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Was Yasuke The First And Only Black Samurai?
Yasuke was a 16th century African slave that found his way to the far east working for Italian missionaries and became an obsession and friend to one…
1 year, 9 months ago
China's History-Based Plan For World Domination
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it, but the Chinese are studying history with the explicit hope that they do, in fact, repeat it.…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Brief History of Humans Eating Oysters
From cavemen to Rome to post-Civil War America and the present day, humans have been harvesting and eating oysters for hundreds of thousands of years…
1 year, 9 months ago
Drowning In Alcohol
In celebration of reaching 1,000 reviews on Apple Podcasts, and perhaps in a bit of method podcast hosting, Dan Regester attempts to tell the story o…
1 year, 10 months ago
Never Meet Your (Communist) Heroes
Malcolm Caldwell was a professor at the University of London who loved two things: Communism, and publicly cheerleading Pol Pot's regime in Cambodia.…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Man Who Made Baby Boomers Insufferable
Thomas Midgley Jr. revolutionized the U.S. auto industry in the early 1900s. But, he may have also been responsible for a violent mid-century America…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Worst Man To Ever Live
Hong Xiuquan was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion that killed over 30 million people, the self-proclaimed celestial brother of Jesus Christ, and a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Modern History's First Great Sex Cult
The Agapemonites were a Victorian religious cult that checked all the boxes. A leader who thought he was God and also immortal and needed multiple wi…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Most Haunted Beach In America
In 1565 both the French and Spanish were competing to establish a colonial presence on Florida's east coast. That competition came to a quick and vio…
1 year, 11 months ago
Turning Criminals Into A Hit Squad? What Could Go Wrong!
Unit 684 was a secret group created by the South Korean Air Force in 1968 tasked with assasinating North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. After three bruta…
1 year, 11 months ago