Precision Munitions
In 1940, an investigation conducted by the British military found that only 1 in 5 of their bombers were actually landing bombs within five miles of their intended targets. This level of inaccuracy ...
15 Jun 202213min
The Legend of Ned Kelly
In the late 19th century, the American frontier became famous for its outlaws and gangsters. Men like Billy the Kid and Jesse James became notorious for their criminal exploits. While this was happen...
14 Jun 202212min
The History of Olive Oil
Somewhere in your kitchen, you might have a bottle of olive oil. When you made that purchase you probably didn’t think twice about it, but believe it or not, olive oil used to be one of the most impor...
13 Jun 202213min
The Steam Engine
The industrial revolution began the biggest change to humanity since the dawn of agriculture. The start of the industrial revolution is largely considered to have begun with the invention of the ste...
12 Jun 202213min
Navajo Code Talkers (Encore)
Secrecy is a huge part of military success. You want to be able to communicate with your own forces without the enemy finding out what your plans are. As America entered World War II, they were in ne...
11 Jun 20229min
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Today in Western Europe, there is a line that divides speakers of Germanic languages and speakers of Romance languages. While that line has shifted over two thousand years, its existence can be traced...
10 Jun 202213min
Kiribati
Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a country that, to most people’s surprise, is shockingly large. It only has a population of 120,000 people, but it stretches over 3.5 million square kil...
9 Jun 202214min
The History of Television
It has been called the boob tube and the idiot box, but the fact is that perhaps no invention was as important to the latter half of the 20th Century as the television. Once the problems of moving p...
8 Jun 202216min
