The Berlin Wall
After the end of the second world war, Berlin was a divided city controlled by the four major allied powers. Despite the different zones of control, people could move freely between the zones in the c...
18 Apr 202316min
The Rise of Agriculture
For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived a nomadic life, hunting for game and foraging for food. Then, several thousand years ago, they stopped. They began domesticating animals, started grow...
17 Apr 202311min
Liberia
Every country in Africa is unique and has its own history. However, many African countries share a similar story over the last 150 years, having gone through European colonization and decolonization. ...
16 Apr 202314min
Typhoid Mary
In 1906, George Soper, a freelance sanitary engineer, was hired to investigate several outbreaks of typhoid fever in wealthy New York households. The reason why it was mysterious is that typhoid feve...
15 Apr 202312min
The History of Horses in North America (Encore)
When one thinks of the history of North America, it often invokes images of native Americans and cowboys riding on horseback. However, horses weren’t in the Westen Hemisphere when Europeans arrived. ...
14 Apr 202313min
Songkran
Songkran is a traditional festival celebrated in Thailand that marks the start of the Thai New Year. It is also known as the Water Festival, as it involves splashing water on one another as a symbolic...
13 Apr 202311min
Oliver Cromwell
For over 1000 years, England has been a monarchy.3…except for twelve years in the 17th century when it wasn’t. During that period, it was ruled by a very non-royal person by the name of Oliver Cromwe...
12 Apr 202317min
Fingerprints
Located on the tips of our fingers are features known as friction ridges. We evolved them to get a better grip on objects. It just so happens that those friction ridges are unique to every person. T...
11 Apr 202313min
