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White Feather Girls (Encore)
Episode 1393
The First World War wasn’t just fought on the fields of France and Belgium. There were lesser battles fought on the homefronts of the nations which w…
2 years ago
Operation Valkyrie and the Plot to Kill Hitler (Encore)
Episode 1392
Adolf Hitler single-handedly started the Second World War in Europe.
While the Allies were desperately trying to end the Third Reich and Hitler perso…
2 years ago
Fifty-four Forty or Fight!
Episode 1391
By the early 19th century, the United States and Great Britain had already fought two wars with each other.
Those two wars were not enough to resolve…
2 years ago
The 1854 Broad Street Cholera Outbreak (Encore)
Episode 1390
In 1854 an unusually severe outbreak of cholera occurred in London.
While cholera was not an uncommon disease, physicians at the time weren’t sure wh…
2 years ago
Qin Shi Huang: China's First Emperor
Episode 1389
In 259 BC, a boy named Ying Zheng was born in the state of Qin in modern-day China.
He was born into the royal family of the kingdom and ascended to …
2 years ago
Central Park
Episode 1388
In the 19th century, New York City was one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.
However, it was still a very young city, and as such, the city…
2 years ago
Concorde: The World’s Fastest Passenger Airplane
Episode 1387
Almost as soon as Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, people began thinking of ways to transport passengers at supersonic speeds.
However, …
2 years ago
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (Encore)
Episode 1386
Today in Western Europe, there is a line that divides speakers of Germanic languages and speakers of Romance languages. While that line has shifted o…
2 years ago
The Largest Known Things in the Universe
Episode 1385
The universe is big. Really, really big. So big that it is hard to intuitively grasp its size because we have nothing in our lives that we could comp…
2 years ago
The Origin of Words and Phrases: Military
Episode 1387
The English language has evolved organically, gathering words and phrases from different languages, countries, and communities.
It should come as no …
2 years ago