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Bertha Benz and the Road That Didn’t Exist

History credits a man with inventing the motorcar but this episode tells the story of the woman who made it work.

In 1888, Bertha Benz took an untested invention on the world’s first long-distance drive.

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Charles XII of Sweden: The Warrior King Who Never Backed Down

In this episode of Blind History, Gareth and Anthony dive into the extraordinary life of Charles XII of Sweden, a teenage warrior king who turned an entire empire into a battlefield

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Henry VIII: The King Who Lost His Mind (and His Wives)

Gareth Cliff and Anthony Mederer dive into the wild, gruesome, and utterly fascinating life of England’s most infamous monarch, Henry VIII. From Renaissance poster boy to paranoid tyrant, Henry’s story is one of brilliance, blood, and betrayal. The man who split from the Church of Rome for love, kept a polar bear as a pet, and had servants wipe his royal behind. This episode unpacks how one king reshaped England forever… and nearly destroyed it in the process.

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