French King Louis XVI faces the guillotine
On this day in 1793 the French King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the National Convention in Paris. Louis seems to have been... Read More
Winston Churchill’s many talents
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1874 Winston Churchill was born. Apart from being a hugely inspirational leader and... Read More
Erwin Schrödinger, physicist and cat lover
To listen to this post, click here – On this day in 1935 the physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment Schrödinger’s Cat, a... Read More
Ralph Waldo Emerson and the ‘shot heard round the world’
On this day in 1803 American writer and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. Known today as a leader of the Romantic Movement, he wrote... Read More