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Episode – 0860 : The Last of the Romanovs
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Episode – 0845 : Philip II of Spain
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Episode – 1419 : How Barbed Wire Shaped the West and the World (Encore)
Podcast Transcript When Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, there was a rush of people who moved west to claim the free land that was offered. However, there […]
Episode – 0774 : Spanish-American War
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Episode – 0766 : The Siege of Masada
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Episode – 0758 : The Republic of the Marshall Islands
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Episode – 1181 : Why Didn’t Canada Join the American Revolution? (Encore)
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Episode – 1052 : Terra Nullius (Encore)
Podcast Transcript Imagine you want to start a brand new country. Only, you don’t want to go through the messy process of starting a revolution or a civil war in […]
Episode – 0698 : Terra Nullius
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Episode – 1407 : Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years a Slave (Encore)
Podcast Transcript In 1788, the son of the leader of the Confederation of Futa Jallon in West Africa was commanding his 2,000 troops against a neighboring military force and was […]
Episode – 0619 : Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori: 40 Years a Slave
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Episode – 857 : The Peace of Westphalia (Encore)
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Episode – 817 : Joseph Bonaparte: The King of New Jersey (Encore)
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Episode – 1109 : Why Isn’t the West Indies a Country? (Encore)
Podcast Transcript If you have ever looked at a map of the Caribbean, you might have noticed that the tiny islands in the Lesser Antilles consist of a whole bunch […]
Episode – 0575 : The Spice Trade
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Episode – 0563 : Dresden Green Vault Burglary
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Episode – 1258 : The Acadian Expulsion (Encore)
Podcast Transcript Beginning in the 16th century, French settlers crossed the Atlantic to settle in a French colony located in the new world. That colony wasn’t modern-day Quebec, however. The […]
Episode – 0555 : The Acadian Expulsion
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Episode – 1159 : World War Zero (Encore)
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