Howard Carter: A Secret Night in Tut's Tomb and the Missing Artifacts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Howard Carter was born in London in 1874, sent as a sickly boy to Swaffham in Norfolk, and taugh...
26 Loka 25min
Wilbur and Orville Wright: A Hockey Stick, a Wind Tunnel and Kitty Hawk
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the mid-1880s a hockey stick swung on a frozen Ohio lake knocked out Wilbur Wright's front te...
26 Loka 25min
Polybius: Hostage in Rome, Scipio's Tutor and Father of Checks and Balances
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Polybius was born around 200 BC in Megalopolis in Arcadia, son of Lycortas, a major landowner wh...
26 Loka 23min
Friedrich von Steuben: A Padded Resume, Valley Forge and the Blue Book
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born in 1730 in Magdeburg, Prussia, the son of a royal enginee...
26 Loka 23min
Sallust: Africa Nova Extortion, Lavish Gardens and Rome's Moral Decline
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gaius Sallustius Crispus, known as Sallust, was born around 86 BC in Amiternum in Sabine country...
26 Loka 21min
Xenophon: A Loaded Question at Delphi and the March of the Ten Thousand
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Xenophon was born around 430 BC to a wealthy Athenian family in the district of Erchia, served i...
26 Loka 24min
Wilt Chamberlain: The Bellhop Who Beat a College Star and Broke the Rules
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wilt Chamberlain grew up in Philadelphia, missed almost a year of school with pneumonia as a chi...
26 Loka 22min
William Lloyd Garrison: Jailed for Libel, He Burned the Constitution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Lloyd Garrison was born in 1805 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of a merchant sai...
26 Loka 22min
