Batteries
The odds are quite good that somewhere around you right now as you listen to me speak these words, is a battery. Whether it is in your smartphone, earbuds, automobile, smoke detector, or laptop, batt...
19 Apr 202415min
A Brief History of Belgium
Located in Northern Europe, along the Atlantic coast, is the relatively small nation of Belgium. Belgium is like other countries in most ways, but its history and founding are very different from tho...
18 Apr 202415min
The History of Money (Encore)
Money is a very strange thing. All of us use it. We spend it, earn it, and save it. We know it when we see it. Yet, even some of the world’s best economists have a very hard time defining it. It has ...
17 Apr 202414min
The Great Wall of China (Encore)
It is one of the longest and largest structures ever built. It was designed to defend one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on the planet. For centuries it did just that…..and for some centuri...
16 Apr 202411min
Sandwiches
Sandwiches are one of the most popular types of food in the world. They are incredibly easy to make, can be incredibly cheap, and they come in numerous varieties. Yet, the humble sandwich is also the...
15 Apr 202414min
Aircraft Carriers
Aircraft carriers are some of the most fearsome weapons in the world. They are enormous platforms that can travel around the globe, projecting power over an enormous part of it. However, aircraft car...
14 Apr 202414min
King George III
In 1760, George III succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 22, becoming the third king in the House of Hannover. His reign would become one of the longest in British history, and...
13 Apr 202415min
Sergeant Alvin York
In October 1918, just weeks before the end of the First World War, one of the most incredible feats of military valor took place in the Meuse–Argonne offensive, one of the last great battles of the wa...
12 Apr 202415min
