Fritz Duquesne: Boer Gold, a Hippo Bill and America's Largest Spy Ring
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fritz Duquesne was born in 1877 to a Boer family of French descent in the Cape Colony of South A...
26 Okt 23min
Francesco Datini: Plague Orphan, Avignon Merchant and 150,000 Letters
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1870, workers renovating a mansion in Prato, Italy, knocked down a wall in a sealed stairwell...
26 Okt 20min
Ferdinand Porsche: From the Beetle and Nazi Tanks to the 356 Sawmill
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875 in Bohemia, the son of a master panel beater, and never earne...
26 Okt 22min
Eugene V. Debs: Pullman Strike, Socialism and Convict No. 9653
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eugene V. Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Indiana, to prosperous French immigrants who own...
26 Okt 25min
Elias Howe: The Lockstitch Sewing Machine and His Patent War With Singer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elias Howe Jr. was born in Massachusetts and apprenticed in the textile mills of Lowell in the m...
26 Okt 21min
Dragut (Turgut Reis): From Galley Slave to Pasha of Tripoli
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dragut, known in Ottoman tradition as Turgut Reis, was born around 1485 to a farming family in a...
26 Okt 22min
Clara Barton: Antietam's Angel, the Missing Soldiers Office, Red Cross
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Clara Barton was born in Massachusetts in 1821 and was so timid as a child that she stopped eati...
26 Okt 23min
Charles Goodyear: Vulcanized Rubber, Debtors' Prisons and Ruin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Charles Goodyear was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1800 and worked with his father making i...
26 Okt 25min
