444 Days: The Iran Hostage Crisis
On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian Revolutionaries stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and took 66 American diplomats and citizens hostage. Over the next 444 days, the hostage crisis d...
28 Jan 202516min
The Acoustic Kitty and Other Crazy CIA Plots
Since its creation, the Central Intelligence Agency has been tasked with gathering intelligence on foreign adversarial governments. Exactly how they were to go about doing this was not exactly spelle...
27 Jan 202515min
Warrior Monks: The Story of the Knights Templar (Encore)
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...
26 Jan 202512min
VTOL: Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft
Airplanes are wonderful things. They fly through the air and move people and goods at rapid speeds around the world. However, they have some downsides. In order to take off and land, an airplane requ...
25 Jan 202515min
Malaria: The Disease That Shaped History
Malaria is one of the oldest known infectious diseases, with a history spanning thousands of years. It has shaped human civilization, influenced wars, and driven scientific advancements in medicine an...
24 Jan 202516min
The Maha Kumbh Mela Pilgrimage: The World's Largest Religious Festival
Every twelve years, one of the greatest gatherings of people on Earth takes place in India. As many as a hundred million people will converge on four different locations on sacred rivers to engage in...
23 Jan 202512min
Performance Enhancing Drugs and Substances
One of the biggest controversies in the world of sports over the last several decades has been the use of performance-enhancing drugs and substances, or PEDs. It seems as if there hasn’t been a singl...
22 Jan 202516min
The Worst Day in Human History: January 23, 1556
Humanity has seen a lot of bad things throughout history. There have been horrific wars, natural disasters, and pandemics that have killed millions of people. Many of these awful events were awful ov...
21 Jan 202515min
