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Ill-Equipped History — 174 episodes

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The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall

2

Oscar Wilde: From Height of Influence to Downfall

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Baron von Steuben: Savior at Valley Forge

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Ma Rainey: Mother of the Blues

5

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

6

The Great Stink of 1858

7

The Nylon Stocking Craze of the 1940s

8

SS Central America: The Ship of Gold

9

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

10

Florence Nightingale

11

Year 3 Bloopers, Outtakes, and Untold Stories

12

Beatrix Potter: The Rebellious Woman behind Peter Rabbit

13

The Bone Wars

14

Butch Cassidy: The Outlaw Robin Hood

15

Liu Bang: Peasant turned Han Emperor

16

The Piltdown Man Hoax

17

John Paul Jones: America's Naval Hero

18

The Watermelon War: Pandemonium in Panama

19

The Rosetta Stone: Discovery and Translation

20

Jacques-Yves Cousteau: The Father of Scuba Diving

21

Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History

22

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

23

George Washington Carver: The Peanut Man

24

Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

25

Smell-O-Vision

26

The Forty Elephants: London's all Woman Gang

27

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

33

136: The Lufthansa Heist

34

135: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

35

134: Marie Antoinette

36

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

42

Bonus 25: Old South Pittsburg Hospital Paranormal Research Center Investigation

43

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

44

126: The History of Drag and Ballroom Culture

45

125: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Life Behind the Designs

46

124: Vercingetorix, the Man Who Stood Up to Caesar

47

123: The Cod Wars: Fish and Communiam

48

122: Ignaz Semmelweis: The Savior of Mothers

49

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

53

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

61

110: Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

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109: Bonnie and Clyde

63

108: Virginia Hall: The Most Dangerous Spy of WWII

64

107: The Harding-Kerrigan Scandal of 1994

65

Second Anniversary Special: Bloopers and Outtakes

66

106: The Golden Age of Islam

67

105: The Truth Behind the Midnight Ride of 1775

68

104: The Chinese Exclusion Act

69

103: Video Games Part 2: Console Wars through Today

70

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

71

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

76

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

93

79: Doom of the Donner Party: Desperate Survival

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

95

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

96

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

102

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

111

62:The Amazing Life of Sir Elton John

112

61: Alan Turing, WWII Hero and Mathematical Genius

113

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

114

59: Sally Ride, the First American Woman in Space

115

58: Amelia Earhart's Life and Disappearance

116

57: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

117

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

118

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

119

One Year Anniversary Special: Bloopers and Outtakes

120

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

121

53: Lewis and Clark Part 2

122

52: Lewis and Clark Part 1

123

51: Betty White: Thank You for Being a Friend

124

50: United States Road Trip

125

49: Cheng Shih, Pirate Queen

126

48: Woodstock 99

127

47: The Watergate Affair Part 2

128

46: The Watergate Affair Part 1

129

45: The Rarest Day of the Year

130

44: The Indomitable Wilma Rudolph

131

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

132

42: History's Shortest War

133

41: The Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition: Endurance and Aurora

134

40: The Domestication of Animals

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39: Board Games Are Older Than You Think

136

38: History of the Samurai

137

37: Why Do We Work Out?

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36: Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware

139

35: Why Santa Claus Comes to Town

140

34: The History of Christmas

141

33: The Christmas Truce of 1914

142

32: The Stanford Prison Experiment

143

31: Thanksgiving: History and Traditions Explained

144

30: China’s Only Female Emperor

145

29: The Heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

146

28: Robert Smalls and the Great Escape

147

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

148

26: Edinburgh Castle

149

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

150

Bonus 1: Investigation of the Bell Witch Cave

151

24: Ed & Lorraine Warren - Paranormal Investigators

152

23: The Great Emu War: Tactical Emus

153

22: The History and Hijinks of the Pepsi Corporation

154

21 : The King of the Wild Frontier

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20: The Jacobite Rebellion

156

19: Baseball’s most Eccentric Player

157

18: The History of Chichén Itzá

158

17: Women’s Suffrage and Harry T. Burn

159

16: Hitler’s Hallucinazis

160

15: The Beginning of Brews

161

14: Anne Bonny & Mary Read

162

13: The Vasa: A Swedish Maritime Disaster

163

12: Mansa Musa

164

11: Battle of Athens: Part 2

165

10: Battle of Athens: Part 1

166

9: Hedy Lamarr

167

8: The Worst Roman Emperor

168

7: Jack Churchill

169

6: 1904 Olympic Marathon

170

Episode 5: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Part 2

171

4: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Part 1

172

3: Miss Unsinkable

173

2: The History of Hinduism

174

1: Who Really Had the First Written Language?