https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/turning-points-world-history--7497629enHistoryCopyright Madin Misanhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2e6d9d14b1fe2054836961470ef248e8.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/turning-points-world-history--7497629Sun, 08 Nov 2026 02:00:31 +0000Madin MisanMadin Misanfeeds@spreaker.comTurning Points: World History — the moments everything changed. Volcanoes that erased cities, libraries that burned, and summers that never came. Hugo and Clara tell the great stories of world history with documented facts and cinematic storytelling,...falseed653b7d-abd7-5026-8ac7-de679b2ffc8cepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ditch-that-shrank-the-world--76238313https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76238313Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:59:31 +0000Madin MisanFor centuries, ships from London to Bombay had to sail all the way around Africa — until a ditch through the Egyptian desert cut seven thousand kilometres off the journey. A French diplomat who could not build a canal, a million and a half men who dug...568falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-night-alaska-turned-black--76238299https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76238299Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:54:37 +0000Madin MisanFour minutes past midnight, a ship the length of three football fields hit a reef every sailor in Alaska knew was there — and the captain was not on the bridge. Eleven million gallons of oil, a thousand miles of blackened coast, and the disaster that...594falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/73-seconds-the-day-challenger-fell--76238252https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76238252Sun, 08 Nov 2026 01:47:02 +0000Madin MisanSeventy-three seconds after liftoff, seven astronauts were gone — and the night before, the engineers had begged NASA not to launch. The story of a rubber ring, a freezing Florida morning, and the warning nobody heeded.680falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-night-a-stuck-valve-nearly-melted-pennsylvania--76236113https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76236113Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:57:59 +0000Madin MisanIt was four in the morning when a valve refused to close — and nobody in the control room knew it was stuck open. On March 28, 1979, a small mechanical failure at Three Mile Island turned into five days of national fear, a hundred and forty thousand...588falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-last-helicopter-out-of-saigon--76236097https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76236097Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:52:47 +0000Madin MisanA helicopter on a rooftop, a line of people climbing a ladder into the sky, and a city about to fall. On April 29–30, 1975, Operation Frequent Wind lifted more than seven thousand people out of Saigon in the largest helicopter evacuation in history —...496falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-photo-from-the-moon-that-changed-earth--76236049https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76236049Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:47:45 +0000Madin MisanWhat does home look like from a quarter of a million miles away? On Christmas Eve 1968, three astronauts found out — and the photograph they took changed how humanity sees itself. Apollo 8 was the first voyage to the Moon: Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and...514falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-landing-everyone-said-was-impossible--76232734https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76232734Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:00:39 +0000Madin MisanAt half past six in the morning, on the fifteenth of September, nineteen fifty, a fleet appeared off a Korean port no sane admiral would ever attack. Every expert said it could not be done. This is the story of the Inchon Landing, and the general who...493falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-did-america-pay-to-rebuild-the-countries-it-had-just-defeated--76232716https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76232716Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:55:33 +0000Madin MisanWhy would a country pay to rebuild the nations it had just defeated? On the fifth of June, nineteen forty seven, a quiet American general spoke for twelve minutes at Harvard, and offered a fortune to the countries America had just defeated. This is...496falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-trial-that-put-war-itself-on-trial--76232700https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76232700Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:51:56 +0000Madin MisanOn the sixteenth of October, nineteen forty six, ten men were hanged in a gymnasium in Nuremberg. But the most important man was not there. This is the story of the trial that put a war on trial, and changed international law forever.531falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-did-hitler-attack-when-the-war-was-already-lost--76232666https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76232666Sat, 07 Nov 2026 13:46:35 +0000Madin MisanWhy would a beaten dictator attack at all? On the sixteenth of December, nineteen forty four, Germany launched its last great offensive through the frozen Ardennes. This is the story of the Battle of the Bulge, the siege of Bastogne, and one word that...502falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sinking-of-the-bismarck-1941--76225220https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76225220Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:56:10 +0000Madin MisanIn May 1941, the most powerful battleship in the world went to sea for the first and last time. Eight days later she was at the bottom of the Atlantic — sunk by a torpedo from a biplane.557falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/commodore-perry-opens-japan-1853--76225199https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76225199Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:51:46 +0000Madin MisanIn July 1853, four black-hulled American warships steamed into Edo Bay — and without firing a shot, Commodore Matthew Perry ended two centuries of Japanese isolation.641falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-1854--76225180https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76225180Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:47:30 +0000Madin MisanOn 25 October 1854, six hundred and seventy-three British horsemen rode into the mouths of Russian cannon at