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
The Nepalese Royal Massacre
On June 1, 2001, the nation of Nepal was shocked at the announcement that 10 members of the Nepalese Royal Family were killed in a massacre inside the royal palace. It wasn’t just a case of homicide...
7 Jun 202210min
The Empire State Building
Prior to the 1929 stock market crash, a race was on to build the tallest building in the world in New York City. Of all the proposed buildings, one pushed through the depression and took the title o...
6 Jun 202213min
Why The Map In Your Head Is Wrong
All of us have some sort of mental map inside our heads for how the world is laid out. North America is north of South America. Europe is west of Asia. et Cetra. However, even the greatest geography...
5 Jun 202210min
Terra Nullius
Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in a currently existing country. You want to find an empty...
4 Jun 202214min
