Hernán Cortés: Notary, Mutineer, Conqueror, and Sidelined Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1946, researchers broke into a hospital wall in Mexico City and found the hidden bones of Her...
1 Okt 23min
Henry VIII: The Jousting Accident, the Reformation and the Tyrant
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In January 1536, Henry VIII was thrown from his horse at a joust and crushed under it, lying unr...
1 Okt 21min
Napoleon Bonaparte: The Outsider Who Rewrote Europe
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Napoleon Bonaparte arrived at a French military academy as a short, bullied Corsican with an acc...
1 Okt 23min
William Harvey: How the Circulation of Blood Was Discovered
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Harvey once dissected a toad during a witchcraft investigation to prove it was an ordina...
1 Okt 24min
Wayne Gretzky: How The Great One Out-Thought Hockey
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At about 5 foot 11 and 170 pounds, Wayne Gretzky was neither the biggest, fastest nor strongest ...
1 Okt 22min
Ivan the Terrible: Trauma, Reform and Terror of Russia's First Tsar
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ivan IV's famous nickname is a mistranslation: grozny meant formidable or dangerous, not evil, a...
1 Okt 25min
Tokugawa Ieyasu: From Child Hostage to Shogun of Japan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tokugawa Ieyasu began life as a minor lord's son traded as a hostage between warring clans durin...
1 Okt 24min
Thomas Cromwell: The Commoner Who Built the Tudor State
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Cromwell went from a troubled youth in Putney to mercenary, banker's employee in Florence...
1 Okt 20min