Balaclava — victims of a misunderstood order, immortalized by Tennyson's poem.623falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-louisiana-purchase-1803--76219741https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76219741Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:57:07 +0000Madin MisanFifteen million dollars buys 828,000 square miles — about three cents an acre. How a failed Caribbean revolution, a river port, and two nervous American diplomats doubled the United States overnight.536falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-haitian-revolution-1791-1804--76219598https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76219598Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:52:11 +0000Madin MisanHalf a million enslaved people rise up, defeat the armies of three European empires, and build a nation of their own. The only successful slave revolution in history — and the country the world tried to forget.554falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boston-massacre-1770--76219481https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76219481Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:47:13 +0000Madin MisanFive men die on a snowy Boston street, and a street brawl becomes the story that helps start a revolution. The night of March 5, 1770, Paul Revere's famous engraving, and the patriot who defended the British soldiers.609falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-siege-of-vienna-1683--76210769https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76210769Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:02:10 +0000Madin MisanFor two months an Ottoman army of a hundred and fifty thousand men has besieged Vienna, and the city is nearly broken. Then, on the twelfth of September, sixteen eighty three, eighteen thousand horsemen led by three thousand Winged Hussars thunder...641falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-of-granada-1492--76210639https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76210639Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:57:06 +0000Madin MisanOn the second of January, fourteen ninety two, Boabdil rides out of the Alhambra and hands the keys of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella — ending seven hundred and eighty one years of Muslim rule in Spain, and opening a year that will also see the...574falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mongol-sack-of-baghdad-1258--76210567https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76210567Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:52:53 +0000Madin MisanIn thirteen days in February twelve fifty eight, Hulagu Khan and the largest Mongol army ever assembled destroy Baghdad — the richest city on earth, the centre of the Islamic Golden Age. The House of Wisdom burns, its books are thrown into the Tigris,...595falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sack-of-rome-410-ad--76210523https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76210523Fri, 06 Nov 2026 13:48:27 +0000Madin MisanOn the twenty-fourth of August, four hundred and ten, Alaric and the Visigoths walk through the Salarian Gate and loot the Eternal City for three days — the first time Rome has fallen to a foreign enemy in almost eight hundred years. A king who spent...694falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bell-s-first-telephone-call-1876--76201784https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76201784Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:58:23 +0000Madin MisanSix words down a wire: 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.' How Alexander Graham Bell turned a spilled bottle of acid into the telephone.489falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tet-offensive-1968--76201684https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76201684Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:54:42 +0000Madin MisanOn the night of Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, eighty thousand communist fighters attacked a hundred cities at once — and changed how America saw the war forever.497falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-suez-crisis-1956--76201647https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76201647Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:48:03 +0000Madin MisanIn 1956, Egypt's President Nasser seized the Suez Canal — and Britain, France and Israel secretly plotted to take it back. A week of war that ended an empire.532falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-berlin-airlift-1948-49--76197656https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76197656Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:59:17 +0000Madin MisanA city cut off from the world, an army of aeroplanes, and a pilot who dropped sweets from the sky. In 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin — and the Allies answered by feeding two and a half million people from the air.467falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-warsaw-uprising-1944--76197558https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76197558Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:51:55 +0000Madin MisanA city rose up against an empire, at an hour named for freedom, and fought for sixty-three days while the world watched and did not come. In August 1944, fifty thousand Poles with almost no weapons tried to free their own capital.507falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/midway-1942--76197517https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76197517Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:48:01 +0000Madin MisanFour days in the middle of the Pacific, a code that was never supposed to be broken, and five minutes that decided a war. In June 1942, American codebreakers turned a Japanese trap inside out, and four fleet carriers went to the bottom.554falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-battle-of-britain-1940--76191266https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76191266Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:08:41 +0000Madin MisanIn the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against a Luftwaffe three times the size of the RAF. Radar, the Dowding System, and a few hundred young pilots — the Few — stopped the invasion before it began.664falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-russian-revolution-1917--76191198https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76191198Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:03:53 +0000Madin MisanIn a single year, Russia lived through two revolutions: a tsar fell in a week, a government fell in a night, and a sealed train carried Lenin home to change