Marcus Porcius Cato: The Censor Who Demanded Carthage Be Destroyed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Marcus Porcius Cato, Cato the Elder, was born in 234 BC in Tusculum to a plebeian family, a novu...
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Bobby Fischer: Brooklyn Prodigy, World Champion, Then Fugitive
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert James Fischer was born in Chicago in 1943 to Regina Wender Fischer, a Swiss-born nurse an...
26 Okt 20min
Bernard Baruch: Lone Wolf of Wall Street and Park Bench Statesman
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bernard Baruch was born in Camden, South Carolina, in 1870 to a Jewish family; his father Simon ...
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William Paterson: Founding the Bank of England, Then the Darien Disaster
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Paterson was born in 1658 in a farmhouse at Tinwald in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and left...
26 Okt 17min
Thomas Stevens: Around the World on a 50-Inch Penny-Farthing
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Stevens was born in 1854 in Berkhamsted, England, to a laborer father and started as a gr...
26 Okt 22min
Anatoly Karpov: The Champion by Forfeit Who Spent Decades Proving It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Anatoly Karpov was born in 1951 in Zlatoust in the Ural Mountains, learned chess at four and rea...
26 Okt 21min
James Fisk Times Four: Senator, Financier, Explorer and Physicist
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode reads a single Wikipedia disambiguation page for the name James Fisk and treats its...
26 Okt 19min
Aldo Leopold: From Killing Wolves to the Gila Wilderness and Land Ethic
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26 Okt 19min
