The Backstory with Patty Steele
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Love a good, juicy story that goes beyond what we already know? We're talking scandalous presidential family members, a mass murder at a world-famous architect's home, stolen inventions, nude athletes at the first Olympics, compulsive liars, the arrival of the bikini, and so much more. History fanatic Patty Steele tells you the inside backstories you didn’t know you needed to know.
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The Backstory: Attacked by a Ghost in Salem Massachusetts!
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Conspiracy: The Moon Landing Was in a Midwestern Warehouse
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Ghosts in the White House
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The Backstory: 10,000 Years of Surgery With No Anesthesia
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Nicholas Cage and New Orleans's Most Haunted Mansion
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Man Who Hunted Humans
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Real Downton Abbey and King Tut’s Curse
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Two Steves: Nerds Create a Trillion Dollar Company
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The G.O.A.T. Of All G.O.A.T.S
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Politics: Assassinations, Duels, and Beatdowns
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Kidnapped Twice!
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Babe Ruth: Baseball Legend Fueled by Food, Women, Liquor . . and Money
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The Backstory: What’s Up With Cats . . and Dogs?
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Diets: The Hunger . . To Not Be Hungry
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Sex, Violence, and Spiritual Enlightenment in the 1820s
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Killer Floods of Alcohol!
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Gilded Age Divorce Scandal
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The Backstory: A Woman Takes Madison Ave
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Stars Who Turned Down Iconic Movie Roles
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe’s Autopsy . . Suicide or Murder
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The Backstory: From Nazi Scientist to NASA Creator
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Stars Who Hated Their Blockbusters
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Great Stink of 1858
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Before Idaho: A Mass Murderer Slaughters 8 Students in Their Dorm
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Epstein Rosetta Stone: Money, Sex, and Fraud
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Shark Attacks That Inspired Jaws
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Queen Victoria: Drug Addict?
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Dying for a Drink
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Old Fashioned Sex
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Female Paul Revere: A Gutsy 16-Year-Old
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Celebrity Cult Life: No Food or Water . . But Plenty of Sex
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Michael Jackson, Death Masks, and the CPR Woman
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The FBI’s Bloodiest Shootout
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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The Backstory: My Perfect Co-worker . . Is a Baboon
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Two Degrees of Separation From George Washington!
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The Backstory: America’s Biggest False Alarm Causes Mass Hysteria in L.A.
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Did Barbed Wire End the Wild West?
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Adventure of a Lifetime Ends in Murder
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Versace: When Envy Leads to Obsession . . And Then to Murder
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Titanic’s Boss: Bad Guy . . Or Victim of Bad Press
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May 30, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Reincarnation Stories From the Famous and Not So Famous
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May 27, 2025 |
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The Backstory: From 30 Pounds of Wool to the Thong . . In One Century
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May 23, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Party Like a Pope!
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Did a Missing Heiress Vanish Into a New Life?
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May 16, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Dead Pope’s Body . . On Trial
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Tragedy That Inspired Will Ferrell’s Anchorman Flicks
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May 09, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Jack Kerouac: On the Road With a Brilliant Disaster
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May 06, 2025 |
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The Backstory: How Do You Kidnap a Race Horse?
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May 02, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Great Gatsby Was a Total Failure!
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Why Do We Love Dog Movie Stars?
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Blueprint For a Serial Killer
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Glamorous Ghost of Mar-a-Lago
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Murder in the golden age of Hollywood
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Test tube holds Thomas Edison’s dying breath
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Millions gazed at Lincoln's decomposing face
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Superfreak Behind Superfreak
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Abraham Lincoln dreams of his own murder
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Robert Downey Jr. reinvents himself
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Tiny kidnap victims survive the Titanic disaster
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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The Backstory: How come there were no women’s running shoes until 1978?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Charles, Camilla, and Diana: Proving your virginity
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Yasuke: The only black samurai
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Losing your head over royalty
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Graffiti was Pompeii’s Instagram
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The guy that connected us all
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Kate Chase: From the belle of Washington to egg lady
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Stealing Frank Sinatra Jr.
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Stealing George Washington’s head
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Lucky Luciano: From mob boss to war hero
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Backstory: My bloody valentine!
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Did Shakespeare steal the Romeo and Juliet story?
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The real American psycho
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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The Backstory: How one woman helped ignite the Civil War
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Nxivm: A Hollywood sex cult
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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The Backstory (Replay): A middle-class kid rises to the top of the ad world
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The Mariana Trench: A hundred horrible ways to die
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Beyond the Hamilton duel: Aaron Burr’s rise and fall
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Why did these two presidents have 2 nonconsecutive terms?
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Jan 17, 2025 |
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The Backstory: The fire was master
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Our world on fire
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Barbie dolls: boobs, Mickey Mouse club, and fraud
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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The Backstory (Replay): A hero emerges from a 19th century insane asylum
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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The Backstory: Looking good at any price
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Making a statement with A Christmas Carol
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Dec 27, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The charming spy who got away with it all
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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(Replay) The Backstory: The 9-year-old Union soldier
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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(Replay) The Backstory: Where did all the dinosaurs go?
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The big movies their stars hate
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Drinking the Kool-Aid – the Jonestown massacre
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Dec 06, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The American fashion model in Hitler's bathtub
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Thanksgiving from another point of view
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Unpacking Thanksgiving
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The Human Zoo
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Did Leonardo da Vinci invent robots and the helicopter??
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Date raped by a superstar in classic Hollywood
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Surviving a grizzly attack
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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The Backstory: From prostitute to queen of the pirates
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Politics meets The Purge
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Searching for the killer called the Axeman
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Back from the dead to take the gold
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Demons to moon landings – the story that inspired The Exorcist
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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The Backstory: All the money in the world…and a torturous upbringing
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Fatal obsession with a rising star
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Getting inked…5,000 years ago
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Weird trends: from live ornamental hermits to garden gnomes
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Spiderman and…presidential corruption?!
