Jacob Schiff: The Wall Street Banker Who Bankrolled Japan Against the Tsar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jacob Schiff was born in 1847 in Frankfurt's Judengasse to a rabbinical family with roots there ...
26 Okt 24min
Jacob Riis: Magnesium Flash Raids on Tenements With Theodore Roosevelt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jacob Riis was born in Denmark in 1849, one of 15 children; six of his brothers died of tubercul...
26 Okt 21min
Jack Dempsey: Freight Train Hobo to the First Million-Dollar Gate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Harrison Dempsey was born in 1895 in Manassa, Colorado, one of 13 children in a poor fam...
26 Okt 19min
Robert Hooke: The Man Who Named the Cell, Rebuilt London and Lost His Face
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Robert Hooke was born on the Isle of Wight in 1635, so frail that his parents did not expect him...
26 Okt 25min
Isaac Hull: Old Ironsides' Captain Undone by a Navy Yard Strike and Riot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Isaac Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut, in 1773 into a maritime family. After his father died...
26 Okt 22min
Ole Evinrude: A Melting Dish of Ice Cream and the First Practical Outboard
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ole Evinrude was born in Norway in 1877. When his family emigrated in the early 1880s they took ...
26 Okt 12min
Hiram Percy Maxim: The Machine Gun Inventor's Son Who Silenced Guns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hiram Percy Maxim was born in Brooklyn in 1869, the son of the inventor of the first fully autom...
26 Okt 21min
Herodotus: The Persian Subject From Halicarnassus Who Invented History
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Herodotus was born around 484 BC in Halicarnassus, a cosmopolitan frontier port in modern Turkey...
26 Okt 20min
