Roman Aqueducts: Inverted Siphons, Frontinus and the Water Thieves of Rome
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rome drew water from the Tiber, springs and cisterns until 312 BC, when the censor Appius Claudi...
23 Okt 25min
Reykjavik Summit 1986: Reagan, Gorbachev and the Word That Sank Zero Nukes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In mid-September 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev wrote to Ronald Reagan proposing a quick meeting in Icel...
23 Okt 22min
Massachusetts Bay Colony: The Charter Carried to Boston and Its Theocracy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1629 a group of English Puritan investors won a royal charter for a joint stock company to se...
23 Okt 24min
Revolutions of 1848: Potato Blight, Banquet Campaigns and the June Days
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1848 revolution broke out in over 50 European countries and regions within weeks, prompting A...
23 Okt 25min
Portuguese Empire 1415 to 1999: Ceuta, Rio as Capital, Macau Handover
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Portugal became an independent kingdom in 1139, cleared the Algarve of Muslim rule by the mid-12...
23 Okt 21min
Phoenicians: Murex Purple, 500-Ton Ships and the 22-Letter Alphabet
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The people we call Phoenicians never used the name. It was a Greek exonym from phoenix, a word f...
23 Okt 26min
Paris Peace Conference 1919: Killed Racial Equality Clause and Shandong
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The victors opened the Paris Peace Conference on January 18, 1919, the anniversary of the German...
23 Okt 22min
Octavian's Staged Resignation: Imperium, Legates and a Republic Facade
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Octavian was 18 when Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC and left him a name, a will and a c...
23 Okt 22min
