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
The History of Tea
Sometimes over 3000 years ago, somewhere in Southwestern China, a leaf from the Camellia sinensis plant accidentally found its way into a pot of boiling water. Noticing that the leaf had turned the w...
8 Aug 202313min
Route 66
In the early 20th century, as automobiles became more and more popular, the need for a national system of roads in the United States became more evident. One of the suggested roads connected the city...
7 Aug 202312min
