Gregor Mendel
1883 - Brno
In the quiet of the abbey at Brno, a monk whose pea experiments were ignored reflects on what the world was not yet ready to understand.
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1883 - Brno
In the quiet of the abbey at Brno, a monk whose pea experiments were ignored reflects on what the world was not yet ready to understand.
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1883 - Battle Creek, Michigan
With her body failing faster than her memory, a woman who walked out of slavery sets down what freedom actually looked like.
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1883 - Brno
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In the quiet of the abbey at Brno, a monk whose pea experiments were ignored reflects on what the world was not yet ready to understand.
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1883 - Battle Creek, Michigan
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1883 - Battle Creek, Michigan
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With her body failing faster than her memory, a woman who walked out of slavery sets down what freedom actually looked like.
Weak from childbirth and aware the fever is winning, the author of the first argument for women's rights writes her last account.
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1894 - Washington, D.C.
A fellow abolitionist voice forged inside the same American struggle.
In Washington, as his body fails, the man who escaped slavery and changed a nation confronts what the republic still refuses to face.
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1603 - Whitehall
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A contrasting life shaped by faith and religious conflict.
In her final winter, a queen who gave everything to England asks whether the throne was worth what it destroyed.
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