Okay, I know, I know – we said we’d stop doing fictional characters. But this one is too good to give up!
Where does the Santa Claus story come from?
I asked that question over lunch with my sister’s family on the weekend and her 6 year old son said “The North Pole!”.
On today’s [...]
In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been down for a couple of days. As you can read on the TPN blog, it was due to a hard drive failure on one of the servers. We’re in the process of re-building and it might take a few more days. At the moment we’re missing all of [...]
One of the top podcast review sites, “Anne Is A Man!”, has reviewed our recent episode on Charlemagne. Anne, who lives in Israel, mentions a number of excellent history podcasts that have covered Charlemagne and then has this to say about our show:
So, I reserved the best for last: TPN’s Biography Show which has dedicated [...]
Charlemagne (aka Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great) (742 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by [...]
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