Best George Washington III Podcasts (2025)

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28th December 1537: Francis I of France establishes the first legal deposit for books under the Ordonnance de Montpellier

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The Ordonnance de Montpellier required printers and booksellers to deposit a copy of every book published in the kingdom with the royal ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Who the Ninja Really Were 🥷🕯️ (And What They Actually Did) 3:54:56

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🌙🥷 Ninja were not magical assassins dressed in black — they were spies, scouts, and survival experts living quietly in feudal Japan. They gathered information, avoided open battle, and relied on patience, disguise, and local knowledge rather than flashy combat. Tonight, close your eyes and drift into the shadowy villages and moonlit paths of old Ja…

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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

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The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Inside George Washington’s Personal Life 3:54:54

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George Washington is remembered as a symbol, but in private he was a reserved, disciplined, and deeply controlled man. He followed strict routines, guarded his emotions, wrote carefully chosen letters, and preferred silence to spectacle. Tonight, drift into the quiet rooms of Mount Vernon and discover the calm, orderly world of a man who carried a …

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26th December 1991: Soviet Union dissolved in the final meeting of the Supreme Soviet

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As it became obvious that the USSR was falling apart, on 25 December Gorbachev resigned as President and the Soviet Union was formally dissolved the next ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Celts 🕯️⚔️ Europe’s Mysterious Dark Age Masters & Their Lost Treasures 3:58:45

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🌫️⚔️ Long before castles, kings, and written history, the Celts ruled much of Europe — without leaving behind clear records of who they were or where they went. Their warriors terrified Rome, their art shimmered with gold and spirals, and their treasures vanished into bogs, rivers, and legend. What remains is a shadowy civilization remembered throu…

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The Utah Jazz Episode: Ace Bailey, Lauri Markkanen, and Keyonte George | YM3 49:56

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It’s the Utah Jazz episode of YM3 featuring Ace Bailey, Lauri Markkanen, and Keynote George! The trio dive into so much in this conversation (on Ace’s first-ever podcast!). Ace opens up about his rookie year, what he’s learned so far this season, and his biggest adjustments in the NBA. They discuss Keyonte’s impressive jump this season and what he …

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25th December 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by Pope Leo III during Christmas Mass at St Peter’s Basilica

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The coronation of Charlemagne established the precedent for what later became known as the Holy Roman Empire and reinforced the idea of a Christian emperor as protector of the ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | How Victorian Junk Food Destroyed Millions of Lives 🍬💀 3:49:54

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🕯️🍭 Victorian Britain loved progress — and it loved cheap food even more. Sugar-filled sweets, toxic candies, chalked bread, and chemically enhanced snacks flooded the streets, feeding factory workers and children with food that looked delicious but slowly poisoned them. Long before nutrition labels and safety laws, “junk food” was colorful, addict…

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24th December 1955: Colorado Springs Continental Air Defense Command first gives children the location Santa as he delivers presents

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CONAD was replaced by NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) in 1958, and NORAD Tracks Santa has reported Santa’s location ever ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Pirate Golden Age: Rum, Gold & Bad Decisions 🏴‍☠️🍺 3:52:10

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🏴‍☠️🌊 Between the late 1600s and early 1700s, pirates briefly turned the oceans into lawless highways of ambition, desperation, and stolen gold. Life aboard a pirate ship promised freedom from kings and taxes—but delivered hunger, disease, violence, and a very short life expectancy. Close your eyes and drift across moonlit seas, creaking decks, and…

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TREY MURPHY III | The Old Man and the Three 45:47

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It’s another episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three’ with your new host, Cam Johnson of the Denver Nuggets! This week, Cam and Tommy welcome Trey Murphy III of the New Orleans Pelicans. Recorder earlier this season, they discuss everything from whether or not they are surprised by the amount of 50-point games this season, their approaches to shootin…

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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

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Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath, accidentally electrocuted himself while attempting to kill a ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Love, Power & Execution: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn 💔🪓 3:55:13

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👑🕯️ Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s story is often told as romance — but the reality was ambition, fear, and brutal Tudor politics. Their relationship reshaped England, broke with Rome, and ended in betrayal and blood. Tonight, drift into candlelit palaces and whispered accusations, where love was dangerous and power was never enough. 👉 Boring History…

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229. Sir Keir Starmer – Labour (2024-) 33:05

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Iain Dale talks to Patrick Maguire, chief political commentator for The Times about the life and career of the UK’s current prime minister.

