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Warrior Women
Singly and as part of elite armies, women have fought in every time period, in every geographical location in history. This series tells their stories.
Broads You Should Know Takeover: Julie D'Aubigny - Swordswoman, Opera Singer, Lover
The 34 Circe Salon has been taken over by Broads You Should Know! Our latest episode is a crossover from the "Broads You Should Know"...
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Walter Penrose - Amazon History pt1 - Female Bodyguards in India and Persia
In an exciting three-part interview, Dawn "Sam" Alden and Sean Marlon Newcombe sit down with Walter Penrose, PhD, associate professor of...
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Walter Penrose - Amazon History pt2 - Thracians, Scythians and Sauromatians
In part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Walter Penrose, we talk about the tribes of warrior women who inhabited the Black Sea region and...
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Walter Penrose - Amazon History pt3 - The Kingdom of Women & Warrior Queens
In the last part of our fascinating discussion of Amazon history with Dr. Walter Penrose, we shift our attention to the Indian concept of...
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Vicki Noble - Rise of the Amazons pt5 - The Matriarchal Resistance Movement
Upon the ashes of a lost fallen female-centric civilization arose a new figure in human culture: The Amazon. In the fifth and final part...
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Vicki Noble - Rise of the Amazons pt1 - Kill the Queen
The first installment in our series on the birth of the historical warrior women called "Amazons." Who were their ancestors? Where did...
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Vicki Noble - Rise of the Amazons pt2 - Destruction and Flight
On the run, the women of the Old Europe matriarchies flee both east and west to preserve their matriarchal culture and female-centric...
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Vicki Noble - Rise of the Amazons pt3 - The Trojan Connection
Long before the Troy of The Iliad and The Odyssey, there was a civilization in Anatolia at Troy that derived its foundation from the Old...
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Vicki Noble - Rise of the Amazons pt4 - From Flight to Fight
The concept of an "Amazon" begins to develop as the millennia pass and the descendants of the Old Europe matriarchies are forced to take...
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Sadie the Goat and Gallus Mag
Six-feet tall and ready to do damage -- Gallus Mag was a bouncer in 19th Century New York City who would take no guff from anyone. Sadie...
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Cheng I Sao and the Women Pirates of China
What if we told you that the most successful pirate of all time was a woman? Meet the inimitable Ching I Sao, Queen of the High Seas....
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Toypurnina - Native American Revolutionary
She was a revolutionary who tried to free her people, but her story was lost to time... until now. Toypurina was a shaman and woman of...
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Women Pirates from the Renaissance to the 18th Century
It's the classic age of the pirate. We've seen their images everywhere for all of our lives-- the skull and crossbones, the pistol and...
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Women Pirates of the Ancient World
Sailing Seven Seas, dueling armadas, claiming treasures-- this is the life of... Women Pirates! Come along with Dawn "Sam" Alden and...
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Tomyris of the Massegetae
She stood against the might of Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire and toppled it, beheading the great king. Her name was Tomyris, a...
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Women Stage Combatants
Join actress and stage combatant Dawn "Sam" Alden as she and co-host Sean Marlon Newcombe talk to four women of stage combat about what...
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Boudica & the Women of the Celts
The Celts were renown for their ferocity, but how many still realize that it was the ferocity of Celtic women that astonished the Ancient...
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Warrior Nuns and Abbesses
Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden sit down with Jody Buckley O'Riordan to talk about the vast, but little-known history of nuns...
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Women Have Always Fought
Co-hosts Dawn "Sam" Alden and Sean Marlon Newcombe talk about the myriad of women warriors throughout history and how their stories have...
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Vicki Noble - Crete, "Minoan" Women and the Origin of the Amazons
Part 1 of 2 Co-hosts Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden join Vicki Noble again to talk about the herstory of the Amazons. In this...
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Vicki Noble - Crete, "Minoan" Women and the Origin of the Amazons -- pt 2
Part 2 of 2 Co-hosts Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dawn "Sam" Alden join Vicki Noble again to talk about the herstory of the Amazons. In this...
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Amazons as the Ancients Saw Them - pt1
Who were the Amazons? Did they actually exist? What did historians say? What were the legends about them? Journey with host Sean Marlon...
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Amazons as the Ancients Saw Them - pt2
Part 2 of 2 Who were the Amazons? Did they actually exist? What did historians say? What were the legends about them? Journey with host...
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The Rani of Jhansi
This episode we discuss the amazing story of Rani of Jhansi, a 19th Century queen in India who bravely took up arms against the colonial...
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