the world. The story of February, October, and the empire turned upside down.584falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/verdun-1916--76191117https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76191117Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:55:33 +0000Madin MisanFor ten months in 1916, France and Germany fought over a fortress town on the River Meuse in the longest battle of the First World War. Falkenhayn planned to bleed France white — instead, Verdun bled both sides, and became a symbol of endurance.594falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-christmas-truce-1914--76191009https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76191009Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:47:06 +0000Madin MisanOn Christmas Eve 1914, soldiers on the Western Front stopped shooting, sang carols across no man's land, and met their enemies face to face. The truce was unofficial, uneven, and never repeated — and it remains one of the most human moments of the...627falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-assassination-of-archduke-franz-ferdinand-1914--76183447https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76183447Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:01:28 +0000Madin MisanTwo shots in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie — and within a month, a Balkan quarrel had become a world war.574falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-san-francisco-earthquake-1906--76183428https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76183428Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:57:24 +0000Madin MisanAt 5:12 a.m. on 18 April 1906, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake shattered San Francisco, and the fires that followed destroyed more than 80 percent of the city — yet the city refused to die.495falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/trafalgar-1805--76183381https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76183381Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:45:38 +0000Madin MisanOn 21 October 1805, Nelson's outnumbered fleet broke the rules of naval warfare off Cape Trafalgar, winning Britain command of the sea at the cost of his own life.611falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-storming-of-the-bastille-1789--76179626https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76179626Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:59:14 +0000Madin MisanA fortress that held just seven prisoners, a crowd that wanted gunpowder, and the afternoon that became the symbol of a revolution.568falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-spanish-armada-1588--76179606https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76179606Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:55:39 +0000Madin MisanThe greatest fleet Spain ever built sailed to conquer England — and met fire, English guns, and terrible storms on the long way home.585falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/columbus-reaches-the-americas-1492--76179577https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76179577Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:47:57 +0000Madin MisanThree small ships, a miscalculation about the size of the Earth, and a landfall that joined Europe and the Americas forever — for good and for ill.604falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/joan-of-arc-at-orleans-1429--76175296https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76175296Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:18:26 +0000Madin MisanIn the spring of 1429, a teenage peasant girl rode into the besieged city of Orléans — and in nine days the siege collapsed, a king was crowned, and the Hundred Years' War turned. This is the story of the Maid of Orléans.500falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/agincourt-1415--76175120https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76175120Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:04:16 +0000Madin MisanOn 25 October 1415, a sick, hungry English army stood in the mud at Agincourt against a far larger French force — and won one of history's most famous victories. This is the story of the longbow, the stakes, and the king's gamble.529falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-viking-raid-on-lindisfarne-793--76175032https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76175032Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:54:59 +0000Madin MisanIn the summer of 793, Norse raiders struck the holy island monastery of Lindisfarne off Northumbria — and Europe discovered it was no longer safe from the sea. This is how one raid opened the Viking Age and sent shockwaves through Christendom.498falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-of-rome-476-ad--76175008https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76175008Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:51:08 +0000Madin MisanOn 4 September 476, a boy emperor laid down his crown in Ravenna and the Western Roman Empire is conventionally said to have ended. But Rome did not fall in a day — this is the long story behind that day, from divided emperors and sacked cities to the...543falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-wall-of-china--76165126https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76165126Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:56:23 +0000Madin MisanNot one wall but two thousand years of walls: from rammed-earth frontier lines to the Ming dynasty's great brick serpent. This is the story of the Great Wall of China — who built it, what it cost, and why it outlived the empire it was meant to defend.541falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke-1590--76165103https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76165103Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:52:19 +0000Madin MisanIn August 1590, Governor John White returned to Roanoke Island to find his colony gone: houses dismantled, no bodies, no battle, and a single word carved into a post — CROATOAN. This is the story of America's oldest mystery, and what the evidence...598falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/mount-st-helens-erupts-1980--76165061https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76165061Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:45:44 +0000Madin MisanOn a clear Sunday morning in May 1980, the north face of Mount St. Helens collapsed in the largest landslide ever recorded, unleashing a sideways blast that remade the landscape and killed fifty-seven people. This is the story of the mountain