The FIFA World Cup
In 1872 the first international football match took place between England and Scotland. Since then, international football has been at the apex of world sport. Starting in 1930, a quadrennial compet...
20 Nov 202214min
The Gracchi Brothers
During the Roman Republic, two brothers took it upon themselves to seek to change Rome to benefit the poor and underclass. Needless to say, the Roman elites did not like this and did everything in the...
19 Nov 202213min
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (Encore)
On March 25, 1911, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in American history took place. In the middle of Manhattan, a fire broke out in a garment factory that killed 146 people. Most of the dea...
18 Nov 202210min
Leap Seconds
Every few years, without any schedule or planning, officials at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will add an extra second to the year. The reason why this is done does m...
17 Nov 202213min
The Dieppe Raid
In 1942, Allied forces attempted a landing on the coast of France to gain a toe hold on the continent. Thousands of men took part in the landing…and it was a disaster. Over a thousand men were killed,...
16 Nov 202211min
World Population Throughout History
Human beings have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. For the vast majority of that time, the total population of humans has been quite small. Then, quite suddenly, at least in the grand ...
15 Nov 202216min
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
When Alexander the Great died, one of his generals and best friends, Ptolemy, took Alexander’s corpse and went to Egypt to establish a new pharaonic dynasty. One of the things he did during his reign ...
14 Nov 202213min
The Last of the Romanovs
For over 300 years, the Romanov family ruled over the Russian Empire. After the Communist Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, and he and his family were placed under house arrest, wher...
13 Nov 202215min
