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Guanyin: The legendary Goddess of Mercy
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Penthesilea: The tragic life of the Amazonian Queen
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Lady Dai: The 2,000+ year old, beautifully preserved mummy
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How trash foiled the world’s biggest diamond heist
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Starbucks: The rise of the world’s most powerful coffee brand
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The ‘uncategorizable’ American artist Nick Cave
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Grace O’Malley, the ‘Pirate Queen’
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Jack Kerouac’s death, 50 years later
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Lynda Ann Healey: Ted Bundy’s first victim
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How Chicago hosted the historic 1893 World’s Fair
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Ancient Roman city found off English highway
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How trash foiled the world’s biggest diamond heist
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Starbucks: The rise of the world’s most powerful coffee brand
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
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The ‘uncategorizable’ American artist Nick Cave

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Grace O’Malley, the ‘Pirate Queen’

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Jack Kerouac’s death, 50 years later

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Lynda Ann Healey: Ted Bundy’s first victim

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How Chicago hosted the historic 1893 World’s Fair

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Ancient Roman city found off English highway

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Kurt Godel founded theoretical computer science
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Manuela Escobar: The drug kingpin’s daughter
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The rise and fall of American folk music
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Meet Ron Stallworth, real detective from ‘BlackKklansman’
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Odette Sansom: England’s highly decorated spy
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Herman Melville based "Moby Dick" on an actual albino sperm whale nicknamed "Mocha Dick." Mocha Dick earned this nickname because he was usually encountered near Mocha Island off the coast of Chile.

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