I Can't Believe That Happened History Podcast for Kids
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★ - 32 ratingsI Can't Believe That Happened, a children's podcast every week full of interesting moments in History.
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Roosevelt's Zoo: Presidential Pets
July 28, 2023 13:48 - 6 minutes - 8.37 MB🎙️ Hey there, history buffs! Did you know Teddy Roosevelt and his six kiddos were practically running a zoo in the White House? 🐻🐍 With over 40 pets, including a badger and even a bear 🦡, their adventures are bound to blow your mind! Tune in to our kids history podcast #WildWhiteHouse 🏰🐾 #PodcastFun If you enjoyed please pass along to friends and your online community. If you found the mistake I hid in the episode please head over to www.owlandtwine.com and email me the correct answer so I...
Matthew Henson: First Man on the North Pole: Black History Month I Can't Believe That Happened
February 25, 2023 01:00 - 10 minutes - 13.9 MBMathew Henson Explorer I think I am going to do a series of PLEASE SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS PERSON Tell me at the end if you would not sit and binge an entire series about Mathew Henson one of the first people to go to the NorthPole in our Black History month for I Can’t Believe That Happened. Born August 8 1866 on a farm in Maryland He was the middle child with an older and a younger sister His parents were free sharecroppers who escaped to Georgetown after the KK...
One Ring To Rule Them All: The Ring That InspireD J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
December 09, 2022 14:30 - 7 minutes - 3.75 MBWelcome to I Can’t Believe That Happened and our first episode on the History of Cursed Jewels. A quick reminder I always throw in one wrong fact. If you find it send me and email and let me know what the right fact is and what your source is. Let’s start with the Ring of Dwarf Hill that inspired The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien What if I told you that some of his epic fantasy came from actual history? Let’s talk about: The One ring to rule them all. The ring that had al...
The Surprising History of Cursed Jewels, Jewelry, and Gemstones
November 04, 2022 22:35 - 5 minutes - 7.01 MBWhat is it about minerals and gemstones that we find so amazing even beyond their beauty? We give them a supernatural power from healing crystals, to purifications, to remembering our dead with memento mori, to of course curses of long-dead powerful rulers wishing to keep their riches in to the eternity of the afterlife. We have told stories about cursed gems. There have been books and movies. You will certainly have heard of a few of the stories before or you might find out your favorite ...
Mercy Otis Warren: Playwright, Historian, and Whistleblower July 4
July 03, 2022 02:46 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MBMercy Otis Warren: Revolutionary Playwright, Historian, and Whistleblower July 4 Episode In researching the revolution so many names came up that even with my decades of love of history I had never heard. Mercy Otis is one. Which is surprising given how much she did during and after the revolution and the president’s who held her views in high regard. She not only wrote to presidents )who wrote back) but she published plays, pamphlets, and the first history of the revolution published by an...
The Heroes of the Air: Versailles A Duck, A Rooster, and A Sheep
May 03, 2022 23:20 - 9 minutes - 4.61 MBA duck, a Rooster, and a sheep wander into a wicker basket. This is not a joke it is the start of our podcast and the beginning of the ability for humans to fly. 19 September 1783 at 1 PM a cannon blasts and our Heroes of the air walk and waddle their way into history in the courtyard of Versailles in front of 130,000 people including the Queen, Marie Antoinette and King Louis. Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier had spent the years earlier experimenting with hot air and in the beginning, laundr...
Beatrix Potter Children's Book Author, Scientist, and Farmer A Ten Minute Children's History Podcast
March 02, 2022 20:00 - 8 minutes - 15.8 MBBeatrix Potter is beloved by so many of us for her darling illustrated children's books but did you know she was a scientist who changed the English landscape? It's time to learn all about this amazing woman, her love for animals, her brilliant scientific mind, and her love of nature. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Elizabeth Jennings The Woman Who Started Desegregation of New York Transportation System:Black History Month
February 12, 2022 04:00 - 10 minutes - 18.5 MBOur first black history month at 10-minute history podcast for kids! This week we are going to be taking a look at Elizabeth Jennings Grahm the woman who started the desegregation of the New York transportation system in the 1800’s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Polar Bear Swam in The Thames
January 15, 2021 06:00 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBPolar Bear Swam in The Thames Have you ever been to London? Seen pictures of The Tower of London The River Thames? Have you thought about the wild life in England? Think about standing looking out at the river and watching a polar bear. We will absolutely have an episode about this soon or a season, but the Tower of London was once what you might have considered a zoo. King John in 1210 began keeping caged lions at the entrance so in 1252, King Henry the III, King John’s son, was given ...
