Welcome to Work, Play, Rest — Repeat, where we believe that building a business should light you up, not wear you down. Hosted by Pam Kriangkum, holistic business strategist and founder of The Strategy Edit, this podcast is designed for ambitious creatives and entrepreneurs who are ready to step away from the hustle and create sustainable success. Each week, Pam dives into strategies for finding work rhythms that align with your unique energy, growing without overwhelm, and redefining succes ...
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Hushabye Baby - Sleep Sounds for Baby (Weird & Wonderful)
Weird & Wonderful Sleep Sounds for Little Ones
Hushabye Baby is your cozy corner for soothing sounds (and weird ones too) that help lull your little one to sleep. Our episodes feature a gentle mix of colour noises, nature soundscapes, and yes, even the hums and whirring sounds of household appliances. It might sound a little odd, but the soft spin of a washing machine or the steady gurgling of a fish tank often works wonders for restless babies. Whether it’s bedtime, naptime, or a midnight wake-up, Hushabye Baby brings the calm you need, ...
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For history lovers who listen to podcasts, History Unplugged is the most comprehensive show of its kind. It's the only show that dedicates episodes to both interviewing experts and answering questions from its audience. First, it features a call-in show where you can ask our resident historian (Scott Rank, PhD) absolutely anything (What was it like to be a Turkish sultan with four wives and twelve concubines? If you were sent back in time, how would you kill Hitler?). Second, it features lon ...
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The UpCycle Canada Podcast: Your Eco-Friendly Inspiration
Dave and Jennifer Campbell : Eco-friendly
Welcome to UpCycle Canada, the ultimate podcast for eco-conscious individuals seeking sustainable alternatives to combat the ever-growing problem of waste. If you're passionate about finding inspiration to repurpose, reuse, and recycle discarded items, then this podcast is tailor-made for you! Join hosts Dave and Jennifer Campbell as they take you on an exciting journey into the creative world of UpCycling. Through thought-provoking discussions, interviews with experts, and real-life success ...
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The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today
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37:16Rome’s Western Empire may have fallen 1,600 years ago, but its cultural impact has a radioactive half-life that would make xenon jealous. Over a billion people speak Latin (or at least a Latin-derived language). Governments around the world self-consciously copy Roman buildings and create governments that copy the imperial senate. Every self-aggran…
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Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant
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44:28In order to become rich, powerful, and prestigious in the pre-modern world, nothing mattered more than horses. They were the fundamental unit of warfare, enabling cavalry charges, and logistical support. They facilitated the creation of the Silk Road (which could arguably be called the “Horse Road”) since China largely built it to enable the purcha…
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Soothing Womb Sounds: Mum Talking, Heartbeats + Tummy Bubbles for Nurturing Sleep! 1.5Hrs
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1:29:40Soothing Womb Sounds: Mum Talking, Heartbeats + Tummy Bubbles for Nurturing Sleep! for 1.5Hrs 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Cancel any time) 🐻WE WOULD LOVE to have Feedback and Request…
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Fish Tank with Air Stone Bubbler 1Hr - Gently Soothe Baby to Sleep at Bedtime
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1:02:24Fish Tank with Air Stone Bubbler 1Hr - Gently Soothe Baby to Sleep at Bedtime With a gentle decrease in volume towards the end. 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Cancel any time) 🐻WE WOULD…
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Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended
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45:47The Prohibition era (1920–1933), enacted by the 18th Amendment, birthed an overnight economy of moonshiners who distilled and distributed homemade liquor to meet America’s insatiable demand for alcohol, transforming rural farmers and opportunists into underground entrepreneurs who supplied speakeasies. But this new economy didn’t disappear after Pr…
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How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer
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53:08What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, climate change, civil war, desperate migrants stuck in a hostile environment. The Sahara stretches across 3.2 million square miles, hosting several million inhabitants and a corresponding variety of lang…
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Heartbeat Sound - 1Hr - Gently Soothe Baby to Sleep at Bedtime
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1:01:39Soothe baby to sleep with a regulated adult heartbeat sound - 1Hr With a gentle decrease in volume towards the end. 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Cancel any time) 🐻WE WOULD LOVE to hav…
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Sea Sounds: Waves and Gulls to Soothe Baby to Sleep 1 HR
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1:01:43Soothe baby to sleep with waves and other sea sounds. With a gentle decrease in volume towards the end. 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Cancel any time) 🐻WE WOULD LOVE to have Feedback a…
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How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship
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46:06As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America via the Underground Railroad. Yet many escapes took place not by land but by sea. William Grimes escaped slavery in 1815 by stowing away in a cotton bale on a ship from Sav…
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Soothing Air Conditioning Unit No.1 A/C starting up and gently humming - Helping Baby to Fall Asleep
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1:01:21Soothe baby to sleep with sounds of an air conditioning Unit No.1 A/C starting up and gently humming With a gentle decrease in volume towards the end. 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Can…
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Brown Noise 1Hr - Soothing Baby to Sleep
