Ergebnis für "Nick" in Welt

Packende europäische Geschichte trifft auf den epischen Kampf Mensch gegen Natur, der eine ganze Zivilisation formte. Perfekt für deinen nächsten Spaziergang zieht dich diese dramatische Zeitreise tief in die sumpfigen Flusslandschaften eines Volkes, das auf nassem Grund baute. Lass dich von...

In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an 18-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages.

For fans of Yuval Noah Harari and David Graeber comes a sweeping history of destruction, exploring how our urge to burn it all down has shaped human progress across the centuries. Smashing idols, defacing monuments, burning books, breaking windows, toppling statues...for as long as humans have...

Erlebe diese fesselnde historische Analyse, die Migration als mächtigsten Motor für gesellschaftlichen Wandel offenbart. Vom Aufbruch der ersten Menschen bis zu modernen Handelsrouten spannt dieses packende Hörbuch einen Bogen voller folgenschwerer Entscheidungen. Ob auf dem täglichen Weg...

In the heart of medieval Britain, the spectacle of execution was a grim theatre of power and control—as ordinary a sight as the bustling market or the tolling church bell. Beneath the public rituals of punishment, however, lies a quieter, more haunting story: the marks left behind by the condemned. As men and women awaited their final moments, some carved simple scratches, initials, or symbols into the stone walls of prison cells, the wood of church pews, and even the beams of the gallows.

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the 20th century.

Forbidden Secrets & Hidden Files of the World takes you deep inside the declassified files, buried records, and long-suppressed truths from the United States of America, Russia, Germany, China, Japan, the Soviet Union, and beyond. Packed with real-world government cover-ups, military secrets, and firsthand accounts, this book exposes the stories too wild—and too real—to be fiction.

For fans of Yuval Noah Harari and David Graeber comes a sweeping history of destruction, exploring how our urge to burn it all down has shaped human progress across the centuries. Smashing idols, defacing monuments, burning books, breaking windows, toppling statues… for as long as humans have...

In this episode we discuss life, introductions, and the Lidsay Clancy trial. Stick around for the whole episode, it gets better as we loosen up, I promise. Welcome to The Duncan Disorder!

Discover the full story behind Congressman Nick LaLota on Nick LaLota - Biography Flash, hosted by Marc Ellery and brought to you by Quiet Please Podcast Networks. This podcast delivers a comprehensive, fact-driven biography of the U.S. Representative for New York's First Congressional District, tracing his journey from his roots in Bay Shore, Long Island, through his years at the United States Naval Academy, eight years of active duty Navy service including deployments aboard the USS Curts and the USS Carl Vinson, and his decorated military career earning the Joint Service Commendation Medal ...

Herbert Hoover lived ninety remarkable years. Yet history remembers only four. Hoover 360 explores the whole story. Hosted by Nick Westergaard, Hoover 360 is an interview podcast from the Hoover Presidential Foundation exploring the remarkable life, leadership, and legacy of one of America's most consequential—and misunderstood—public figures. Through conversations with historians, authors, public servants, and thought leaders, each episode uncovers the people, ideas, and moments that shaped Herbert Hoover—and the world he helped shape. Every conversation concludes with The Uncommon ...

Heroes of History: Inspiring Stories to Spark Imagination for Curious Minds. Is your child fascinated by remarkable people who changed the world? Are you looking for educational stories that entertain while they inspire? Give your curious young reader the gift of history's greatest heroes, told through captivating, accessible stories they'll actually want to read! "But my child isn't interested in history!" 

Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California. Led by Gaspar de Portolá in 1769, the expedition sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. 

More and more people are beginning to realize that we are being manipulated and lied to. We are denied access to secrets that shouldn’t be secrets. Our politicians obfuscate, deny, and outright lie. No one knows whom to trust. The nightly news is being replaced by carefully orchestrated propaganda. Our iPhones are monitored, as are our laptops and our landlines. As for social media, that too is ripe for spying by men in black suits. No wonder, then, that the last few years have seen an incredible rise in conspiracy theories about deceptions and cover-ups.

In an era of fake news and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them. The first ever book from the iconic programme marks 60 years of programming with 60 world-changing stories. Covering everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Anti-Apartheid Movement to the emergence of Brit Art and space exploration, artificial intelligence and machine learning, Today explores events as they happened and reveals how they changed the world around us.

From 10 Bell Pod:Way Back Wrestling digs into the strange, half forgotten roots of professional wrestling: the strongmen, shooters, barnstormers, promoters, champions, and carnival legends who built the sport before TV turned it into a national spectacle. Hosted by Nick Alexander, these solo episodes explore figures like Doc Roller, J.H. McLaughlin, Viro Small, Farmer Burns, and the early wrestling world were history, myth, newspapers, and kayfabe all started getting tangled together. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

StrangeSpotting is a serious anomalistics podcast about strange cases, unresolved sightings, cryptids, folklore, UFO encounters, Fortean events, and the mysteries that survive lazy explanations.Hosted by Nick Montelupo, the show rejects both blind belief and blind dismissal. Each episode separates fact, testimony, pattern, inference, speculation, and proof — not to force a conclusion, but to ask a better question:What pattern remains after bad evidence is removed?StrangeSpotting is for listeners who love the unknown, but refuse to surrender their judgment to sensationalism, debunking theater...

In her compelling style, Dava Sobel chronicles the history of the Copernican Revolution, relating the story of astronomy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages. And as with her previous international bestsellers, Sobel expands the bounds of popular science writing, giving us an unforgettable portrait...

Plot of Land is a podcast mini-series from Monument Lab that explores land ownership and housing in the United States. Our team of storytellers and reporters break down how race, class, land, and power have been used to build and maintain unfair systems that harm nearly everyone and how choices made by people in the distant past have created vast inequities in the present. We believe that to build a just future for everyone, we must radically change our approach to policy and practice. Major support for Plot of Land has been provided by the Ford Foundation.

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British Empire had reached its greatest extent but its...