5 of the Best
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 years ago -5 of the best is short fact full series of podcasts , the topics will include Flims, Music, Sport, History, TV, Lifestyle Top stories
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Women
April 05, 2015 00:00 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBJoan of Arc Born 6 January, c. 1412[1]Domrémy, Joan of Arc nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Joan was the daughter of Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée[23] in Domrémy, a village which was then in the French part of the duchy of Bar.[24] Joan's parents owned about 50 acres (20 hectares) of land and her father supplemented his farming work with a minor position as a village of...
Land Marks
March 16, 2015 00:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBnext saturday good epsiode i think Taj Mahal Commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan to house the tomb of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj Mahal stands on the southern bank of the Yamuna River. The mausoleum is widely recognized as "the jewel of Muslim art in India" and remains as one of the world’s most celebrated structures and a symbol of India’s rich history.[6] , Mumtaz Mahal, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan ...
Magna Carta
February 22, 2015 20:14 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBnext episode 16th march William the Conqueror (c.1028 - c.1087) Early in 1066, Edward, king of England died and Harold, Earl of Wessex was crowned king. William was furious, claiming that in 1051 Edward, a distant cousin, had promised him the throne and that Harold had later sworn to support that claim. The first years of William's reign were spent crushing resistance and securing his borders, which he did with ruthless efficiency. Horrible Histories How William the Conque...
Accidental Inventions
February 08, 2015 00:00 - 11 minutes - 16 MBNEXT EPSIODE FEB 24 Accidental Inventions Crisps George Crum George Crum (born George Speck;[1] c. 1828 – July 22, 1914)[2] was a mixed-race African/Native American trapper and guide in the Adirondacks, who became renowned for his culinary skills after becoming a cook and restaurant owner in Saratoga Springs, New York. By 1860 he owned Crum's House, a popular lakeside restaurant in nearby Malta. Hotel chef George Crum enjoyed a wonderful knack for cooking. From hi...
Transatlantic crossings
November 16, 2014 00:00 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MBnew episiode early feb Transatlantic crossings History[edit] Packet ships (1812–1838)[edit] The England, a packet ship of the Black Ball Line The modern era of "liners" was established by the Black Ball Line which began operation in 1818. The packet ships were contracted by governments to carry mail and also carried passengers and timely items such as newspapers. Up till this point there were no regular passages advertised by sailing ships. They arrived at port whe...
1978
October 05, 2014 00:00 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBWriter and broadcaster Georgi Markov has died of blood poisoning, four days after he said he was stabbed with an umbrella at a London bus stop. Scotland Yard said they are treating his death as suspicious and samples of his blood have been sent to the Porton Down Germ Warfare Centre for examination. Estimates of world population for various points in history have been a subject of study for many years. Many authoritative sources exist for historical population estimates (e...
Islands
August 10, 2014 21:39 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MBnew episoide next week Out by october 6 th Bought new computer not nearly as good as my old one SEALAND From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Principality of SealandMicronation Flag Coat of arms Motto: E Mare LibertasFrom the sea, Freedom Anthem: E Mare Libertas by Basil Simonenko Sealand from above Status Current Capital HM Fort Roughs[1] Official languages English[2] Demonym Sealander, Sealandic[3] Organizati...
Explores
June 08, 2014 17:16 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBBeen crazy busy will come out within week new epsiode july 24 World cup has got in the way but you should know USA played really well, game of the tournament New episode June 24th Robert Falcon Scott, CVO (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navyofficer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: theDiscovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. Scott, wri...
PIRATES
March 12, 2014 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBok fingers crossed next week will be nxt epsiode thats june 6th 7 th hopefully Ok I am back, found it a little difficult since been back, but things on a little more even Keel and I hope new episode will be out soon A dash across america then next episiode out in may 10 fiveofthebest.podomatic.com The Flag of John "Calico Jack" RackhamOpenclipart.orgJohn "Calico Jack" Rackham had a short and largely unimpressive pirate career between 1718 and 1720. Today, he is really ...
Satelittes
February 25, 2014 00:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MBfiveofthebest.podomatic.com new episode 12 th march still traveling and having little trouble, will try to add pics tomorrow Satelittes Satellites operate in extreme temperatures from −150 °C (−238 °F) to 150 °C (300 °F) and may be subject to radiation in space. Satellite components that can be exposed to radiation are shielded with aluminium and other radiation-resistant material Communication satellites range from microsatellites weighing less than 1 kg (2.2 ...
ROYAL BEHEADINGS
December 26, 2013 00:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBthis time new episode by feb26th A STORY OF THREE ROYAL BEHEADINGShttp: Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649[a]) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649. Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life. He became heir apparent to the English, Irish and Scottish thro...
1995
October 29, 2013 21:32 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBwhy isn't everything easy I mean why The next episoide will be out dec 24 , or maybe 25th, fuck australia that should FUCK ello the reason why I have not released a new episode is that my computer is badly infected and could not do so. I had a wake up call and decided to quite shity job and go travelling, head towards my brother in Australia, I have recorded three I think quite good episodes but can not download. I will try to find a computer on my travels and re...
discoveries
October 08, 2013 13:26 - 25 minutes - 23 MBFor Dad He would have loved this Tutankhamun (alternatively spelled with Tutenkh-, -amen, -amon) was an Egyptianpharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. He is popularly referred to as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living For Dad he would have loved this Go to According to the September 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine, Tutankha...
