Legacy in Strokes

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joan pujol garcia · 3 min read

The Chicken Farmer Who Fooled Hitler

Joan Pujol García — codename Garbo — was rejected by Britain, became a Nazi spy, invented 27 fake agents from a Lisbon library, and helped deceive Hitler on D-Day. The on

medical history · 4 min read

The Tragic Savior of Mothers

The story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the 19th-century doctor who discovered hand disinfection with chlorinated lime, lowered maternal mortality to near zero, and died in an asy