Colditz Castle: The Escape-Proof Nazi Prison Where POWs Built a Glider
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Colditz Castle sits on a rocky spur above a river in Saxony, and its story begins in 1046, when ...
10 Okt 24min
The Honey Badger: The Science Behind the World's Most Fearless Animal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2007 the British military in Basra, Iraq had to issue a formal denial that it had released ma...
10 Okt 25min
Salvatore Giuliano: Sicily's Robin Hood Bandit and the May Day Massacre
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In September 1943, with Sicily's government collapsed and as much as 70 percent of its food comi...
10 Okt 20min
The Mounties: Hollywood Myth Versus the Real History of the RCMP
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The red tunic, the Stetson, and the dark horse form an image recognized around the world, but th...
10 Okt 21min
The Sundance Kid: Harry Longabaugh's Real Road from Wyoming to Bolivia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harry Alonzo Longabaugh was born in Pennsylvania in 1867, the youngest of five children, and wen...
10 Okt 20min
Pearl Hart: The Bandit Queen Who Robbed a Stagecoach and Fooled a Nation
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On May 30, 1899, a woman with cropped hair and men's clothes held up the stagecoach running betw...
10 Okt 23min
Dodge City, Kansas: How a Cattle Tick Built the Wildest Town in the West
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Dodge City began with a sod house and a bar in a tent. Rancher Henry L. Sitler built the house n...
10 Okt 24min
The Wolverine: A 40-Pound Scavenger Built for Snow and Running Out of It
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The real wolverine, Gulo gulo, is about the size of a medium dog, 24 to 40 pounds, and nothing l...
10 Okt 21min