1972
July 28, 2013 20:51 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBThere will be new episode october 8th New episoi go to the site [email protected] The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientificpocket calculator[1] (a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions). Like some of HP's desktop calculators, it used reverse Polish notation. Introduced at US$395,[2] the HP-35 was available from 1972 to 1975. The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the worl...
Episode 15
July 03, 2013 23:22 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBfiveofthebest.podomatic.com Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (c. 1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, andpolitician of the Elizabethan era. Drake carried out thesecond circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580. His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque.[4] King Philip II was said to have offered a reward of 20,000 ducats,[5] about £4 mill...
Hoaxes
June 23, 2013 21:58 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBwebsite fiveofthebest.podomatic.com . The Turk could nod twice if it threatened its opponent's queen, and three times upon placing the king in check. If an opponent made an illegal move, the Turk would shake its head, move the piece back and make its own move, thus forcing a forfeit of its opponent's move.[20] Louis Dutens, a traveller who observed a showing of the Turk, attempted to trick the machine "by giving the Queen the move of a Knight, but my mechanic opponent was n...
1958
June 16, 2013 22:22 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBFiveofthebest.podomatic.com The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European AirwaysFlight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway atMunich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was theManchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists.[1] Twenty of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash The new wing design was extremely ...
drugs that were legal
June 09, 2013 22:33 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MBIn 2003, a leather basket filled with cannabis leaf fragments and seeds was found next to a 2,500- to 2,800-year-old mummified shaman in the northwesternXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.[136][137] Cannabis is also known to have been used by the ancient Hindus of India and Nepal thousands of years ago. Contemporary uses of cannabis are as a recreational or medicinal drug, and as part of religious or spiritual rites; the earliest recorded uses date from the 3rd millennium ...
events of 1988
June 02, 2013 21:22 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBEvents of 1988 Tyson made his professional debut as an 18-year-old on March 6, 1985, in Albany, New York. He defeated Hector Mercedes via a first round knockout.[8] He had 15 bouts in his first year as a professional. Fighting frequently, Tyson won 26 of his first 28 fights by KO or TKO; 16 of those came in the first round.[19] The quality of his opponents gradually increased to journeyman fighters and borderline contenders,[19] like James Tillis, David Jaco, Jesse Ferguson Event...
Showmen
May 26, 2013 20:55 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBA short story of four showmen William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), in Le Claire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US Army as a scout. One of the most colorful figures of the American Old West, Buffalo Bill became...
Events of 1962
May 19, 2013 20:15 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBSome events of 1962 Sound problem cured The program included 20 unmanned launches, followed by two suborbital and four orbital flights with astronaut pilots. This estimate gave the cost of Project Mercury as $392.6 ... In 2010, The SpaceReview estimated the cost of Mercury as $1.6 ... So Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as ...
Engines
May 12, 2013 22:36 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MB5 s ries of engines , will try and get pics up again . The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using reciprocating pistons. Itsfour-stroke cycle takes place in a space between the inside of an oval-like epitrochoid-shaped housing and a rotor that is similar in shape to a...
Events of 2004
May 05, 2013 21:35 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBSome better events of 2004 with some pics to come. SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Itsmother ship was named "White Knight". Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, which was a joint venture between Paul Allenand Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company. Allen pr...
Things to happen in 1982
April 28, 2013 19:52 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBFive events on 1982 After launch and a four month cruise to Venus the descent vehicle separated from the cruise stage and plunged into the Venusian atmosphere on March 1, 1982. After entering the atmosphere a parachute was deployed. At an altitude of about 50 km the parachute was released and simple airbraking was used the rest of the way to the surface. Paolo Rossi on his way to scoring thre...
Movies make for peanuts but made millions
April 20, 2013 20:55 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB5 movies made for peanuts that made millions The film, made on a budget of $950,000[2][3] and shot in 28 days, was a sleeper hit; it made over $225 million,[1] the highest grossing film of 1976, and won three Oscars, including Best Picture. The film received many positive reviews and turned Stallone into a major star.[4] It spawned five sequels: Rocky II, III, IV, V and Rocky Balboa, all written by and starring Stallone. Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher...
things that happened in 97
April 08, 2013 15:36 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBFive events that happened in 1997 Since the release of the first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on 30 June 1997, the books have gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide.[1] The series has also had some share of criticism, including concern for the increasingly dark tone. As of June 2011, the book series has sold about 450 million copies, making it the best-selling book series in history Since Titanic is a 1997 Am...
Traitors
March 25, 2013 20:47 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB2013-05-21hi s is the story of five traitors, and gives some clues of why they went down this path Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries, was a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Fawkes was born and educated in York. His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Cath...
James Bonds Pt 1
March 22, 2013 09:37 - 10 minutes - 9.29 MBA brief history of James Bond, this includes the writer and actors and there stories on how they came to play James Bond