Antibiotics
One of the biggest changes to humanity over the last 100 years has been the increase in life expectancies. One of the biggest reasons for the increase in life spans has been the development and use o...
8 Okt 202312min
The Princes in the Tower (Encore)
In 1483, the King of England, Edward V, and his brother were taken into custody by his uncle Richard the Duke of Glouster and placed into the Tower of London. Both the king and his brother were never...
7 Okt 20239min
The Knights Templar
In the early 12th century, a military monastic order developed in the Middle East with the express intent of protecting Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land. Despite its rather modest mission...
6 Okt 202312min
The Disappearance of Glenn Miller
Throughout the Second World War, one of the world’s most popular musicians was the American big band leader Glenn Miller. He had a string of hits over a very short period of time, and his music is so...
5 Okt 202314min
The Kiel Mutiny (Encore)
In the last days of the First World War, an event occurred that resulted in the rapid collapse of the German monarchy and ultimately hastened the end of the war. The event was sparked by sailors in t...
4 Okt 202310min
The Nobel Prize
On December 10, 1896, the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel passed away. In his will, he gifted most of his estate for the creation of a prize that rewarded people for excellence in various forms of human...
3 Okt 202314min
The Partition of India and Pakistan
In 1947, India and Pakistan became independent countries after almost 200 years of British colonial rule. However, this wasn’t just a case of a former colony becoming independent. It was a single col...
2 Okt 202313min
Questions and Answers: Volume 11
In his 1979 book Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, an alien race builds a computer to answer the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything. The computer took 7.5 million years to come up...
1 Okt 202313min
