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The tower of the New Town Hall in Prague from where the first defenestration of Prague took place.

Podcast Episode 77 l The Defenestrations of Prague

Have you heard of the Defenestration of Prague? First of all, how cool is the word defenestration? It means throwing someone out of the window and it happened three times in Prague's history. Listen t...

La Venta Monument 1, c. 1960

Podcast Episode 76 l The Olmec Heads

The Americas have been traditionally considered new territories with civilisations not as old as the rest of the world. Even so, we find fascinating signs of varying cultures in both north and south A...

Ruth Belville 1908

Podcast Episode 75 l The Greenwich Time Lady

In late 19th-century and early 20th-century Britain, time itself was a commodity up for sale. In a world before smartphones and atomic clocks, a remarkable woman known as Ruth Belville sold time to t...

Baumhaus an der Mauer (Treehouse on the Wall): Bethaniendamm 23, 10997 Berlin

Podcast Episode 74 l The Berlin Wall Treehouse

Osman Kalin, the man behind the Treehouse, was a Turkish worker who had come to Berlin in search of a better life. Undeterred by the restrictions and tensions of the divided city, he found solace in a...

berlin wall, iron curtain, cold war

Podcast Episode 73 l The Fall of the Berlin Wall

The Berlin Wall Fell On November 9, 1989. As the cold war started to fizzle out, with revolutions and unrest all across the Eastern Bloc, the spokesman for the Communist Party of East Berlin was meant...

Entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2020

Podcast Episode 72 l The Doomsday Vault: A global Seed Vault

Podcast on The Doomsday Vault: A global Seed Vault that is a repository for the world's food crop seeds.

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, circa 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon

Podcast Episode 54 l Ada Lovelace, First Computer Programmer

From the Archives: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was born on December 10, 1815. She was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Noel Byron. Ada Lovelace was an ...

Astronomical clock, Prague. Image by 360onhistory.com

Podcast Episode 71 l Astronomical Clock

The Astronomical Clock in Prague, known locally as the “Pražský orloj,” is one of the most famous and visually stunning astronomical clocks in the world. It is also the oldest functioning astronomical...

June solstice sunrise viewed from the western observing point. Photograph: Iván Ghezzi Copyright IDARQ via Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy UNESCO and World Heritage Center

Podcast Episode 66 l What are solstice and equinoxes?

From the Archives: In the Podcast Episode 66, we are talking about what are solstice and equinoxes. How do they occur and what is the science.

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