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Long-Form/Podcast:

Hunting For Kobyla

The true story of a runaway Nazi, a determined sleuth, and a chase around the world.
Written by Zoë Randolph • 07 Feb 2022 • Read/Listen →
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The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda

In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
Written by Jennifer Lee Noonan • 26 Oct 2021 • Read/Listen →
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The Kingpin of Shanghai

From the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China.
Written by Morgan W.R. Dunn • 26 Aug 2021 • Read/Listen →
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To Hell With Facebook

The earliest known version of the idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" was written by the English philosophe...
Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Jul 2021 • Read →
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Capital, Punished

Located 350 km (217 miles) southeast of Puerto Rico, the British island of Montserrat is sometimes called 'The Emeral...
Written by Marisa Brook • 10 Jun 2021 • Read/Listen →
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The Traveler and His Baggage

In Nazi-occupied Paris, “Dr. Eugène” offered Jews an alternative to deportation, slavery, and death camps. But the escape network was not what it seemed.
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Jun 2021 • Read/Listen →
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A Taste of Italy

In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover fro...
Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 14 May 2021 • Read/Listen →
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Fifteen Years Forsaken

A true story of castaways on a lost and hostile scrap of land, all thanks to some meddlesome Frenchmen and terrible luck.
Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 28 Apr 2021 • Read/Listen →
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Pushing the Envelope

As is often the case with people in dangerous professions, the Apollo astronauts found that life insurance policies w...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Apr 2021 • Read/Listen →
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The Comforts of the Throne

In the days when hunting was a more common pursuit than it is today, those involved in the job cultivated a taxonomy...
Written by J. A. Macfarlane • 18 Mar 2021 • Read/Listen →
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