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Volume 9 of the lives of some eminent painters, sculptors and architects in history. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Unearth the forbidden secrets of Victorian occultism as we trace the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn from encrypted manuscripts to explosive scandals. Discover how this shadowy brotherhood birthed modern witchcraft, shaped Aleister Crowley, and sparked tabloid frenzies over secret sex rites and astral warfare. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we've met along the way as well: some held no appeal while others were forgotten. And there were others we never had the opportunity to meet. This selection hopes to go beyond the experience of meeting old friends and on top opening the door to new ones — poems that might relate more significantly to our current lives. Originally titled "Personal Poems for Later Years," this collection ...

Zeitspuren ist ein Geschichtspodcast, der dich direkt in vergangene Momente eintauchen lässt. Ohne lange Einleitung beginnst du jede Folge mitten im Geschehen – du stehst auf Schlachtfeldern, in Palästen oder an Wendepunkten der Weltgeschichte. Du hörst nicht nur, was passiert ist, sondern erlebst, wie es sich angefühlt hat. Kurz, intensiv und bildhaft erzählt: Geschichte, die bleibt. Jeden Samstag (oder öfter) eine neue Folge.

The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Greene, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe and many other favorites. Topics range from historical to science fiction, melodramatic to philosophic. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Ionia was one of the most important Greek settlements in Anatolia, and it was the home of one of the most influential figures of antiquity, Pythagoras of Samos. Pythagoras studied cosmology, geometry, and astronomy under Thales and his successor Anaximander, and by building on the legacies of their brilliant minds, Pythagoras refined and expanded upon their foundational concepts. However, he also went in a different direction, focusing on mysticism and numbers more than material principles.

Raven Thorne investigates the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton, Illinois Black Panther Party chairman, through FBI memos and ballistic evidence exposing a COINTELPRO killing. This series documents the cover-up, forensic details, and legal battle that forced a historic government settlement. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Maxwell Slate reconstructs the documented final seconds before major political assassinations with forensic precision, examining what targets knew, what protectors saw, and how assassins navigated their final approach. Each episode isolates a single case using witness accounts, film evidence, and investigative reports. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus traveled extensively around the ancient world, conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book. The rise of the Persian Empire is chronicled, and the causes for the conflict with Greece. Herodotus treats the conflict as an ideological one, frequently contrasting the absolute power of the Persian king with the democratic government of...

Maxwell Slate dissects the 2022 assassination of Japan's longest-serving prime minister through forensic analysis of the killer's vendetta, security lapses, and political shockwaves exposing ties between Japan's ruling party and a controversial religious organization. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

When Indira Gandhi's bodyguards fired thirty-three bullets on October 31, 1984, they exposed the fault lines of Indian democracy. This series investigates the military gamble at the Golden Temple, the assassination warnings ignored, and the state-backed pogroms that followed, revealing how power, religion, and violence collided in modern India's darkest hour. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Maxwell Slate investigates political assassins' escape attempts, tracing flight plans, support networks, and capture. From Nazi ratlines to modern lone wolves, discover what happens after the trigger is pulled—and what the run reveals about the killing itself. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Alex Calder examines the 1881 assassination of President James A. Garfield—shaped by political corruption, medical malpractice, and a delusional office-seeker. Primitive surgical methods proved deadlier than the bullet, and Garfield's death paradoxically achieved the civil service reform he championed in life. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Host Lucien Graves examines history's most consequential unsolved political killings through institutional obstruction and evidentiary failure. Each standalone episode investigates how governments systematically prevented transparency into murders that reshaped nations—from classified JFK files to shielded Cold War assassins. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Vom sicheren Umgang mit Dinos, Highlights am Hofe und Reiseproviant fürs Mittelalter: Matthias Matschke liest diesen ebenso witzigen wie sachkundigen Zeit-Reiseführer. Wollten Sie schon immer mal hören, wie Johann Sebastian Bach seine Fugen selber spielt? Oder lieber Galileo Galilei bei der Entdeckung der Jupitermonde helfen? Vielleicht möchten Sie auch nur die Eissorte Ihrer Kindheit noch einmal genießen - und zwar in der guten alten Zeit?

Brought to you by Penguin. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts...

Ein Podcast von Susanne Siegert. Über den Holocaust, Archiv-Arbeit. Und das KZ-Außenlager Mühldorfer Hart, eines der größten Außenlager des KZ Dachau. Weitere Infos: instagram.com/kz.aussenlager.muehldorf und tiktok.com/@keine.erinnerungskultur

In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” (The New York Times) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of...

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire, from the invasion of Manchuria and China to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Told from the Japanese perspective, The Rising Sun is, in the author’s words, "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened - muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."