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22nd December 1964: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft makes its first flight

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The SR-71 was used to conduct reconnaissance missions over hostile territory, providing high-quality photographic and electronic intelligence until its retirement in ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Secret of the Minoans 🏺🌊 (Europe’s First Lost Civilization) 4:03:13

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🏺🌊 Long before classical Greece, the Minoans ruled the seas from their palaces on Crete — building cities without walls, worshipping strange gods, and leaving behind symbols no one can fully read. They vanished without a clear ending, leaving only frescoes, ruins, and questions buried beneath ash, myth, and the sea. Tonight, close your eyes and dri…

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21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed in the New York World newspaper, created by Arthur Wynne

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Wynne’s first ‘word-cross puzzle’ was shaped as a symmetrical diamond with a hollow centre, and was developed by Wynne for the 21 December issue of the New York World’s ‘Fun’ ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Drug That Turned Victorian Women Into Maniacs💊👒 3:55:20

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💊🕯️ In Victorian England, the perfect lady wore silk, smiled politely… and was quietly medicated into oblivion. Laudanum and other “miracle cures” were prescribed for nerves, boredom, sadness, ambition, and basically existing as a woman — turning parlors into pharmacies and tea time into chemical roulette. What society called “hysteria,” doctors tr…

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20th December 1917: Establishment of the Cheka, the Russian Bolshevik secret police

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Established following a decree by Lenin on 19 December, the Cheka’s focus was on defending the revolution by removing internal threats to the communist ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Pharaoh Who Lived Like a God: Amenhotep III 👑☀️ 4:02:46

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👑😎 Amenhotep III ruled Egypt at its peak — when gold was everywhere, enemies were quiet, and building giant statues of yourself felt totally reasonable. He married strategically, traded internationally, declared himself semi-divine, and turned Egypt into a luxury empire powered by vibes, diplomacy, and extreme self-confidence. So close your eyes an…

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19th December 1777: George Washington leads the Continental Army into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

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By the time the Continental Army left Valley Forge in June 1778 it was smaller in number but stronger in organisation and confidence, establishing the foundations of its eventual success against British ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | What Christmas Was REALLY Like in Victorian England 🎄🌨️ 3:51:32

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🕯️🎁 Victorian England didn’t just celebrate Christmas — it reinvented it. From glowing candlelit trees to handwritten cards, steaming puddings, charity, ghost stories, and carols drifting through frosty streets, the Victorians shaped nearly every tradition we think of as “classic Christmas.” Tonight, close your eyes and wander through a snow-dusted…

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The Houston Rockets Episode: Steven Adams and Reed Sheppard | YM3 1:03:08

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It’s a Houston Rockets episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three’ with Steven Adams and Reed Sheppard, and it’s a good one. Some of their discussions include: Reed’s background, playing for the University of Kentucky, and deciding to leave after one year Steven’s experience coming to the US for basketball and his unorthodox draft path How Steven beca…

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18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker receives its première performance at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg

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Composed in the Romantic style, the score received good reviews although responses to the ballet itself were mostly negative. The fortunes of the ballet only turned around with a new staging in New York in ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Social World of Pompeii 🕯️🏺 (Before Time Froze) 4:01:30

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🏛️🌋 Pompeii was more than a disaster — it was a living, breathing Roman town filled with markets, baths, taverns, gossip, and daily routines. Ordinary people worked, argued, relaxed, prayed, and decorated their homes with art that still surprises us today, unaware that their city was quietly becoming a time capsule. From street food to social class…

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17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

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The Saturnalia festival was dedicated to Roman god, ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Medieval Knight 😬🛡️ 3:56:57

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⚔️🛡️ Being a medieval knight sounds glamorous — shining armor, noble quests, heroic battles — but the reality was closer to heavy metal discomfort, endless expenses, and a lifetime subscription to pain. Knights trained since childhood, spent fortunes maintaining armor and horses, and were expected to fight, bleed, and obey their lords without hesit…

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PAT & CAM SPENCER | The Old Man and the Three 36:46

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We’re back with another episode of ‘The Old Man and the Three’ with your new host, Cam Johnson of the Denver Nuggets! This week, Cam and Tommy welcome the Spencer brothers: Pat Spencer of the Golden State Warriors and Cam Spencer of the Memphis Grizzlies. They all discuss Pat’s increased role on the Warriors and his backstory of being the nation’s …

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16th December 1431: Henry VI became the only English monarch to be crowned King of France

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Henry was crowned by the Bishop of Paris, as the Archbishop of Reims was aligned with the French crown. Attendance was limited, and the event failed to generate significant support among the French ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Medieval Struggle: Surviving Disease, Starvation & Their Lords 💀⚔️ 4:06:21

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🌾💀 Medieval peasants lived in a world where plague, starvation, and heavy taxes were normal parts of life — yet somehow they survived, adapted, and kept their families alive. Through harsh winters, failing harvests, and demanding lords, they relied on community, tradition, and a kind of everyday resilience modern people can barely imagine. Tonight,…

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15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

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Over 14,000 Australian gold miners gathered at Forest Creek in Victoria for a protest known as the Monster ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Entire Story of Hades & Persephone 🌑🌿 4:02:21

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🌑🍂 Long before kingdoms rose and fell, the Greeks told a quiet, haunting story about the god of the Underworld and the daughter of spring. Hades ruled a world of shadows and silence; Persephone lived among blossoms and sunlight — until a single moment bound their destinies together and changed the rhythm of the seasons forever. Tonight, close your …

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Boring History For Sleep | Titanic First Class: Glamour, Wealth & the Final Night 🌙✨ 4:07:37

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Boring History For Sleep | Titanic First Class: Glamour, Wealth & the Final Night 🌙✨

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228. Napoleon III – France (1852-70) 32:23

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Iain Dale talks to Sir Robert Buckland about the French Emperor who failed to live up to the reputation of his namesake predecessor.

