“The strong do what they want, and the weak suffer what they must.” Athenian embassy to Melos via Thucydides
“As far as right and wrong are concerned, our people think there is no difference between the two—that those who still preserve their independence do so because t...
2019-01-16 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“It is true that I wished and still wish to escape, as is lawful for any captive or prisoner.” Joan of Arc
“I have greater fear of failing my voices in saying something that displeases them than I have of answering you.” Joan of Arc addressing a group of theologian...
2018-12-08 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“We know that everything that she has said has come to pass, that her words are always confirmed by the event—she has in truth come to achieve great things in this world.” Antonio Morosini
“Go and camp for today, because it is quite late. But tomorrow, at the pleasure of...
2018-11-08 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
EPISODE 40
Joan of Arc (Part 2)
“Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” Star Wars
“… No one else, neither a king nor a duke nor the daughter of the king of Scotland, nor any other who can recover the kingdom of France, and he wi...
2018-10-11 23:32:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“No person in the Middle Ages, male or female, has been the subject of more historical studies than Joan of Arc.” Kelly Devries
“The life of Joan is such a flagrant beating of the odds that no facts sufficiently explain the course of it. She was born during one of the most...
2018-09-13 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Not since the panic-ridden days in 1888, when Jack the Ripper was abroad in the East End, had London known such a reign of terror as that which existed in this wartime February...” Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent Fred Cherrill
What I am going to tell you is one of the craziest serial kille...
2018-08-19 04:02:38 +0000 UTC View Post
“Among other things, the Way of the Samurai requires that he realize that something may occur at any moment to test the depth of his resolution, and day and night he must sort out his thought and prepare a line of action. Depending on the circumstances, he may win or lose. But avoiding dishonor is...
2018-07-22 01:20:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“Death poems Are a delusion. You just die.” Zen monk Kanzawa Toko. The tale of the 47 Ronin is one of the most renowned revenge tales to ever come out of Japan. It is the subject of countless books, plays, and movies. It is also a story that has ignited never-ending debates. So...
2018-06-23 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“There was money that wasn’t coming back and the choice was between leaving some cardinal dead on the street or to strike someone close to the Pope. We chose the second path.” Antonio Mancini “We of the Magliana gang were street bandits. We loved robberies, without asking anyone...
2018-05-25 16:44:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“A lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison”
The Clash (from the song Bankrobber)
“We were treated like movie stars with muscle. We had it all, just for the asking… Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats...
2018-04-28 21:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post
“Most people are not evil. Most people are weak. And weakness is fertile ground where evil can thrive.” DB
"Every Day/ On our fellow man we prey/ Dog eat Dog/ To Get by/ Hope you like my genocide” The Offspring
“Hello darkness, my old friend…” Simon...
2018-03-30 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"Because I felt like I was ordered to do it, and it seemed like that, at the time I felt like I was doing the right thing." Private First Class Paul Meadlo explaining his role in the My Lai Massacre.
"How do you shoot babies?" Meadlo was then asked. His reply... "I don't k...
2018-03-03 22:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
"Every Day/ On our fellow man we prey/ Dog eat Dog/ To Get by/ Hope you like my genocide” The Offspring
“Hello darkness, my old friend…” Simon and Garfunkel
“I believe now it is but the commencement of war with this tribe, which must result in their extermi...
2018-03-02 22:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“It’s the steel that they love” Juvenal
“I needed money for wine” Titus Pullo in HBO’s series Rome
“We can live vicariously through that moment, or use it to fuel what we desire in life.” Jake Rossen
"You must die erect and invin...
2018-02-15 16:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post
EPISODE 30
Are You Not Entertained? (Gladiators in Ancient Rome Part 1)
"The stupid crowd is waiting eagerly
For the two valiant heroes to contend.
No farther than their noses can they see;
A spectacle is all they comprehend.” Ludovico Ariosto,
“No matter how much I make up, there’s stuff in history that’s just as bad, or worse.” George R.R. Martin
“Though I would treasure your friendship, I am mainly interested in your facility with murder” Tyrion Lannister
“That’s what I do. I drink and I know t...
2018-01-14 06:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“He refused to allow anyone—white or black—or any laws and customs—to dictate his place in society or the manner in which he should live.” Al-Tony Gilmore
“This negro, in the eyes of many, has been persecuted. Perhaps as an individual he was. But it was his misfortun...
2017-12-28 20:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
EPISODE 27
The Fight (Jack Johnson Part 2)
“And it was fast cars and whiskey
Long legged girls and fun
I had everything that money could bring
And I took it all with a gun” from the song I’ve Never Picked Cotton
“Johnson did not care. ...
2017-12-02 17:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“I never planted wheat and never will, so long as there are other harvests to be reaped with the sword.” —Robert E. Howard (from ‘Beyond the Black River’)
“In the rough and violent world of seafaring, mariners could not afford to always abide by the niceties of ...
2017-11-24 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“After getting this information, he had the arms, feet, and heads of our unfortunate companions cut off, and sent them round to various towns of our allies and those who had made peace with us, with the message that he did not think one of us would be left alive to return to Texcoco. Then he o...
2017-11-17 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded. These great towns and cues and buildings rising from the water, all made of stone, seemed like an enchanted vision fr...
2017-11-10 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
EPISODE 26
Bad To The Bone (Jack Johnson Part 1)
Back in the day when you could still pay your ticket on the spot in cash, a cop pulled over Jack Johnson for speeding.
“Hey boy—said the cop—This is going to cost you $ 50!”
Johnson handed him...
2017-11-06 00:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
“My advice is not to allow into your house someone who will put you out of it.” —Cuitlahuac
“He added that we could look for no help or assistance except from God, for now we had no ships in which to return to Cuba. Therefore we must rely on our own good swords and stout heart...
2017-11-03 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“We came to serve God and get rich” — Bernal Diaz
“Behold this torch which we will light and place between our armies. If you do not make haste and retreat before the torch is burned, you will die. We do not want you as guests.” — Maya warning to the Spaniards i...
2017-10-27 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"If I can add some nuance and complexity and some context and compassion. If I can get people to think about walking a mile in the other guy's moccasins, or pretend like you want to, I can feel like I'm adding something that is unusual. And it's a little bit shocking and upsetting to me that it ...
2017-10-20 19:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
"It made my heart bad. After that, I killed my enemies with the hatchet.”
— Lakota leader Gall, upon finding out his family had been killed
“If we’ve got to die, let’s die here like men."
— Lieutenant Luther Hare
"We were terribly alone on that da...
2017-10-13 18:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“…And together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“I shall have glory by this losing day.” — William Shakespeare
“Oyate kin ninpi kta ca lecamu yelo” (“I do this so that the people may live.”) —...
2017-10-09 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Mike Duncan is one of the pioneers of historical podcasting. His “History of Rome” is iconic. And his current “Revolutions” is equally compelling. In this episode, we sit down to chat about Roman history, Rome in cinema, the inevitable comparisons between Ancient Rome and the ...
2017-10-07 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“The Black Hills is my land and I love it.
And whoever interferes will hear this gun.”
— Lakota song
“Came to the Hills in 1833… got our gold in 1834. Got all the gold we could carry. Our ponys got by Indians. I have lost my gun and nothing to eat and Ind...
2017-10-06 18:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
He was the first American to receive a brown belt in Judo.
He won the l...