Chess Playing Turk Chess Automaton That Fooled The World
January 13, 2021 14:30 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBThe Chess Playing Turk Automaton The magic trick that astounded the world was not made by a magician. It was not even intended to be a magic trick. It was a challenge and from the challenge one of the most interesting stories about magic and robots came to be. Maria Theresa of Austria had a performance planned for her court in 1769 to watch a demonstration of magnetic tricks. Her counselor, a Hungarian scientist Wolfgang Von Kempelen was unimpressed and said he could do better He returned...
The History of Robots- The Silver Swan-
December 28, 2020 23:16 - 11 minutes - 15.9 MBCreated by Name: John Joseph Merlin (1735-18030) Apprentice to James Cox.Musical inventor, created a museum called Merlin's Mechanical Museum in Princes Street In the 1760’s created something like inline skates but forgot a braking system, he tested these two-wheel skates at a party while playing a violin where he became closely acquainted with a large and expensive mirror. and James Cox ( 1723-1800) An incredible businessman who reminds me of P.T Barnum. He ran the most expensive muse...
History of Robots: Jaques de Vaucanson :Pooping Robot Duck & the Flute Playing Automaton
June 17, 2020 14:00 - 13 minutes - 18.3 MBJaques de Vaucanson Early Life: Jaques de Vaucanson was born in Grenoble, France in 1709 10th child to a poor family of glove makers Jaques wanted to become a clock maker as a child. His mother being very religious took Jaques to church with her. While she was in confession Jaques would watch the clock until he memorized its’ mechanisms to such perfection he was able to recreate it at home. When Jaques father died when he was seven he was sent to live and train with the Jesuits. It was...
The History of Robots: Leonardo Da Vinci: Robot Knight, Self-Driving Cart, and Robot Lions:
May 08, 2020 20:17 - 11 minutes - 20.2 MBPlease Hit That Subscribe & Like. Remember, sharing is caring. Leonardo DaVinci’s Robots History Podcast for Kids. Robot Lion, first self-driving cart, and robot lion all from the 1400’s! Share and press like. Early Life: 1452- 1519 born into a challenging circumstance in Florence, Italy, but was given an apprenticeship at a painter's studio. Fishing reference. Robots: Leonardo’s Mechanical Knight: The knight’s existence was discovered in 1957 by historian Carlo Pedretti. Designed 149...
The History of Robots: Al Jazari Brilliant Inventor: A History Podcast for Kids and Curious Adults
April 16, 2020 04:57 - 12 minutes - 23.7 MBName: Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī Early Life : Born 1136 CE Born in Upper Mesopotamia. Like his father, he served as chief engineer at Artuklu Palace. His book: The Book of knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices includes all we know of al- Jazari's life and only includes inventions he created himself. Wrote: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Device descriptions of over fifty mechanical devices with instructions on how to build them. His boo...
The History of Robots: Hero of Alexandria: History Podcast for Kids and Curious Adults
March 26, 2020 05:38 - 9 minutes - 17.3 MBLived: 1st century writing between 60-70 AD. Was a student of Ctesibius a man believed to be the head of the Museum of Alexandria. It is thought he was a teacher and lecturer there as well. Historians believe this since his writings appear to be lecture notes. He was also inspired by Inspired by Philo of Byzantium (3 centuries before wrote about the use of trapped and compressed air) The museum was described to be a school that taught through experimenting and doing as well as by lecture....
The First Drone: Robot History: History Podcast For Kids and Curious Adults
March 13, 2020 04:56 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBArchytas of Terentum First Drone mathematician, political leader (elected seven times), and philosopher Alive and active during the time of Plato. We know this because he sent a ship to rescue Plato from Syracuse. (not the city → this guy). We only have four fragments of Archytas' work. We mostly rely on writings that took place fifty years after his death to piece together his life. 350 B. C. The first self-propelled flying device Wooden mechanical dove capable of flapping wings and f...
Elizabeth Jennings The Woman Who Started Desegregation of New York Transportation System
February 25, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutes - 4.02 MBToday I want to talk about Elizabeth Jennings her story is about the importance of challenging systems A special thank you to Mo Rocca and his show Mobituaries for bringing Elizabeth Jennings to my attention and patching up a massive hole in my US. history education. Elizabeth Jennings-Grahm Born free in 1827 to a freeborn father and a mother who was born into slavery. Her father Thomas L. Jennings was the first black patent holder in 1821 for developing a new clothes Cleaning method. He w...
