Softcore History

In 1962, World Cup host Chile was set to play Italy in their final group stage match. Both sides needed a win to advance to the knockout stage. What ensued, thanks to a pair of Italian newspaper articles calling host nation Chile "backwards," "illiterate," and "full of prostitutes," was less of a soccer match and more of a blood feud. This is the story of "The Battle of Santiago."

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Dan Regester

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In 1973, the strangest trade broke out between two New York Yankees teammates. This is the career defining story of both Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich.

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Dan Regester

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Staff Sergeant Ray Lambert hit Dog Green Sector of Omaha Beach with the first wave on D-Day. He was a medic. His job was to save, not kill. But that fact did not prevent him from taking an absolute BEATING on the beach that day. Despite multiple horrific wounds throughout the morning, he never stopped treating wounded soldiers. He might have had the most brutal day of anyone on Omaha Beach who didn't die or lose a limb. Still, he never stopped saving lives. Not even when his own side accidentally tried to drown him.

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The capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the American Revolution was a crucial, if militarily uneventful, victory early in America's fight for independence. The capture cut British Canada off from the 13 colonies and supplied important heavy artillery to force the British out of Boston. And it was all accomplished by glory hounds Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, a ragtag group of men more interested in capturing the fort's booze than the fort itself, and what sounds like the worst spy plan in U.S. history.

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After the launch of Sputnik, the U.S. needed a response to show they had not fallen behind the Soviets during the Cold War. The Air Force put together a top-secret, very real plan under the name Project A119 to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface of the moon for the rest of the world to see. Carl Sagan was brought in to do calculations on the blast radius and the Space Race almost went atomic.

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