Thirteen Colonies: Rival Ventures Forced Together by the Intolerable Acts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The colonies that became the United States began as unrelated ventures with clashing goals. Jame...
23 Okt 25min
Darius the Great: A Neighing Horse, Nine Lying Kings and the Gold Daric
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 522 BCE seven Persian nobles who had just killed a king agreed that whoever's horse neighed f...
23 Okt 25min
Black Death Rewritten: Kyrgyz Plague Graves, Caffa and Human Fleas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The people who lived through it called it the great pestilence or magna mortalitas; the name Bla...
23 Okt 21min
Cyrus W. Field: The Atlantic Cable, a Fried Wire and Ruin by Jay Gould
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late August 1858 Great Barrington, Massachusetts, greeted Cyrus W. Field with brass bands as ...
23 Okt 20min
Cyrus the Great: Taking Babylon in Marduk's Name and Freeing the Exiles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Persians began as nomadic herders in the Zagros Mountains of the western Iranian plateau and...
23 Okt 26min
Vietnam War as Cold War Proxy: Nixon's Madman Alert to the Fall of Saigon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 1969 U.S. forces were secretly placed on a high nuclear alert under the Madman strate...
23 Okt 21min
Atlantic Slave Trade: Refuse Cod, Gunpowder Loops and the Triangle Myth
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23 Okt 23min
Fall of Western Rome: Antonine Plague, Little Ice Age and a Frozen Rhine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Western Roman Empire ended in 476 without a battle: Odoacer deposed the teenage emperor Romu...
23 Okt 24min
