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Jan 31 Maronite Church & Lebanese Nationalism
Jan 31 Maronite Church & Lebanese Nationalism

Season 1 Episode 31

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Today in 1867,  the Maronite Nationalist Leader Karam was sent into exile by the French. We look at the long fight for Lebanese independen…

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Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions
Jan 30 - Oliver Cromwell and two executions

Season 1 Episode 30

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Today in  1661, Oliver Cromwell's dead body was exhumed and beheaded in revenge for his execution of King Charles I on Jan 30 in 1649.  We…

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Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife
Jan 29 - Martin Luther's Wife

Season 1 Episode 29

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Today we look at the life of Katarina Von Bora, who after a daring escape from a convent, married Martin Luther, had 6 children and ran ma…

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Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor
Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor

Season 1 Episode 28

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Todays pod looks at the incredible story of the walk to Canossa, where in the dead of winter, Henry IV crossed the Alps by foot in a penit…

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Jan 27 - Dante's Exile and his Divine Comedy
Jan 27 - Dante's Exile and his Divine Comedy

Season 1 Episode 27

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Today in 1302,  Italy's finest poet and some say the father of the Italian language, Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile, h…

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Jan 26 - India becomes a republic
Jan 26 - India becomes a republic

Season 1 Episode 26

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In 1950 on Jan 26 the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic.  One of the oldest civilisations in the world, India is o…

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Jan 25 - Founding of Sao Paulo
Jan 25 - Founding of Sao Paulo

Season 1 Episode 24

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A group of Jesuit missionaries built a mission on top of a steep hill on the Piratiningha plains.  As part of the mission they founded the…

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Jan 24 - Gregorian Calendar is now almost universal
Jan 24 - Gregorian Calendar is now almost universal

Season 1 Episode 24

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Today in 1918 the Gregorian calendar was introduced in Russia by decree of the Council of People's Commissars making its coverage almost u…

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Jan 22 - Arrival of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican
Jan 22 - Arrival of the Swiss Guard in the Vatican

Season 1 Episode 22

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 On Jan 22 1506 the first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican. Todays pod looks at the historical context for their arri…

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Jan 23 - Netherlands Splits, start of the Dutch Empire
Jan 23 - Netherlands Splits, start of the Dutch Empire

Season 1 Episode 23

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Seismic events in Northern Europe today on the 23rd of January and the Union of Utrecht effectively unites the northern provinces of the N…

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