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Come along with me and explore the lives of Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Wangari Maathai, Ctesibius, Valentina Tereshkova, Chiune Sugihara, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett… and others who’ve greatly influenced society. What life choices led them to be so extraordinary… what can we learn from them? Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di, author of the Tarikh al-Sudan, History of the Sudan... a West African chronicle written in Arabic --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's Notable People in History newsletter, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Kubaba, a Mesopotamian queen who ruled in the early days of the third dynasty of Kish during 2500–2330 BC, an ancient city-state of Sumer, Mesopotamia. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mansa Sundieta Keita. After his victory at Kirina, Mansa Sundiata established his capital at Niani. His sons went on to succeed him as Mansas of the Empire. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of 11th century Spanish Muslim geographer, Al-Bakri. His book, Roads and Kingdoms, gives us an early account of the ancient Soninke empire of Ghana. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Amanitore, the daughter of Kandake Amanishakheto and granddaughter of Kandake Amanirenas of the Kingdom of Kush. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pharaoh Piye, the first of the Black Pharaohs who ruled Egypt. The 25th Dynasty's reunification of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Kush created the largest Egyptian empire since the New Kingdom. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-j…
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In this week's #NotablePeopleinHistory podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Taharqa, the third in a line of Kushite kings whose power extended from their native Nubia to the whole of Egypt, which they ruled as the pharaohs of the 25th Dynasty. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Berber Queen Dihya fought against Islamic expansion in ancient Numidia Kingdom under the leadership of Hasan ibn al Nu'man. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Kandake Amanishakheto. She is remembered as a great queen of Kush and is known as a great warrior and pyramid builder; particularly at the Wad ban Naqa site that served as the seat of the Kushite/Nubian Kingdom. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.co…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Akhenaten, the 14th-century pharaoh who brought change to the ancient Egyptian kingdom, including changing his name, the country’s religion and its capital. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nzinga Mbandi, who became queen of Ndongo in 1624. She is known for her diplomatic and military strategies in defending her kingdoms against the Portuguese, transforming them into successful commercial states. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life Queen Amina. She was a warrior and ruler of Zazzau, a Hausa city-state which dominated the trans-Saharan trade after the collapse of the Songhai empire in what is now Northern Nigeria. She led an army of 20,000 soldiers, conquering towns to the north and south in the Nu…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Oranyan, the second prince of Ile-Ife, who made Oyo his new kingdom. According to Yoruba history, Oranyan founded Oyo around the year 1300 and one of his children, Eweka I, went on to become the first king of the Benin Empire. --- Support this podcast: https://podcas…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nzinga Mbandi, who became queen of Ndongo in 1624. She is known for her diplomatic and military strategies in defending her kingdoms against the Portuguese, transforming them into successful commercial states. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Shaka Zulu. Before the ascendancy of King Shaka, Zulu referred to only one clan that recognized "Zulu" as its founding ancestor. After Shaka's mission of conquest and consolidation, the Zulu Empire’s population reached an estimated 250,000 and his state emerged as th…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Makeda, Queen of Sheba who ruled the Axumite kingdom for more than 50 years. She traveled to Jerusalem to witness the fabled wisdom of King Solomon and bore him a son named Menelik, the first Imperial ruler of Ethiopia. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.sp…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mansa Musa, the ninth ruler of the Mali Empire and considered the richest man to have ever lived. During his reign, the empire of Mali doubled in size, making it second in size only to that of the Mongol Empire at the time, and trade tripled. --- Support this podcast…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Amani. She’s remembered as having led her Kingdom’s army to fight back the Romans from 25 to 22 BC, halting their expansion into Kush. She captured three major Roman cities and brought back the bronze head of Augustus Caesar. --- Support this podcast: https://p…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Leo Africanus. Born Al Hassan Ibn Muhammad Al Wazzan, he is best known for hisb book, Cosmographia et geographia de affrica (Cosmography and geography of Africa). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hatshepsut. Assuming the title King of Upper and Lower Egypt, she reigned Egypt as pharoahfrom 1478-1458 BCE, longer than any other woman of Egyptian dynasty. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Muḥammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. His book, Hisab al-jabr w’al-muqabala or The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing, is generally considered to be the first written on the subject of algebra. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Queen Boudica, a Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe in England who led a rebellion against Roman occupation around 60 A.D. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Fibonacci. Traveling around the Mediterranean coast, Fibonacci met with many merchants, learning about their systems for doing arithmetic. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wang Zhenyi. Despite societal norms which prohibited female education, she made accurate findings and observations as to the relationship between the lunar and solar eclipses. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/suppo…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Pythagoras. He’s credited with formulating the Pythagorean theorem, and the concept that music and harmony is present in the entire Universe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hypatia of Alexandria. She became the head of the Platonist school at Alexandria, lecturin on mathematics and philosophy. In 415 AD, she was attacked by a mob, and beaten to death with what are thought to be roofing tiles. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Euclid, the Greek mathematician, who lived and taught in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I. He’s often referred to as the “Father of Geometry.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Nakano Takeko. Born into a family of the Aizu clan, Nakano Takeko was born in Edo. She led a warrior class of female samurais during the Battle of Aizu of 1868. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Vitruvius, the Roman architect, author and engineer. He is best known for his multi-volume treatise De Architectura ("On Architecture"), which is considered the first book on architectural theory and is the only one from antiquity to survive today. --- Support this p…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Greek physician, Galen. Universally known as Galen of Pergamon, he correctly pointed out that arteries were filled with blood, not air. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Grace Hopper. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Hippocrates, the Greek physician often credited with developing the theory of the "four humors," or fluids, which include yellow bile, black bile, blood and phlegm. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Their relationship, based on mutual interest in politics, turned from friendship to courtship. On November 4, 1842, a plain gold wedding band was placed on Mary's finger with the ins…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, considered one of the most influential food writers of all time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Deborah Read, wife of American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. It’s said that she received little formal education. Almost nothing else is known about her childhood. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Plato. He was convinced that the idea of justice, no matter how people’s opinions might change, does not change in itself. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Sarah Livingston Jay, wife of American Founding Father John Jay. Considered one of the first socialites in the United States, she was exposed to American politics at an early age. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/s…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Plutarch. Born in Boeotia, educated in Athens, and made a priest at Delphi, Plutarch wrote over 200 works, among them Parallel Lives and the Morals. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lawrence-jean-louis/support…
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In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Martha Jefferson, wife of James Madison. She is often credited with saving the portrait of George Washington when the British attacked the Capitol in 1814 when 4,000 British troops began landing in Maryland during the War of 1812. --- Support this podcast: https://po…
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