Mark IV Tank: Hinged Sponsons, Unditching Beams and a 1940 Car Crash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In early 1917 Albert Gerald Stern, head of the tank supply department, halted battle tank produc...
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Etruscans: Sheep-Liver Diviners, the Cloaca Maxima and a Mummy's Linen Book
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Etruscans called themselves the Rasenna, while Greeks called them Tyrrhenian pirates, in one...
23 Okt 24min
Dutch East India Company: Banda Nutmeg Massacre, Grotius and Dejima
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fighting the Eighty Years' War against Habsburg Spain, the Dutch were shut out of Lisbon's spice...
23 Okt 24min
Decembrist Revolt 1825: Grapeshot on the Neva and Exiles Who Built Siberia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On December 26, 1825, by the modern calendar, about 3,000 soldiers in St. Petersburg's Senate Sq...
23 Okt 24min
Cotton Gin: Ajanta Roller Gins, Whitney's Wire Hooks and Munger's Air Pipes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The earliest evidence of a cotton gin comes from fifth-century India in Buddhist paintings in th...
23 Okt 22min
Corn Laws: Tambora's Bread Riots, Peel's Repeal and Britain's U-Boat Risk
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Napoleonic Wars, Britain's landowning aristocracy faced the end of wartime grain profi...
23 Okt 22min
Berlin Airlift: Tunner's Coal Conveyor, Candy Bombers and Tegel in 90 Days
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On June 21, 1948, the Western Allies introduced the Deutsche Mark in their zones and West Berlin...
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Appian Way: Appius the Blind, 6,000 Crosses and a Barefoot Olympic Gold
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the 1960 Rome Olympics, Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila won the marathon barefoot on the basalt...
23 Okt 21min
