Legend tells of an early pioneer of rocketry who, in 1633, blasted off over Istanbul in celebration of the birth of the Sultan’s daughter. There are stories of an eccentric French couple flying horses and bulls into the sky to entertain the masses. There were inventors who saw the future of travel in personal balloons that allowed us to bound across the landscape as if we were an astronaut on the moon. These tales my sound absurd by they are the ‘True History’ of mankind’s obsession with flight. Join us as we discover some of history’s craziest people who put entertainment and progress ahead of their mortality!
51: 🪄🃏The Devil’s Picture Books and Wild West Magic
50: ♠️♥️ Magic and Playing Card History with Magician Lee Asher ♣️♦️
49: 👁️The Curiosity of Sight. How eyes work and how we discovered that.
Bonus: 🎙️ Intelligent Speech 2023 and Takarajima
48: 🪙 Tales of treasure. Cocos Island, the Centurion and a Hermit
Bonus: 👵 Re-release: Margaret Ann Neve (fixed!)
Bonus: 🥔 The Potato Boom!
47: 👾 Interview with Paul Mayze: Cards, the Universe and Everything
46: 🥔 Potato, Potato, Potato, foundation of the modern world
45: 🤖 Artificial intelligence, creativity and talking to animals
44: ⚛️ Elementary my dear Anton - atoms and elements
43: 🔮 The History of Magic
42: 🧒22 Orphans to Save the World - Intelligent Speech 2022
41: 🦜 William Dampier, explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator, and naturalist
40: ⌛ What is time?
Bonus: 🍫 Guilty Chocolate, Anton’s prize winning short story
😍 Announcement: We’re at Intelligent Speech 2022!
38: 🪃 The Paradoxical Platypus
37: 🏰 Anton Investigates: Norman Castles
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