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1:01:34Brown Noise 1Hr - Soothing Baby to Sleep With a gentle decrease in volume towards the end. 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Cancel any time) 🐻WE WOULD LOVE to have Feedback and Requests f…
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Constant Cat Purring for 1Hr - Warming and Comforting for Baby
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1:01:45Soothe baby to sleep with cat purring for 1Hr With a gentle decrease in volume towards the end. 🐭Please note: Play this episode at a low volume. 🐧*** GET Hushabye Baby Ad-Free on APPLE!***🐧 for 99p per month. ALL episodes AD-FREE, Access to AD-FREE Catalogue. First enjoy a FREE 7 DAY TRIAL (Cancel any time) 🐻WE WOULD LOVE to have Feedback and Reque…
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Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands?
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47:512025 marks the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s surrender and the fall of the Third Reich. Likewise, World War II is the single most studied conflict in human history. But most Western accounts offer a one-dimensional interpretation: the war was a noble crusade against fascism, creating a convenient parable about good and evil. But this depiction…
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How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War
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55:09As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in uniting the colonies against Britain. Virginia, the largest, wealthiest, and most populous province in British North America, was led by Lord Dun…
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How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader
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55:46He was a gutsy old man.” “A corker,” said another. “You couldn’t find anyone better.” They talked about him in hushed tones. “This Major Carlson,” wrote one of the officers in a letter home, “is one of the finest men I have ever known.” These were the words of the young Marines training to be among the first U.S. troops to enter the Second World Wa…
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Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands?
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54:16Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs first confirmed the existence of living things invisible to the human eye in the late sixteenth century. So why did it take two centuries to connect microbes to disease? As late as the Civil War in the 1860s, most soldiers who perished died not on the battlefield but of infected wounds, typhoid, and other diseas…
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From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb
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48:14The story of the atomic age began decades before Robert Oppenheimer watched a mushroom cloud form over the New Mexico desert at the Trinity nuclear test in mid 1945. It begins in 1895, with Henri Becquerel’s accidental discovery of radioactivity, setting in motion a series of remarkable and horrifying events. By the early 20th century, a brilliant …
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E68 - An Update on The UpCycle Canada Podcast and what is next
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14:07Episode 68 - An Update on The UpCycle Canada Podcast and what is next Thanks for all your support for this podcast and for the guests that we have had in the past! Check out our other podcasts here https://truemediasolutions.ca/By Dave and Jennifer Campbell : Eco-friendly
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Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2
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37:15The B-29 Bomber led the Allied strategic bombing offensive against Japan, succeeding when US Bomber Command switched from high-level daytime precision bombing to low-level nighttime area bombing. The latter tactic required Superfortresses to attack their targets individually, without a formation or escorting fighters for protection. Despite this, J…
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D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944
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42:08Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Red Army battled to learn how to fight and win, while involved in a struggle for its very survival. But by 1944 it had a leadership that was able to wield it with lethal effect and with far more effective equipment than before. By contrast, the Wehrmacht had commenced a …
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Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides
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44:53Pilgrimages are a universal phenomenon, from China’s bustling Tai Shan to the ancient Jewish treks to Jerusalem. But why? What is it about a grueling penitent march to an isolated temple that has become a prerequisite for a civilization of any size, whether Chicen Itza in the Mayan Empire or the holy sites of Mecca? To explore this is today’s guest…
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Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island
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44:02Years before Jamestown planters made New World farming profitable by growing tobacco, and years before their countrymen up north in Plymouth Colony managed to overcome their starvation conditions and acclimate to New England’s growing conditions, there was an English settlement in Bermuda that was wealthier, larger, and more prosperous. It was esta…
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#8 Why Strategy Alone Isn’t Enough Anymore (What to do when success on paper stops feeling good)
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16:19In this episode, I’m talking about what happens when strategy stops being enough — and how to find your way back to yourself when the business you built no longer feels like home. We’ll explore: Why success without alignment feels so empty — even when it should feel good How spiritual practices (yes, even the subtle ones) help you lead, decide, and…
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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War
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45:20The origins of the Hatfield-McCoy conflict (between the Hatfield family of West Virginia, led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and the McCoy family of Kentucky, led by Randolph "Old Randall" McCoy) begins with a dispute over a pig. From here, it escalated from minor disagreements to violent encounters that spanned decades, nearly sparking…
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The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve?
