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Du bon pain de momie ça vous tente ? Enfin faire du pain au levain de momie ? Non ? Pourtant c'est le réflexe qu'ont eu des chercheurs, à partir de levures trouvées sur Otzi. Rien ne se perd, tout se transforme, tout ça... En attendant même si on dirait pas, c'est une découverte ...  Show more

Depuis Hérodote jusqu’aux grands historiens de notre époque, la manière d’écrire et de penser l’Histoire a bien évolué. Mais s’il y a un nom qu’on ne peut ignorer au XXe siècle, c’est celui de Marc Bloch. Résistant, cofondateur des Annales, auteur du célèbre "Apologie pour l’Hist ...  Show more

On Sunday 7 December 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The US Pacific Fleet was devastated and 2403 Americans were killed. But it was not the decisive strike Japan had hoped for, and it awakened a sleeping giant that would tu ...  Show more

On 7th December, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy struck the United States. In an action which killed 2,403 Americans and destroyed 21 US warships and 188 aircraft, they also brought the US into the Second World War.

But it may not have been possible without the inpu ...

Seven years ago, Joe and I began this podcast with a two-part episode on the Second World War in Europe. Today, we fulfill a promise to longtime listeners with the first installment of the Pacific War--from Pearl Harbor to Midway. Join us next week for the second part and then ...

If somebody asked you to go on a dangerous mission, no other details, would you volunteer?

Well, in 1942, that's exactly what 120 crewmen of the US Army Air Force did. In this episode, find out how it went and who Jimmy Doolittle was. From an impossible take off, thr ...