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  • WTF - Auld Lang Syne

    WTF - Auld Lang Syne
    2025/12/28
    There are moments in the modern age when one must pause, stare into the middle distance, and ask a question of profound existential importance. Not questions like “Why are we here?” or “Is there life on other planets?” but the truly unsettling ones. Questions such as, “Why does my phone know what I want before I do?” and “When did Christmas become a logistics problem?”
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    54 分
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN-624

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Woodrow Wilson SSBN-624
    2025/12/28
    The USS Woodrow Wilson belonged to a generation of submarines that were never meant to be seen, remembered, or celebrated in the usual way. She was built to disappear, to wait, and to make catastrophe unnecessary by making it inevitable in theory. As a Lafayette-class fleet ballistic missile submarine, she formed part of the original “Forty-One for Freedom,” the silent backbone of America’s sea-based nuclear deterrent during the most dangerous decades of the Cold War.
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    6 分
  • The Smartest Man in the Room

    The Smartest Man in the Room
    2025/12/28
    The first thing to understand about Woodrow Wilson is that he never stopped believing he was the smartest man in the room, and he never doubted that this was a public service. Wilson did not enter politics the way most politicians do, by compromise, instinct, or appetite for power. He entered it as a man convinced that history itself had been waiting for a proper explanation, and that explanation had finally arrived wearing pince-nez and carrying a footnote. If this sounds unkind, it is not meant to be. It is meant to be accurate. Wilson was earnest, brilliant, disciplined, and convinced that moral clarity, once articulated clearly enough, would bend the world into better shape. That conviction carried him astonishingly far, and it carried him just as surely into moral blind alleys he never fully recognized.
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    6 分
  • The Zwickau Prophets

    The Zwickau Prophets
    2025/12/28
    In the early winter of 1521, the Protestant Reformation faced a danger far more unsettling than popes or emperors. Its greatest threat came from men who claimed to speak for God directly. With Martin Luther in hiding and Wittenberg without its anchor, three radical preachers arrived from Zwickau insisting that Scripture was no longer enough. The Spirit, they said, spoke straight to them, in visions, certainty, and fire. This episode is the story of the Zwickau Prophets and the first internal crisis of the Reformation. It is not a tale of heroes and villains, but of urgency colliding with restraint, faith colliding with certainty, and reform nearly tearing itself apart from the inside. It is also the moment that forced Luther to define what sola scriptura really meant, not as a slogan, but as a safeguard against chaos.
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    6 分
  • The Decemberists

    The Decemberists
    2025/12/26
    The morning of December 26, 1825 (O.S.), opened in St. Petersburg the way Russian winter mornings often do, with cold that does not so much bite as settle in and refuse to leave. Senate Square lay hard and white under the sky, the Neva locked beneath ice thick enough to bear cannon and men, or so it seemed until it did not. By midmorning, roughly three thousand soldiers stood assembled in a rigid square, boots planted, muskets idle, breath hanging like unspoken questions. They were members of the Life Guards, the sort of men raised to obey without hesitation, yet here they were refusing an oath. Not to God. Not to Russia. But to a new emperor whose legitimacy had become suddenly uncertain. In that hesitation, in that pause long enough for frost to creep into fingers and resolve, the first Russian revolution revealed itself, not as a roar, but as a held breath.
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    5 分
  • Washington's Crossing

    Washington's Crossing
    2025/12/25
    Every nation has a moment when the story almost ends. For the American Revolution, that moment came in December of 1776. The army was shrinking. The government was running. The public was tired. Even George Washington thought the game might be nearly up. What followed was not a miracle and not a legend. It was a gamble made by exhausted men in freezing darkness, guided by bad maps, worse weather, and a single hard truth. If this failed, there was no Revolution left to save.
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    5 分
  • The Leopoldville Coverup

    The Leopoldville Coverup
    2025/12/24
    Christmas Eve, 1944. The war is supposed to be turning in the Allies’ favor. The lights of France are visible from the deck. Home feels close enough to imagine. Then a single torpedo reminds everyone that war does not care about calendars, carols, or confidence. Tonight on Dave Does History, we are telling the story of the SS Léopoldville, a troopship sunk just five and a half miles from safety, taking nearly eight hundred American soldiers with it. This is not a tale of heroism neatly wrapped in victory. It is a story of confusion, bad assumptions, language barriers, and systems that failed when they were needed most. It is also a story that was deliberately buried for decades, leaving families with silence instead of answers. The Léopoldville disaster matters because it was preventable, forgotten, and human. And because history does not only fail on battlefields. Sometimes it fails quietly, in the dark, while everyone assumes someone else is paying attention.
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    5 分
  • DDH - The Christmas Carol

    DDH - The Christmas Carol
    2025/12/23
    Every December we return to A Christmas Carol the way we return to familiar music. We know the notes. We know the ending. We know exactly how it is supposed to make us feel. And that is precisely the problem. In this episode of Dave Does History on Bill Mick Live, we pull the story back out of its comfortable holiday wrapping and look at what Dickens was actually doing in 1843. This was not a bedtime story. It was a warning. Dickens was not trying to redeem one grumpy old man. He was indicting a society that had learned how to explain suffering away with respectable words and tidy laws. Scrooge is not a monster. He is lawful, rational, and catastrophically wrong. The ghosts are not magical fixes. They expose. They accuse. They do not excuse. This episode asks the question Dickens intended. Not whether Scrooge changed, but whether we ever do once the lights come up and the book is closed.
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    52 分