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Ill-Equipped History — 178 episodes

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John Brown: Militant Abolitionist

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Operation Dynamo: How the Little Ships Evacuated Dunkirk

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Ofra Haza: The Madonna of the East

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The Dunbar Armored Depot Robbery: $18.9 Million in 30 minutes

5

The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Oscar Wilde: From Height of Influence to Downfall

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Baron von Steuben: Savior at Valley Forge

8

Ma Rainey: Mother of the Blues

9

Julie D'Aubigny: The Sword-Swinging, Woman-Wooing Opera Star

10

The Great Stink of 1858

11

The Nylon Stocking Craze of the 1940s

12

SS Central America: The Ship of Gold

13

Bonus 20: Wacky Cars, Trains, Planes, and Boats.

14

Florence Nightingale

15

Year 3 Bloopers, Outtakes, and Untold Stories

16

Beatrix Potter: The Rebellious Woman behind Peter Rabbit

17

The Bone Wars

18

Butch Cassidy: The Outlaw Robin Hood

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Liu Bang: Peasant turned Han Emperor

20

The Piltdown Man Hoax

21

John Paul Jones: America's Naval Hero

22

The Watermelon War: Pandemonium in Panama

23

The Rosetta Stone: Discovery and Translation

24

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: The Father of Scuba Diving

25

Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History

26

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

27

George Washington Carver: The Peanut Man

28

Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

29

Smell-O-Vision

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The Forty Elephants: London's all Woman Gang

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142: Madam CJ Walker: America's First Female Millionaire

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141: The Nuremberg Trial

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140: Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Hillary: Summiting Mount Everest

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139: The History of Christmas Movies

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138: The Santa Claus Bank Robbery

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136: Tycho Brahe: The Last Great Astronomer Before the Telecope

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136: The Lufthansa Heist

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135: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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134: Marie Antoinette

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133: Julia Child: From GI to Celebrity Chef

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132: The Cuban Missile Crisis

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131: The Greenbrier Ghost: How Zona Heaster Shue Helped Solved Her Own Murder

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130: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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129: The Winchester House

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128: Victorian Spiritualism and Seances

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Bonus 25: Old South Pittsburg Hospital Paranormal Research Center Investigation

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127: The Dancing Plague of 1518: The Curse of St. Vitus

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126: The History of Drag and Ballroom Culture

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125: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Life Behind the Designs

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124: Vercingetorix, the Man Who Stood Up to Caesar

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123: The Cod Wars: Fish and Communiam

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122: Ignaz Semmelweis: The Savior of Mothers

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121: Theft of the Scream and the life of Edvard Munch

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120: The Dust Bowl

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119: Marilyn Monroe: "Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world"

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Listener Bonus Episode: Princess Diana

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118: Leicester Hemingway and the Republic of New Atlantis

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117: Empire State Building

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116: The Life and "Rescue" of Dr. Livingstone

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115: Women Soldiers of the Revolutionary War

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114: Gladys Bentley

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113: Harvey Milk: The Mayor of Castro Street

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112: Frida Kahlo

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111: Andy Warhol

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110: Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

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109: Bonnie and Clyde

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108: Virginia Hall: The Most Dangerous Spy of WWII

68

107: The Harding-Kerrigan Scandal of 1994

69

Second Anniversary Special: Bloopers and Outtakes

70

106: The Golden Age of Islam

71

105: The Truth Behind the Midnight Ride of 1775

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104: The Chinese Exclusion Act

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103: Video Games Part 2: Console Wars through Today

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102: Video Games Part 1: Early Conception to the Crash of Consoles

75

101: The Hundred Years War Part 2

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100: The Hundred Years War Part 1

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99: Y2K: The Millennium Bug

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98: Marco Polo and the Silk Road

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97: The 6888 Central Directory Postal Battalion: No Mail, No Morale

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96: Thurgood Marshall: Mr. Civil Rights

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95: The Loving Family: How Love Conquers

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94: The History of Jazz

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93: The White Ship Disaster of 1120 and the Anarchy

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92: John Harvey Kellogg

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91: Operation Pluto: The Allies Best Kept Secret

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90: Diogenes the Cynic: Chaotic Greek Philosopher

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89: The Panama Canal: More than a Big Ditch

