John 'Calico Jack' Rackham: Stolen Fishing Boats and a Plain White Pennant
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Rackham, remembered as Calico Jack, has almost no paper trail before August 1720. He may ha...
27 Okt 17min
Judit Polgar: Index-Card Training, Fischer's Record and Beating Kasparov
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Judit Polgar grew up in 1970s Budapest inside an experiment. Her father, Laszlo Polgar, believed...
27 Okt 22min
Michel Ney: Crawling Over the Dnieper Ice, Then Ordering His Own Execution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Michel Ney was born in 1769 in Saarlouis, a French enclave in a German-speaking region, the bili...
27 Okt 20min
William Osler: Bedside Teaching, a Prankster Alter Ego and a Brain in a Jar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Osler was born in Canada in 1849, the son of a former Royal Navy officer who had turned ...
27 Okt 23min
Jan Janszoon (Murat Reis): Pirate President of Salé Who Raided Iceland
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jan Janszoon was born in Haarlem in 1570 and by around 1600 was a Dutch privateer with a letter ...
27 Okt 19min
John 'Mad Jack' Mytton: 2,000 Dogs, a Balcony Horse Leap and Debtors' Jail
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Mytton was born in September 1796 and lost his father at two, inheriting Halston Hall in Sh...
27 Okt 24min
Dusko Popov, Agent Tricycle: The Pearl Harbor Microdot Hoover Ignored
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dušan "Dusko" Popov was born in 1912 in Titel, then Austria-Hungary, into a family whose fortune...
27 Okt 22min
Emanuel Lasker: 27 Years as Chess Champion and the Lasker-Noether Theorem
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Emanuel Lasker was born in Prussia in 1868, the son of a Jewish cantor, and was sent to Berlin a...
27 Okt 24min
