John Hughes helped define the sound, style and emotional texture of 1980s American cinema. From Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone, his work…
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John Hughes helped define the sound, style and emotional texture of 1980s American cinema. From Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast…
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The Frisbee may look simple, but its story is a wonderfully odd flight through American campuses, pie companies, toy marketing,…
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In this episode of Compact Murder, we explore the assassination of King George I of Greece, a royal killing that took place in Thessaloniki on 18 March 1913, just as Greece was celebrating major victories…
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In this episode of Compact Mysteries, we explore the strange case of the Shugborough Inscription, a short sequence of carved…
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In this episode of Compact Warfare, we examine the Battle of Borodino, the savage 1812 confrontation between Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande…
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In this episode of Compact Disasters, we go underground in northern France to examine the…
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En este episodio de Biografías en 5 Minutos, exploramos la fascinante vida de Alfred Russel Wallace, el naturalista, explorador y científico británico que desarrolló de manera independiente la teoría de la evolución por selección natural.…
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