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): Illicit sex in old Hollywood
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): The unexplained blast that shook the world
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): Cold War condoms and undercover kitties
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): The most powerful and hated man in the world
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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The Backstory: When teaching was tougher than being a nun
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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The Backstory: You are part of a government experiment
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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The Backstory: A movie inspires the thrill of the kill
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Choosing your poison
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Power parties: Orgies, flaming genitals, and other uncomfortable surprises
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Pablo Escobar: Drugs, blood, and $30 billion
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Steve Jobs: Not such a genius father
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The female Paul Revere: A gutsy 16-year-old
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Sexual healing brought Marvin Gaye no healing
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The 9-year-old Union soldier
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Violence and heat on the campaign trail
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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(Replay) The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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The Backstory: A middle-class kid rises to the top of the ad world
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The influencer who packed up the White House as it burned!
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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The Backstory (Replay): ETs? Time travelers? Trying to explain the unexplained
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Marilyn Monroe: The ultimate sex symbol…and victim
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Jul 19, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Charming, popular, and maybe the worst president ever
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The great stink of 1858
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Body snatching for profit
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Trapped in the most inhospitable place on Earth
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Jul 05, 2024 |
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The Backstory: A man’s man…and his colony of pussy cats
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Do it my way: Politics bust up a Founding Father’s family
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Brando family: Drugs, murder, and Academy Awards
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Prostitution and murder in the old west
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The Grandmother of Juneteenth
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Alarms: Mooing, peeing, and knocker-uppers
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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The Backstory: A hero emerges from a 19th century insane asylum
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Eliza Hamilton: Cheating husband, family deaths, and triumph
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The history of jokes
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May 31, 2024 |
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The Backstory: James Brown: Drugs, toilets, and guns
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May 28, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Bloody politics
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May 24, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Radiant heat & working toilets 2,000 years ago
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May 21, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Meeting your children…from a past life
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May 17, 2024 |
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The Backstory: What in the heck did I just say?!?!
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May 14, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Paradise lost
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May 10, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The #%$@ history of cursing
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May 07, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The most powerful and hated man in the world
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May 03, 2024 |
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The Backstory: When famous folks are crummy parents
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The dark side of Hollywood’s bright lights
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The first temporary insanity defense
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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The Backstory: From Reefer Madness to wellness trend
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Mom's death bed confession about hijacker D. B. Cooper
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The evolution of TV
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Lindbergh: a flawed hero and notorious murder
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Dogs: from predator to fur baby in 20,000 years (Replay)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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The Backstory: History’s craziest trends
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Abe Lincoln, battered husband
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The sinister death of movie star Natalie Wood
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The 1893 World’s Fair murder castle
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Finding Amelia Earhart…maybe
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Female spies: fascinating secret heroes
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Illicit sex in old Hollywood
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The unelected female president
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Crazy stuff we eat, from bugs to beaver tails
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Cannibalism on the wild frontier
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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The Backstory: From slave to congressman
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Maniacs and mysticism
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Romance: Roses, chocolates, and bloody animal skins
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The Backstory: An unbelievable touchdown in the upper deck
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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The Backstory: From freedom fighter to tribal genocide
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Immortality: young blood and monkey testicles
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Cold War condoms and undercover kitties
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Radio: A voice in the dark
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Mafia murder in mid-century Las Vegas
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The Big Exit
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Surviving a 35,000-foot free fall
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The unexplained blast that shook the world
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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The Backstory: The upside of having the blues
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Gruesome mementos of the wild west
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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The Backstory: Suffering for beauty
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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The Backstory: How did Christmas turn into trees and egg nog?
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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The Backstory: Hitler's obsession with beauty
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Backstory: Let’s get in bed
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The Backstory: The last thing they saw
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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The Backstory: Where did all the dinosaurs go?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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The Backstory: The concealed Kennedy
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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The Backstory: He did WHAT while President?!
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Backstory: The First Female Serial Killer?
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Celebrities and their world-changing inventions
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Inventing Thanksgiving
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Napoleon’s complicated sex life
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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ADHD…from Mozart to Musk
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The unbelievable life of Leonardo da Vinci
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Sex and Corn Flakes
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Three decades lost in the South Pacific
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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From murderer to media darling...and back again
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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New York’s secret subway…blown up
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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The bloody Halloween origin story
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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The thrill of horror
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Was Jack the Ripper a woman?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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A tale of the last pardoned witch
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Can you put a pope’s corpse on trial?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Marie Antoinette: her worst moments (other than getting her head chopped off)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Thomas Edison did not invent the light bulb
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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A Hollywood insider nailed as a compulsive liar
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Charlie Manson and Good Vibrations
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Dogs: from predator to fur baby in 20,000 years
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Dying for a drink?
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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The awful backstage truth about The Wizard of Oz
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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ETs? Time travelers? Trying to explain the unexplained
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Murder on the Madison Square Garden rooftop
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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How one woman survived the Titanic and 2 more shipwrecks
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Did Ben Franklin discover electricity? Nope!
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Smoky skies: the year without a summer
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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The scandalous life of a presidential wild child
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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How we slept before the light bulb
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Iconic monuments, from reviled to revered
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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The stolen invention that changed the world
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Nude olympics and (literal) sweat equity
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Mass murder at the home of an icon of tranquility
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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From hiding women's bodies at the beach to the thong...in 100 years
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Who was sitting with Abe Lincoln when he was shot?
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Introducing: The Backstory with Patty Steele
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Jul 24, 2023 |