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Jonathan Notley
This episode starts with the early origins of chess in Northern India and discusses the evolution of the game through the Persian and Arab empires into Europe, culminating in the modern game.If you want to try chess: https://www.chess.com/home
From copper age alpinists to the late 1950s hats were worn by almost everyone but something happened almost overnight they were oddities deserving of mockery. What happened?
In this podcast I go over Britains chemical weapon programmes in the 1940s, talk about the experiments carried out on Gruinard, and talk about Operation Dark Harvest, and the islands eventual cleanup.
In this episode we talk about how auditory health is often overlooked by society, and examine some of the ways that everyday life could be permanently damaging your ears.
In this episode we look at the French proclivity for setting vehicles alight on national holidays. What started as a NYE tradition has now spread to other holidays, and to different regions of France from its beginnings in Strasbourg.