In this episode of Half-Arsed History, go on a journey through the history of chess, from its origins as an Indian board game called chaturanga, through its development in Persia and the Middle East, to become the international game it is today.
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Episode 291: Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp
Episode 290: The History of Tennis
Episode 289: The Democratic Peace Theory
Episode 288: Charlemagne, Emperor of Europe
Episode 287: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Revolutionary
Episode 286: Pedro II of Brazil, the Magnanimous Emperor
Episode 285: The Elgin Marbles
Episode 284: The Mughal Empire
Episode 283: The Prophecies of Nostradamus
Episode 282: Johann Sebastian Bach, the Famed Baroque Composer
Episode 281: Kate Sheppard, the Tenacious Suffragette
Episode 280: History’s Longest Reigns
Episode 279: The History of Halloween
Episode 278: The Sicilian Mafia
Episode 277: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Episode 276: The People on Australian Money
Episode 275: The Anarchy at Samarra, the Setting for Assassin’s Creed Mirage
Episode 274: Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, the Fearsome Pirate
Episode 273: A History of Australian Referendums
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