Ottoman Sultans as Roman Heirs: Rumi Identity, Timur's Cage, the Tanzimat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Educated Ottoman elites would have taken offense at being called Turks, a word they used for rur...
23 Okt 23min
Robert Falcon Scott: The Debt-Driven Explorer and 35 Pounds of Fossils
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Falcon Scott was born in 1868 to a family with a brewing business and military ties, and ...
23 Okt 23min
Plymouth Colony: Mayflower Strangers, a Cattle Crash and an Invented Rock
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Plymouth Colony ran as an independent settlement for 72 years, from 1620 to 1691. Its Separatist...
23 Okt 24min
Babylon Beyond the Myth: Sennacherib's Flood, Qurna Pirates and Camp Alpha
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Babylon, about 85 kilometers south of modern Baghdad, began in the late 2200s BC as a minor prov...
23 Okt 27min
Robert Catesby: The Gunpowder Plot Mastermind Behind Guy Fawkes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Every November 5 Britain burns Guy Fawkes in effigy, but the architect of the 1605 Gunpowder Plo...
23 Okt 22min
Timbuktu: Salt for Gold, Sankore Scholars and a Secret Footlocker Rescue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A 2006 British survey found 34 percent of young people thought Timbuktu was fictional, yet the M...
23 Okt 25min
Schlieffen Plan Myth: 48 Corps on Paper, 34 in 1914 and a Postwar Cover-Up
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 showed Germany that a quick win could turn into a people's war, ...
23 Okt 21min
Shah Jahan: Executed Rivals, the Deccan Famine and Aurangzeb's Prisoner
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born in 1592 as Khurram, the future Shah Jahan was taken from his parents by his grandfather Akb...
23 Okt 19min
