Harry Greb: Blind in One Eye, He Memorized the Chart and Beat Gene Tunney
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edward Henry Greb, the Pittsburgh Windmill, was born in 1894 to a working class family of German...
26 Okt 22min
Guan Yu: The Bone-Scraping General Worshipped by Both Cops and Triads
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Guan Yu is venerated in Hong Kong police stations and in triad hideouts alike, and the only diff...
26 Okt 24min
Gottlieb Daimler: Greenhouse Raid, Grandfather Clock Engine, Phoenix
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gottlieb Daimler was born in 1834 in Schorndorf, the son of a master baker, and apprenticed as a...
26 Okt 23min
Gifford Pinchot: Midnight Forests, the Ballinger Fight and State Liquor
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gifford Pinchot was born in 1865 into Gilded Age wealth; his father James was a New York furnish...
26 Okt 21min
Gene Tunney: The Long Count, Harry Greb's Body Shots and an Unbeaten Exit
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gene Tunney was born James Joseph Tunney in New York City in May 1897 to Irish immigrants who ha...
26 Okt 19min
Gaspar Corte-Real: Lost at Sea in 1501, Then a Salazar-Era Statue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gaspar Corte-Real was born around 1450 into a noble family on Terceira in the Azores, where his ...
26 Okt 18min
Gaius Marius: Seven Consulships, Capite Censi and the Army Reform Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gaius Marius was born around 157 BC near Arpinum into a wealthy equestrian family, not the poor ...
26 Okt 27min
Frederick McKinley Jones: Sixth Grade Dropout Who Built the Cold Chain
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Frederick McKinley Jones was born in Cincinnati in 1893 to an Irish railroad worker and a Black ...
26 Okt 21min
