Our Fake History

Our Fake History

Author: PodcastOne Language: English Episodes: 100
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A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
Episodes
Episode #249 - Who Built Rome? (ft. Dr. Emma Southon) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:47
The Roman Empire is often remembered for it's grand works of architecture and formidable military. However, for most of its history Rome's economy was underpinned by the labour of millions of individuals who had been for…
Episode #248 - Was There a Real Snow White? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:56
The Brothers Grimm once write that "Snow White" was Germany's best known folktale. When the beloved fairytale served as the inspiration for the famous 1937 Disney film the story reached new levels of international recogn…
Episode #247 - Was Box Brown Magically Emancipated? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:41
One of the most celebrated stories from the Underground Railroad is that of Henry Box Brown, the man who mailed himself to freedom. In 1849 Henry Brown successfully had himself shipped out of slavery in a packing crate f…
Episode #246 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part III) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:52
For centuries the western Norse colony of Vinland was known only to scholars of the Icelandic Sagas. But in the 19th century the work of a few Scandinavian historians helped revive interest in these previously obscure ta…
Episode #245 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:16:08
The only literary sources we have about the Viking settlements west of Greenland come from the Icelandic Sagas. The only problem is that the Sagas can be totally off-the-wall. Corpses reanimate and speak prophecies, gian…
Episode #244 - How Far Did the Vikings Voyage? (Part I) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:20:27
Between the 9th and 11th centuries Norse explorers undertook a series of remarkable journeys through the North Atlantic. Iceland and Greenland were settled by medieval farmers eager to find new uninhabited lands. But jus…
Bonus Episode - Ponzi Empires, Thieving Saints, and Skin Grafts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:41
In this Bonus Episode Sebastian takes questions from listeners about the series on the original Ponzi Scheme. The host investigates the history of the expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul", locates early usages of the p…
Episode #243 - What Was Ponzi's Scheme? (Part II) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:22:04
Charles Ponzi's remarkable rise and fall played out over the course of a wild eight month period. He went from being a failed importer-exporter mired in debt to Boston's most talked about self-made millionaire in a matte…

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