Max Schmeling: Beating Joe Louis, Hiding Two Boys and Bottling Coca-Cola
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Max Schmeling was born in Prussia in 1905 and took up boxing after his father showed him film of...
26 Loka 21min
Mary Read: The 61-Day Pirate, Pleading the Belly and Centuries of Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Most of what is told about Mary Read comes from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 A General History...
26 Loka 21min
Margaret E. Knight: The Flat-Bottom Paper Bag Inventor Who Beat a Thief
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Margaret E. Knight was born in York, Maine, in 1838 and asked for a pocketknife and gimlet inste...
26 Loka 21min
Magnus Carlsen: Mozart of Chess Who Walked Away From the World Title
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Magnus Carlsen solved 50-piece puzzles at two and built teenage Lego sets at four, but ignored c...
26 Loka 17min
Lorenzo de' Medici: Surviving the Pazzi Conspiracy and the Pope's War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lorenzo de' Medici was born in 1449 into the banking family that ran the Florentine Republic fro...
26 Loka 25min
Lola Montez: The Fake Spanish Dancer Who Brought Down King Ludwig I
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lola Montez was born Eliza Gilbert in County Sligo, Ireland, in 1821. Her father, an army ensign...
26 Loka 25min
Livy (Titus Livius): The Padua Outsider Who Wrote Rome's 142-Book Epic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Titus Livius, known as Livy, was born around 59 BC in Patavium, modern Padua, a wealthy and cons...
26 Loka 19min
Jacques Cœur: France's Master of the Mint Framed for a Royal Poisoning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jacques Cœur was born a merchant's son in Bourges around 1395 and climbed out of the commoner cl...
26 Loka 24min
