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Canadian Inventors, inventions and firsts!This fun and informative podcast will take you on an amazing journey to hear some of the amazing, funny and engaging stories about the whole history of Canadian inventions, inventors and firsts, taken right from the pages of the best-selling book OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND INVENTIVE LAND by Professor Mark Rector.You'll laugh, you'll maybe shed a tear or two, but you will probably learn something about this vast, interesting and innovative country of ours. But mostly you will certainly have your chest bursting with pride, and probably pop a few buttons off...

Exploring the relationship of people to the land they live on, students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College talk with residents of small towns, farms and forests in the rural Southeast. The discussions center on issues of agriculture, conservation, and the economy as seen by those who have chosen to make their homes in non-urban areas of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and South Carolina. Reported in the style of "This American Life," the students take you to into the field to find their stories.

In this authoritative but light-hearted account of beers gone by, archaeologist Tate Paulette brings the famous "land between the rivers" back to life in vivid detail. We meet not only the beers of ancient Mesopotamia, but also the people who brewed them and drank them, the places where these people lived and worked, the taverns and temples and tombs where they did their drinking, the stories they told about beer, their preferred styles of drinking, their brewing equipment and drinking paraphernalia, the gods and goddesses who governed their lives and who were also partial to a drink.

In Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies, food writer Rossi Anastopoulo cracks open our relationship to pie with wit and good humor. She traces the pies woven into our history, following the evolution of our country across centuries of innovation and change and examining how America’s relationship with this iconic dessert impacted culture across eras—and vice versa.

In 1095 startte een serie op geloof geïnspireerde militaire campagnes om het Heilige Land te heroveren: de kruistochten. Tussen de 11e en 13e eeuw trokken vanuit heel Europa honderdduizenden mensen richting Jeruzalem om de stad te bevrijden van de moslims. Hoe waren deze kruistochten ontstaan en hoe werden ze georganiseerd? Waarom vonden deze kruistochten in het Europa van de Middeleeuwen zoveel voedingsbodem?

The modern world of instant land buying meets the old world of country living; topics ranging from artificial intelligence for land and instant online financing, to living off the grid and rural communities.