Join us this week for the long and tragic story of Magellan and the first circumnavigation of the world.

Is the plural of Octopus, Ocotopi, Octopodes, or Octopuses? And what has that got to do with an ox cart? Well... it's complicated

Robert Liston, the fastest knife in the west. Who was he? Why did he kill so many people? What was his record 300% mortality? Listen to find out!

Happy New Year. HH will be returning soon

Dark Ages 2: the darkening.

Did you know that a lot of people in the world aren't from Europe?

Did the dark ages exist? No not really

From undigested sh*t to literal poison our ancestors had some funny ideas. But then maybe they aren't the only ones

There are a lot of... interesting personalities in politics. 

Edit: There are some historical errors in the Andrew Jackson entry which I am working on revising

In 1962 Ethiopia annexed Eritrea and things only went downhill from there

Does it work? Why do we do it? Did Benjamin Franklin invent it?