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48:41In 1845, a novel pathogen attacked potato fields across Europe, from Spain to Scandinavia—but only in Ireland were the effects apocalyptic. At least one million Irish people died, and millions more scattered across the globe, emigrating to new countries and continents. Less than fifty years after the union of Ireland with the rest of Great Britain,…
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A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause
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51:18Sitting high above the small community of Ripley, Ohio, a lantern shone in the front window of a small, red brick home at night. It was a signal to slaves just across the Ohio River. Anyone fleeing bondage could look to Reverend John Rankin’s home for hope. To the slaveholders they fled from, Rankin’s activities as a “conductor” on the Underground …
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How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing
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41:53The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flatpack furniture, the Franklin stove became one of the era's most iconic consumer products, spreading from Pennsylvania to England, Italy, and beyond. It was more than just a material object, however—it was also a hypo…
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Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages?
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38:25For much of Christian history, the Church had little involvement in marriage, which was primarily a contract between families. It wasn’t until the fourth century that church weddings emerged, and even then, they were mostly reserved for the elite. Fast forward to the High Middle Ages, and marriage became a sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church. Si…
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How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal
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28:21On the night of September 5, 1942, the USS Gregory (APD-3), a converted destroyer turned high-speed transport, was caught in a deadly ambush near Guadalcanal. The ship had been supporting U.S. Marine forces, ferrying troops and supplies, when it was mistaken for a larger threat by a group of Japanese destroyers. Outgunned and unable to escape, Greg…
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#7 You’re Not Stuck — You’re Underplaying Your Power (And You Know It)
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21:39Ever had that moment where you realise you've been holding yourself back: sticking to what's comfortable, safe, and familiar...even though deep down, you know you're meant for more? In this episode, we’re talking about what it actually means to “play small,” how to tell when it's happening, and what to do when you're ready to take up more space. I’…
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Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct
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53:19We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline - fast. As Gee demonstrates, our population has peaked, and is dec…
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The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them?
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51:05The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought by Muslims and Christians across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, from Persia to Russia. But this is not merely the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West. Europe was not united against the Turks; the scandal of the age was the al…
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Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US
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42:07After a series of military defeats over the winter of 1776–1777, British military leaders developed a bold plan to gain control of the Hudson River and divide New England from the rest of the colonies. Three armies would converge on Albany: one under Lieutenant General John Burgoyne moving south from Quebec, one under General William Howe moving no…
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Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
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39:21No language is as inconsistent in spelling and pronunciation as English. Kernel and colonel rhyme, but read changes based on past or present tense. Ough has many pronunciations: ‘aw’ (thought), ‘ow’ (drought), ‘uff’ (tough), ‘off’ (cough), ‘oo’ (through). In response to this orthographic minefield, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill …
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Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways?
