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Back to SearchFibonacci - The Man Who Gave Us Zero
Season 1 Episode 186
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Fibonacci is famous for rabbits. But that's not why he matters.
His real name was Leonardo of Pisa. In 1202, he did something that qui…
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The Year Summer Never Came
Season 1 Episode 185
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In June 1816, a New England farmer woke to find snow falling on his summer crops. Ten thousand miles away, an Indonesian volcano had …
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Civilization in a Glass - How Wine Built the World
Season 1 Episode 184
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What gives a freedman the power to insult an emperor? The answer lies in a single sentence spoken over a glass of wine nearly two tho…
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Trump Is Nero. You're the Crowd.
Season 1 Episode 183
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Rome is burning, and the Emperor is on stage, singing. We all know the image. But what if Nero isn't history, what if Nero is now?
In …
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Zulu — Shaka Zulu, Warrior King (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 182
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An outcast boy with no right to anything took a cattle-clan of a few thousand souls and, inside a single lifetime, forged it into a n…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Zulu - The Day of the Dead Moon (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 181
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On a single afternoon in January 1879, in a corner of southern Africa most of the men fighting there could not have found on a map, t…
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Would You Survive a Day in the 14th Century?
Season 1 Episode 179
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How hard was it, really, just to stay alive in the fourteenth century? You wake up in an English village around 1350 and find out, on…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Durian: Four Hundred Years of Arguement
Season 1 Episode 180
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They banned it from the trains. They barred it from the hotels. And still they called it the King of Fruits.
For four hundred years t…
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History’s Strangest Questions: Was a Lord of the Realm Hanged for a Comma?
Season 1 Episode 178
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In 1911, the British Crown knighted Roger Casement for exposing colonial atrocities in the Congo and the Amazon. Five years later, th…
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The Penang Riots of 1867 - George Town at War
Season 1 Episode 177
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George Town, 1867.
Beneath the British flag, another power ruled the streets.
Secret societies commanded thousands of men. Money flowed…
2 months, 2 weeks ago