Curated playlist
1874 births
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill escaped a prisoner-of-war camp in Pretoria by hiding on freight trains. It made him famous.
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg died on Friday the 13th, fifteen minutes before midnight. He had long dreaded the number thirteen.
- Edward ThorndikeEdward Thorndike timed hungry cats escaping from puzzle boxes. It led to his law of effect.
- Ernest ShackletonErnest Shackleton and two men crossed South Georgia's mountains on foot to fetch a rescue.
- Herbert HooverHerbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, once drew a remark from a Secret Service agent that few presidents have ever earned. The agent put it this way. "I've been traveling with Presidents since Roosevelt and never before…
- Charles A. BeardCharles A. Beard argued that money, not philosophy, drove the men who wrote the Constitution.
- Nicholas RoerichPainter Nicholas Roerich was held in Tibet for five months while the world thought he was lost.
- Alice Clark (historian)Historian Alice Clark argued that capitalism pushed women backward.
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Berdyaev told the Soviet secret police chief what was wrong with Bolshevism, and was freed.
- Leopoldo LugonesHow did poet Leopoldo Lugones go from Socialist to supporter of Fascism?
- Chaim WeizmannChaim Weizmann, a chemist, helped Britain make explosives in World War I. He later became Israel's first president.