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88: The History of Hanukkah

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87: The Life and Work of Charles Dickens

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86: Emily Dickinson

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85: Sinking of The Christmas Tree Ship

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84: The Wright Brothers - Sights to the Skies

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83: The Father of Invention

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82: The History of Diwali

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81: Walt Disney: From Mouse to Parks and Everywhere in Between

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80: Marie Laveau, New Orlean's Voodoo Queen

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79: Doom of the Donner Party: Desperate Survival

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78: Doom of the Donner Party: Hasting's Cutoff

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77: Vlad the Impaler and Bram Stoker's Inspiration for "Dracula"

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Bonus 13: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary Annual Paranormal Investigation

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76: Hales Bar Dam: History and Hauntings

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75: Charlie Chaplin

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74: Escape from Alcatraz

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73: The Theft of the Mona Lisa

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72: The Whydah and the Treasure of Black Sam Bellamy

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71: The History of Homing Pigeons

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70: Cassius Clay: The Lion of White Hall.

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69: The History of Country Music

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68: Howard Carter: The Man that Found King Tut

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67: Lili'uokalani: Hawaii's Last Queen

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66: Silver Springs State Park: Florida's First Theme Park

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65: When Fruit Goes Bad: The History of Banana Republics

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64: The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

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63: Independence Day - The History of America's 4th of July

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62:The Amazing Life of Sir Elton John

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61: Alan Turing, WWII Hero and Mathematical Genius

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60: Freddie Mercury: Life, Band, and Legacy.

118

59: Sally Ride, the First American Woman in Space

119

58: Amelia Earhart's Life and Disappearance

120

57: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

121

56: John F. Kennedy Part 3: A Conspiracy?

122

55: John F. Kennedy Part 2: Finding Oswald, Officer Tippit's Murder, and the Warren Commission

123

One Year Anniversary Special: Bloopers and Outtakes

124

54: John F. Kennedy Part 1: Life, Presidency, and Assassination

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53: Lewis and Clark Part 2

126

52: Lewis and Clark Part 1

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51: Betty White: Thank You for Being a Friend

128

50: United States Road Trip

129

49: Cheng Shih, Pirate Queen

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48: Woodstock 99

131

47: The Watergate Affair Part 2

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46: The Watergate Affair Part 1

133

45: The Rarest Day of the Year

134

44: The Indomitable Wilma Rudolph

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43: Fast and Left: The History of NASCAR (Featuring a Special Guest)

136

42: History's Shortest War

137

41: The Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition: Endurance and Aurora

138

40: The Domestication of Animals

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39: Board Games Are Older Than You Think

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38: History of the Samurai

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37: Why Do We Work Out?

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36: Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware

143

35: Why Santa Claus Comes to Town

144

34: The History of Christmas

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33: The Christmas Truce of 1914

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32: The Stanford Prison Experiment

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31: Thanksgiving: History and Traditions Explained

148

30: China’s Only Female Emperor

149

29: The Heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

150

28: Robert Smalls and the Great Escape

151

27: Evolution from Samhain to Halloween and the Traditions that followed

152

26: Edinburgh Castle

153

25: History and Legends of the Oldest City in the United States

154

Bonus 1: Investigation of the Bell Witch Cave

155

24: Ed & Lorraine Warren - Paranormal Investigators

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23: The Great Emu War: Tactical Emus

157

22: The History and Hijinks of the Pepsi Corporation

158

21 : The King of the Wild Frontier

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20: The Jacobite Rebellion

160

19: Baseball’s most Eccentric Player

161

18: The History of Chichén Itzá

162

17: Women’s Suffrage and Harry T. Burn

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16: Hitler’s Hallucinazis

164

15: The Beginning of Brews

165

14: Anne Bonny & Mary Read

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13: The Vasa: A Swedish Maritime Disaster

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12: Mansa Musa

168

11: Battle of Athens: Part 2

169

10: Battle of Athens: Part 1

170

9: Hedy Lamarr

171

8: The Worst Roman Emperor

172

7: Jack Churchill

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6: 1904 Olympic Marathon

174

Episode 5: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Part 2

175

4: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Part 1

176

3: Miss Unsinkable

177

2: The History of Hinduism

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1: Who Really Had the First Written Language?