that...529falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-declaration-of-independence-1776--76160925https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76160925Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:59:10 +0000Madin MisanThirteen colonies, a committee of five, and a young Virginian with a pen. How the Declaration of Independence was written, what it really said, and why its promise outgrew the men who signed it.490falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/thermopylae-480-bc--76160907https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76160907Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:55:26 +0000Madin MisanThree hundred Spartans, seven thousand allies, and three days in a narrow pass between mountain and sea. The legend, the record, and why a defeat at Thermopylae helped save Greece.499falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/penicillin-1928--76160850https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76160850Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:47:51 +0000Madin MisanA mould on a forgotten dish in a London laboratory became the first antibiotic — and changed what it means to be sick. From Alexander Fleming's messy bench to the Oxford team that turned a curiosity into a cure, this is how penicillin saved millions...495falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-race-to-the-south-pole-1911-12--76155102https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76155102Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:57:53 +0000Madin MisanTwo teams, one frozen prize: Amundsen's dogs and discipline against Scott's ponies and pride. How Norway reached the South Pole first on 14 December 1911 — and why Scott's five men never came home.511falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mayflower-voyage-1620--76155075https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76155075Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:53:59 +0000Madin MisanSixty-six days in a wine ship's dark lower deck, a cracked beam, a baby born at sea — and a two-hundred-word promise signed aboard ship that became a founding idea of self-government. The story of the Mayflower's voyage to Plymouth.528falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-assassination-of-john-f-kennedy-1963--76155024https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76155024Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:49:53 +0000Madin MisanOn 22 November 1963, three shots in Dealey Plaza killed a president in daylight — and the accused killer was murdered on live television two days later. What is proven about Dallas, what is only claimed, and how it changed America.495falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-hindenburg-disaster-1937--76154990https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76154990Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:45:54 +0000Madin MisanOn 6 May 1937, the largest flying machine ever built burned in about thirty seconds over Lakehurst, New Jersey — and the age of the airship ended on camera. The story of the Hindenburg, the hydrogen gamble behind her, and the thirty-six lives lost.526falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cuban-missile-crisis-1962-thirteen-days-on-the-brink--76145908https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76145908Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:54:35 +0000Madin MisanThe Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 — U-2 photographs, Kennedy's quarantine, Black Saturday, and the secret deal that pulled the world back from nuclear war.491falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-panama-canal-1904-14-digging-through-a-continent--76145896https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76145896Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:50:45 +0000Madin MisanThe Panama Canal, from the failed French attempt to the American triumph of 1914 — mosquitoes, the Culebra Cut, Gatun Lake, and the waterway that joined two oceans.512falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/stalingrad-1942-43-the-battle-that-turned-the-war--76145864https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76145864Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:46:17 +0000Madin MisanThe Battle of Stalingrad, from the German advance in the summer of 1942 to the surrender of the Sixth Army in February 1943 — street fighting on the Volga, Operation Uranus, and the turning point of the Eastern Front.497falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-magna-carta-1215--76141839https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76141839Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:56:02 +0000Madin MisanAt Runnymede in June 1215, King John's barons forced him to seal a charter declaring that even a king is not above the law. This is how a failed peace treaty became the foundation of constitutional government.503falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/yuri-gagarin-the-first-human-in-space--76141820https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76141820Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:51:29 +0000Madin MisanOn 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin rode Vostok 1 around the Earth in 108 minutes and became the first human in space. This is how a secret flight from Baikonur opened the age of crewed spaceflight.487falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/waterloo-the-day-an-empire-ended--76141686https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76141686Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:46:16 +0000Madin MisanOn 18 June 1815, Napoleon faced Wellington and Blücher on a muddy ridge in Belgium. This is how one day of battle ended twenty years of war and sent an emperor into exile for the last time.495falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-discovery-of-tutankhamun-s-tomb--76135603https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76135603Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:58:23 +0000Madin MisanIn November 1922, Howard Carter peered through a hole in a sealed doorway and saw 'wonderful things': the near-intact tomb of a forgotten boy king. More than 5,000 treasures, a golden mask, and a curse legend that does not survive the evidence.508falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gutenberg-and-the-printing-press--76135539https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76135539Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:54:10 +0000Madin MisanAround 1440, a goldsmith in Mainz built a machine that made books cheap, reliable, and repeatable for the first time. From the magnificent 42-line Bible to Luther's pamphlets and the Scientific Revolution, this is