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Little Sleights
by Alanna Greer
Let me tell you about the person beside the throne. Here we talk about the women (and sometimes the men) who have been lost to the shadows of history, and try to cast a little light on their lives. They may not have mattered in the grand scheme, but everybody's got their Little Sleights.
Episodes
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The Canadian Titanic - RMS Empress of Ireland
In 1914 a Canadian ocean liner sunk to the bed of the St Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, taking over 1000 souls with her. It became the worst maritime disaster during peacetime in Canadian history. But before the tragedy, that ship was the RMS Empress of Ireland, the ship that helped realize…
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The Nation's Darling - Lotta Crabtree
One of the original child stars and, eventually, the highest paid actress of her day, she took the Wild West by storm in the late 1800s and forever left her mark on San Francisco and the American stages. But before all that, she was Lotta Crabtree.
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A Virginian Double Agent - James Armistead Lafayette
Slave turned spy, Virginian James Armistead help change the tide of the summer of 1781 and the Battle of Yorktown as he snuck secrets out of Charles Cornwallis' camp and into the hands of the Marquis de Lafayette. But once he'd help win the war, could he also win his freedom?
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The Three and A Half Wives of Julius Caesar, Part II | Pompeia and Calpurnia
Last time on the Three and a Half Wives..., we talked about Cossutia and Cornelia, Caesar's first two wives. This week, we examine Pompeia and Calpurnia, the scandal and the dream, and the end of an era.
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The Three and a Half Wives of Julius Caesar, Part I | Cossutia and Cornelia
They say behind every great man is a great woman, but who were these women who stood behind one of the most famous figures in history - Julius Caesar. Join me in Little Sleights as we do a deep dive into the lives of Cossutia, Cornelia, Pompeia, and Calpurnia - the three and a half wives of…
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The Queen of Lies - Marina Mniszech
Wife and mother of usurpers, two time Tsaritsa, destruction of a dynasty - she was a Polish-born noblewoman whose life became embroiled in the Russian Time of Troubles. Her actions sent ripples across two nations, raising two kings and dooming hundreds elsewhere, until her death in 1614. But…
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The Displaced, Part 2 - Hiroo Onoda
In Part 2 of this series, we look at Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting World War II - 29 years after Japan's surrender. His beginning, his fight, and what came after - who he was in a Japan that had moved on.
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The Displaced, Part 1 - Cynthia Ann Parker
There are some people that might have enjoyed their little obscurities, to quietly continue on with their lives and their duties unnoticed, never to be reminded of the larger scope of humanity. In this short series I have two such tales for you. The first: the story of a woman who was violently...
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The African Princess - Anna Kingsley
Born an African princess, she lived the majority of her life as slave, then slaveowner after she was sold as a child. As she grew to hold the confidence and admiration of the man she would call both Master and Husband, she earned her freedom and land of her own. Navigating the turbulent times of...
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The Woman in The Wax - Marie Tussaud
Madame Tussaud’s is a household name, the famed wax museum that boasts a wide collection of celebrities and famous figures from history both recent and far-flung. But not many know the story of one woman’s lifelong labor in the field of waxworks. From humble beginnings in France, to surviving a...
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The Great Imposter Part 2 - Giorgio Perlasca
Part 2 of Giorgio Perlasca's story. In 1987, a group of Holocaust survivors wrote to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to notify them of an heroic savior that had gone unnoticed in Padua, Italy for many years - one who had saved over 5000 lives in Budapest in World War II. Once discovered, he went…
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The Great Imposter Part I - Giorgio Perlasca
In 1987, a group of Holocaust survivors wrote to the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum to notify them of an heroic savior that had gone unnoticed in Padua, Italy for many years - one who had saved over 5000 lives in Budapest in World War II. Once discovered, he went by many names: the Spanish…
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The Byzantine Phoenix - Theodora
A saint no stranger to sinning, devout to some, diabolical to others and driven above all else, she was a force of nature made flesh that saw her will imposed on the most powerful men in her empire, including her husband, Justinian I. A staunch friend, loyal disciple, and dedicated wife, she was...
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The Sawbones Suffragette - Mary Edwards Walker
Eighty-six years. Multiple careers Wars of swords and speech. She was a prisoner. A prohibitionist. Spy, surgeon, suffragist. Writer and abolitionist. She was also the only woman to ever receive the United States Medal of Honor. Multiple careers, a war on two fronts But before all that, she was...
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The Devils in the Details
Did you know the story of Napoleon’s most humiliating defeat? Or see the signs of future follies in Richard’s Nixon’s past? Have you heard of the greatest story Robert Louis Stevenson never told? If not, strap in, because this is a different kind of Little Sleights, where we’ll talk about the...
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The Last Empress - Xochitl
In 916 AD, a woman drew her sword against her enemies and led her kingdom into battle. She would lose that fight, and her life, that same day. Her empire would not long survive her absence, and soon both grave and civilization were lost to time. Now she is both empress and enigma. But before all...
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The Lost Fourths - Berenice/Arsinoe
They were the daughters of Ptolemy. Sisters of Cleopatra. Usurpers. Victors. Victims. Queens. But before all that, they were Berenice and Arsinoe.
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The Shadow on the Wall - Branwell Bronte
He would go down as everything from the failure of the family to the romantic anti-hero his sisters would become famous for creating, while history would see his sisters raised to the highest echelons in literature. They were the Bronte sisters. He, in the end, was much less. But before that, he...
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The Restoration Cinderella - Nell Gwyn
She was the mistress of Charles II, mother to a duke, and one of the first English actresses to (legally) grace the stage. But before all that, she was Nell Gwyn.
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The Living Muse - Aspasia of Miletus
She was the mistress and perhaps wife of Pericles, preeminent Athenian leader. The target of playwrights, the muse of philosophers, and the source of debate and myth for years to come. But before all that, she was Aspasia of Miletus.
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The Original Iron Lady - Clementine Churchill
She was the wife of Winston Churchill, his rock and his safe place over the course of two wars, birth and death, depressions both financial and emotional, promotions and retirement. But before all that, she was Clementine Hozier.
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The Bride of Transylvania - Justina Szilágyi
We talk about the second wife of Vlad Tepes - and her life beyond that.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Let me tell you about the person beside the throne. Here we talk about the women (and sometimes the men) who have been lost to the shadows of history, and try to cast a little light on their lives. They may not have mattered in the grand scheme, but everybody's got their Little Sleights.
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Alanna Greer
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Let me tell you about the person beside the throne. Here we talk about the women (and sometimes the men) who have been lost to the shadows of history, and try to cast a little light on their lives. They may not have mattered in the grand scheme, but everybody's got their Little Sleights.
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