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Episode #149- Who Was the Real Stagger Lee?
Jan 26, 2022The character of Stagger Lee has been one of America’s most enduring folk heroes. There have been over 400 songs written about the swaggering, gun-toting, bad man. He has gone by many names: Stacks Le...
Episode #148- Who Was First in Flight? (Part III)
Jan 12, 2022In 1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont performed a number of short flights in front of a large crowd in Paris. These were done in his newly constructed heavier-than-air flying machine, the No.14-Bis. After the...
Episode #147- Who Was First in Flight? (Part II)
Dec 29, 2021The late 19th century in France sometime gets called La Belle Époque or the "Beautiful Era". As the name suggests, this is a time that has been fondly remembered as an age of optimism marked by artis...
Episode #146- Who Was First in Flight? (Part I)
Dec 15, 2021In mythology from around the world the ability to fly was reserved strictly for the gods. Stories about human beings constructing flying machines were usually punctuated with a moral about hubris. Vai...
Episode #145- Real Gryphons?
Dec 01, 2021The legendary hybrid creature known as the gryphon was said to have the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. Despite this fantastical descriptions the ancient Greeks and Romans truly see...
Episode #144- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part III)
Nov 17, 2021Eleanor of Aquitaine has been called the "Queen of the Troubadours" by fawning biographers. She has been credited with transforming medieval European culture through her patronage of the arts. It's al...
Episode #143- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part II)
Nov 03, 2021When the King and Queen of France went on crusade in 1147 it nearly destroyed their marriage. The campaign led by King Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine was an unmitigated disaster. But despite (or p...
Episode #142- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part I)
Oct 19, 2021Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of the best remembered medieval Queens. She has been celebrated as one of the most daring and consequential women of her age. But despite her fame Eleanor is often misunder...
Episode #141- Who's Afraid of the 30 Years War? (Ft. Zack Twamley)
Oct 06, 2021The 30 Years War has reputation among history buffs as one of the most complicated conflicts you can study. Even though the war is filled with fantastic stories, it can sometimes scare away history po...
Episode #140- What Became of the Great Library of Alexandria? (Part II)
Sep 22, 2021There are three main culprits in the alleged burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. But weirdly they all lived roughly 300 years apart from one another. How is that even possible? It’s weird anom...