Episode – 2192 : Gil Eanes and the Volta do Mar Podcast Transcript For thousands of years, civilizations that rose along the Mediterranean or the European Atlantic coast mostly stuck […]
Episode – 2180 : The Barbary Wars
Episode – 2180 : The Barbary Wars Podcast Transcript In the early years of the United States, American ships faced a threat far from home along the North African coast. […]
Episode – 2164 : The Gallipoli Campaign
Episode – 2164 : The Gallipoli Campaign Podcast Transcript In 1915, the Allies launched one of the most ambitious operations of the First World War. It was an attempt to […]
Episode – 2101 : Flags of Convenience: The Hidden System Behind Global Shipping
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Episode – 2091 : The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Victory That Saved Ancient Greece
Episode – 2091 : The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Victory That Saved Ancient Greece Podcast Transcript In 480 BC, the most powerful empire on Earth set out to crush […]
Episode – 2035 : The Battle of Trafalgar
Episode – 2035 : The Battle of Trafalgar Podcast Transcript In 1805, an epic confrontation occurred off the southwest coast of Spain, resulting in one of the greatest naval battles […]
Episode – 1881 : The Republic of Pirates
Episode – 1881 : The Republic of Pirates Podcast Transcript Between 1706 and 1718, a group of pirates established a haven in the Bahamas. Using a system of rules that […]
Episode – 1558 : Rogue Waves
Episode – 1558 : Rogue Waves Podcast Transcript For centuries, sailors told tales of gigantic waves that they encountered at sea, and for centuries, scientists didn’t believe them. However, over […]
Episode – 1441 : The Danube River
Episode – 1441 : The Danube River Podcast Transcript Located in Central and Eastern Europe is one of the continent’s longest and most important rivers: the Danube. For thousands of […]
Episode – 1245 : Questions and Answers: Volume 13
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Episode – 1138 : The Silk Road
Episode – 1138 : The Silk Road Podcast Transcript Despite having very different cultures and being separated by thousands of kilometers, Asia and Europe have been connected for thousands of […]
Episode – 0861 : The Lighthouse of Alexandria
Episode – 0861 : The Lighthouse of Alexandria When Alexander the Great died, one of his generals and best friends, Ptolemy, took Alexander’s corpse and went to Egypt to establish […]
Episode – 0772 : The Pan-American Highway
Episode – 0772 : The Pan-American Highway Podcast Transcript At the 1923 Pan-American Conference, a proposal was presented to link together all of the countries of the Western Hemisphere. A […]
Episode – 0757 : The Strait of Malacca
Episode – 0757 : The Strait of Malacca Podcast Transcript As you probably know, the Earth consists of 70% water and 30% land. However, all those bits of water and […]
Episode – 0756 : The Sinking of the Bismarck
Episode – 0756 : The Sinking of the Bismarck Podcast Transcript Entering the second world war, Britain was still the top naval power in the world. While the British Navy […]
Episode – 0595 : The Kiel Mutiny
Episode – 0595 : The Kiel Mutiny Podcast Transcript In the last days of the first world war, an event occurred which resulted in the rapid collapse of the German […]
Episode – 0462 : USS Constitution
Episode – 0462 : USS Constitution Podcast Transcript On March 27, 1794, the United States Congress passed the Naval Act. The Naval Act authorized funding for six frigates which would […]
Episode – 0407 : The USS Indianapolis
Episode – 0407 : The USS Indianapolis Podcast Transcript There were tens of millions of stories to come out of World War II. Many of them are tales of horrible […]
Episode – 0055 : The Most Famous Song in the World
Episode – 0055 : The Most Famous Song in the World Transcript If there is one song almost everyone knows it is Happy Birthday to You (yes, that is the […]