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    Emmeline Pankhurst

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Biographies of Women in History

    Integrale

    1 ora 1 minuti

    Emmeline Pankhurst remains one of the most pivotal women in history. For others, such words might be an overstatement, but for Emmeline Pankhurst, they are simply the truth. She came of age at a time when women had no voice in the affairs of their own country, and she made it her life's work to change that. What began as grassroots activism quickly turned into nothing short of a crusade that would ... Altre info

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    Arab Spring, The

    A History from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...

    Integrale

    1 ora 26 minuti

    The Arab Spring began unexpectedly on December 17, 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old fruit seller in the city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, committed suicide in a horrifying and public way. He doused himself in flammable liquid and then set himself on fire. Bouazizi had been driven to this act of despair, it was said, by constant harassment from local representatives of the regime of ... Altre info

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    Otto von Bismarck

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...

    Integrale

    1 ora 12 minuti

    Otto von Bismarck was not the kind of man who waited for history to happen. He made it happen, and he didn't much care whose feelings got hurt along the way.Bismarck was the pragmatic Prussian statesman who engineered Germany creation as a unified nation through Realpolitik—the unsentimental art of doing whatever it takes to get results. While other politicians speechified and moralized, Bismarck ... Altre info

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    Catherine de Medici

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Biographies of French Royalty

    Integrale

    1 ora 12 minuti

    Few women in history have inspired such contradictory reactions as Catherine de Medici. To her admirers, she was a brilliant stateswoman and a steadying force in an era of great religious conflict. To her enemies, she was something far darker: a scheming foreigner, an Italian serpent coiled at the heart of the French court. What almost everyone agreed on was that she was extraordinary.Born into ... Altre info

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    Hungarian Revolution

    A History from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...

    Integrale

    1 ora 13 minuti

    The assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand didn't just ignite the fuse to the tinderbox that was Europe in the early years of the twentieth century. When war was declared and the soldiers set off to fight the “war to end all wars,” World War I realigned nations, sent their economies reeling, and toppled thrones and classes. Hungary was a particularly vivid example of how ... Altre info

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  • Audiolibro

    Boudica

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...

    Integrale

    1 ora 3 minuti

    Boudica was the queen of her people, a proud Celtic tribe in the east of England, and she took that responsibility seriously. In a time when the Romans sought to add the British Isles to their ever-growing empire, she stood as the last line of defense between her tribe and total subjugation. And so, with nothing left to lose, she did what few had ever dared: she led her people in open revolt ... Altre info

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    Johann Sebastian Bach

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Composer Biographies

    Integrale

    1 ora 9 minuti

    During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was a Konzertmeister who played eloquent music for the masses at church, but his unique, free-flowing style was not always appreciated when his day job called for him to play traditional church standards. He was jailed by a duke, passed over for promotions, and told repeatedly to tone it down. Yes, for most of his life, Bach was more akin to an unsung ... Altre info

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    Empress Dowager Cixi

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series History of China

    Integrale

    1 ora 8 minuti

    Empress Dowager Cixi, who first rose to prominence as a royal consort, connived and schemed her way to the very pinnacle of power in China. From the shadows of the Forbidden City's inner chambers, she emerged as the empire's de facto ruler, wielding authority few women in history had ever possessed. She ruthlessly crushed her opponents and at times subjected even close family members to abject ... Altre info

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    First Intifada, The

    A History from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Palestine Israeli Conflict

    Integrale

    1 ora 6 minuti

    The First Intifada was an uprising in the Gaza Strip and West Bank that began in 1987 and ended in 1993. There are two quite different and contradictory historical perspectives on this conflict. Palestinians generally viewed the uprising as a popular resistance movement against military occupation and policies they experienced as oppressive. From the Israeli side, however, the actions taken were ... Altre info

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    Alexandra Kollontai

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Revolutionaries

    Integrale

    1 ora 12 minuti

    As the daughter of a decorated general in the Imperial Russian army, Alexandra Kollontai was a member of the elite from birth. From that comfortable perch, she might easily have lived out her days in the drawing rooms and social circles of St. Petersburg's upper classes. Instead, she devoted her life to tearing that world apart. She became a Marxist agitator, a political writer, and one of the ... Altre info

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    Golda Meir

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Palestine Israeli Conflict

    Integrale

    1 ora 7 minuti

    Golda Meir began her career as a grassroots activist whose tireless efforts helped ensure the creation of a Jewish homeland. As a diplomat and negotiator, she played a pivotal role in securing the recognition and funding that made the founding of Israel possible in 1948. She would go on to serve as the new nation’s foreign minister and, ultimately, as its prime minister—one of the first women in ... Altre info

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    Sacagawea

    A Life from Beginning to End

    Narrato da Noel Fuller ...
    Serie series Native American History

    Integrale

    1 ora 4 minuti

    Sacagawea is widely known as the Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark across the western frontiers of North America in the early 1800s. It was an extraordinary journey that took a small band of explorers thousands of miles into uncharted territory, across treacherous mountain passes, vast plains, and all the way to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. This was indeed a remarkable and ... Altre info

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