Episode #150- Why Didn't You Tell Us That?
Over the course of 150 episodes there have been theories, stories, and sidebars that have fallen through the cracks. Tales that don't quite fit the main thrust of an episode sometimes get cut for time...
9 Feb 202259min
Episode #149- Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?
The character of Stagger Lee has been one of America’s most enduring folk heroes. There have been over 400 songs written about the swaggering, gun-toting, bad man. He has gone by many names: Stacks Le...
26 Jan 20221h 5min
Episode #148- Who Was First in Flight? (Part III)
In 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont performed a number of short flights in front of a large crowd in Paris. These were done in his newly constructed heavier-than-air flying machine, the No.14-Bis. After the...
12 Jan 20221h 28min
Episode #147- Who Was First in Flight? (Part II)
The late 19th century in France sometime gets called La Belle Époque or the "Beautiful Era". As the name suggests, this is a time that has been fondly remembered as an age of optimism marked by artis...
29 Dec 20211h 5min
Episode #146- Who Was First in Flight? (Part I)
In mythology from around the world the ability to fly was reserved strictly for the gods. Stories about human beings constructing flying machines were usually punctuated with a moral about hubris. Vai...
15 Dec 20211h 4min
Episode #145- Real Gryphons?
The legendary hybrid creature known as the gryphon was said to have the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Despite this fantastical descriptions the ancient Greeks and Romans truly see...
1 Dec 20211h 3min
Episode #144- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part III)
Eleanor of Aquitaine has been called the "Queen of the Troubadours" by fawning biographers. She has been credited with transforming medieval European culture through her patronage of the arts. It's al...
17 Nov 202157min
Episode #143- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part II)
When the King and Queen of France went on crusade in 1147 it nearly destroyed their marriage. The campaign led by King Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine was an unmitigated disaster. But despite (or p...
3 Nov 202156min
