Hannibal Barca and the Second Punic War
In the third century BC, Rome faced its greatest enemy. One man, a Carthaginian general named Hannibal Barca, led an army into the Italian peninsula and terrorized Rome for over a decade, despite hav...
13 Sep 202517min
The Never Ending Voyager Missions
In 1977, NASA took advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime alignment of the planets to send two probes to the outermost reaches of the solar system. They sent back the best images and data yet available a...
12 Sep 202515min
Leonardo da Vinci
On April 15, 1452, a child was born, the illegitimate son of a peasant woman and a local notary in the village of Vinci, which was then part of the Republic of Florence. Given his illegitimate statu...
11 Sep 202515min
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
On October 13, 1972, a fight transporting a Uruguayan rugby club crashed into the Andes Mountains. For the following 72 days, survivors of the crash were stranded in the ice and snow, forced to surv...
10 Sep 202515min
The Long Telegram
On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, a career diplomat working in the American embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word cable to the State Department in Washington.In it, he explained why the Soviet U...
9 Sep 202514min
Six Degrees of Separation
You may have noticed, on occasion, that friends you have from totally different parts of your life sometimes know each other. It often comes as a surprise, but it actually shouldn’t. It turns out th...
8 Sep 202514min
The Germ Theory of Disease (Encore)
For thousands of years, many theories have been put forward as to the cause of communicable diseases. These theories ranged from the religious to the magical and sometimes quasiscientific, but what ...
7 Sep 202514min
Hitler's Family
Adolf Hitler was unquestionably one of the evil people, not just of the 20th century, but in all of history. His very name has become a metaphor for someone bad or someone you want to associate with...
6 Sep 202516min
