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FINAL SCRIPT The world has been traumatised by the outbreak of coronavirus. As of 31st march There are now more than 700,000 cases and 30,000 deaths all over the world. The world has gone through hundreds of epidemics and have killed millions of people some being the plague epidemic in Europe which resulted in the …
We live in the modern age, where if the crops fail or our President dies, we don’t have to worry about being brutally sacrificed to appease angry gods or to ensure our departed ruler has a smooth transition into the after life. Yet for thousands of years humans have been sacrificing each other for a …
It’s Monday March 11, 1918, at a military training facility in Kansas called Fort Riley. Around 26,000 young men are stationed there, and on that particular day a mess cook named Private Albert Gitchell woke up feeling like hell. He had a high fever, his throat was sore, and his body ached all over. The …
It’s early in the year 46 BC. After the decisive defeat at Thapsus all seemed lost for the “Optimates” Most of their prominent members were either dead or fleeing. A large portion of their armies was either destroyed or captured, while any remaining troops scattered. But despite all of these disastrous set-backs, the old political …
It’s March 1920, and in Ireland, the war for independence from Britain has entered its second year. With the police unable to contain the rebellion, Britain turns to veterans of the Great War to restore order. But the so-called Black and Tans would soon find that fighting in Ireland was much different than the trenches …
the Hussite wagon fort answered a problem in late medieval warfare that puzzled military leaders of the time how could infantry deal with armies of heavily armored knights on horseback initially the Hussite armies consisted mainly of ill-trained farmers and city dwellers often only armed with the daily tools of your average farmer such as …
You cannot always tell the character of a man, from the character of his youth. Music “Arrangement – Actraiser [Birth of the people]” 1878: The Congress of Berlin. A graying man with a proud, walrus mustache, stands, and says, “Europe today is a powder keg, and the leaders are like men smoking in an arsenal. …
What we might call more progressive nations have over the years introduced less brutal forms of execution. Gone are the days of crucifixion, being squashed to death and burning people at the stake, but in some countries today you’ll still find stoning and decapitation, something most of us would call barbaric. For that matter, many …
When the signal is given, the whole circle of avenging nations will hurl themselves upon the foe and batter out the life of the cruelest tyranny which has ever sought to bar the progress of mankind. That signal comes today. This episode is sponsored by Wargaming. New players can download World of Tanks and use …
