Great
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 10 Lord Frederick North
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Aug 03, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 09 Augustus Henry Fitzroy
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 08 William Pitt 'The Elder'
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 07 George Grenville
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 06 John Stuart
|
Jul 26, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 05 Thomas Pelham-Holles
|
Jul 24, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 04 William Cavendish
|
Jul 22, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 03 Henry Pelham
|
Jul 20, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 02 Spencer Compton
|
Jul 18, 2024 |
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British Prime Ministers - 01 Robert Walpole
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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S16E10 - John F. Kennedy
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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S16E09 - Ingrid Bergman
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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S16E08 - Queen Elizabeth I
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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S16E07 - Karl Marx
|
Jul 07, 2024 |
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Howard Hughes - S16E06
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Juan Peron - S16E05
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Charlton Heston - S16E04
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Florence Nightingale - S16E03
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May 27, 2024 |
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Oliver Reed - S16E02
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May 20, 2024 |
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Gus March-Phillipps - S16E01
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May 13, 2024 |
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Cleopatra - S15E10
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May 06, 2024 |
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Bing Crosby - S15E09
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Benjamin Franklin - S15E08
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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James Dean - S15E07
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson - S15E06
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Carrie Fisher - S15E05
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Emmeline Pankhurst - S15E04
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Oliver Cromwell - S15E03
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Michael Jackson - S15E02
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Greta Garbo - S15E01
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Nikola Tesla - S14E10
|
Nov 28, 2021 |
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Winston Churchill - S14E09
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Katharine Hepburn - S14E08
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Jacques Cousteau - S14E07
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Spencer Tracy - S14E06
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Niki Lauda - S14E05
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Lyndon B Johnson - S14E04
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Jimmy Stewart - S14E03
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Kurt Cobain - S14E02
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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George Orwell - S14E01
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte - S13E10
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Muhammad Ali - S13E09
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Taylor - S13E08
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Freddie Mercury - S13E07
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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Thomas Edison - S13E06
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Ayrton Senna - S13E05
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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King Henry VII - S13E04
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Sam Cooke - S13E03
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Oscar Wilde - S13E02
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Joan of Arc - S13E01
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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Alexander Graham Bell - S12E10
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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Mary Pickford - S12E09
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Jimi Hendrix - S12E08
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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King Charles I - S12E07
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Jane Austen - S12E06
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Vivien Leigh - S12E05
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Jules Verne - S12E04
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Al Capone - S12E03
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Martin Luther King Jr. - S12E02
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Ronald Reagan - S12E01
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Amy Winehouse - S11E10
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Ted Bundy - S11E09
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Jane Russell - S11E08
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Humphrey Bogart - S11E07
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Interview with Dr Moira Dolan
|
Jun 21, 2020 |
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Juan Manuel Fangio - S11E06
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Alexander the Great - S11E05
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Anne Boleyn - S11E04
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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Zsa Zsa Gabor - S11E03
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May 28, 2020 |
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James Madison - S11E02
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May 21, 2020 |
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Che Guevara - S11E01
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May 14, 2020 |
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Richard Nixon - S10E10
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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King George V - S10E09
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Charles Dickens - S10E08
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Grace Kelly - S10E07
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Sir Robert Peel - S10E06
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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John Wayne - S10E05
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Charles Darwin - S10E04
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Lauren Bacall - S10E03
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Sir Edmund Hillary - S10E02
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Herbert Hoover - S10E01
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer - S09E10
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Dean Martin - S09E09
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Walt Disney - S09E08
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Gene Roddenberry - S09E07
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Irving Berlin - S09E06
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Diana, Princess of Wales - S09E05
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Frank Sinatra - S09E04
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Christopher Columbus - S09E03
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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J. R. R. Tolkien - S09E02
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Feb 22, 2020 |
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John D Rockefeller - S09E01
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Feb 22, 2020 |
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Alexander Hamilton - S08E10
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Michelangelo - S08E09
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Gustave Eiffel - S08E08
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Davy Crockett - S08E07
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Lana Turner - S08E06
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Neil Armstrong - S08E05
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Amelia Earhart - S08E04
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Stan Laurel - S08E03
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Louis Braille - S08E02
