The Children of Nazis
Almost everyone has a black sheep in their family. Someone who maybe gets in trouble with the law and doesn’t follow rules. But what if you had the misfortune to be related to someone truly horrific?...
26 Heinä 202110min
All About Uranium
Every element on the periodic table has a completely different story. They behave differently, they exist in different abundances, and humans have totally different uses for them. One of the most con...
25 Heinä 202112min
The Last Germans to Surrender (Encore)
Wars can start with a bang but end with a whimper. Often an attack or an invasion will begin a war, but even one when one side surrenders, it can take days, weeks, or months for word of the capitulati...
24 Heinä 202110min
The Modern Olympic Games
Almost 2,800 years ago the Ancient Greeks held a sporting event every four years on Mount Olympus. The festival was part competition, part religious celebration, and it was considered so important tha...
23 Heinä 202112min
The 1972 World Chess Championship
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed in almost every arena: space, sports, and of course the military. Everything they competed in was designed to show the superiority ...
22 Heinä 202111min
Barcodes
In 1949, a young inventor by the name of Norman Woodland was sitting on the beach in Florida. While drawing some lines in the sand, he had an idea that would revolutionize the world of retail and logi...
21 Heinä 202114min
The Miller-Urey Experiment
One of the fundamental questions of humanity is where did we come from? How did life on Earth come about? While there have been many theories as to how this could have happened, in 1952, two men decid...
20 Heinä 20219min
The Erfurt Latrine Disaster (Encore)
In the year 1184 in the Dutchy of Thuringia, in what is today the country of Germany, a conflict raged between the Count of Thuringia and the Archbishop of Mainz. To resolve this dispute, the German K...
19 Heinä 20217min
