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On The Block: Gandhi's Spinning Wheel, Napoleon's Last Will

Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi shown using a spinning wheel in 1933 shortly after his release from prison. Keystone/Getty Images hide caption

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On The Block: Gandhi's Spinning Wheel, Napoleon's Last Will

November 5, 2013 • The Indian independence leader used the portable "charkha" to make his own thread and cloth while a prisoner of the British in the early 1930s.

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Gandhi's Things

February 27, 2009 • Producing the segment (in step with our goal to locate perspectives as close to the story as possible) was a delicate, balancing act involving logistics that stretched across two continents. And although the radio conversation aired yesterday, fel...

Gandhi's Things

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