Isaac Singer: Runaway Actor, 26 Children and the $5-Down Sewing Machine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Isaac Merritt Singer was born in upstate New York in 1811 to a German immigrant father, was effe...
26 Okt 21min
Henry Jennings: Raiding Spanish Wreck Silver, Then Taking the King's Pardon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Henry Jennings was no desperate outcast. He came from a prominent Bermuda family with estates in...
26 Okt 23min
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici: Papal Banking, Stealth Wealth and the Catasto
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici was born around 1360 in Florence, and his father Averardo's estate ...
26 Okt 21min
Ida Laura Pfeiffer: The Viennese Housewife Who Circled the Globe Twice
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ida Laura Pfeiffer was born Ida Reyer in Vienna in 1797, one of seven children of a wealthy text...
26 Okt 20min
Sir Walter Raleigh: Roanoke, El Dorado and an Embalmed Head in a Velvet Bag
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sir Walter Raleigh was born in Devon around 1552 or 1554 to a Protestant gentry family. His fath...
26 Okt 26min
Pliny the Elder: The Natural History's Index and the Vesuvius Rescue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gaius Plinius Secundus, Pliny the Elder, was born around AD 23 or 24 into an equestrian family i...
26 Okt 21min
Paul Ehrlich: Chemical Dyes, Compound 606 and the Salvarsan Libel Trial
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Paul Ehrlich was born in 1854 into a Jewish family in Prussian Silesia, the son of an innkeeper ...
26 Okt 22min
Nicholas Biddle: The Second Bank, Andrew Jackson's Veto and a Fraud Charge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Nicholas Biddle was born in Philadelphia in 1786 to a family tied to the Revolution, finished th...
26 Okt 21min
