“The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer,” he said. “A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticize work which the critic himself never tries to per...
2017-09-29 18:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
“You must still have chaos in yourself to be able to give birth to a dancing star” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“History as well as life itself is complicated—neither life ...
2017-09-21 17:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
During a visit to a church in Sicily, a priest offered Caravaggio “holy water”. Caravaggio asked the old priest what it was for. “It will cancel your venial sins, my son,” replied the priest. ...
2017-09-21 17:34:39 +0000 UTC View Post
During a visit to a church in Sicily, a priest offered Caravaggio holy water. Caravaggio asked the old priest what it was for. “It will cancel your venial sins, my son,” replied the priest. “The...
2017-09-21 17:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
“In your presence they feel small, and their baseness glimmers and glows against you with hidden vengeance.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let me go, my friend—you h...
2017-09-21 17:18:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hold on, my friends! Be strong! Remember the helpless! This is a good day to die!”
— Crazy Horse
Everything we have seen so far in Crazy Horse’s life was a warm-up. In Epi...
2017-09-21 17:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“There were many bullets, but there were more arrows—so many that it was like a cloud of grasshoppers all above and around the soldiers”
— Fire Thunder
In Episode 8, we pause the...
2017-09-21 17:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You Don’t Get to Be a Legend by Being Normal
"What good is power if you cannot protect the ones you love?" muses Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. I can’t think of a more appropriate...
2017-09-21 17:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post
On July 11, 1804, the vice-president of the United States (Aaron Burr) and the first Secretary of the Treasury (Alexander Hamilton) decided to settle their grievances by drawing their pistols and tryi...
2017-09-21 17:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode focuses on one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the late 20th century: the oldest, fully preserved human body ever found. The man emerged from the ice in the Alps over 5,000 ...
2017-09-21 17:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the most legendary characters in history comes to visit us in this episode: Spartacus was an auxiliary soldier in the Roman army, a deserter, an outlaw, a gladiator, and the leader of one of th...
2017-09-21 16:51:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In the space of a few decades, three major slave wars threatened the Roman Republic. In this episode, we see how the greed of land speculators, tax collectors and slave owners unleashed an orgy of blo...
2017-09-21 16:46:22 +0000 UTC View Post
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” — Mario Puzo
“Grant me revenge!” — Conan the Barbarian, 1982
“I am immortal” — Nezahualcoyotl
As I was resear...
2017-09-16 00:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In this second and last part of this two-part series, we find out why it is a very bad idea to get on the wrong side of Parysatis, one of the most ruthless queens of the ancient world. We will also ru...
2017-09-16 00:11:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Legendary historian Will Durant has described the subject of this episode as “One of the great adventures in human history”. In the first part of this two-part series, we meet the main ch...
2017-09-15 20:49:58 +0000 UTC View Post