Harold Holt: The PM Who Reshaped Australia, Then Vanished
On December 17, 1967, the sitting Prime Minister of Australia waded into the surf at a treacherous beach and simply vanished. Within days, conspiracy theories filled the vacuum: a Chinese submarine, a...
29 Jun 20min
The Whiskey War: How Canada and Denmark Fought Over a Rock
When you picture a tense international border dispute, you imagine warships and tanks, not two NATO allies aggressively leaving bottles of schnapps and whiskey on a barren Arctic rock. Yet that is exa...
29 Jun 20min
Sergeant Stubby: The Stray Dog Who Became a War Hero
Picture the ultimate World War I veteran: 18 months in the trenches, 17 battles, two Purple Hearts, and the single-handed capture of a German spy. Now picture that this decorated combat hero didn't we...
29 Jun 20min
The Whydah: From Slave Ship to Pirate Treasure to Lost Wreck
We like our history neatly categorized, good guys and bad guys. But the only fully authenticated Golden Age pirate shipwreck ever discovered didn't begin as a pirate ship at all. It started its life a...
29 Jun 23min
Wu Zetian: China's Only Empress and Her Wordless Tablet
A 98-ton stone monument towers over the resting place of the most powerful woman in Chinese history, carved with intricate dragons and oysters. Yet its face is completely blank. The only woman to rule...
29 Jun 23min
The Little Prince Author's Doomed Final Flight: Saint-Exupery
In 1998, a fisherman off Marseille hauled up a salt-crusted silver bracelet engraved with three names, ending more than fifty years of silence about one of aviation's greatest mysteries. It belonged t...
29 Jun 23min
Diogenes: The Philosopher Who Lived in a Jar and Mocked Kings
When Alexander the Great offered him anything in the world, an old man lying in the dirt told the most powerful person alive to simply step out of his sunlight. That man was Diogenes of Sinope, and hi...
29 Jun 24min
Aogashima: Life Inside Japan's Active Volcano Island
Imagine looking out your window each morning and seeing not a street, but the crater wall of an active volcano that wiped out half your community two centuries ago. For 170 people on Aogashima, that i...
29 Jun 20min
