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Alfred Dreyfus: A Miscarriage of Justice 29 Aug 2022 --- On the 5th of January, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus would be stripped of his rank and freedom in front of a crowd of Parisians before being deported. His crime - treason. However, his supporters believed him to be innocent, and the discovery of the real traitor resulted in what would become known as The Dreyfus Affair - one of the world's mo...

John Wayne: America’s Favorite Cowboy 22 Jan 2026 --- The 20th century gave birth to a new kind of celebrity: the movie star. Motion pictures had the portability of books combined with the visual spectacle of artwork and the performance acumen of theatre productions, making the stars of this new medium the first celebrities with a truly global impact. And for a long period of time, no movie star h...

Ronald Hunkeler: The Boy Who Inspired The Exorcist. 25 May 2024 --- On May 10, 2020, a former NASA engineer named Ronald Hunkeler died from a stroke a month before his 86th birthday. After his passing, he was mainly remembered for his contributions to space explorations, including work on the Apollo space missions and even a patent on a technology that helped panels withstand extreme heat. Then, a...

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John C.H. Lee: The Forgotten Mastermind of World War II 23 Mar 2024 --- The history of the United States Army presents no shortage of what may be called “colorful” characters adorning its ranks and accomplishments. During the American Revolutionary War there was the rambunctious Ethan Allen, loud, profane, and self-serving. The American Civil War produced George Armstrong Custer, one of the earlie...

Buffalo Bill: The Wild West’s Greatest Showman 13 Oct 2022 --- Thanks to Keeps for sponsoring this video! Head to https://keeps.com/Biographics to get 50% off your first Keeps order. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 This video is #sponsored by Keeps. Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https:...

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When you say the word “daredevil,” what image springs to mind? After you picture the Marvel guy in the red suit, we mean. It’s probably a man, maybe in his 30s, dressed in a dazzling, sparkly leather outfit, wearing a crash test helmet on his head and flashing a pair of gleaming, crazy eyes, howling like a madman as he charges into a death-defying stunt at a hundred miles per hour. That’s a fair a...

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J. Edgar Hoover - America’s Top Cop or Chief Inquisitor? 16 Jan 2023 --- Check out Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/BIOGRAPHICS for 10% off on your first purchase. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 This video is #sponsored by Squarespace. Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.yout...

Patrick Henry Cronin: Murder, Betrayal, and Secret Societies #sponsored #fyp 26 Feb 2026 --- Check out http://squarespace.com/biographics to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship #fyp #history #truecrimestories → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=...

Harold Shipman: The Deadly Doctor 13 Aug 2024 --- Doctors are among the most trusted members of our society. There’s a good reason for this: we entrust them with our most valuable commodity, our health. People share things with their doctors that they keep secret from everyone else, even their closest loved ones. When we are sick or injured, we trust doctors to call upon their vast knowledge of th...

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Winfield Scott Hancock: The Union Army's Most Superb General? #sponsored 17 Jan 2026 --- Check out http://squarespace.com/biographics to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code. BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other...

Charlotte Corday: Angel of Assassination 23 Jan 2024 --- It is one of the most famous works of art of the 18th Century, painted by French artist Jacques-Louis David. A man, sitting in his bathtub, slumps slightly to his right. His hands lightly clutch the instruments of his profession – and his power: a pen and a letter. A small wound, just below his right collarbone oozes blood. On the floor, we...

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The Luddites: Raging Against the Machines 14 Nov 2023 --- The first Industrial Revolution, which occurred in Europe and America from roughly the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries, was a period of rapid and sometimes dramatic change. It is sometimes defined as the period which saw the shift from a largely agrarian society, with manufactured goods produced by craftsmen, to an industrialized society...

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Jimmy Hoffa: What Happened to America’s Most Infamous Union Boss? 14 Dec 2025 --- #jimmyhoffa #biography #history → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's L...

"Sergeant Stubby: The Most Decorated Dog of WWI 28 Mar 2024 --- From 1914 to 1918, tens of millions of young men suffered the horrors of the Great War: the trenches, the maddening din of artillery, the hail of machine guns, and the deadly fog released by gas attacks. Almost 10 million of them never returned home. But even when trudging through the mud, the mist, and the misery, millions of men cou...

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