Scurvy (Encore)
When Europeans began sailing the high seas on extended voyages, the most deadly thing they encountered wasn’t enemy navies, starvation, or even shipwrecks. It was a painful disease where your body wo...
19 Joulu 202310min
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On the evening of April 14, 1865, the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was shot while attending a play in Washington DC. The assassination wasn’t a random act. It had been planned...
18 Joulu 202314min
Encyclopedias
Ever since humans began writing down information, there has been a desire to compile all known information into one single source. For over two thousand years, people have attempted to compile all of...
17 Joulu 202315min
The Acadian Expulsion (Encore)
Beginning in the 16th century, French settlers crossed the Atlantic to settle in a French colony located in the New World. That colony wasn’t modern-day Quebec, however. The colony was known as Acadia...
16 Joulu 202310min
Potpourri: Incredible Coincidences
The dictionary defines a coincidence as “A sequence of events that, although accidental, seems to have been planned or arranged.” We have probably all experienced coincidences of some type or another....
15 Joulu 202315min
Copper
When humans first learned how to work with metal, the very first metal they used was copper. Copper was easy to shape, easy to find, and relatively abundant. Since those early humans began using cop...
14 Joulu 202313min
Alexander the Great
In the year 356 BC, a son was born to the King of Macedon, Philip II, and his wife, Queen Olympias. While no one could have known it at the time, that boy would grow up to fundamentally change the map...
13 Joulu 202314min
Punctuation Marks (Encore)
There was a time when languages had no punctuation. Not only did they not have punctuation, but they also didn’t even have spaces between words, and in some cases, they didn’t even use vowels. It was...
12 Joulu 202311min