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51:04Slave, revolutionary, king, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to end slavery. Yet in an incredi…
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What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole
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41:34The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation, and its sub-zero temperatures and strange year of one sunset and one sunrise make it an eerie, utterly disorienting place that challenges human endurance and understanding. Erling Kagge and his frien…
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Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball
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50:35The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of “base ball,” and players George Wright and Albert Spalding were right in the thick of it. These two young men, the first superstars of the professional game, won the hearts of a country in search of a unifying spirit after a devastating civil war. Today’s guest is Jef…
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Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. T…
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Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road
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34:20And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer. That’s a quote from Hans Gruber in Die Hard, which is a very convoluted paraphrase from Plutarch’s essay collection Moralia. There’s plenty of truth in that unattributed quote from Mr. Gruber. Alexander the Great’s death at 323 BC in Babylon marked the end of the most consequential mil…
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Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works)
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48:43Imagine being stranded thousands of miles deep in enemy territory with 10,000 soldiers, no allies, no clear way home, and the only means of escape was by foot. This was the predicament faced by Xenophon and the Greek mercenaries in Anabasis, one of the most gripping survival stories of the ancient world. In this episode, we delve into the incredibl…
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The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers
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59:36Privateers were a cross between an enlisted sailor and an outright pirate. But they were crucial in winning the Revolutionary War. As John Lehman, former secretary of the navy under President Ronald Reagan, observed, “From the beginning of the American Revolution until the end of the War of 1812, America’s real naval advantage lay in its privateers…
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Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers?
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57:26Did Abraham Lincoln preserve democracy during the Civil War, or did he endanger it in the process? To explore this paradox, we’re joined by renowned historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith. Guelzo takes us deep into the high-stakes decisions of Lincoln’s presidency, from the suspension of habeas corpus to the Emancip…
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The 1541 Spanish Expedition Down the Amazon to Find the Imaginary “El Dorado” and Valley of Cinnamon
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40:32As Spanish conquistators slowly moved through Latin America, they encountered levels of wealth that were unimaginable. Most famously, Incan Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Francisco Pizarro and paid a ransom of a room filled with gold and then twice over with silver. The room was 22 feet long by 17 feet wide, filled to a height of about 8 feet. S…
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Everyday Life for the 500K German POWs House in America During World War Two
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1:02:31During World War II, approximately half a million German prisoners of war were held in the United States, housed in 700 camps spread across the country, from Florida to Maine. These POWs were treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, often working in agriculture and other industries to alleviate domestic labor shortages. Today, evidence of…
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The Arsenal of Democracy: How the Revolver and Repeating Rifle Democratized Gun Ownership and Armed the United States
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56:07The United States is the most heavily armed nation in the world, with an estimated 400 million guns in private hands. But few know that this legacy can be directly traced back to a handful of gunmakers who worked in the Springfield Armory of Massachusetts in the early 1800s. Their names became synonymous with American guns—Colt, Smith, Wesson, Winc…
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Owning Land Was The Best – and Usually Only – Way to Be Rich in the Ancient World
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44:24For millennia, humans eked out survival atop the surface of the Earth and land had no unique value. Eventually, however, humans turned land into an advantage. For several thousand years, control of land meant control of natural resources, like water and wild animals. For several thousand more years it meant agricultural production, raising domestic…
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Benjamin Franklin – In the 200 Years After His Death – Funded New Businesses, Supported Boston and Philadelphia, and Play Pranks
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37:53When Benjamin Franklin died on April 12, 1790, he made a final bet on the future of the United States -- a gift of 2,000 pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme,…
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When American Gilded Elite Bought Up English Country Houses, It Create an Epic Transatlantic Clash of Cultures
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44:09For generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by the end of the nineteenth century, members of elite society found themselves, for the first time, in the company of arrivistes. Their new neighbors—from chorus girls to millionaire greengrocers to guano impresarios—lack…
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The Untold History of Earth: Hobbits Really Existed, Dinosaurs Had Feathers, and Yetis Roamed Our Planet
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1:08:48The Old English poem Beowulf is a vital source of information on history, language, story and belief from the darkest of the Dark Ages. Only one copy is known to exist (it’s in the British Library), and that was rescued from a fire that is known to have destroyed many other manuscripts. If Beowulf didn’t exist, how much would we know about that per…
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How Did Gold Beat Out Every Other Precious Metal To Become Humanity’s Dominant Currency For the Last 2,600 Years?
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36:05Why has gold reigned as the world’s go-to precious metal for over 2,600 years? It’s not as rare as platinum, durable as diamonds, or malleable as copper. What is it about this metal that made it the standard unit of coinage, from China to Mesoamerica? It’s a very long story, but gold’s scarcity, durability, malleability, and universal appeal made i…
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