Leonidas I of Sparta: The Real King Behind the Battle of Thermopylae
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Long before Hollywood made him an icon, Leonidas I was a Spartan middle son buried deep in a mes...
2 Okt 21min
Hippocrates: The Real Father of Medicine Behind the Myths
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hippocrates is called the father of medicine, and his name is attached to the oath that still gu...
2 Okt 24min
Malcolm X: From Detroit Red to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!As a top student in Michigan in the late 1930s, Malcolm Little told a teacher he wanted to be a ...
2 Okt 21min
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, Reinvention and the Art of Identity
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1962, a schoolyard punch left a teenager with a permanently dilated pupil and a striking, mis...
2 Okt 19min
Francis of Assisi: The Rich Party Boy Who Became a Radical Saint
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The gentle garden-statue image of Francis of Assisi hides a far more radical story. Born around ...
2 Okt 20min
Richard Feynman: The Playful Genius Behind Quantum Electrodynamics
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2 Okt 23min
Francisco Pizarro: The Ruthless Conquest of the Inca Empire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1541, Francisco Pizarro was cut down by assassins in his own palace in Lima, drawing a cross ...
2 Okt 26min
Ernest Rutherford: The Farmer's Son Who Discovered the Atomic Nucleus
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ernest Rutherford compared one of his discoveries to firing an artillery shell at tissue paper a...
2 Okt 25min
