Rediscovery Channel: Recent Episodes
Stilgar
Welcome to the Rediscovery Channel where two armchair historians set out on a quest to (re)discover history.Each week one of us tells the other a story from history that the other may or may not have heard off.Why? Because history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. And in order to understand where we're going, it is imperative to know where we came from.And since history is written by the victors, all the more reason to have a closer look at the forgotten, the curious, and the neglected stories.
The 3 Founding Fathers of Modern Rocketry - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth, Robert Goddard
In 447 a massive earthquake meant Constantinople was racing to rebuild the walls before the Huns arrived
Andrew Jackson was the 7th president of the USA and the founder of the Democrat party
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The Raid on the Medway in 1667 was a daring Dutch expedition that delivered a decisive blow to England and concluded the second Anglo-Dutch war in the Dutch Republic's favor
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Saint Anthony the Great is considered to be the father of Christian monasticism. He belonged to the Coptic Orthodox Church, which is the ancient and original church of Egypt. He lived from 251 to 356 AD, and spent most of his life in the desert living in poverty. He witnessed the split of the Roman Empire, and debated with Greek Philosophers and Arian heretics.
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The Knights of Saint John aka the Knights of Malta played a critical role in defending Christianity when all hope seemed lost
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The Indus Valley Culture, a.k.a. Harappan Culture or Mohenjo-Daro, was the original civilization of northern India and Pakistan.
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The Anglo Zanzibar war is the shortest recorded war in history
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Diogenes is the founder of Cynicism, a philosophy that would later turn into Stoicism
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Prester John is a medieval European myth about India. It arose at a time when there was little to no contact with India, so the legend bears very little resemblance to reality. According to the myth, Prester John was the Emperor of most of India, and the bulk of his subjects were Christians. There was a great deal of hope that Prester John would come with his great army and help European Christians in their struggle against Islam.
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Harald Hardrada was a mighty Viking King of Norway who started off as an adventurer and Varangian Guard
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Lord Shang Yang was an ancient Chinese philosopher, politician and a prominent legalist scholar
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Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony.There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a complete myth. In this episode we review a book called The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise by Darío Fernández-Morera.
In this episode Stilgar talks about the war in the Vendee, a particularly bloody war between Royalists and Republicans that was even more horrific than the well known terror by Guillotine in Paris
We also look at some of darker ideology behind the French Revolution including the Cult of Reason
Books mentioned in Podcast:
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy free on Gutenberg.org:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60
A Tale of two Cities by Dickens on Gutenberg.org:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98
Marie Antoinette by Stefan Zweig, paid:
https://www.amazon.com/Marie-Antoinette-Portrait-Average-Woman-ebook/dp/B00FHIEPNS/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1MVPGXMEHH4C0&dchild=1&keywords=stefan+zweig+marie+antoinette&qid=1616512690&sprefix=stefan+zweig+mari%2Caps%2C234&sr=8-2
Joseph Fouché by Stefan Zweig, paid:
https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Fouch%C3%A9-Politician-Stefan-Zweig-ebook/dp/B006ZAGTEK/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=stefan+zweig+joseph+fouche&qid=1616512740&sr=8-2
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In this episode Ivor talks about the Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands
We talk about when they were rediscovered by the Spanish, what their culture looked like and what their likely origins are
In this episode we have a discussion on Charlemagne's Renaissance, also known as the Carolingian Renaissance.
We also discuss the myth of the dark ages, the scholar and cleric Alcuin from Northumbria who saved countless of ancient texts from the Vikings, and the crucial role the church as a whole played in preserving ancient Greek and Roman knowledge.
The Carolingian Renaissance was the first of three medieval renaissances, a period of cultural activity in the Carolingian Empire. It occurred from the late 8th century to the 9th century, taking inspiration from the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth century.
During this period, there was an increase of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical reforms, and scriptural studies.
Ashur-nasir-pal II meaning Ashur is guardian of the heir, was king of Assyria from 883 to 859 BC.
Ashurnasirpal II succeeded his father, Tukulti-Ninurta II, in 883 BC. During his reign he embarked on a vast program of expansion, first conquering the peoples to the north in Asia Minor as far as Nairi and exacting tribute from Phrygia, then invading Aram (modern Syria) conquering the Aramaeans and Neo-Hittites between the Khabur and the Euphrates Rivers. His harshness prompted a revolt that he crushed decisively in a pitched, two-day battle. According to his monument inscription, while recalling this massacre he says:
Their men young and old I took prisoners. Of some I cut off their feet and hands; of others I cut off the ears noses and lips; of the young men's ears I made a heap; of the old men's heads I made a minaret. I exposed their heads as a trophy in front of their city. The male children and the female children I burned in flames; the city I destroyed, and consumed with fire.
Following this victory, he advanced without opposition as far as the Mediterranean and exacted tribute from Phoenicia. On his return home, he moved his capital to the city of Kalhu.
The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Muslim pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, in reference to the Berbers. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing merchant ships, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in the British Isles, the Netherlands, and Iceland. The main purpose of their attacks was slaves for the Ottoman slave trade as well as the general Arab slavery market in North Africa and the Middle East.
The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits (Japanese:下関海戦, Shimonoseki Kaisen) was a naval engagement fought on July 16, 1863, by the United States Navy warship USS Wyoming against the powerful daimyō (feudal lord) Mōri Takachika of the Chōshū clan based in Shimonoseki. Interestingly it took place in the middle of the American Civil war.
In this first episode our two armchair historians discuss Pandora's box, a story often referenced in modern culture which is actually part of a larger creation story with some surprising analogies.