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Season 1 Episode 39
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Harry Potter may have cast a spell over millions—but the world that shaped it is far stranger, stricter, and darker than fiction lets…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Campbell's and the MacDonald's - The Massacre of Glencoe
Season 1 Episode 38
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The snow fell silently on the morning of February 13, 1692—blanketing Glencoe in a cruel, deceptive peace. Inside the MacDonald homes…
2 years, 5 months ago
Plagues and Pandemics - Does History Repeat Itself?
Season 1 Episode 37
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From the plague that tore through Athens during the Peloponnesian War… to the one that halved the Roman Empire… from the Black Death …
2 years, 5 months ago
DreamReads: Dracula (First Published in 1887)
Season 1 Episode 36
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I often worry about my listeners staying up too late with my regular episodes—some of those stories are a little too intense for drif…
2 years, 5 months ago
Napoleon - The Battle of Waterloo
Season 1 Episode 1
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June 18, 1815 — the fields outside a quiet Belgian village erupted into one of the most decisive and brutal battles in history.
The Ba…
2 years, 5 months ago
Raiders of The Lost Ark - Where is The Ark of The Covenant?
Season 1 Episode 35
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For thousands of years, it’s captivated prophets, kings, scholars—and treasure hunters.
The Ark of the Covenant: part divine relic, pa…
2 years, 5 months ago
DreamReads: The Picture of Dorian Gray (First Published in 1890)
Season 1 Episode 34
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For this second DreamReads episode, I’d like to invite you into the decadent, candlelit world of Oscar Wilde… and The Picture of Dori…
2 years, 6 months ago
Barricades, Beatings, and Blood - Part One
Season 1 Episode 33
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“To be a boy at one of these schools was to be both tyrant and slave.”
18th-century British public schools were meant to shape the lea…
2 years, 6 months ago
DreamReads: A Conspriacy of Paper (First Published in 2000)
Season 1 Episode 32
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I know some of you like to stay up late listening to my podcasts—but I also know that some of those episodes cover serious, sometimes…
2 years, 6 months ago
Lawrence of Arabia (T.E Lawrence) - Dreams in Sand and Blood
Season 1 Episode 31
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Who was Lawrence of Arabia—and why does his legend still burn so brightly more than a century later?
Born Thomas Edward Lawrence, he w…
2 years, 6 months ago