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The Formation of the United Nations
Episode 1449
In the midst of the Second World War, the Allied powers began planning ahead for what the post-war world was going to look like.
The Legion of Nation…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Marginal Revolution (Encore)
Episode 1448
In most academic disciplines, there is often a single idea or discovery which makes everything fall into place.
All of the things which didn’t make s…
2 years, 4 months ago
The French Foreign Legion
Episode 1447
A popular topic of films has been the French Foreign Legion.
The French Foreign Legion was supposed to be an organization where someone could get a n…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Domestication of Cats (Encore)
Episode 1449
Dogs and cats are both domesticated, four-legged, fur-bearing mammals.
Beyond that, they really don’t have much in common. One of the things that the…
2 years, 4 months ago
The History of Skyscrapers
Episode 1447
If you were to pick a single visible icon to represent the 20th century, it would probably be the skyscraper.
Skyscrapers didn’t really even exist be…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Moon
Episode 1444
About 384,400 km or 238,900 miles above the surface of the Earth is our planet's only natural satellite, The Moon.
Every culture and civilization on …
2 years, 4 months ago
Phillip II of Macedon
Episode 1443
Alexander the Great was one of the most famous people from the ancient world.
He defeated a vastly larger Persian Empire and conquered everything fro…
2 years, 4 months ago
Charles Ponzi and His Scheme (Encore)
Episode 1442
In January 1920, an Italian American businessman in Boston started a new company. In order to raise money, he took $100 investments from 18 people an…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Danube River
Episode 1441
Located in Central and Eastern Europe is one of the continent's longest and most rivers: the Danube.
For thousands of years, the Danube has been a vi…
2 years, 4 months ago
The History of the Toilet
Episode 1440
It is one of the most important inventions in history. Almost everyone listening to this has one. You use one almost every day, and if we didn’t have…
2 years, 4 months ago