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The Apple and The Hero - 007_The Fearless Explorers

007_The Fearless Explorers

01/11/24 • 42 min

The Apple and The Hero

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"Tierra, tierra!"
When the lookout from the Pinta yelled that he had seen the coast, little did Columbus and his men know that what seemed 'terra incognita' had been already discovered and colonised centuries before.
In this episode we follow the longships of the first people to discover and settle the New World.
Welcome, to the Age of the Vikings!

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"Tierra, tierra!"
When the lookout from the Pinta yelled that he had seen the coast, little did Columbus and his men know that what seemed 'terra incognita' had been already discovered and colonised centuries before.
In this episode we follow the longships of the first people to discover and settle the New World.
Welcome, to the Age of the Vikings!

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Choices made by someone else have the power to shape our own lives. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
His father's choice had left Vlad III stranded at the Ottoman's court, preparing the soil for the horrors which were to come.
In this second and last part, we're going to see how Vlad III gained the bloodthirsty nickname of "The Impaler" and how a simple invention shaped up the image we have of this voivode of Wallachia.

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“Beware, lest this very spot where we are now encamped get its name from the calamity that shall befall your army and transmit the memory of it to your children’s children!”
Bold words, spoken by the chief of a small, almost forgotten tribe to none other than Julius Caesar.
It was with such a declaration that Divico, chief of the Tigurini, sealed his fate and that of his people in life, eternalising them all into legend!
Let's go meet the ancestors of modern Swiss people, who chose to die free rather than live under someone else's rule.

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