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108 episodes transcribedRussian history is pretty wild. Tsarist Russia was in a league by itself. There were two main dynasties, The Rurikids and The Romanovs. Today we'll be...
In the course of human history wars have been waged primarily over two things, land and religion. Sometimes for both of those reasons at the same time...
A major if not the most important key to victory in World War 2 Europe was the Allied Bombing Campaign against Nazi Germany. World War 2 wasn't just a...
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the fight against communism was in full swing. The CIA was deep into the politics of Central America, having a...
When you're considered the world's oldest fraternal order and one of the oldest continuous organizations in history, you're probably gonna develop som...
Mussolini has a general reputation as the bumbling idiot of the axis powers. While he does appear to be at a glance, history should not sleep on Musso...
If you had to compare the ancient Silk Road to something we're all familiar with today, it would be the internet. The Silk Road was a network of trave...
We finish off the Big 3 of Ancient Meso/South American civilizations with The Aztecs. Originally hailing from what is now the southern United States,...
Jim Jones....Jim Jones....what can we say about Jim Jones? Early on young James found he had two things going for him, his newfound love of religion a...
In 1492 this freakin guy Christopher Columbus took his ass across the ocean blue looking for a western sea route to the lands of Asia and India (which...
We left off with the shot heard round the world and we ate coming back into Lexington and Concord. While it is sorta known as the opening salvo of the...
In what still stands as the worst nuclear disaster to take place on this planet, the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on Apri...
There's something about Scotland that holds a special place in our hearts here at the Institute of Higher Learning. The Highlands, the moors, the loch...
World War 2 earned its World War moniker more so that its predecessor. It was truly a globe spanning series of events. The European Theater was conden...
If Howard Hughes is the Father of Modern Aviation. The Wright Brothers are the Granddaddies of Human Flight. Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright develo...
There was a time when religion was cool. Like when jacked dudes threw lightning and women wielded armor and spears in the heavens and under the waves....
To put it plainly Pablo Escobar lived a crazy life. Not many people can say they survived a civil war to go on to create one of the most vicious yet s...
The Bay Area in the late 1960's was a wild place to be. Free love that flooded the streets was replaced with fear. Murder has never been uncommon in a...
The title says it all folks. It's been a long time coming, we're talking Old Kingdom Egypt, specifically the 4th Dynasty, which was known as the Age o...
