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About Stuff You Missed in History Class
A podcast found at http://www.howstuffworks.com/stuff-you-missed-in-history-class-podcast.htm What made Peter the Great so great? What made Henry VII so bad, or Ivan so terrible? Tune into this HowStuffWorks podcast, with Candace Gibson and Jane McGrath, to learn the stories behind the lines of your textbooks. Recent episodes include: * The Underground Railroad may have saved as many as 100,000 slaves. Learn how the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act and a secret network of abolitionists led to the creation of the Underground Railroad.
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Top Tracks
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Did Genghis Khan really kill 1,748,000 people in one hour?
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Were people vying to become slaves in the Ottoman Empire?
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Historically Inaccurate Movies
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Fact or Fiction: Is D.B. Cooper still alive?
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Ergot and the Salem Witchtrials
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Why was tax evasion the only thing pinned on Al Capone?
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The Cursed Tomb of King Tut
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What happened to the lost colony at Roanoke?
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The Elizabeth Bathory Episode: Was a Hungarian countess the world's most prolific serial killer?
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How did the East India Company change the world?
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How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work
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How the First Olympics Worked
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How the Berlin Wall Worked
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Did Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?
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Why was Davy Crockett king of the wild frontier?
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How Hitler's Propaganda Machine Worked
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Will the world really end in 2012?
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What was the Christmas Truce?
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Why did England and Spain fight over an ear?
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The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1
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What was in Peter the Great's cabinet of curiosities?
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How Typhoid Mary Worked
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Was there really a Pied Piper of Hamelin?
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How King Arthur Worked
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Was a Hungarian countess the world's most prolific serial killer?
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Why is there an underground city beneath Beijing?
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The Lost Roman Legion
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How did Rasputin really die?
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How the Donner Party Worked
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Year Without a Summer
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How Henry VIII Worked
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What's Mutual Assured Destruction?
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Did the ancient Greeks get their ideas from the Africans?
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5 Historical Hoaxes
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How the Code of Hammurabi Worked
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How the Great Train Robbery Worked
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The Dark Legacy of Sea Monkeys
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Hitler’s Early Rise and the Night of the Long Knives
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Could Noah's ark really have happened?
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How Thomas Jefferson Worked
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How Archimedes' Death Ray Worked
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How the French Revolution Worked
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Good Humor v. Popsicle
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How Knights Work
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Mary Ann Cotton
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How the Terracotta Army Works
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How Presidential Salaries Work
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How did a shipwreck double the size of the US?
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The Vanishing of the U.S.S. Cyclops
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Who was the real Count Dracula?
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