How 2 Doctors Saved Thousands From The Nazis…With A Syringe

When your home is invaded, your country destroyed, your town, village, or city occupied, it takes heroic courage and herculean effort to resist, to fight back.  To protect your loved ones, your friends, your way of life.  You’d imagine either a plucky band of rebels or a diehard group of fighters.  Or sometimes, all you …

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Emmy Noether

This is a story of a tremendous mathematical genius from the early 20th century.  This person helped illuminate profound fundamental truths of the universe using mathematics that the layperson could barely fathom, and in so doing set the bedrock on which some of the most important breakthroughs in physics in the 20th century took place. …

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Yasuke

The idea of the Black Samurai is a popular concept and a powerful motif in the popular imagination. It took root in the 50s, 60s, and 70s when Japanese martial arts first entered the American consciousness and many of those who took up these fighting arts were African American.  They were attracted to the physical …

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Kate Warne

When someone says secret agent, who do you think of? James Bond? Jason Bourne? Austin Powers? What about “detective”? Sherlock Holmes, I’ll bet. Any others? The Hardy Boys? Magnum PI? Batman? If you had to pick someone who was both? Tough one. But wait, have you ever heard of Kate Warne? Kate Warne was arguably …

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