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Epizodes

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  Martin Luther — The Monk Who Split the Church 14.09.2026 7min

  Martin Luther — The Monk Who Split the Church
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  Alfred Nobel — The Dynamiter for Peace 11.09.2026 8min

  Alfred Nobel — The Dynamiter for Peace
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  Olaudah Equiano — The Slave Who Became an Abolitionist 08.09.2026 7min

  Olaudah Equiano — The Slave Who Became an Abolitionist
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  William the Conqueror — The Bastard Who Took a Crown 05.09.2026 7min

  William the Conqueror — The Bastard Who Took a Crown
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  Napoleon Bonaparte — The Corsican Who Conquered Europe 02.09.2026 7min

  Napoleon Bonaparte — The Corsican Who Conquered Europe
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  Leonardo da Vinci — The Man Who Sketched the Future 30.08.2026 8min

  Leonardo da Vinci — The Man Who Sketched the Future
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  Ibn Battuta — The Man Who Never Stopped Traveling 28.08.2026 7min

  Ibn Battuta — The Man Who Never Stopped Traveling
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  Christopher Columbus — The Voyage That Remade the World 24.08.2026 7min

  Avoid choosing between “heroic discoverer” and “uniquely evil monster” as the episode’s thesis. Explain his navigation and historical impact alongside enslavement, coercion, colonial violence and Indigenous experiences. Do not say that he proved the Earth was round.
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  Nezahualcoyotl — The Poet-King of Texcoco 21.08.2026 7min

  Nezahualcoyotl — The Poet-King of Texcoco
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  Zoroaster — The Prophet Behind Three Faiths 18.08.2026 8min

  Make the uncertainty itself part of the story: Zoroaster’s approximate period, location and biography are highly disputed and do not construct a detailed chronological life from much later tradition outside of what historians believe there is grounding for.
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  Razia Sultana — The Woman Who Ruled Delhi 15.08.2026 7min

  Razia Sultana — The Woman Who Ruled Delhi
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  Amelia Earhart — The Disappeared Pioneer Pilot 12.08.2026 7min

  Amelia Earhart — The Disappeared Pioneer Pilot
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  Yi Sun-sin — The Admiral Who Never Lost 09.08.2026 7min

  Yi Sun-sin — The Admiral Who Never Lost
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  Rumi — The Poet Read 800 Years Later 06.08.2026 8min

  Rumi — The Poet Read 800 Years Later
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  Karl Marx — The Thinker Who Inspired Revolutions 04.08.2026 8min

  Karl Marx — The Thinker Who Inspired Revolutions
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  Ada Lovelace — The First Computer Programmer 03.08.2026 8min

  In the episode, you may avoid the unqualified claim that she simply “invented programming” or was indisputably the first programmer. Explain what her published notes and Bernoulli-number procedure actually contained, her collaboration with Charles Babbage, and why historians disagree over the precise allocation of credit. Emphasize her unusually broad vision of what a general-purpose machine might do.
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  Isabella I of Castile 02.08.2026 8min

  Hi there, and welcome to 8 Minute Lives. In December 1474, a twenty-three-year-old woman walked through the streets of Segovia behind a nobleman carrying an unsheathed sword, its point raised to the sky. The sword was a symbol of royal justice, and by ancient custom it was carried before a king.
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  Julius Caesar 01.08.2026 8min

  Julius Caesar
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  Plato 28.07.2026 8min

  Plato
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  Toussaint Louverture 27.07.2026 8min

  Toussaint Louverture