The history of the bizarre subatomic particles that make up our states.
Did two countries show up to Hitler’s Olympics wearing the same flag?
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The Exile
Part five: History repeats.
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The Emperor
Part four: Pathological corsicophilia.
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The President
Part three: Papa Bok.
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The Soldier
Part two: The radio tutor’s power play.
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The Last Emperor of Africa
Part one: Wishful thinking.
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Cold as Dickens
Dickensian London is iconic, but its plentiful snowdrifts bear little resemblance to the modern city. Is this artistic license? Or are Tiny Tim’s environs evidence of a centuries-long frosty period that gave us Frankenstein, witchcraft, and America?
Maryland never joined the Confederacy, but for 82 years its state song was an anti-Lincoln diss track set to the tune of ‘O Tannenbaum’.
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