The Aurochs: The Once and Future King of Cattle
Tens of thousands of years ago, early paleolithic humans painted on cave walls things that were important to them and with which their entire lives revolved. One of the most prominent images which hav...
9 Aug 202212min
White Feather Girls
The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting. In the United Kingdom and other Comm...
8 Aug 202214min
Did Vermeer Use A Camera Obscura? (Encore)
Johannes Vermeer was one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Unlike many of his contemporary painters, however, he didn’t leave a large body of work behind. The paintings he did create ...
7 Aug 202212min
Everything Is Made of Atoms
The Great Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman was once asked to convey in a single sentence the most important scientific knowledge that humans possessed. His answer was short and simple: “...
6 Aug 202211min
A History of Champagne
Located in Northern France is one of the most well-known wine-producing regions on Earth. In fact, it is so well known that it has legally protected the name of its signature product around the world....
5 Aug 202212min
"Let Them Eat Cake"
Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France prior to the French Revolution. She and her husband were executed by guillotine during the Regin of Terror, which soon followed. Over the years, she has ...
4 Aug 202210min
The Marshall Islands
Located between Hawaii and Guam in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is one of the smallest countries in the world: The Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands has a history unlike many other small isla...
3 Aug 202213min
The Strait of Malacca
As you probably know, the Earth consists of 70% water and 30% land. However, all those bits of water and land are not the same. Some of them hold great strategic importance because they serve as chok...
2 Aug 202211min
