Caravels and the Volta do Mar: Wind Gyres, Pizarro's Line and Yermak
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before the 15th century, Venice, Genoa and the Ottoman Empire walled Western Europe off from the...
23 Okt 25min
Scientific Revolution: Tycho's New Star, Kepler's Ellipse, Newton's Shrug
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In November 1572 the 25-year-old Danish nobleman Tycho Brahe saw a star in Cassiopeia that had n...
23 Okt 24min
Nasser and the Suez Crisis: A Radio Code Word and Eden's Amphetamines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Britain bought into the Suez Canal Company in 1875 and occupied Egypt in 1882, and by the 1950s ...
23 Okt 23min
Nabataean Kingdom: Hidden Cisterns, Bitumen Raids and Petra's Dams
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 312 BC Antigonus, one of Alexander the Great's successors, sent his general Athenaeus with ab...
23 Okt 21min
Mutually Assured Destruction: Brennan's Joke, MIRVs and Proud Prophet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Donald Brennan of the Hudson Institute coined Mutually Assured Destruction in 1962, choosing the...
23 Okt 23min
Mungo Park's Afterlife: Niger Explorer, Lake Mungo and a Pop Song
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!One Wikipedia disambiguation page traces how the name Mungo Park traveled across 245 years. The ...
23 Okt 19min
Progressive Era Muckrakers: Ida Tarbell, The Jungle and Swiss Ballots
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 to rouse workers toward socialism, but readers recoiled ...
23 Okt 25min
Berlin Wall 1989: Harald Jäger's Gate, Trabants and the Ostalgie Polls
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The fall of the Berlin Wall began on the edges of the Eastern Bloc. At the Pan-European Picnic i...
23 Okt 24min
