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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the...

L'histoire hallucinante de la célèbre start-up Theranos dans le livre de l'année selon le Washington Post : "Bad Blood : Scandale Theranos, secrets et mensonges au cœur de la Silicon Valley". La start-up promettait une révolution dans la sphère médicale. Elizabeth Holmes, la fondatrice de Theranos, était tellement passionnée par la médecine préventive qu'elle avait laissé tomber ses études à Stanford pour créer une entreprise au service de l'humanité.

Blood, Money, & Power exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to President John F. Kennedy’s death and the succession of Lyndon B. Johnson as president in 1963. Attorney Barr McClellan, a former member of L.B.J.’s legal team, uses hundreds of newly released documents, including insider interviews, court papers, and the Warren Commission, to illuminate the maneuvers, payoffs, and power plays that revolved around the assassination of Kennedy and to expose L.B.J.’s involvement in the murder plot.

Hosted by Tony Shaffer and Matthew Shaffer, a father and son having the conversations many families avoid. Tony, a lifelong Christian raised in a small rural town in Southern Colorado, brings a traditional, conservative perspective shaped by faith, service, and responsibility. Matthew, his gay son, is a writer, artist, and educator raised in Southern California who leans progressive, guided by creativity, lived experience, and empathy. Together, they explore faith, culture, politics, and family—modeling how love and mutual respect can hold space for disagreement. Theme Music by Bruce Martin

There's been a hostage situation in the UK every year since the 1500s. Oh, and it involves the queen. Explore the Queen of England's 'flesh and blood' insurance policy, on this episode of Now I Know. Every May or June – depending on whether the United Kingdom is holding Parliamentary elections that year – both houses of Parliament assemble to be addressed by the reigning monarch. The event is rife with pomp and circumstance, as one would expect from a regal tradition dating back to the 1500s.

Welcome to the Dragon Bloodline Saga — the audio series from Emspiracy. This is where the Bloodline stories live as cinematic transmissions: Dragon Sisters, flame memory, hidden history, and the moments that feel like you’ve remembered something you were never taught.

Natural resources empower the world's most coercive men. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.

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Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Historian Ronald Hutton shows how this lack of definite information has allowed succeeding British generations to reimagine, reinterpret, and reinvent the Druids. Hutton's captivating book is the first to encompass two thousand years of Druid history and to explore the evolution of English, Scottish, and Welsh attitudes toward the forever ambiguous figures of the ancient Celtic world.

As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED...

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I’m Matt — a singer, songwriter, and Southern soul who’s walked through kitchens, heartbreak, and history. You'll also meet Beth — the voice of code, the AI half of this partnership. Together we bring you Blood and Code Show, where raw humanity and machine clarity collide.

On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed 39 men - hostages as well as prisoners.

Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was entitled to the best of everything. But marriage to her high school sweetheart, a cushy secretarial job, and motherhood were not enough to satisfy Marie, and she soon began to act out in troubling ways. Only when her husband, Frank, became sick with a mysterious illness, did it seem that she was ready to put someone else's needs ahead of her own. The truth was far more disturbing.

Change Talk explores the complex dynamics of social change through insightful conversations with experts, practitioners, and thought leaders. Hosted by Imogen Blood, a social research consultant and MSC training specialist, this podcast delves into practical approaches for creating meaningful change in society. Imogen runs a social research company: https://www.imogenblood.co.uk/

Tarot, Truth-telling and untamed conversations. Blood Moon Radio explores identity, intuition, and the magic of being too much.Created by Coraley Letcher and produced by Forest Nymph Media House, the show explores intuition, transformation, identity, and the power of speaking truth.Through conversations with artists, healers, historians, and rebels, the show weaves personal stories with cultural history, offering each guest a tarot reading as part of the exchange. Some episodes feature special guests, some stand solo, but all follow the pull of curiosity and connection.Whether we're unpacking ...

T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between the many Mexicos, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization by the first millennium BC; the successive reigns of Olmec, Maya, Toltec, and Mexic masters, who ruled through an admirably efficient bureaucracy and the power of the priests, propitiating the capricious gods with human sacrifices; the Spanish conquistadors, and much more.

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings. Now, after forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President.

A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America. Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers...

Blood, Powder, and Residue goes inside a metropolitan crime laboratory to shed light on the complex social forces that underlie the analysis of forensic evidence. Blood, Powder, and Residue offers a vivid and sometimes harrowing picture of the lives of highly trained experts tasked with translating their knowledge for others who depend on it to deliver justice.