NATO From Article 5 to Eastern Sentry: 77 Years of Collective Defense
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!NATO began in 1949 when 12 nations signed the Washington Treaty, partly drafted with the help of...
23 Okt 24min
Tang Dynasty China: Xuanwu Gate, Empress Wu and the An Lushan Rebellion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The House of Li rose from the wreck of the Sui dynasty when Li Yuan became Emperor Gaozu in 618....
23 Okt 24min
Sasanian Persia: Valerian Captured at Edessa and Khosrow I's Land Tax
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ardashir I, a provincial ruler in Pars, exploited a decentralized and exhausted Parthian state, ...
23 Okt 22min
Liverpool and Manchester Railway: Chat Moss, Rainhill and Huskisson's Death
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1820s cotton landing at Liverpool had to reach Manchester's mills over rutted turnpikes o...
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William Dampier: Buccaneer Naturalist Behind Avocado and Robinson Crusoe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Dampier, born in Somerset in 1651, served briefly in the Royal Navy, managed a Jamaican ...
23 Okt 22min
Toyotomi Hideyoshi: From Nobunaga's Sandal Bearer to the Sword Hunt
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born in Owari province in 1537 as Hiyoshimaru, a boy with no surname whose foot soldier father d...
23 Okt 23min
The Olmecs: 55-Ton Colossal Heads, Ancient Rubber and a Glyph for Zero
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1850s a farm worker clearing land in Veracruz struck a carved stone head the size of a sm...
23 Okt 18min
Minoan Crete: Priestess Rule, the Thera Eruption and Undeciphered Linear A
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The people we call Minoans thrived on Crete from roughly 3100 to 1100 BC, but the name is a mode...
23 Okt 24min
