Antimatter
It is the most expensive substance in the world by a wide margin. When it was first proposed, it was actually done as a joke. However, decades later, the joke turned out to have been true. It is a fu...
16 Aug 202314min
The Kingdom of Tonga
Located in the South Pacific, squarely within the Polynesian Triangle, lies the Kingdom of Tonga. While there are many islands and several countries within that region, Tonga has a unique history amo...
15 Aug 202313min
Project Orion
In the years immediately following the end of the Second World War, several of the scientists who took part in the Manhattan Project had an explosive idea. They wondered if we could harness the incre...
14 Aug 202314min
Prester John (Encore)
In the middle ages, a legend persisted among Europeans that there was a Christian ruler in Asia, or Africa, who would come to join with European Christians to help fight Muslims in the Crusades. The o...
13 Aug 20238min
The Surprising Origin of Monopoly
One of the most popular board games in the world is Monopoly. Millions of copies of the game have been sold over thousands of different versions which have been published. However, the origins of th...
12 Aug 202313min
Pompey Magnus
Gnaeus Pompeius was one of the most significant personalities during the late Roman Republic. He was considered a military wunderkind who, at an early age, was given great responsibilities and never ...
11 Aug 202313min
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis (Encore)
In the Dialogues written by Plato in the year 360 BC, he wrote of a place called Atlantis. Atlantis was a land where the citizens were half-gods and half-men, yet it was destroyed in a cataclysmic eve...
10 Aug 202310min
The Great Escape
In 1944, several months before the D-Day invasion, a group of Allied prisoners of war hatched one of the most audacious prison escapes in military history. Their prison camp was thought to be escape-...
9 Aug 202313min
