Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences
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Flashback: History's Unintended Consequences
A series of stories of disastrous turning points, dangerous ideas, crazy coincidences, unsung heroes and forgotten villains. From OZY’s Sean Braswell, host and creator of the chart-topping, Webby-nominated The Thread, comes a new show about how some of the best-laid plans can go horribly wrong, or p...
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Bonus Episode 8: How a Haircut Changed Music History
After a 23-year-old Elvis Presley submitted to an Army barber in March 1958, rock and roll, and American life, were never quite the same.
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Bonus Episode 7: Grace Kelly’s Fateful Trip to Cannes
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Bonus Episode 6: The Fatal Pitch That Changed Baseball History
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Bonus Episode 5: The Freak Bicycle Accident Behind a Children’s Classic
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Bonus Episode 4: The Drunk Cop Who Brought Down a President
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Bonus Episode 3: The Newspaper Error That Sparked the Nobel Prize
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Bonus Episode 2: Your Unintended Consequences
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Bonus Episode 1: The Hockey Injury That Launched Air Travel
Why the story of human flight begins on a frozen pond in Dayton, Ohio…and why there was only one Wright Brother with the Right Stuff.
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FB 110: A Hollywood Ending: How One Inventor’s Mysterious Disappearance Changed the American Film Industry
The birth of Hollywood owes a surprising amount to the untimely demise of a single Frenchman.
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FB 109: A Libertarian House on the Prairie: How a Children’s Classic Inspired a Modern Political Movement
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FB 108: Matchmakers: How a Dangerous Discovery Ignited the Labor Movement
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FB 107: A Tale of Two Pests: How Gypsy Moths and Kudzu Took Over America
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FB 106: An ‘Uncommonly Silly’ Law: How One Man’s Crusade Against Obscenity Resulted in Abortion Rights
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FB 105: High Hitler: How a Meth-Peddling Doctor Changed the Course of World War II
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FB 104: The Jordan Effect: How a Baseball Strike Saved Basketball
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FB 103: AC/DC: How Air Conditioning Changed the Landscape of American Politics
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FB 102: Holy Smokes: How the YMCA Helped Launch the Tobacco Black Market
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FB 101: McVeigh’s Mentor: How Henry Ford Inspired the Oklahoma City Bombing
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