how movable type put knowledge into...478falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-assassination-of-julius-caesar--76135523https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76135523Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:50:15 +0000Madin MisanOn the Ides of March, 44 BC, Julius Caesar was stabbed twenty-three times by senators led by Brutus and Cassius. Meant to save the Roman Republic, the murder instead destroyed it, setting off civil war and clearing the way for the first emperor.549falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/d-day-the-longest-day--76135458https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76135458Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:45:46 +0000Madin MisanOn 6 June 1944, nearly 160,000 Allied troops stormed five beaches in Normandy in the largest seaborne invasion in history. From the airborne drops before dawn to the bloodshed at Omaha Beach, this is the story of the day that opened the second front...525falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-emu-war-of-1932--76103947https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76103947Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:53:30 +0000Madin MisanIn 1932 the Australian Army went to war against twenty thousand emus — with machine guns. It lost. Hugo and Clara tell the story of the Wheatbelt farmers, Major Meredith's two Lewis guns, and the birds that outran an army.488falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-children-s-crusade-of-1212--76103878https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76103878Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:50:08 +0000Madin MisanIn 1212, thousands marched toward the Holy Land in what history remembers as the Children's Crusade. But the famous story of slave ships and a parted sea is mostly legend — the real events, and the real tragedy, were stranger. Hugo and Clara separate...631falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/black-thursday-and-the-1929-crash--76101034https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76101034Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:57:51 +0000Madin MisanOn October 24, 1929, the richest country on Earth discovered in a single morning that its money was built on air. This is the story of Black Thursday, the bankers who tried to stop the panic, and the crash that became the Great Depression.656falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mary-celeste-the-ghost-ship-of-1872--76101000https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76101000Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:53:28 +0000Madin MisanIn December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was found sailing the Atlantic with her sails set, her cargo untouched, and not a soul on board. This is the story of the ten people who vanished, the inquiry that chased a crime that never happened, and...597falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-princes-in-the-tower-england-s-coldest-case--76100942https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76100942Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:49:16 +0000Madin MisanIn the summer of 1483, two royal boys walked into the Tower of London and were never seen again. This is the story of Edward V and his brother Richard, the uncles and kings accused of their disappearance, and the mystery that has lasted more than five...680falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/apollo-13-the-successful-failure--76098788https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76098788Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:57:29 +0000Madin MisanIn April 1970, an oxygen tank exploded two hundred thousand miles from Earth, and Apollo 13's Moon landing became a fight for survival. This is the story of the lifeboat, the square peg in the round hole, and the rescue NASA calls a successful failure.520falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-siege-of-leningrad-eight-hundred-and-seventy-two-days--76098767https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76098767Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:53:31 +0000Madin MisanFrom September 1941 to January 1944, Leningrad endured 872 days of blockade, starvation and bitter cold — and never surrendered. This is the story of the Road of Life, the symphony played to starving musicians, and the price of endurance.489falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-alamo-thirteen-days-that-forged-a-legend--76098693https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76098693Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:49:54 +0000Madin MisanIn February 1836, fewer than three hundred defenders held the Alamo Mission against Santa Anna's army for thirteen days. This is the story of the siege, the final assault, and the line between the real history and the legend that followed.573falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-year-536-the-worst-year-to-be-alive--76098681https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76098681Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:45:38 +0000Madin MisanIn 536, a volcanic eruption dimmed the sun for eighteen months, harvests failed across three continents, and plague followed. This is the story of the year historians call the worst to be alive — and how ice cores finally solved its mystery.521falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-transcontinental-railroad--76093959https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76093959Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:00:11 +0000Madin MisanOn 10 May 1869, a golden spike at Promontory Summit joined America coast to coast. The race across the plains, the Sierra tunnels, the workers written out of the photographs, and the price paid by Native peoples.579falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-of-tenochtitlan--76093901https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76093901Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:54:46 +0000Madin MisanIn 1521, after a seventy-five-day siege, the island capital of the Mexica fell to Cortés and his indigenous allies. Starvation, smallpox, and war on the lake ended an empire — and reshaped a continent.589falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-fire-of-london--76093880https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76093880Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:49:03 +0000Madin MisanIn September 1666, a spark in a Pudding Lane bakery became a firestorm that destroyed most of the old City of London in five days. How a timber city burned, why the firebreaks came too late, and how Christopher Wren rebuilt