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Back to SearchCivilization in a Glass - How Wine Built the World
Season 1 Episode 184
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What gives a freedman the power to insult an emperor? The answer lies in a single sentence spoken over a glass of wine nearly two tho…
14 hours ago
Trump Is Nero. You're the Crowd.
Season 1 Episode 183
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Rome is burning, and the Emperor is on stage, singing. We all know the image. But what if Nero isn't history, what if Nero is now?
In …
6 days, 7 hours ago
Zulu — Shaka, Warrior King (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 182
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An outcast boy with no right to anything took a cattle-clan of a few thousand souls and, inside a single lifetime, forged it into a n…
1 week ago
Zulu - The Day of the Dead Moon (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 181
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On a single afternoon in January 1879, in a corner of southern Africa most of the men fighting there could not have found on a map, t…
2 weeks ago
Would You Survive a Day in the 14th Century?
Season 1 Episode 179
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How hard was it, really, just to stay alive in the fourteenth century? You wake up in an English village around 1350 and find out, on…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
The Durian: Four Hundred Years of Arguement
Season 1 Episode 180
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They banned it from the trains. They barred it from the hotels. And still they called it the King of Fruits.
For four hundred years t…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
History’s Strangest Questions: Was a Lord of the Realm Hanged for a Comma?
Season 1 Episode 178
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In 1911, the British Crown knighted Roger Casement for exposing colonial atrocities in the Congo and the Amazon. Five years later, th…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
The Penang Riots of 1867 - George Town at War
Season 1 Episode 177
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George Town, 1867.
Beneath the British flag, another power ruled the streets.
Secret societies commanded thousands of men. Money flowed…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
The Wrath of Khan - The Making of Genghis Khan (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 175
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A boy abandoned on the frozen Mongolian steppe should have died there. Instead, he survived to become Genghis Khan, the ruler who wou…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Wrath of Khan: When Hell Rode West (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 176
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Genghis Khan didn't want the war that would become the most devastating campaign of his life.
It began with a trade caravan, the murde…
4 weeks, 1 day ago