The Fury of the Northmen: How the Vikings Conquered England and Built an Empire. Part 2
This is the second episode of a two part seires on the end of the Viking Age. In this story we dive head first into the conflict between two rulers, Sweyn Forkbeard of the Danes and the Saxon King Eth...
4 Okt 202332min
The Fury of the Northmen: How the Vikings Conquered England and Built an Empire. Part 1
This is the first episode of a two part series that moves quickly to the end of the Viking age. The center of our story is on the conflict between two groups of fierce warriors, the Danes and the Angl...
27 Sep 202329min
The Last March of Rick Rescorla: The Man Who Predicted 9/11 and Saved 2,700 Lives
Moving up the Podcast this week a few days to release this special 9/11 episode. The story of Rick Rescorla, the man who worked security at the South Tower of the World Trade Center in September of 20...
11 Sep 202331min
Becoming Death: The Race for the Atomic Bomb. Part 2.
In this week's episode we are going to focus on the work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory leading up to the Trinity Test, the world's first explosion of a nuclear weapon. Support: Patreon.com/his...
6 Sep 202330min
Becoming Death: The Race for the Atomic Bomb
In this week's episode we are going to look at the birth of the Manhattan project, and more specifically the moment where President Franklin Roosevelt made a crucial decision, similar to one that Napo...
30 Aug 202329min
Death in Babylon: The Mysterious Demise of Alexander the Great. Part 2
In this second episode we are going to follow the classical world's Ring of Power, the body of Alexander the Great, as it was handed from ruler to ruler and Empire to Empire until it mysteriously disa...
23 Aug 202327min
Death in Babylon: The Mysterious Demise of Alexander the Great
It's good to be back! Thanks for bearing with us this summer as we took some time to research and plan for this fall string of episodes. We promise to maintain consistency from here on out. In this ...
15 Aug 202333min
His Majesty's Pirate: Captain Henry Morgan and the Privateer Wars. Part 2
Our story this week is going to center around the wild Sack of Panama that marked the high point of Henry Morgan's career on the seas but also proved too great of an attack for even the British Crown ...
9 Juni 202339min