Unmasking the Lone Ranger: Bass Reeves Most Feared US Marshall: Black History Month
February 06, 2020 06:30 - 10 minutes - 18.3 MBFor the start of black history month, we are going to head all the way back to the old west to meet a man who has been long thought to be the inspiration behind The Lone Ranger. Take a listen through and if you are familiar with the TV show or watched the latest movie let me know below what you think. Without any dispute Bass Reeves was one of the most feared lawmen of the west. Born 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas as a slave. The slave owner was Confederate Colonel George Reeves and dur...
Pandora The World's First AI A History Podcast for Kids and Curious Adults
January 23, 2020 05:59 - 10 minutes - 3.77 MBPandora: The myth of Pandora can be read as a warning against artificial intelligence or AI. As the first AI being created (by Hephaestus) she did define the chaos of what AI can bring. In Hesiod’s Theogony Pandora is made as a response to Prometheus giving the human’s fire. Zeus seemed to think that was just a step too far in the human power direction and not enough in the all-mighty Zeus and God power line up. So Zeus goes to his brilliant design and crafting god, Hephaestus, and asks ...
Talos The First Robotic Security System: A History of Robots
January 13, 2020 06:00 - 9 minutes - 16.8 MBHello everyone and this is our first week of robots the history! Robots, can you tell excited I am? Welcome to I can't believe this happened. We are going to start with ancient Greece and we're going, to begin with, the robot Talos. Links: Hephaestus Minos Zeus Crete Colossus of Rhodes Do You Want To Contribute? Did you find the wrong fact? Do you have the right one? Would you like to let me know what skills you would give your room protection robot? Click here Hosted on Acast. See...
A History of Robots Automatons Preview
January 06, 2020 04:00 - 6 minutes - 12.3 MBHello everyone and welcome to I Can't Believe that Happened, a short history podcast for kids and curious adults.. Thank you so much for your patience. I know that was a really long break and I am sorry but I think that your patience is going to be worth it because I have been researching for a new season and that is going to be the history of robots. I am so excited about this. I hope you are too. I was thinking, the history of robots we'd be going back to the 1950s and back to the Jetso...
New Episode: History Podcast for Kids: Famous Magicians: Houdin
October 02, 2019 19:00 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBJean- Eugene-Robert-Houdin- (December 7, 1805 – June 13, 1871) “A magician is merely an actor playing the part of a magician.” Jean was born in Blois France to a watchmaker. His father was set on Robert becoming a lawyer. Robert was set on becoming a watchmaker. He had a job as a clerk in a law office for a short time where he spent most of his time tinkering with mechanical objects in the office than writing and copying. He was sent back to his father where he became an apprentice wat...
Emperor Norton
September 24, 2019 04:30 - 13 minutesvisit www.owlandtwine.com to sign up for our newsletter and see the images discussed in the podcast. A for kids history podcast in 10 minutes. This week the emperor of America, Edward Norton. Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times. Edward Norton was a visionary of the gold rush who made decrees from equal rights to building the Bay Bridge. Lauded as the only emperor to shed no blood. Emperor Norton the King of America Did you know America had a king? This is one of my...
Adelaide Hermann “The Queen of Magic”
September 05, 2019 05:00 - 11 minutes - 5.52 MBHey all this is Monica from I can't believe that happened and I am so grateful for all of you coming back to the podcast it was a very long and unexpected but I try to have some exciting news I took the time because I was reading a book and I could really use your help on this it's at I will and Twine.com that's the website and I cannot live in some of the book it's also a game and I need as many people as possible to take a look at play the game and tell me what you like and don't like this...
Hazel Scott: Genius Musician, Performer, and Civil Rights Activist
May 02, 2019 00:05 - 12 minutes - 5.74 MBHazel Dorthy Scott born June 11, 1920 in Trinidad her parent: R. Thomas Scott a West African scholar from Liverpool and mother Alma long Scott a music teacher and classical pianist. Jazz and classical pianist Age 4 taken to New York as a musical prodigy 8 given a scholarship to Julliard when the start age is suppose to be 16 At 15 she started her own radio show and played with the Count Basie Orchestra As a teen performed piano and trumpet in her mothers all girl jazz band. In the mid...
