Historical Figures
Big lives, little-known facts. Dig up what you don’t know about the icons you do know! Unexpected anecdotes, real personalities, lasting impacts… Historical Figures is a Spotify Original from Parcast.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a women’s rights activist well known for her work in the women’s movement.
58 min
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Adam Smith
Father of free market economics, Adam Smith was one of many great philosophers of the 18th century Enlightenment period.
59 min
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Michelangelo
Born in Italy on March 6, 1475, Michelangelo was destined to create outstanding and genius works of art.
41 min
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Nicolaus Copernicus
When Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473, scholars believed that the earth stood still, and the sun circled around it.
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Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa, born in Indiana in 1913, helped create the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and aimed to pave the way to the American Dream for laborers.
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George Gallup
George Gallup is responsible for polling as we know it today.
36 min
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The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers risked their lives, again and again, to make their dream of human flight a reality.
37 min
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Sigmund Freud
Vanessa and Carter explore Freud’s colorful life, his finding of an international psychology movement, and his near persecution during the Holocaust.
50 min
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Pancho Villa
A man of contradictions, Pancho Villa was a prominent military leader in the Mexican Revolution who lived his life as a criminal, a hero...and a Hollywood star.
38 min
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Confucius
Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher, teacher and politician whose wisdom and teachings are still followed to this day.
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Marie Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize--and she didn’t only win one, she won two.
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John Adams
The first Vice-President of the United States and second President, John Adams struggled to measure up to the mythic George Washington.
52 min
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a power-player in the current war, where General Electric and Westinghouse fought over how America would get electricity.
41 min
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Queen Victoria
She was crowned at only eighteen years old, but Queen Victoria made a name for herself as one of Great Britain’s most remembered monarchs, redefining the British crown for modern times.
59 min
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Charlemagne
The “Father of Europe”, Charlemagne’s rule as King of the Franks changed the face of Europe, unifying regions that had been at war and spreading Christianity across the continent.
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Karl Marx
A radical writer and philosopher, Karl Marx found himself exiled from multiple countries thanks to his communist writings in the 1800s.
45 min
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci’s work still inspires over five hundred years later. But what about the man behind the paintings?
38 min
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Marco Polo
Much more than just a pool game, this Venetian merchant traveler adventured through China and the Mongolian Empire.
33 min
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Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
Lewis and Clark--two names that are always heard in tandem.
36 min
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Albert Einstein
It wasn’t always obvious that Albert Einstein was destined for greatness.
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Welcome to Historical Figures!
With a new look, a new name, and an entertaining take on history, we are now called Historical Figures - formerly known as Remarkable Lives.
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