the capital in brick and stone.652falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/gettysburg-three-days-in-july--76091021https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76091021Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:59:18 +0000Madin MisanFrom 1 to 3 July 1863, some 160,000 soldiers fought at Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. This is the story of Little Round Top, Pickett's Charge, and the speech that gave the battle its meaning.708falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dancing-plague-of-1518-strasbourg-s-strange-summer--76090912https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76090912Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:53:27 +0000Madin MisanIn July 1518, a woman in Strasbourg began dancing in the street and could not stop — and within weeks hundreds joined her. This is the story of the dancing plague, the city's disastrous cure, and what modern historians think really happened.619falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pearl-harbor-the-morning-america-went-to-war--76090891https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76090891Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:47:59 +0000Madin MisanOn 7 December 1941, a surprise Japanese attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor killed 2,403 Americans and pulled the United States into the Second World War. This is the story of that morning, the ships and people caught in it, and why the...660falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sinking-of-the-lusitania--76086104https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76086104Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:59:21 +0000Madin MisanOn 7 May 1915 a single torpedo sank the Lusitania off Ireland in eighteen minutes, killing about 1,198 people — and turning American opinion against Germany.467falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-molasses-flood--76086077https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76086077Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:55:22 +0000Madin MisanIn January 1919 a Boston molasses tank burst and sent a sticky wave through the North End, killing 21 people — and forcing America to take engineering safety seriously.470falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rosetta-stone-and-the-race-to-read-egypt--76086051https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76086051Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:51:32 +0000Madin MisanA broken black slab found in a fort wall in 1799 held the same decree in three scripts — and gave Jean-François Champollion the key to read ancient Egypt after fourteen silent centuries.500falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lisbon-earthquake--76086010https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76086010Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:45:43 +0000Madin MisanOn All Saints Day 1755, an earthquake, a tsunami and days of fire destroyed Lisbon — and changed how Europe thought about nature, God and science.479falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-california-gold-rush--76078384https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76078384Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:57:43 +0000Madin MisanOn 24 January 1848 James Marshall spotted gold at Sutter's Mill. Within years 300,000 fortune-seekers transformed California into a state — and changed the American West forever.571falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-battle-of-hastings--76078369https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76078369Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:53:33 +0000Madin MisanOn 14 October 1066, William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson met on a ridge near Hastings. One day of fighting ended Anglo-Saxon England and remade its language, laws and ruling class.650falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dust-bowl-and-black-sunday--76078359https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76078359Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:49:17 +0000Madin MisanOn 14 April 1935 a thousand-foot wall of dust turned midday black across the Great Plains. How ploughed-up prairie, drought and wind created the Dust Bowl, drove millions from their farms, and changed American farming forever.606falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tunguska-event--76075263https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76075263Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:00:16 +0000Madin MisanOn 30 June 1908, an explosion over remote Siberia flattened some 2,000 square kilometres of forest, yet left no crater. This is the story of the fireball, Leonid Kulik's expeditions, and the airburst that taught humanity the sky can strike without...505falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lewis-and-clark-expedition--76075218https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76075218Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:54:32 +0000Madin MisanIn 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from St. Louis to map the Louisiana Purchase and reach the Pacific. With Sacagawea as guide and interpreter, the Corps of Discovery crossed the Rockies and returned in 1806, changing America's map...525falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-siege-of-malta--76075173https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76075173Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:48:40 +0000Madin MisanIn the summer of 1565, a few thousand Knights Hospitaller and Maltese defenders held Malta against an Ottoman army of around forty thousand. This is the story of Fort St Elmo, the walls of Birgu, and the siege that halted an empire's advance.570falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-salem-witch-trials--76069534https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76069534Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:06:28 +0000Madin MisanIn 1692, fear and a court that admitted spectral evidence send nineteen people to the gallows in Salem, Massachusetts. How the accusations began, why they spread, and how the trials finally collapsed.510falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/hannibal-crosses-the-alps--76069467https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76069467Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:00:11 +0000Madin MisanIn 218 BC, Hannibal marches from Spain over the Alps with thirty-seven war elephants to strike Rome from the north. The fifteen-day crossing, its terrible cost, and the victories that