Bessie Coleman: Aviation History: Black History Month
February 27, 2019 23:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBFor the last week of Black History month 2019 I want to introduce on of my heroes: Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman amazes me by her sheer energy and rufusal to let ANYTHING detour her dreams, even when they do not work out, even when every odd is against her, even when her plane crashes she takes it in stride and creates a new plan. Some of you know that I am disabled. Though flight is not my dream and the racial struggles and barrier Ms. Coleman had to reckon with are not mine I can recogni...
Ida B Wells: Activist, Journalist, and Teacher: Black History Month
February 09, 2019 06:01 - 12 minutes - 9.57 MBSources for Ida B Wells: Activist, Journalist, and Teacher: Black History Month National Women's History Museum: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ida-b-wells-barnett Biography: https://www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-952763 NY Times Overlooked Obituaries: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/obituaries/overlooked-ida-b-wells.html PBS 13: https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_wells.html Mississippi History Now: http://www.mshistorynow....
Robert Smalls The Slave Who Stole A Confederate Ship and Became a Senator: Black History Month:
February 01, 2019 18:05 - 11 minutes - 9.32 MBRobert Smalls was born a slave in South Carolina April 5, 1839 At 12 years old Robert Smalls’ owners rented him out to work in the town and on the water as a lamplighter, sailmaker, and sailor. This was where he learned the skills he would later use to make his daring escape and when he met his wife Hannah Smalls. At this time Union ships blockaded the South's harbors and Robert Smalls began to plan his and his young family’s escape. May 13, 1862 Robert Smalls and a group of fellow slave...
It’s A Dogs Life The Amazing Friendship and Life of Bummer and Lazarus
January 14, 2019 05:16 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MBThis week we are are going back to the 1860’s to learn all about two dogs who ruled the city: Bummer and Lazarus. They were friends with the King of America (Emperor Norton) and with Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). The city fell head over tails for these pups and they could do no wrong in the populations of San Francisco’s eyes. One day outside of Martin’s Saloon a giant black and white Newfoundland appeared and quickly made himself very useful by tackling the saloons rat problem. The patrons ...
Barnum’s American Museum Step Right Up See a Mermaid, A Whale, and See the Marvels of the World
December 30, 2018 23:26 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB*Show Notes for Barnum’s American History Museum* Barnum museum The Barnum Museum was arguably the wonder of the world in the 1800’s. If you watched /The Greatest Showman/ you can get the filmmaker’s idea of what the Barnum’s American Museum was like. Unfortunately, I feel like they really missed an opportunity, as wonderful as the Greatest Showman was it missed the live whale, the performing grizzly bears, and the Feejee Mermaid so step right up and be amazed we are going back to 1841 to ...
The History of Tom Thumb Part II The Fairy Wedding A History Podcast for Kids
December 13, 2018 01:02 - 10 minutes - 13.8 MBThe exciting conclusion to the story of Charles Stratton or as P.T. Barnum named him, Tom Thumb. In This episode you will learn about how he met his wife Lavinia Warren and all about their "Fairy Wedding". Tune in next week for Lavinia Warren's Story from school teacher to star to entrepreneur. Thank you so much for listening! If you enjoyed here are some very nice things you can do for I Can't Believe That Happened: Say something nice about us on ITunes And share the podcast with frien...
Tom Thumb History of the Circus
December 05, 2018 03:51 - 10 minutes - 9.21 MBI cheated a little bit since Tom Thumb was a member of the tour and P.T. Barnum's American Museum but was not apart of an actual circus. Please forgive I could not resist doing an episode on Charles Stratton (General Tom Thumb). If you happen to have seen The Greatest Showman (As I have a dozen times) you might remember him. While I LOVE the movie the true story of General Tom Thumb is even more fantastical. Please tune in and hear about Tom's audience with the Queen and his play battle with ...
The History of the Circus: History of Acrobats: History Podcast for Kids
November 02, 2018 19:28 - 6 minutes - 9.05 MBHow did circuses begin? How did people decide to start flying through the air and swinging from the top of circus tents? Who started what we think of as a circus? Take a listen to our bite size history podcast fro kids and curious adults. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Helen Keller
October 17, 2018 22:04 - 15 minutes - 12.7 MBHelen Keller You might have heard her name before. I am relatively certain you have but I am guessing that you heard about her in the same way I was taught about Helen Keller, almost as an accessory to her teacher’s story. I am so excited to get to introduce all of you to a woman that until I began researching I only knew as a brave disabled woman who inspired by her willingness to learn. There is so much more! Helen was born in 1880 in Alabama a very healthy little girl who even started ...
