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Galileo's Recantation, Operation Barbarossa & a River on Fire | Jun 22–28
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From Galileo forced to recant before the Inquisition to the largest military invasion in history, this week's historical events span science, war, nature, and art across five centuries. Strap in for a brisk tour of the moments that shaped the world you're living in right now.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
On August third, fourteen ninety-two, in the small port of Palos de la Frontera in southern Spain, Christopher Columbus led three ships out of harbor and pointed them west into the unknown Atlantic. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria carried a crew of around ninety men on a voyage with no guaranteed destination and no guaranteed return.
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