The Legend of Andre the Giant (Encore)
On May 19, 1946, André René Roussimoff was born into the world in Coulommiers, France. At birth, he weighed 13 pounds or 6 kilograms...and from there, he only got bigger. He eventually topped out at...
6 Okt 202112min
The Canary Islands (Encore)
If you think of Spain as the country on the Iberian Peninsula which is sandwiched between France and Portugal, you are not wrong, but you are also not totally right. There is also a significant part o...
5 Okt 202110min
Longitude (Encore)
Navigation on the open ocean is extremely difficult. It is a skill that takes years to master. Even with years of skill, an experienced mariner was still able to ground their ship on an unseen reef,...
4 Okt 20219min
The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China
As I have mentioned in many episodes of this podcast, there are a great many things that were originally invented in Ancient China. There are literally hundreds of inventions that were developed in Ch...
3 Okt 202111min
The Korean Demilitarized Zone
In the early 1950s, war ravaged the Korean peninsula. However, the fighting ceased on July 27, 1953. Both sides of the conflict pulled back from the front and created a buffer zone 4 kilometers or 2.5...
2 Okt 202111min
The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread (Encore)
You probably heard the expression that something is “the greatest thing since sliced bread”. Well did you ever wonder what the greatest thing was before sliced bread? Or why we measure greatness in ...
1 Okt 20218min
Year One
I am speaking these words in the year 2021. You might be listening to them in a different year, but whatever year you happen to be in right now, it will be a year using the same number convention for ...
30 Sep 202112min
How Close Were the Nazis to Making an Atomic Bomb?
During the second world war, one of the biggest efforts of the war was the Manhattan Project: the secret American program to create an atomic bomb. The scientists and staff of the Manhattan Project ...
29 Sep 202113min
