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2082 episodes transcribedEvery few years, without any schedule or planning, officials at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service will add an extra secon...
In 1942, Allied forces attempted a landing on the coast of France to gain a toe hold on the continent. Thousands of men took part in the landing…and i...
Human beings have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. For the vast majority of that time, the total population of humans has been quite sm...
When Alexander the Great died, one of his generals and best friends, Ptolemy, took Alexander’s corpse and went to Egypt to establish a new pharaonic d...
For over 300 years, the Romanov family ruled over the Russian Empire. After the Communist Revolution, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne, and he a...
Children are highly inquisitive and are always asking questions. One of the most common questions that children have is, “why is the sky blue?” It is...
Located between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, in the middle of the Irish Sea, lies one of the oddest political jurisdictions in the world....
In 1648, Europe saw the end of two of the most horrific wars that had ever been seen on the continent up until that point. The treaties which ended t...
Every four years, Americans go to polling places where they do NOT decide who will be President of the United States. These elections usually aren’t...
There was a time when languages had no punctuation. Not only did they not have punctuation, but they also didn’t even have spaces between words, and i...
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in the ancient world. In its wake are a host of languages based on Latin, as well as many cultural i...
For over two years and 850 episodes, I have been providing you with daily podcasts on a wide assortment of topics. Now, for the first time, I’m letti...
On February 15, 1971, the United Kingdom had a landmark day in its history. On that day, the country’s currency was changed after centuries of a curr...
Most people think of the second world war as being a mechanized war fought with tanks, planes, jeeps, and ships. This is true, it was certainly a mech...
In 1910, a German Earth scientist noticed something about the map of the world. South America seemed to fit into Africa. North America seemed to fit i...
In 1968, American high jumper Dick Fosbury introduced a new way to compete in the high jump. His new technique worked so well that he won an Olympic g...
Many movies and television shows have as their plot some disaster that eliminates the United States government. As a result, some low-level cabinet o...
It was the worst economic depression that the United States had ever seen. The stock market crashed. Thousands of businesses went bankrupt. The unemp...
Despite what you might have been told, Christopher Columbus and his expedition were not the first Europeans to reach the Americas. Almost 500 years e...
Philip II of Spain was one of European history’s most important yet underrated monarchs. He had more titles and kingships than almost anyone and was...