Eli Whitney: The Cotton Gin, Staged Demos and Unintended Consequences
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Eli Whitney is remembered as the lone genius behind the cotton gin and interchangeable parts, bu...
1 Okt 20min
Cyrus the Great: The Persian Conqueror Remembered as a Liberator
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cyrus the Great built an empire across three continents, yet he was remembered by many conquered...
1 Okt 23min
Constantine the Great: Escape, Milvian Bridge, and a Christian Empire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 305, a young Roman officer fled the eastern imperial court at night, hamstringing the horses ...
1 Okt 20min
Charles de Gaulle: From POW Escape Artist to Founder of the Fifth Republic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!During the First World War, a six-foot-five French officer tried to escape a German prison camp ...
1 Okt 26min
Carl Linnaeus: The Myth-Busting Botanist Who Named the Natural World
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1735, a young Carl Linnaeus exposed the mayor of Hamburg's prized seven-headed hydra as a fak...
1 Okt 22min
Buddy Holly: How a Texas Kid Invented the Modern Rock Band
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the spring of 1959, an Iowa farmer found a pair of thick black horn-rimmed glasses in a thawi...
1 Okt 26min
Bob Dylan: Going Electric and the Art of Relentless Reinvention
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A teenager in Hibbing, Minnesota pounded the piano so loudly at a school talent show that the pr...
1 Okt 24min
Carl Benz and Bertha Benz: The Messy, Desperate Birth of the Automobile
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The father of the automobile began as Karl Vaillant, a child of near poverty who later watched h...
1 Okt 23min
