Teaser: Key Battles of WW2 Pacific - Guadalcanal, Part 1
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27 Elo 202121min
Vikings Went Everywhere in the Middle Ages, From Baghdad to Constantinople to….. Oklahoma?
Scandinavia has always been a world apart. For millennia Norwegians, Danes, Finns, and Swedes lived a remote and rugged existence among the fjords and peaks of the land of the midnight sun. But when t...
26 Elo 202145min
A Small Island in the English Channel Was the Birthplace of the Russian Revolution
Russia’s revolutionaries, anarchists, and refugees of the 19th century found an unlikely place to scheme against the Czar. These political radicals, writers, and freethinkers -- exiled from their home...
24 Elo 202146min
The Best-Selling Books in American History Include Self-Help Shams and ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
Many would assume that the most influential books in American History would be the Bible or the classical works that made the reading list for the Founding Fathers, like Vergil, Horace, Tacitus, , Thu...
19 Elo 202127min
The Common Factors That Cause Societies To Die, From Viking Greenland to Modern Somalia
If we do not learn from the past, we're ultimately doomed to repeat it. While our society may not be on the decline just yet, everything eventually must come to an end. Sandwich Board guys with ragged...
17 Elo 202142min
America Won the Space Race Because of a Horrible Accident That Killed 3 Astronauts
“ We’ve got a fire in the cockpit!” That was the cry heard over the radio on January 27, 1967, after astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee climbed into a new spacecraft perched atop a la...
12 Elo 202142min
The Daring WW1 Prison Break That Required an Ouija Board and a Life-or-Death Ruse
Today’s episode focuses on the true story of the most singular prison break in history—a clandestine wartime operation that involved no tunneling, no weapons, and no violence of any kind. Conceived du...
10 Elo 202146min
How the Broken Marriage of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Saved the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded “connubial bliss” as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to we...
5 Elo 20211h 1min
