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In a previous episode, I spoke about the Drake equation and the odds of there being intelligent extr
In 1844, the Philological Society of London began investigating the creation of a new English dictio
What did the first Chinese Emperor Qin, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Gengis Kahn, the Queen o
Beginning in 1801, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the Earl of Elgin, began a project
In the mid-19th century, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis advocated for an incredibly si
The planet Mercury is the smallest, fastest, and most pot-marked planet in our solar system. It is i
San Francisco Bay is one of the largest and best natural harbors in the world. The entrance to the h
In 1816, the world experienced something that it had never seen before. All over the Northern Hemisp
Sometime around the year 95, a man who called himself John wrote what became known as the Book of Re
In the year 2000, people in Japan were polled and asked what the greatest Japanese creation of the 2
In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States detonated nuclear bombs on land, on the water, underground
When the Austro-Hungarian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated it set off a chain reaction res
Divided between Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian West Bank lies the lowest point on the surface o
For several hundred years, the British navy was the most powerful in the world. One of the things wh
If you’ve ever seen a sculpture or an ancient coin of a Roman Emperor, you probably have noticed tha
Fritz Haber is unquestionably one of the greatest chemists in history. He was a Nobel prize winner a
In the 1970s NASA embarked on a mission it had never attempted before. Due to a fortunate alignment
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There are tens of millions of stories to come out of World War II. Many of them are tales of horribl
If you were to call someone a snake oil salesman, it usually means they are trying to defraud someon
