The Z files
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The Z files
The Z files
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IMPEACHED: Clinton
An extra-marital affair, a backstabbing friend, a relentless prosecutor and the impeachment of a once beloved president. In november of 1995 so began...
IMPEACHED: Trump (2019)
In a presidency scarred with controversy and incompetence, it's no shock that donald trump became the first ever president to be impeached twice. But...
Ona Judge: The Story of George Washington's Escaped Slave
On january 1st, 1847 a newspaper titled “the liberator” published a letter written by reverend Benjamin Chase describing his visit to Ona Judge. An el...
The Incredible Life of Ida B. Wells
From fighting racist policies in federal court, to risking her life investigating lynching in the south, to raising her 5 siblings on her own when she...
The Atlantic Slave Trade - Pt. 1
From the late 15th century, to mid 19th century, an estimated 10-12 million africans were forcibly shipped to the americas to be bought and sold as sl...
The Atlantic Slave Trade - Pt. 2
It took many years for the atlantic slave trade to truly cease to exist but across the world that process began in in the early 1800, however it takes...
100 Years of Beauty Standards
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder we know this, and yet we ignore it. To us beauty has become a set of exclusive traits and features, growing farth...
Humanizing Sylvia Plath
Sylvia plath often gets dismissed because of the large portion of her fan-base comprised of teen-age girls, however today I would like to challenge th...
Antony & Cleopatra + (Octavian...) - Pt. 1
With the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome fell into a bitter civil war, but when they came out they would no longer be the republic ever...
Antony & Cleopatra + (Octavian...) - Pt. 2
In last week's episode I covered the build up to the battle of actium, the culmination of years of roman conflict following the death of julius caesar...
From Chaos to Zeus (Origins of the Greek Gods)
Very few stories have captured the public imagination so largely for so long, however greek mythology has proven impermeable to the erosion of time, a...
Diana, The Queen Who Could Have Been - Pt.1
Princess Diana practically reinvented the role of the british royal family. She brought mental health to the forefront public conversation, and strive...
Diana, The Queen Who Could Have Been - Pt.2
1980 could probably be-called “diana's decade”, it was hard to exist and not be bombarded with her, she covered every tabloid, was the subject of inte...
Love in Ancient greece (it sucks)
zeus's defeat of his child-eating/daddy defeated, father Cronus, brought about the age of the olympians, and thus, famous heroes such as Heracles, Per...
The Plague of Athens
Human existence is synonymous with mass disease outbreaks, honestly just try and argue that statement, and you will see how true it actually is.
Homer - Pt. 1
The homeric tales have infiltrated modern culture in ways that you can't quite comprehend, until you can. A reference to the wine dark sea, or the god...
Homer - Pt.2
Human memory is a powerful tool when trained, and there is not much better training than being forced to memorize 16000 thousand lines of verse in ord...
Homer - Pt.3
I've heard it said that we should think of Homer more of an “it” than a “he”, but that's just one theory, in the vast, expansive sea of them.
In...
The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
In 1961, berliners awoke in the middle of the night to the violent construction of what would become a symbol of communist oppression in easern europe...
Oscar Fingal O’flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O’flahertie Wills Wilde, Would you believe he lives up to that name? Being the man to coin the phrase “life imitates art” it's not a shoc...
Residential Schools
This past May, the remains of 215 indigenous children were found on the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential school. Before this discovery, The Nat...
A Brief Discussion of The Cold War (1945-1957)
Recently, I found that my historical interests have been ideological conflict in the 19th century, and ideological conflict in 4th century BC. So yeah...
IMPEACHED: Nixon
Sorry for the questionable audio quality! It will be better next week.
In june of 1972, five burglars were caught red-handed in the DNC’s head h...