Louis Wain’s Cat Pictures

The President's House was the first home of the U.S. president in the temporary capital of Phildelphia. While George Washington lived there, he had nine enslaved people that we know of., including the cook, Hercules. Research: “George Washington to Tobias Lear, 12 April 1791,” Fo ...  Show more

This 2014 episode covers the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which Native Americans rose up against Spanish colonists and missionaries at the turn of the 17th century.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

If you're listening to this podcast, you definitely know about cat memes. At this point, they're almost like an internet currency all their own. But far before the days of WiFi, Reddit, nyan cat and grumpy cat alike, one man set the art world on fire with his increasingly bizarre ...  Show more

This Valentine's Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science's past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, loneliness, betrayal, pettiness, and not one, but two beheadings.

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Louis XV, surnommé le “Bien-aimé”, inaugure en 1715 une ère d’apaisement après le règne guerrier de Louis XIV. Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, qui devient la marquise de Pompadour et la maîtresse officielle du roi, contribue largement au développement culturel et artistique de la F ...

Cet épisode 1 d’Une Autre Histoire commence à Paris en 1895. C’est la fin du XIXème siècle, siècle de la révolution industrielle, de la course au progrès technique, de la naissance de la photographie, du train, du télégraphe et du téléphone. Edison vient d’inventer l’ampoule élec ...  Show more