Betamax vs. VHS
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a war erupted in the world of video technology. Two competing video tape formats fought to gain supremacy in the market. In the end, one format crushed the othe...
30 Jul 202313min
Mount Fuji
Located on the island of Honshu, in the middle of the Japanese archipelago, lies one of the most important and iconic places in all of Japan, Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji has held an important place in Japa...
29 Jul 202311min
The Battle of Thermopylae (Encore)
In the year 480 BC, one of the most famous battles in history took place on the shore of the Malian Gulf in the Aegean Sea. Several thousand Greeks held back several hundred thousand Persians in a bat...
28 Jul 202311min
Soyuz 11
Having lost the race to the Moon, the Soviet space program decided to go in a different direction. If they couldn’t be first on the moon, then they could take the lead in the area of endurance in spac...
27 Jul 202311min
A Brief History of Golf
Every day, millions of people around the world hit the links to play a round of golf. The very best at the game are able to earn millions of dollars a year as professionals. However, this global recr...
26 Jul 202313min
The Maya Civilization
Centuries before the arrival of Europeans, one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas rose and fell. They left behind them a rich legacy of roads and construction. They had a system of writing...
25 Jul 202313min
The History of Wine
For thousands of years, wine has been one of the most important beverages in the world. It has been consumed by common folk and by emperors, and it can be made in a surprisingly wide variety of geogr...
24 Jul 202314min
The Battle of Midway
In June 1942, American and Japanese naval forces squared off in what was to become a decisive naval battle of the war in the Pacific. The fleets, dominated by aircraft carriers, met just off the coas...
23 Jul 202313min
