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When the Mediterranean Became a Desert - On the Messinian Event
A little over five million years ago, something terrible happened to the Mediterranean Sea. Global climate changes led to the blocking of the Strait of Gibraltar, and water from th…
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The Fall of the Roman Empire, Part 3 (Final)
Rome of the fourth century was no longer the same great Rome of the first and second centuries: decades of civil wars, inheritance struggles and inflationary crises had greatly wea…
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The Fall of the Roman Empire, Part 2
The assassination of Emperor Severus Alexander by his soldiers in the year 235 CE marked the complete breakdown of the inheritance mechanism of the Roman Empire, and was the openin…
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The Fall of the Roman Empire, Part 1
One thousand and five years after it disappeared - the Roman Empire is still around us, almost everywhere in the Mediterranean basin and in Europe: both in impressive remains and a…
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The History of File Sharing Software part 1
Napster was a groundbreaking file sharing software written in a single 60-hour programming marathon – and from the moment it emerged into the world, it stood at the center of a bru…
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The History of File Sharing, Part 2: Kazaa, Grokster and BitTorrent
The fall of Napster was the catalyst for the rise of a new and improved file sharing technology - FastTrack. Software such as Kazaa, Grokster and eMule flooded the file sharing wor…
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The Jews Who Built Hollywood
The words 'Hollywood film' represent a set of values and perceptions that are identified, for better or worse, with American culture: for example, doing things big, or dividing the…
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The Subprime Crisis and Ottoman Anarchy - On the Secrets Behind the Mortgage
Episode Description: The mortgage is not only one of the most important and largest loans most of us will take in our lifetime - it is also a vital tool for managing economic life…
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Archimedes of Syracuse
Archimedes of Syracuse is remembered mainly for the impressive machines he built to defend his city against the Romans: the heat ray and the terrifying 'claws' that lifted ships fr…