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Few tales of shipwreck and survival can rival that of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, a 16th-century Spaniard who found himself cast ashore near Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528. Over the next eight years, he endured a hand-to-mouth existence among the Native Americans of the South and Southwest, ultimately traversing the plains on foot to reach the Pacific Coast and arriving in Mexico in 1536. In 1542, Cabeza de Vaca published an account of his remarkable adventures, and this reading draws from Fanny Bandelier‚s English translation of that work. Alongside three other survivors‚two Spaniards and a ...

Delve into the tumultuous years of English history with William Holden Huttons insightful narrative, King and Baronage. This engaging work explores the chaotic period of feudal anarchy that erupted after the death of King Henry I in 1135, where his determined daughter, Mathilda, faced off against the ineffectual King Stephen. Hutton paints a vivid picture of the powerful kings that followed, including the formidable Henry II and his successors‚Richard, John, Henry III, and the first two Edwards‚each navigating a landscape fraught with conflict against their formidable barons. A compelling ...

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Viajamos por la historia en busca de los acontecimientos que quedaron fuera de plano. Te los contamos para que cobren la importancia que siempre debieron tener.

Wir sind vier Geschichtsstudierende aus Hamburg. Alle zwei Wochen sprechen wir freitags über scheinbar übernatürliche Phänomene in der Geschichte. Von Geistern und Vampiren bis hin zu Wunderheilern ist alles mit dabei. Wir wollen wissen: Wie kommt es, dass Menschen bis heute von Spuk und Wundern fasziniert sind?

A show that dives down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia to explore the sum of all human knowledge. In each episode comedians Kyle Berseth and Jheisson Nunez start at one article and navigate their way across Wikipedia to wherever the Wiki winds take them.