John Law: From a Newgate Death Sentence to Paper Money and Ruin in France
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Law was born in Fife, Scotland, in 1671 into a family of goldsmiths and bankers whose fortu...
27 Okt 21min
John Nash, Many Lives: Regency Architect, Bobsledder and Nobel Laureate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode reads a single Wikipedia disambiguation page for the name John Nash as a cross-sect...
27 Okt 18min
Anthony J. Drexel: J.P. Morgan's Mentor Who Paid the U.S. Army in 1877
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Anthony Joseph Drexel was born in Philadelphia in 1826 to Catherine Hookey and Francis Martin Dr...
27 Okt 25min
Junius Spencer Morgan: The 1870 French Loan That Built the House of Morgan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. Morgan, was born in 1813 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, to Jos...
27 Okt 23min
Draco of Athens: Death for Stealing a Cabbage and the First Law of Intent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Draco gave Athens its first written laws around 621 or 620 BC, dated by the archonship of Arista...
27 Okt 22min
Richard Gatling: The Doctor Who Built a Machine Gun From His Seed Planter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Richard Jordan Gatling was born in 1818 in Hertford County, North Carolina, to a Methodist famil...
27 Okt 22min
Moe Berg: Tokyo Rooftop Films and a Pistol at Heisenberg's Zurich Lecture
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Moe Berg was born in New York City in 1902 to Jewish immigrants who moved to Newark, New Jersey,...
27 Okt 21min
Richard Halliburton: A 36-Cent Panama Canal Swim and the Lost Sea Dragon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Richard Halliburton was born in Tennessee in 1900 and raised mostly in Memphis. A rapid heartbea...
27 Okt 24min
