596 Episodes

  1. Episode 36: Queen Zenobia

    Published: 3/3/2019
  2. Episode 35: The Spanish Armada

    Published: 2/24/2019
  3. Episode 34: Mary Anning

    Published: 2/17/2019
  4. Episode 33: Caligula, the Mad Roman Emperor

    Published: 2/10/2019
  5. Episode 32: Andrée’s Arctic Balloon Expedition

    Published: 2/3/2019
  6. Episode 31: Thomas Midgley, Jr.

    Published: 1/27/2019
  7. Episode 30: Vlad the Impaler

    Published: 1/20/2019
  8. Episode 29: The Mary Celeste

    Published: 1/13/2019
  9. Episode 28: Wu Zetian, Empress of China

    Published: 1/6/2019
  10. Episode 27: Wilhelm II, the Last German Emperor

    Published: 12/30/2018
  11. Episode 26: The Cadaver Synod

    Published: 12/23/2018
  12. Episode 25: The Defenestrations of Prague

    Published: 12/16/2018
  13. Episode 24: Lord Timothy Dexter, the Whacko Entrepreneur

    Published: 12/9/2018
  14. Episode 23: Georg Elser and his Plot to Kill Hitler

    Published: 12/2/2018
  15. Episode 22: Jeanne de Clisson, Lioness of Brittany

    Published: 11/25/2018
  16. Episode 21: Ned Kelly, Part 2

    Published: 11/18/2018
  17. Episode 20: Ned Kelly, Part 1

    Published: 11/11/2018
  18. Episode 19: Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I

    Published: 11/4/2018
  19. Episode 18: Léo Major

    Published: 10/28/2018
  20. Episode 17: The Mongol Conquest of Khwarezmia

    Published: 10/21/2018

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