Elyesa Bazna, Agent Cicero: The Valet Paid in Counterfeit Nazi Pounds
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elyesa Bazna was born in 1904 in Pristina, then in the Ottoman Empire, and claimed a noble linea...
27 Okt 21min
William Wilberforce: The 1806 Trojan Horse Bill and the Combination Acts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Wilberforce was born in Hull in 1759 to a wealthy merchant family. Sent to an aunt and u...
27 Okt 23min
Thomas Gresham: Rigging the Antwerp Exchange and Building London's Bourse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Gresham was born around 1519, son of Sir Richard Gresham, a Lord Mayor of London knighted...
27 Okt 21min
Edwin Howard Armstrong: Inventing FM Radio, Then Losing the War With RCA
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edwin Howard Armstrong was born in New York in 1890. At about eight he developed Sydenham's chor...
27 Okt 18min
Wilhelm Steinitz: The 'Pickpocket' Who Became First World Chess Champion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wilhelm Steinitz was born in 1836 in the Jewish ghetto of Prague, the youngest of 13 sons of a t...
27 Okt 19min
Hieronymus von Münchhausen: The Real Baron Rudolf Raspe Branded a Liar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen was born in 1720 in the Electorate of Hanover to a lan...
27 Okt 26min
William Stephenson: Wireless Photos, Room 3603 and Britain's US Spy Hub
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Stephenson was born William Samuel Clouston Stanger in Winnipeg in 1897 and left school ...
27 Okt 25min
Elbert Hubbard: Larkin Soap Premiums, the Roycroft Utopia and the Lusitania
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elbert Hubbard was born in 1856 in Bloomington, Illinois, son of Dr. Silas Hubbard, who moved th...
27 Okt 22min
