Extraterritoriality

For over two years and 850 episodes, I have been providing you with daily podcasts on a wide assortment of topics.  Now, for the first time, I’m letting you take over the show by answering whatever qu...

6 Marras 202213min

On February 15, 1971, the United Kingdom had a landmark day in its history.  On that day, the country’s currency was changed after centuries of a currency system with very little change. It was a day ...

5 Marras 202213min

Most people think of the second world war as being a mechanized war fought with tanks, planes, jeeps, and ships. This is true, it was certainly a mechanized war. However, there is a part of the war wh...

4 Marras 202211min

In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit into northwest Africa and Europe.  He proposed that...

3 Marras 202210min

In 1968, American high jumper Dick Fosbury introduced a new way to compete in the high jump. His new technique worked so well that he won an Olympic gold medal, and within a few years, everyone used h...

2 Marras 202213min

Many movies and television shows have as their plot some disaster that eliminates the United States government.  As a result, some low-level cabinet official becomes president, who then has to solve t...

1 Marras 202213min

It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen.  The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemployment rate hit 20% There were soup lines and an ...

31 Loka 202213min

Despite what you might have been told, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were not the first Europeans to reach the Americas.  Almost 500 years earlier, a small group of Norse settlers arrived on...

30 Loka 202210min