Carrie Nation: Kiowa Smashers, Hatchetations and a Kansas City Shelter
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Carrie Nation was born Caroline Amelia Moore in Kentucky in 1846, and her family moved repeatedl...
27 Okt 22min
Gustave Whitehead: The No. 21 Monoplane and the Smithsonian's 1948 Contract
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gustave Whitehead was born in Bavaria in 1874, was orphaned young, and went to sea, where he stu...
27 Okt 18min
Claudius Ptolemy: The Almagest, a 30-Hour Equinox Error and Fraud Charges
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Claudius Ptolemy lived in or near Alexandria, Egypt, in roughly 100 to 170 AD, with a Roman fami...
27 Okt 24min
Thomas Tew: The Amity, a Crew Vote and the Birth of the Pirate Round
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Thomas Tew lived in Newport, Rhode Island, with a wife and two daughters before moving to Bermud...
27 Okt 20min
Alfred Russel Wallace: The Malaria Fever That Revealed Natural Selection
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alfred Russel Wallace was born in Wales in 1823, the eighth of nine children in a family ruined ...
27 Okt 23min
William Bainbridge: Two Surrendered Ships, Then Victory on USS Constitution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William Bainbridge was born in 1774 in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Absalom Bainbridge, a l...
27 Okt 24min
Russell Sage: 'Old Straddle,' a Dynamite Bomb and a Clerk Used as a Shield
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Russell Sage was born in 1816 in Verona, Oneida County, New York, and worked as a farmhand until...
27 Okt 22min
Hannah Szenes: SOE Paratrooper, Poet of Eli Eli and Her Unbroken Silence
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hannah Szenes was born in Budapest in the summer of 1921 into an assimilated Jewish family; her ...
27 Okt 18min
