The History of Soft Drinks
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Podcast Transcript One of the most popular categories of beverage in the world today is soft drinks. Soft drinks can be found almost everywhere in every country, from corner stores to restaurants to vending machines.  Unlike other popular beverages, soft drinks are a rather recent invention, despite there being early antecedents to soft drinks that ..read more
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The Iran Hostage Crisis
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Podcast Transcript On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian Revolutionaries stormed the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and took 66 American diplomats and citizens hostage.  Over the next 444 days, the hostage crisis dominated the news and became the single biggest foreign policy issue for both the United States and Iran.  Even after the ..read more
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The Five Families and How Organized Crime Became Organized
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Podcast Transcript Organized crime wasn’t always so organized.  In the early 20th century, in New York, what we would call the mafia was rather unorganized. There were competing groups, and while the individual groups had an organization, there was anarchy among them.  From 1929 to 1931 there was a war between some of the crime ..read more
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Questions and Answers: Volume 27
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Podcast Transcript February is the shortest month of the year. It is the flex month, where we stick extra days to make the calendar work.  Depending on what hemisphere you are in, it can be a month of warmth and sunshine or a month of short days and cold weather.  But it is also a ..read more
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The Battle of Stalingrad
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Podcast Transcript From August 1942 to February 1943, the Germans and the Soviets engaged in what would become the most brutal and bloodiest battle in human history. The battle took place in a city that probably had greater psychological and propaganda value than it did actual strategic value. The battle, in many respects, was the ..read more
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The Cambridge Five Spy Ring
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Podcast Transcript In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community was rocked by a series of high-profile defections to the Soviet Union.  These defections proved to be devastating to British intelligence during the Cold War and may have led to the death or imprisonment of hundreds of undercover British operatives.  These defections changed Western ..read more
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The World’s Next New Countries
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Podcast Transcript Depending on how you define it, there are about 193 to 200 countries in the world today.  Over the last 100 years, that number has been constantly increasing. Sometimes, the number goes up a lot in short periods of time, and other times, there might be decades between the creation of a new ..read more
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Beijing: Exploring 3,000 Years of History
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2w ago
Podcast Transcript Located in Northern China is not only one of the largest cities in the world but also the capital of the largest country in the world, Beijing.  Like many great cities, Beijing has had its ups and downs. It has gone from a sleepy village to a global city. It has seen its ..read more
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Performance Enhancing Drugs and Substances
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Podcast Transcript One of the biggest controversies in the world of sports over the last several decades has been the use of performance-enhancing drugs and substances, or PEDs.  It seems as if there hasn’t been a single sport that hasn’t been touched in some way by the use of PEDs.  But what exactly are PEDs ..read more
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The Worst Day in Human History:  January 23, 1556
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Podcast Transcript Humanity has seen a lot of bad things throughout its history. There have been horrific wars, natural disasters, and pandemics that have killed millions of people.  Many of these awful events were awful over a period of weeks, months, or years.  It raises the question, what was the worst single day in history ..read more
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