Lewis and Clark: Lakota Standoff, York's Denied Freedom and a Spanish Posse
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent his secretary Meriwether Lewis to st...
23 Okt 25min
Hammurabi Unmasked: Diplomatic Tantrums, Larsa's Siege and a Bitumen War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hammurabi, carved today on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court, inherited Babylon from his ...
23 Okt 22min
Great Exhibition of 1851: Leech Barometers, Penny Toilets and Shilling Days
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the revolutions of 1848 and a successful French industrial exposition in 1844, Henry Cole ...
23 Okt 22min
Circus Maximus: Torsion Starting Gates, Lap-Counting Dolphins, 13,000 Dead
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Circus Maximus began as the Vallis Murcia, a marshy, flood-prone valley between the Aventine...
23 Okt 23min
Hussein bin Ali's Arab Revolt: McMahon Letters, Aqaba and Exile in Cyprus
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hussein bin Ali, a Hashemite and 37th-generation descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, was summone...
23 Okt 22min
The Tudors: Owen Tudor's Secret Royal Marriage to Elizabeth's Chosen End
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Tudor name grew from the Welsh patronymic of Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudur, flattened by English...
23 Okt 23min
Electrical Telegraph: Acid Bubble Signals, Mercury Relays and Lorenz Codes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1816 Francis Ronalds built an eight-mile underground telegraph in his garden using static ele...
23 Okt 24min
Romanov Dynasty: Ipatiev Monastery to Ipatiev House, Aspirin and Rasputin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The House of Romanov took the Russian throne in 1613, after the 700-year Rurik line died out and...
23 Okt 22min
