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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 …
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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 exi…
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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…
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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 founde…
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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 alm…
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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…
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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 …
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Jan 21 - First prayer of Pilgrim Fathers in America
Season 1 Episode 21
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On this day in Christian History, we go back to the year 1621 and the Pilgrims from England left their ship the Mayflower and gathere…
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Jan 20 - Communist Russia & Christianity
Season 1 Episode 20
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Today in 1918 we remember how the Bolshevik-controlled government in Russia enacted the Decree that proclaimed the separation of chur…
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Jan 19 - Premiere of Goethe's Faust
Season 1 Episode 19
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Today in 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust receives its premiere performance, we look at the story behind the greatest work o…
5 months, 3 weeks ago