Along with the Bronze Age Sea Peoples and the Early Medieval Vikings, no other seafarers were as feared and reviled as the Barbary Pirates. Hailing from homelands in Northern Africa, they disrupted trade and commerce in the Mediterranean, leaving devastation and destruction in their wake. Find out how they did it in this week's enthralling episode!
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Mayday for May Day: A Story of Labor and the Worker
Depending upon who you ask and where you ask them, May Day can have a few different meanings. As a one-word phrase, it's the notorious code for help. As a two-word proper noun, it can refer to the first day of summer in several European cultures whose origins date back to Pre-Christian times. But it's the other meaning as a two-word proper noun--that of a labor holiday--that is the subject of this week's episode. As today is May Day proper, tune in to learn all about the history of this intriguing holiday!
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All the Things: The History of the Althing
The influence of Greece and Rome on Western governance can't be understated. But what of the Norse, the other great Western society whose intrepid nature continues to shape Northern Europe to this very day? Most governments would consider themselves lucky to have survived for two centuries (as America has, for instance), yet the subject of this week's episode has endured for a thousand years and them some. Get ready to learn "all the things" about the Althing, the oldest parliament in the world!
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Hellas Freed: Fall of the Greek Junta
There were a number of factors which contributed to the Greek Junta's downfall, which we'll discuss this week in part three, the third and final chapter, on this epic three-part event on one of the darker chapters of Modern Greek history. Tune in to find out how it, quite literally, all went down.
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Hellas Bound: Greece Under the Junta
No sooner had the Colonels assumed command of the country after their coup did they completely change the Greek political landscape. In Part Two on the Greek Junta, we'll be exploring what life was like under their iron rule and what those opposed to it were doing behind the scenes.
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