Episode 73 - Corrie Ten Boom, The Dutch Watchmaker Who Saved 800 Jews From The Holocaust

On July 17, 1918, the last Czar of Russia Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children were brutally murdered by communist revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks. Though the Bo...

10 Kesä 35min

Bob Dylan burst onto the scene in the 1960s as the "voice of a generation," providing evocative and politically engaged anthems that reflected America’s rapidly changing times, from the Civil Rights m...

27 Touko 27min

For centuries, the story has endured: medieval knights departing for war, locking their wives into iron chastity belts and riding off with the only key. It’s one of history’s most lurid and enduring l...

13 Touko 28min

In 1722, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovered a remote island in the Pacific on Easter Sunday, which he named "Easter Island," where he was astonished by the hundreds of towering, stern-faced moa...

29 Huhti 30min

Mexican singer Chalino Sánchez rose to fame as the "King of Corrido" in the late 1980s, creating sincere ballads about drug lords, cartels, and violence that resonated deeply with fans across Mexico a...

15 Huhti 32min

In December 1900, the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Scotland mysteriously disappeared — and to this day, no one knows what happened. https://allthatsinteresti...

1 Huhti 30min

In 1958, the Kingston Trio released a hugely popular folk song called "Tom Dooley," which even inspired a 1959 film, but few listeners realized the song was based on a real person — Tom Dula (pronounc...

18 Maalis 33min

Though many spies have been named as the inspiration for James Bond, Dusko Popov actually knew Sir Ian Flemming and gambled with him in between his international espionage escapades. https://allth...

4 Maalis 35min