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    Retropod

    Retropod

    Retropod

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    Length:
    486 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters - forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 486 episodes

    Title

    Earthrise

    On Christmas Eve in 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts captured an image that symbolizes hop...

    5 minutes
    		Dec 31, 2019

    Hair peace. Bed peace.

    On March 25, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono were a few days into their marriage when th...

    5 minutes
    		Dec 30, 2019

    The jazz queen who chose home over fame

    Jazz singer Ethel Ennis’s voice wowed audiences and won praise from critics. But when s...

    6 minutes
    		Dec 27, 2019

    Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims

    The nurse who founded the American Red Cross had no formal training in medicine. She te...

    7 minutes
    		Dec 26, 2019

    The military's famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number

    In the 1950s, a child trying to call Santa Claus accidentally called NORAD and changed ...

    6 minutes
    		Dec 25, 2019

    The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.

    Toys R Us founder Charles Lazarus had no idea how big the toy industry would become.

    6 minutes
    		Dec 23, 2019

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    After the Civil War, formerly enslaved people placed notices in black-owned newspapers ...

    6 minutes
    		Dec 20, 2019

    How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL

    A few days before his team took the field as huge underdogs in Super Bowl III, New York...

    6 minutes
    		Dec 19, 2019

    The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame

    In the 1950s, Charles Van Doren, a quiet professor in New York City, became wrapped up ...

    6 minutes
    		Dec 18, 2019

    How food found its way into the freezer

    While on a research trip to the Arctic in the early 20th century, scientist Clarence Bi...

    6 minutes
    		Dec 17, 2019