John Calvin: The Reluctant Reformer Who Shaped the Modern West
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Calvin helped shape Western religion, politics and economics, yet asked to be buried in an ...
1 Loka 20min
Tenzing Norgay: The Real Story Behind the Everest Summit Photo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The famous 1953 photograph of Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Mount Everest hides a far more com...
1 Loka 22min
Timur (Tamerlane): Skull Towers and the Timurid Renaissance
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, began as a raider in 14th century Transoxiana and was lef...
1 Loka 22min
Sundiata Keita: The Lion King Who Founded the Mali Empire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sundiata Keita, the first mansa of the Mali Empire, rose from a childhood of disability and cour...
1 Loka 24min
Secretariat: The 22-Pound Heart Behind Racing's Greatest Horse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Secretariat's necropsy in 1989 revealed a heart estimated at 22 pounds, a racing metaphor b...
1 Loka 21min
Sargon of Akkad: The Gardener Who Built the First Empire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sargon of Akkad, who ruled roughly from 2334 to 2279 BC, is often credited as the first person t...
1 Loka 23min
Alberto Santos-Dumont: Airships, the 14-bis and a Tragic Dream
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alberto Santos-Dumont, heir to a Brazilian coffee fortune, became one of the most famous people ...
1 Loka 26min
Robert Peary and the North Pole: Ambition, Exploitation and Doubt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Peary, a civil engineer from Pennsylvania, resolved in the jungles of Nicaragua to be the...
1 Loka 20min
