People donate their bodies to medical science upon death, for various reasons. A lot of med schools have “cadaver labs”

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Gonna take a shot in the dark here and guess that it's probably not legal now either

I thought it was that composer Beethoven wasn't related to the modern Beethoven's who were related to the originator of the name.

So composer Beethoven's branch is the "bastard" branch for lack of a more apt term.

It sounds like you might dig Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner. A lot of what he wrote is heavily contested. I don't know enough to evaluate those claims.

You can understand both good and bad reasons why he would have errors. The CIA's work is classified a lot of times, so he had to piece the stories together indirectly. So mistakes are understandable. If the criticism of bias is more accurate that's a different issue, but you'd have to read reviews of his book and probably read a lot to get an idea of how much bias has had an impact.

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Eric Foner Columbia University

The Longest Night:A Military History of the Civil War by David Eicher ,Forward and Introduction by James Macpherson

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I am looking for some solid reads on the CIA and different operations and coups. I haven’t narrowed my interest down to any particular subject matter but I have been intrigued by paperclip and cointelpro related things. Drugs, mind control/psychology stuff, infiltration of movements. I’m pretty open, though.

So they discovered that living descendants of Beethoven weren't actually related to Beethoven because the wife of one of Beethovens great great grandkids had some other guys kids but gave them the surname Beethoven? Weak.

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That’s actually what started my interest. Agreed, it’s a great podcast, too many breaks though.

There’s a podcast called Real Dictators which did a series on Napoleon. Very interesting, but I had little knowledge of Napoleon before hand so it is likely a more surface level understanding of events leading up to and through his rule. Also highly recommend this series in general.

Pyramids in Egypt introduced the world to the concept of life after death, advanced body preservation techniques, and other forms of unique belief. The recent study also reveals that the highly skilled population of Egypt was relying on international trade to make way for their mummifying techniques. A good read of the article offers interesting facts that were previously unknown.

At the time the school was in operation, the idea of dissection wasn't exactly "legal", so it's possible that the cadavers came from grave robbers and other less legitimate sources.

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They don't in many countries in the world as per today

What was "the Fula playbook", in regards to Thailand's history? As mentioned at 3:43 in this video (timestamp should be included in the link).