Before the Ideas of March, before he crossed the Rubicon, and before he became Rome’s dictator...
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Every year on March 14, the world celebrates one of the most important mathematical constants:...
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Before the development of electricity and electrical communications, the fastest information...
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The United States federal agency charged with gathering foreign intelligence is the Central...
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Behind almost every web page, email, and podcast is a system that translates addresses...
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Every military in the world is a hierarchal organization. There are people at the top who make...
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Every year, around this time, people who live in northern latitude countries turn their clocks...
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The Legend of Ned Kelly (Encore)
In the late 19th century, the American frontier became famous for its outlaws and gangsters. Men...
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Nestled in the heart of West Africa lie two nations with distinct identities yet tied together by...
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One of the most important advancements in the 20th century was the identification of the...
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The History of Postal Delivery (Encore)
Since humans began to adopt writing systems, they also created systems for passing along written...
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In 1804, one of the most significant individuals of the 19th century placed a crown upon his head...
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Approximately 700 years ago, something happened to the Earth’s climate. The world started to...
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Questions and Answers: Volume 16
Several centuries ago, many places celebrated the start of the new year in March, not January....
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Some of the most important battles in history, the ones that changed the course of civilizations,...
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Once every 1461 days, sometimes, we have a day on the calendar that we don’t normally have....
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Listen Now: The Cat in the Hat Cast
Hold on tight and prepare to be whisked away on a weekly adventure with Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in...
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What Were The First and Second Reichs? (Encore)
When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, he declared his new regime to be The Third Reich and...
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The history of warfare has been a history of measures and countermeasures. When the airplane...
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Most people in the world are required to have a passport when they travel internationally....
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