💥 April 19th marks the anniversary since Lord Byron's death.

💥 In this episode, we compare the 🇬🇷Greek-loving poet Byron 🇬🇧 and the 🇹🇷 Turkish-loving writer Pierre Loti 🇲🇫

* Did the gods Athena and Poseidon get their revenge in the 1800s?

* How did a man who inspired a famous opera become a villain in Greek history?

* Was Byron a true hero of the revolution, or just a bored aristocrat?

* Why did a French officer feel more at home in a fake mosque?

* Why did Lord Byron give his life for a reality that Pierre Loti tried to ignore?

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💥**How did a 6th-century church defined architecture for the next 1,000 years?

**Did the Greeks build the world’s largest dome 1,800 years before Hagia Sophia?

**Which European church "stole" the title of the largest church from Hagia Sophia?

**Which modern mosque changed the Istanbul skyline just a few years ago? and

**Which is really the biggest church in the world?

💥Stick around until the end, because I’m going to reveal the building that actually holds the world records today, and you won't believe where it is!

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💥 Let's see what Greeks and Romans said about Jesus before the Gospels..

* Why is the earliest known drawing of the Crucifixion actually a cruel piece of "wall art"?

* How did a spelling error prove that "Christ" was already known in Rome soon after his death?

* What was so "deadly" about a group that met at dawn to sing hymns and promised never to lie, steal, or cheat?

* How did a Greek philosopher's book written to destroy the memory of Jesus actually become the reason his own name survived history?

👉🏻 Easter episode: https://pod.fo/e/2c7e1c

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💥A two-part Korea series starts with K-Pop Demon Hunters... and ends with a war!

💥 Two countries, 8,000 kilometers apart, ended up living the same Cold War script: civil war, foreign intervention, and dictatorships wrapped in the language of 'freedom'.

Part 1 👇🏻

https://pod.fo/e/35027a

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* Why did naked men chase women with goat-skin thongs?

* Could a birth control plant be the reason why we draw hearts the way we do today?

* Is your 'soulmate' just a fix for a wound caused by Zeus?

* Why did the Greeks fear Eros as a dangerous 'madness'?

* Where can you find the real relics of Saint Valentine?

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💥 Honouring International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this is the second part about the Jews in Greece.

👉🏻 Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/365d7a

♦️Were Jews and Greeks the ancestors of all Europeans?

♦️ How did a Greek city become the largest Jewish city in the world?

♦️What Jewish names echo the Spanish Inquisition?

♦️What put the Jewish community against the Greeks under Turkish rule?

* Think the Christmas tree is a modern tradition?

* What if I told you the ancient Athenians were hanging "gifts" on olive branches thousands of years ago?

* How does this custom connect with the Minotaur and a bowl of bean soup?

** Other Christmas episodes:

https://pod.fo/e/2c2018

https://pod.fo/e/2c2017

*** My list with Greek Christmas carols and songs:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7EVoi7a4ZbuWxOaL86HXMl?si=9cIzbSEFQ5K7BvAy3KK7Mg&pi=gJ60k9VYS667D

💥 This is part 1 about the Jews in Greece.

👉🏻 Part 2: https://pod.fo/e/380dcc

* How did a Jewish holiday become a celebration of resisting Greek cancel culture?

* Was the first Jewish-Greek war fought over a statue of Zeus?

* What was the "little horn" that terrified the Greek empire? and

* Why did some Jewish men try to surgically reverse their circumcision?

💥The new movie Nuremberg has everyone talking about Hermann Göring.

In this episode, we break down the historical truth behind his family's dark legacy, Russell Crowe's portrayal and why the trials ignored Greece.

♦️ Did Hitler sound like you think he did?

♦️ Was Russell Crowe’s Göring historically accurate?

♦️ Which other Axis powers were deliberately left out?

♦️ Why did the Big Four Allies ignore Greece's debt?

💥 The new and final season just started!

♦️ Did a medieval monk name the Demogorgon?

♦️ What scene echoes the Odyssey?

♦️ Is Will Byers a hero, a victim, or is he the key to the ancient Greek underworld?

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👉🏻 My Synth music list:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11B3P2CSEBZpvtw09PEqrM?si=o34Kf0p2RkC-G57dkNmdrA

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