Question and Answers: Volume 1
For over two years and 850 episodes, I have been providing you with daily podcasts on a wide assortment of topics. Now, for the first time, I’m letting you take over the show by answering whatever qu...
6 Nov 202213min
British Currency Decimalization
On February 15, 1971, the United Kingdom had a landmark day in its history. On that day, the country’s currency was changed after centuries of a currency system with very little change. It was a day ...
5 Nov 202213min
Horses in World War II
Most people think of the second world war as being a mechanized war fought with tanks, planes, jeeps, and ships. This is true, it was certainly a mechanized war. However, there is a part of the war wh...
4 Nov 202211min
Alfred Wegener and Continental Drift (Encore)
In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit into northwest Africa and Europe. He proposed that...
3 Nov 202210min
Banned Techniques That Would Smash World Records in Track and Field
In 1968, American high jumper Dick Fosbury introduced a new way to compete in the high jump. His new technique worked so well that he won an Olympic gold medal, and within a few years, everyone used h...
2 Nov 202213min
The Presidential Line of Succession
Many movies and television shows have as their plot some disaster that eliminates the United States government. As a result, some low-level cabinet official becomes president, who then has to solve t...
1 Nov 202213min
The Panic of 1893
It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen. The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemployment rate hit 20% There were soup lines and an ...
31 Okt 202213min
Vinland, Vikings, and Lactose Intolerance (Encore)
Despite what you might have been told, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were not the first Europeans to reach the Americas. Almost 500 years earlier, a small group of Norse settlers arrived on...
30 Okt 202210min
