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Questions and Answers: Volume 34
Episode 1883
September is upon us. It means going back to school and the autumnal equinox.
The days get shorter in the north and longer in the south.
The name Sep…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Pseudo-Neros
Episode 1882
In the first century, Rome underwent a major political transition when the Emperor Nero died after being declared an enemy of Rome by the senate.
Wi…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Republic of Pirates
Episode 1881
Between 1706 and 1718, a group of pirates established a haven in the Bahamas.
Using a code and system of rules that they developed themselves, the p…
8 months, 1 week ago
The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre
Episode 1880
In 1972, the Olympics returned to Germany for the first time since being hosted in Berlin in 1936.
The Games were intended to present a new image of …
8 months, 1 week ago
Starlite: The Miracle That Never Was
Episode 1879
In the 1980s, an Englishman by the name of Maurice Ward developed a material which he claimed could withstand temperatures of thousands of degrees C…
8 months, 1 week ago
The Unabomber
Episode 1878
Starting in the late 1970s and lasting for seventeen years, a series of bombings terrorized the American public.
Primarily targeting technology comp…
8 months, 1 week ago
Francisco Macías Nguema
Episode 1877
In 1968, the colony of Spanish Guinea was granted independence and became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.
In its first open election, which turne…
8 months, 1 week ago
Emperor Nero (Encore)
Episode 1876
In the year 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, and his adopted son Nero became the Emperor of Rome at the age of 16.
His reign was one of the most…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
European Exclaves
Episode 1875
We have all looked at a map and seen all of the different countries represented by different colors. A country has some sort of border, and everythin…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Spanish Inquisition
Episode 1874
At the end of the 15th century, Spain had almost completed the Reconquista and the removal of the Caliphate in the Iberian Peninsula, ending centurie…
8 months, 2 weeks ago