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14th December 1911: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole

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Amundsen’s team arrived five weeks ahead of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | What Happened to the Ancient Wonders of the World? 🕯️🌍 3:58:27

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🏛️🌍 The Seven Ancient Wonders once dazzled travelers with towering statues, golden temples, and impossible engineering — but today, only one remains standing. Earthquakes, fires, wars, and time slowly erased these masterpieces, leaving behind ruins, legends, and quiet questions about what the ancient world truly looked like. Tonight, close your eye…

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13th December 1577: Francis Drake departs Plymouth on his circumnavigation of the globe

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Drake’s fleet consisted of five ships, with the flagship Pelican later renamed Golden Hind, and it departed Plymouth on 13 ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The Crown’s Messiest Love Stories ✨💔 3:58:47

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🕯️👑 Behind the polished portraits and royal ceremonies, some British monarchs and nobles lived lives filled with whispered scandals, late-night rumors, and reputations that shocked their own courts. From wandering heirs to flirtatious queens, these royals became legendary not for politics or power, but for the chaotic personal dramas they left behi…

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12th December 1935: The Lebensborn registered association established in Nazi Germany by the SS

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Literally translated as ‘Fount of Life’, Lebensborn was designed to harness apparent racial purity through the birth of children conceived between Aryan women and members of the SS, often as a result of extramarital ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | The 12 Days of Tudor Christmas: Feasting, Flexing & Full Madness 🏰🔥 3:57:53

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🎄🏰 In Tudor England, Christmas wasn’t just a day — it was twelve long nights of feasting, mischief, music, and rituals that blended faith with folklore. Lords, servants, and villagers all took part in traditions that ranged from joyful to downright strange, turning winter darkness into celebration and chaos. Tonight, close your eyes and wander into…

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Boring History For Sleep | How the Vanderbilts Built — and Lost — an American Empire 💰🏛️ 4:01:44

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💼🏛️ The Vanderbilt family rose from a modest ferry business to become one of the richest and most powerful dynasties in American history. Their world of mansions, railroads, rivalries, glittering parties, and quiet scandals shaped the Gilded Age and transformed the United States forever. Tonight, close your eyes and drift into the story of wealth b…

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The Atlanta Hawks Episode: Dyson Daniels and Onyeka Okongwu | YM3 52:02

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It’s the Atlanta Hawks episode of YM3 featuring Dyson Daniels and Onyeka Okongwu! The duo discuss how the Hawks season has been going so far, including the leap of Jalen Johnson, how Dyson is adjusting to knowing his capabilities after winning the Most Improved Player Award and being runner up for Defensive Player of the Year, some of the Hawks’ lo…

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11th December 1936: King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his abdication in a worldwide radio broadcast

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King Edward VIII Edward abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson, and became known as the Duke of ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Victorian Women’s Real Daily Routines (Prepare to Be Surprised) 🎀👀 3:45:31

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🌸🕯️ Victorian women lived in a world of strict rules, endless chores, and carefully managed appearances — far less glamorous than the novels make it seem. From morning routines filled with laundry, letter-writing, and social etiquette to afternoons spent sewing, hosting, or simply trying not to violate any of society’s unspoken rules, their days we…

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10th December 1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris

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Drafted in the aftermath of the Second World War and the revelations of mass atrocities committed by totalitarian regimes, the declaration aimed to provide a shared framework for human dignity applicable to all ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | Why So Many Ancient Civilizations Suddenly Collapsed 🌑🏺 3:21:01

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🏺🕯️ From droughts and invasions to mysterious disappearances, ancient civilizations fell for reasons as dramatic as their rise. Some were undone by nature, others by war, and some vanished so completely that the earth swallowed their stories. Tonight, drift into the ruins and echoes of the world’s greatest lost cultures.…

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Chris Paul Getting Cut, Jamal Murray Going OFF, and LeBron's Crazy Streak. Plus, Get to Know Cam | The Old Man and the Three 54:16

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It’s Episode 2 of ‘The Old Man and the Three’ with our new host Cam Johnson of the Denver Nuggets! This week, Cam and Tommy Alter discuss some of the current happenings around the NBA. Cam shares his thoughts on Chris Paul being sent home from the Los Angeles Clippers and what he learned from CP3 in their years together on the Phoenix Suns, shouts …

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9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

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Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile ...By Scott Allsop

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Boring History For Sleep | How Ancient People Built Shelter to Survive Freezing Winters ❄️🏔️ 4:00:09

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❄️🔥 Long before central heating and insulated walls, surviving winter was a battle between humans and the cold itself. People built shelters from snow, earth, wood, animal skins, and whatever nature offered, relying on ingenuity to stay alive when temperatures fell dangerously low. Tonight, close your eyes and step into the quiet world of early win…