The Election of 1800
I’ve done several episodes on close and interesting US presidential elections throughout history. Mainly they were to put current events into perspective, so you can realize that the controversies of ...
17 Nov 20209min
Unique Spanish Festivals
Many communities around the world hold local festivals. They might have some food stalls, a stage for musical acts, and some rides for the kids. Pretty standard stuff. But in Spain, they do things d...
16 Nov 20208min
A History of Jury Duty
Every so often, adults may be asked to perform a civic duty by sitting on a jury. Usually, the commitment might be nothing more than a few hours or a few days. Occasionally, some juries might get a ca...
15 Nov 202010min
The Longest Sports Games in History
Sometimes you might sit down to watch a sporting match and it is over before you know it. However, there are some games that seem to take forever. A rare few games last an extraordinarily long time, a...
14 Nov 202012min
The Sultana Steamboat Disaster
On April 27th, 1865, just weeks after the end of the American Civil War, a steamboat carrying former Union prisoners of war sailed up the Mississippi River from Vicksburg. At 2 am, the boilers on the ...
13 Nov 20209min
Greens vs. Blues: Fanatical Chariot Fans in Ancient Rome
Professional sports have become a multibillion-dollar industry with millions of fans who will live and die based on their favorite team’s performance. Occasionally, soccer hooligans and Raiders fans w...
12 Nov 202011min
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Scientists have coined a term called the Butterfly Effect, where small changes in one thing can lead to enormous changes in systems later on. Nothing in history exemplifies this more than the series o...
11 Nov 202010min
Really Big Telescopes
Since the dawn of time, humans have looked up at the night sky to watch the stars. ...and then nothing happened for hundreds of thousands of years until a guy by the name of Galileo Galilei point a te...
10 Nov 202013min
