Casual History

From a trove of Faberge eggs to Nazi-stolen gold dumped in the lake, these supposedly missing items have captured the imagination of explorers worldwide. But are they the stuff of fantasy? Today we discuss the mysteries surrounding Lake Toplitz.. 

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- CH 

The Battle Of The Pyramids, also called The Battle Of Embabeh, was a military engagement in which Napoleon and his French troops captured Cairo. His victory was attributed to the implementation of one significant tactical innovation, the massive divisional square.. 

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- CH 

The real life exploits of Leonidas of Sparta and his 300 warriors at Thermopylae have given rise to various myths and legends of the spartan superhero. The supremely disciplined man of few words who had a body of steel and could endure any hardship and would fight to his last breath. Today we dive into the Spartan empire and the legend of Leonidas.. 

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New deep dive episodes every Sunday.

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As the second largest body of fresh water in the entire United States, Lake Okeechobe stretches over seven hundred square miles of land in Florida. 

There is a darker history to lake Okeechobee that most are blissfully unaware of.. 

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- CH 

A man born in rural Europe almost took an entire empire by himself. Today we learn the story of Hernán Cortés conquering the Aztecs.. 

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- CH 

When Eric Lawes set off for a field in Hoxne Village, on November 16th 1992, it wasn't on a treasure hunt. The metal detector he'd received as a retirement gift was meant to find a hammer lost on the farmland. But the detector picked up a strong signal in the earth, leading Lawes to start digging, and it quickly became apparent that he had indeed found buried treasure.. 

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- Ch

Genghis Khan, a name synonymous with barbaric cruelty and conquest. 800 years ago he created the greatest army the world has ever known , wielding it with tactical brilliance to lay claim to the largest empire in world history. No other man, not even Napoleon or Hitler even came close to the level of success in conquest. Today we discuss the life of Genghis Khan.. 

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- CH

The 15th Amendment granted black men the right to vote under the law, but exercising that right became another challenge.. 

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July 20th 1944 was a sweltering day at Germany's eastern front headquarters, near the town then known as Rostenburg, East Prussia. 

Weather is always a factor in war but even though there were no battles that night, the unpleasant heat would alter the course of history. 

Today we discuss the plot to assassinate Hitler. 

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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Germans bombed a key Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking 17 ships and killing more than 1,000 American and British servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise World War 2 air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if Hitler resorted to gas warfare.

The strike, which released a poisonous cloud of sulfur mustard vapor over the harbor—and liquid mustard into the water—prompted an Allied cover-up of the chemical weapons disaster. But it also led to an army doctor’s serendipitous discovery of a new treatment for cancer.

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