Moving up the Podcast this week a few days to release this special 9/11 episode.

The story of Rick Rescorla, the man who worked security at the South Tower of the World Trade Center in September of 2001.

Episode on the Vikings coming in two weeks!

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In this week’s episode we are going to focus on the work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory leading up to the Trinity Test, the world’s first explosion of a nuclear weapon.

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In this week’s episode we are going to look at the birth of the Manhattan project, and more specifically the moment where President Franklin Roosevelt made a crucial decision, similar to one that Napoleon failed to make hundreds of years before.

FDR recognized the convergence of necessity and genius and chose to take a risk by trusting men who had an idea that seemed to almost everyone else like a fantasy. And as a result of his decision, the world would move into a new nuclear age and never again be the same.

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In this second episode we are going to follow the classical world’s Ring of Power, the body of Alexander the Great, as it was handed from ruler to ruler and Empire to Empire until it mysteriously disappeared.

We will look at the effort to track down Alexander’s tomb that stretched over the next 2,000 years, and where the search had left us today.

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It's good to be back! Thanks for bearing with us this summer as we took some time to research and plan for this fall string of episodes. We promise to maintain consistency from here on out.  

In this episode we are going to start at the end of Alexander the Great’s life, looking at the death of the great conqueror and how quickly his achievements in empire building came crashing down after he was laid to rest. 

It's also a story that sets up one of history's greatest mysteries that we are excited to tackle - namely where does Alexander the Great lie, and what exactly happened to his tomb?

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Our story this week is going to center around the wild Sack of Panama that marked the high point of Henry Morgan’s career on the seas but also proved too great of an attack for even the British Crown to fully stand behind and justify. With this historic raid, which might have been the greatest ever undertaken by a Privateer or Pirate in the entire Golden age of Sail, Henry Morgan was going to push his own luck too far. 

As a result he would unintentionally change the public’s view of Privateers forever and bring the practice from its comfortable palace in the legal gray zone into a new territory of undisputed and outright criminal activity. In this process he would set the stage for an evolution in the status of Caribbean sea raiders and lay the groundwork for the emergence of the next generation of Pirates as the Enemies of All Mankind that we know best.

UPDATE: This will be the last episode until at least July (short break for some summer travel). We will be back soon with more weekly episodes!

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In This Episode we are going to follow the rise of one of histories most famous pirates, Captain Henry Morgan. His war against the Spanish for control of the Caribbean was one that almost brought the whole Spanish Empire in the New World down to its knees.

In the process, we will look at how the line between being considered a devoted patriot or a hated pirate might just depend on your perspective.

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In this episode we are going to share the mystery of D.B. Cooper, what we know from those who witnessed his daring skyjacking plot, along with the many details that are still speculation. I’ll also discuss whether we think Cooper might have managed to survive his dangerous jump, and of the over 800 suspects that were evaluated, which of these men could have been this phantom of the sky?

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A whole group of abolitionists would stare down imprisonment for charges stemming from the day they pulled Jane Johnson from bondage on the Phildelphia dock. Johnson herself would return to the public spotlight in an amazing display of courage and nobility.

In this episode, we will complete the story of two separate legal battles that happened nearly simultaneously. As Passmore Williamson and William Still both fought for justice in different cases related to the rescue of Jane Johnson, their story of sacrifice and courage lit a fire in the hearts of many Northerners and grew the abolitionist cause in a way nobody could have predicted.

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This week we tackle a more poignant topic, sharing the amazing story of an escaped enslaved woman named Jane Johnson and the man who risked everything to help her achieve her freedom, one of America’s greatest abolitionists, William Still.

The coming months of drama, which would be called “The Jane Johnson Affair” would become an incident that would exemplify the most heroic qualities of the abolition movement directly alongside the cruelty of those defending slavery. And, in the process, the whole country would entrench itself further one one side of the slavery issue or the other, creating an intractable conflict that would only be solved through the brutal and bloody Civil War.

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