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Ada Lovelace - S08E01
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Charles Babbage - S07E10
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Beatrix Potter - S07E09
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Bertrand Russell - S07E08
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Billie Holiday - S07E07
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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Jackie Robinson - S07E06
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Ginger Rogers - S07E05
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Johannes Kepler - S07E04
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Elvis Presley - S07E03
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Thomas Becket - S07E02
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Albert Einstein - S07E01
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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David Bowie - S06E10
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Audrey Hepburn - S06E09
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Douglas Adams - S06E08
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Thomas Jefferson - S06E07
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Lee Marvin - S06E06
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Rudyard Kipling - S06E05
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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Rosa Parks - S06E04
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Guy Fawkes - S06E03
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Ulysses S. Grant - S06E02
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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J. Edgar Hoover - S06E01
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Paul Newman - S05E10
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Charles Lindbergh - S05E09
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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Mary Shelley - S05E08
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Oliver Hardy - S05E07
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Clark Gable - S05E06
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Judy Garland - S05E05
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Bugsy Siegel - S05E04
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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Ava Gardner - S05E03
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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Charlie Chaplin - S05E02
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Steve McQueen - S05E01
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - S04E10
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May 03, 2018 |
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Catherine de Medici - S04E09
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Sammy Davis Junior - S04E08
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Bruce Lee - S04E07
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Julius Caesar - S04E06
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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Susan B. Anthony - S04E05
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Abraham Lincoln - S04E04
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Nina Simone - S04E03
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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John Paul Jones - S04E02
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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King Henry VIII - S04E01
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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John Dillinger - S03E04
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Waylon Jennings - S03E03
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Francis Crick - S03E02
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Marilyn Monroe - S03E01
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Vincent Van Gogh - S02E10
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Joan Crawford - S02E09
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Bobby Jones - S02E08
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Yuri Gagarin - S02E07
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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David Niven - S02E06
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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George Harrison - S02E05
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Queen Mary I of England - S02E04
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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Thomas Paine - S02E03
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Marie Curie - S02E02
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Nov 12, 2016 |
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Theodore Roosevelt - S02E01
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Isaac Asimov - S01E30
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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Woodrow Wilson - S01E29
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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Paul Revere - S01E28
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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Mary Todd Lincoln - S01E27
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Dec 18, 2014 |
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Jim Morrison - S01E26
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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Hernando Cortes - S01E25
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Dec 04, 2014 |
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Joe DiMaggio - S01E24
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Nov 27, 2014 |
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Boris Karloff - S01E23
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Nov 20, 2014 |
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Hedy Lamarr - S01E22
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Nov 13, 2014 |
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Marie Antoinette - S01E21
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Nov 06, 2014 |
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Claude Monet - S01E20
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Oct 30, 2014 |
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Pablo Picasso - S01E19
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Oct 23, 2014 |
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Patsy Cline - S01E18
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Oct 16, 2014 |
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Carole Lombard - S01E17
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Oct 09, 2014 |
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Bill Shankly - S01E16
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Michael Faraday - S01E15
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Sep 25, 2014 |
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Fay Wray - S01E14
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Sep 18, 2014 |
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Ralph Lauren - S01E13
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Sep 11, 2014 |
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Eleanor Roosevelt - S01E12
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Sep 04, 2014 |
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Richard Harris - S01E11
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Aug 28, 2014 |
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Jimmy Carter - S01E10
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Aug 21, 2014 |
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H. G. Wells - S01E09
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Aug 14, 2014 |
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Roald Dahl - S01E08
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Aug 07, 2014 |
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Alan Ladd - S01E07
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Jul 31, 2014 |
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Ferdinand Porsche - S01E06
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Jul 21, 2014 |
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Rocky Marciano - S01E05
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Jul 15, 2014 |
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H. P. Lovecraft - S01E04
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Jul 14, 2014 |
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Doc Holliday - S01E03
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Jul 13, 2014 |
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Alexander Fleming - S01E02
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Jul 12, 2014 |
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Louis Armstrong - S01E01
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Jul 11, 2014 |