This 2019 episode covers Sylvia of Hollywood, famous in the 1920s and 1930s for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood's beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman.
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Anthony van Dyck
SYMHC Classics: Orphan Tsunami
Behind the Scenes Minis: Succession and the Roeblings
Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
Stakhanovite Movement
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The Birth of Actuarial Science and Life Insurance, Pt. 1
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The Great English Sparrow War
Almanacs and Day Planners
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