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Episode #39- Was There a Real Atlantis? (Part II)
The world of Atlantis research can be a very strange place. Some researchers believe that Atlantis was a real Bronze Age city whose ruins might one d…
9 years ago
Episode #38- Was There a Real Atlantis? (Part I)
In 360 BCE the Greek philosopher Plato wrote of a powerful island nation that had been sunk to the bottom of the ocean by wrathful gods. Plato called…
9 years, 1 month ago
Episode #37- Did Robert Johnson Sell His Soul to the Devil?
In the history of the Blues there are few musicians as revered as the great Robert Johnson. Although he saw little success in his own lifetime, his m…
9 years, 1 month ago
Episode #36- Did Pocahontas Really Save John Smith? (Part II)
In the early 1600's most English people assumed that Captain John Smith was a liar. His memoirs were peppered with romantic stories of shipwrecks, du…
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode #35- Did Pocahontas Really Save John Smith? (Part I)
The story of Pocahontas is one of the most enduring legends of America's early colonial period. Her relationship with the Englishman John Smith would…
9 years, 2 months ago
Episode #34- Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray?
Archimedes was one of the ancient world's most important mathematicians. His discoveries would form the foundation upon which all future western scie…
9 years, 3 months ago
Episode #33- Who Was the Prince of Humbugs? (Part II)
P.T Barnum did everything he could to curate his own historical legacy. He was deeply concerned with how people would remember him after he was gone.…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode #32- Who Was the Prince of Humbugs? (Part I)
In the 19th century there were few Americans more famous than P.T Barnum. Long before he founded the circus that would bear his name, Barnum made a n…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode #31- What Was the Charge of the Light Brigade?
The Crimean War cavalry action known as "the charge of light brigade" was immortalized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson . The poet described a glorio…
9 years, 4 months ago
Episode #30- Will the Real Anastasia Please Stand Up?
When Tsar Nicholas II was executed in 1918 the Bolsheviks pumped the Russian media full of misinformation. The official story was that the Tsarina an…
9 years, 5 months ago