The Piltdown Man Hoax
In 1912, a discovery was announced that shocked the world. A British paleontologist announced what was perhaps the most important find in the history of paleontology. The announcement was about the d...
3 Maj 202414min
Questions and Answers: Volume 18
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2 Maj 202416min
Asteroids
Our solar system is made up of a lot of things. The biggest thing is the sun, of course which makes up the vast majority of the solar system’s mass. Then, of course, there are planets, which come in ...
1 Maj 202414min
A History of the Crusades
Starting in the year 1096, the Christian kingdoms of the Latin Church united to retake religious sites in the Holy Land. This war was known as a crusade. This was just the first in a series of nine of...
30 Apr 202416min
White Feather Girls (Encore)
The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which were fighting. In the United Kingdom and other Comm...
29 Apr 202413min
Operation Valkyrie and the Plot to Kill Hitler (Encore)
Adolf Hitler single-handedly started the Second World War in Europe. While the Allies were desperately trying to end the Third Reich and Hitler personally, they weren’t the only ones trying to bring ...
28 Apr 202413min
Fifty-four Forty or Fight!
By the early 19th century, the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars with each other. Those two wars were not enough to resolve all of the territorial and border disputes betwee...
27 Apr 202414min
The 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak (Encore)
In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London. While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure what caused it. This time, one doctor took a comple...
26 Apr 202412min
