Questions and Answers: Volume 37
In the north, things are getting colder, snow is starting to fall, and the days are getting shorter.It is also the season for gift-giving. As I can’t personally give all of you a customized gift, I ...
1 Des 202513min
Panama
Panama is best known as the location of the Panama Canal, the waterway that revolutionized international sea transportation. However, there is a lot more to the country. Its history is unlike any oth...
30 Nov 202515min
Italian vs German Fascism
Fascism is one of the most notorious political ideologies that shaped the 20th century. Fascism is typically only thought of in tandem with Nazi Germany, but it wasn’t the only country that adhered t...
29 Nov 202516min
The Desecration of St. Denis (Encore)
The French Revolution was one of the most significant events in history. It wasn’t just a political revolution where one government replaced another. It was also a social revolution where the revolu...
28 Nov 202512min
The Apollo 1 Disaster (Encore)
In the early 1960s, the United States was always a step behind the Soviet Union in the space race. By the mid-1960s, the Americans had caught up. They didn’t have many glamorous firsts, but they wer...
27 Nov 202514min
Imperial Units of Measure (Encore)
Almost every country in the world uses the metric system…..almost. There are still a few stragglers, like the United States, who use units handed down to them from the British. These are known as Imp...
26 Nov 202517min
Roller Coasters
For over a century, people have enjoyed the thrill of visiting an amusement park and riding roller coasters. The very first thing we can point to and call a proto-roller coaster had neither rollers n...
25 Nov 202514min
The Paraguayan War (Encore)
In the 1860s, one of the bloodiest wars in the Western Hemisphere took place….and it wasn’t the US Civil War. It was a war between Paraguay and an alliance of Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and it ...
24 Nov 202515min
