Samuel Bellamy: One Year as Captain, the Whydah and Wreck Off Cape Cod
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Samuel Bellamy was born in England around 1689, possibly in Devon or London, and served in the R...
26 Loka 23min
Hiram Maxim: Losing to Edison, a Steam Flying Machine and a Blackpool Ride
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hiram Maxim was born in Maine in 1840 to a family of French Huguenot descent. He was an apprenti...
26 Loka 22min
Heinrich Schliemann: Gold Rush Banker Who Dug Through Homer's Troy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Heinrich Schliemann was born in Germany in 1822, one of nine children of a poor Lutheran pastor ...
26 Loka 26min
Garry Kasparov: The 48-Game Marathon, Deep Blue and Exile From Russia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Garry Kasparov was born Garik Weinstein in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 1963, named after Harry Truman. ...
26 Loka 19min
Johnny Weissmuller: Polio Therapy, Five Olympic Golds, Then Tarzan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Johnny Weissmuller was born Johann Peter Weissmuller in 1904 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in ...
26 Loka 22min
Hayreddin Barbarossa: From a Lesbos Potter's Son to Victor at Preveza
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hayreddin Barbarossa was born Hizir on the island of Lesbos in the late 15th century to Yakup Ag...
26 Loka 28min
Maxwell Knight: The MI5 Agent Runner Who Became a BBC Nature Broadcaster
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Maxwell Knight, born in 1900, served briefly as a hydrophone officer in the Royal Naval Reserve ...
26 Loka 23min
Robert Owen: New Lanark Mills, the New Harmony Utopia and a Late Seance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Owen was born in Newtown, Wales, in 1771, the sixth of seven children of a saddler and po...
26 Loka 21min
