John Hawkins: England's First Slave Voyages and the Armada Galleons
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Hawkins was born in Plymouth in 1532 to a shipping family; his father William was the first...
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Shivaji: Tiger Claws, a Sweets Basket Escape and the Maratha Crown
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Shivaji grew up on the Deccan Plateau, contested by the sultanates of Bijapur, Ahmednagar and Go...
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Samuel Gompers: From a London Cigar Bench to the AFL and Versailles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Samuel Gompers was born in 1850 in Spitalfields in London's East End to a Jewish family from Ams...
26 Okt 24min
Samuel Colt: Laughing Gas Shows, the Walker Revolver and Coltsville
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Samuel Colt was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1814 and prized his grandfather's Revolutionar...
26 Okt 22min
Apicius: Rome's Surviving Cookbook, From Flamingo to the Printing Press
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Apicius, or De Re Coquinaria, is the best-known cookbook to survive from ancient Rome. The autho...
26 Okt 21min
Roche Braziliano: The Groningen-Born Pirate Hanged in Curaçao
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Roche Braziliano was likely born Gerrit Gerritszoon around 1630 in Groningen, in the Netherlands...
26 Okt 22min
Primo Carnera: From Mob-Fixed Fights to Heavyweight Champion and Wrestler
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Primo Carnera arrived in the United States from Italy in 1930, standing 6 feet 5 inches and weig...
26 Okt 21min
Pompey the Great: The 'Teenage Butcher' Who Swept the Seas in 3 Months
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pompey was born in 106 BC in Picenum, son of Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, a greedy general who reache...
26 Okt 23min