followed.489falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-donner-party--76069369https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76069369Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:54:31 +0000Madin MisanIn 1846, eighty-seven pioneers take a supposed shortcut to California and are trapped by early snow in the Sierra Nevada. The chain of decisions, the winter at Donner Lake, and the rescues that finally brought survivors out.455falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-black-death-reaches-europe--76069319https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76069319Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:48:23 +0000Madin MisanIn 1347, plague ships from Kaffa reach Messina, Sicily, and Europe is transformed within a few years. How the Black Death spread, why it killed so many, and how labour, farming, and faith changed in its wake.507falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-apollo-11-landing--76058900https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76058900Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:56:46 +0000Madin MisanEight days, a quarter of a million miles, and twelve heart-stopping minutes — how Apollo 11 put the first humans on the Moon.547falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/chernobyl-the-night-reactor-four-exploded--76058835https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76058835Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:51:59 +0000Madin MisanA routine safety test, a hidden design flaw, and a fire that exposed an empire's secrets — the night Reactor Four exploded and changed the world.543falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boston-tea-party--76058810https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76058810Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:46:42 +0000Madin MisanOn a cold December night in 1773, colonists dumped a fortune in tea into Boston Harbor — and turned a tax argument into the road to revolution.563falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-of-constantinople--76055416https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76055416Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:59:06 +0000Madin MisanIn the spring of 1453, Sultan Mehmed II brought giant cannon against walls that had stood for a thousand years, and hauled ships overland into the Golden Horn. Hugo and Clara tell the fifty-three-day siege, the final assault, and how one morning...592falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-great-chicago-fire--76055377https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76055377Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:54:44 +0000Madin MisanIn October 1871, a dry, wooden Chicago burned for thirty hours, leaving three hundred dead and one hundred thousand homeless. Hugo and Clara separate the legend of Mrs. O'Leary's cow from the facts, and tell how the city rebuilt itself taller, in...492falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-eruption-of-krakatoa--76055327https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76055327Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:50:44 +0000Madin MisanIn August 1883, the island of Krakatoa tore itself apart in the loudest sound in recorded history, sending tsunamis across the Sunda Strait and red sunsets around the world. Hugo and Clara tell the story of the explosion, the waves, and the sky it...525falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-first-flight-at-kitty-hawk--76049340https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76049340Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:54:53 +0000Madin MisanOn December 17, 1903, two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, flew a powered machine under control for 12 seconds and 120 feet at Kitty Hawk — then did it three more times, the longest lasting 59 seconds and covering 852 feet.586falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall--76049300https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76049300Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:50:55 +0000Madin MisanOn November 9, 1989, East German spokesman Günter Schabowski told a live press conference that new travel rules took effect 'immediately, without delay' — and within hours crowds poured through the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint, ending 28 years of...564falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-night-lincoln-was-shot--76049245https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76049245Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:46:41 +0000Madin MisanOn April 14, 1865, five days after Lee's surrender, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre — part of a triple plot against the top of the US government. How one evening robbed America of the leader who might have managed victory wisely.670falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-titanic-s-last-night--76047131https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76047131Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:03:36 +0000Madin MisanThe chain of small decisions that doomed the unsinkable ship in April 1912: the ice warnings, the missing binoculars, the five compartments, the half-empty lifeboats, and the ship that watched from the horizon.498falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1816-the-year-without-a-summer--75997104https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75997104Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:22:46 +0000Madin MisanA volcano in Indonesia exploded in 1815, and the next year summer never came: June snow in New England, famine from Ireland to China, and a teenage girl in a gloomy Swiss villa inventing Frankenstein. Hugo and Clara trace how one eruption froze the world.302falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/who-really-killed-the-library-of-alexandria--75996993https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75996993Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:18:25 +0000Madin MisanEveryone blames one great fire. The truth is slower and colder: Caesar's dock fire, purged scholars, cut funding, and seven centuries of neglect. Hugo and Clara investigate how the ancient world's greatest library actually died.298falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-day-pompeii-vanished--75996930https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75996930Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:08:55 +0000Madin MisanIn 79 AD, Vesuvius erased a Roman city in a single day, and accidentally preserved it forever: bread in the ovens, graffiti on the walls, and plaster figures frozen mid-motion. Hugo and Clara relive the eruption through the letters of a...302falsefull