Nellie Bly: Mental Health Crusader and Investigative Journalist
October 10, 2018 13:30 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBThere are some people who cannot abide cruelty or injustice in the world and will do literally anything to mange things right. At a time when women were struggling for basic rights Nellie Bly took her power which was her writing and journalism to take on institutions that housed those who were not mentally well. “That such an institution could be mismanaged, and that cruelties could exist ‘neath its roof, I did not deem possible. I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly–a ...
Annie Oakley: The History of The Circus
September 20, 2018 21:59 - 9 minutes - 4.77 MBWelcome to this weeks I Can't Believe that Happened your history podcast for kids or curious grownups so I thought that we would start today with the more unusual circus act and unusual is just because it wasn't traditionally what you would think of when you're thinking of a circus act there were no elephants but that that doesn't make this woman any less impressive her name was Annie Oakley and she was born in 1860 and things did not start out easy for her. Annie was born in Ohio and her f...
Clyde Beatty The Amazing Animal Trainer: History of The Circus A History Podcast For Kids and Curious Grown Ups
August 06, 2018 20:10 - 8 minutes - 4.1 MBPodcast for kids Perfect for Homeschool learn all about the history of the circus and one of the most famous lion tamers in history, Clyde Beatty Clyde Beatty was born in 1903 in Bainbridge Ohio. He was so inspired after seeing his first circus he decided to start his own when he was 9 using his own pets as acts and neighbors as an audience. When Clyde was 17 he decided to move on from his backyard to a real circus. He began his animal training career with four polar bears. In his 20 is he ...
The History of Carousels A For Kids Podcast
May 25, 2018 16:51 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MBHello everyone and welcome to this week's I Can't Believe That Happened. Last week we wrapped up the history of dogs segment and if you haven't listened please go to Itunes and take a listen especially about the WWI pit bull hero Sgt. Stubby who saved his unit. I am sure I will do another segment on dogs. Please leave comments if you have a topic you would like me to cover. This month I have been really starting to feel like Summer is here and when I think about Summer I think carnivals and c...
5 Things You Didn't Know About Royal Dogs {For Kids Podcast}
May 04, 2018 19:05 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MBRoyal Dogs Dogs have long been popular in Royal households even when they were not hunters or protector dogs have had a special place in royal homes. Here are the top 5 things you didn't know about Royal Dogs from history.' I. In 1715 the Duchess d' Orleans reported to a friend that her grandson the Duc de Charles was placed in a miniature triumphal car pulled by a large cat. A pigeon was a coachman and a favorite dog named Adrienne was seated with another dog named Picart was footman who...
SGT Stubby The Ultimate Good Boy {For Kids Podcast}
April 20, 2018 13:30 - 9 minutes - 11.8 MBSgt Stubby (Now a movie: Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero) 1917 Private J. Robert Conroy found a brindle pup with a stubby tail which becomes the dog's name. Stubby started his military career as the mascot for the 102nd Infantry 26 the Yankee Division. Stubby was a quick study learning bugle calls, drills, and even found his own way to salute putting his right paw on his right eyebrow. Even though animals were not allowed Private Conroy hid Stubby when they went to France on the SS. Min...
History Of Pugs A Snot Snorts Snores And Snuggles
April 13, 2018 14:10 - 8 minutes - 10.9 MBHello everyone and thank you so much for tuning in to this week I Can't Believe That Happened a podcast about history for kids. Today we are talking all about the crazy history of pugs from the Chinese Empire To Queen Victoria. Pugs originated in China, dating back to the Han dynasty (B.C. 206 to A.D. 200). Some historians believe they are related to the Tibetan Mastiff. If you squint you can almost see it. These fuzzy friendly loaf of bread shaped pups were prized by the Emperors of China...
Happy National Puppy Day {kid's podcast}
March 23, 2018 17:33 - 5 minutes - 82.9 KBI am soooo close to launching my children's history podcast! I think next Friday will be the first episode all about the magical, royal, and oddly fierce history of the corgi! Make sure you tune in and sign up for the newsletter. If you would like to peek ahead you can buy my children's book on The History of Royal Dogs. Royal Dogs: Penelope & Beatrice Owl & Twine Don't Miss A Thing! Sign up ...
Magical and Royal Corgi Top 5 Things You Did Not Know{children’s podcast}
March 23, 2018 13:50 - 5 minutes - 7.15 MBDon't Miss Another Moment Of Fun History Facts Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. First Name Last Name Email Address Sign Up We respect y...