Virginia Company: Sea Venture Wreck, Lotteries and the House of Burgesses
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!King James I's 1606 charter handed a private joint-stock venture a claim from present-day Maine ...
23 Okt 20min
Non-Aligned Movement: Bandung, Castro's Afghanistan Vote and Baghdad Bombed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Non-Aligned Movement counts 120 countries, nearly two-thirds of the United Nations and about...
23 Okt 17min
Homestake Mine: Nevada Historic Site vs South Dakota's Deep Underground Lab
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode starts from a short Wikipedia disambiguation page: Homestake Mine is the name for s...
23 Okt 16min
Soho Manufactory: Boulton and Watt's Steam Mint Behind the £50 Note
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The building behind Matthew Boulton and James Watt on the £50 note is the Soho Manufactory in Bi...
23 Okt 18min
Hindenburg Line 1917: Operation Alberich and a Booby-Trapped Retreat
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By late 1916 Verdun, the Somme, the Brusilov Offensive and Romania's entry into the war had drai...
23 Okt 25min
Henry IV of France: Wedding Massacre Survivor Who Founded the Bourbons
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry of Navarre was born in 1553, baptized Catholic but raised a strict Calvinist by his mother...
23 Okt 25min
Teutonic Order: Ship-Sail Hospital at Acre to Baltic State to Vienna Nuns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around 1190, during the Third Crusade, merchants from Bremen and Lübeck used the sails of their ...
23 Okt 24min
Roman Forum: Swamp Cemetery, Cicero's Nailed Head and the Campo Vaccino
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around the 10th century BC the valley between the Palatine and Capitoline hills was a waterlogge...
23 Okt 25min
