🎙️ Hey there, history buffs! Did you know Teddy Roosevelt and his six kiddos were practically running a zoo in the White House? 🐻🐍 With over 40 pets, including a badger and even a bear 🦡, their adventures are bound to blow your mind! Tune in to our kids history podcast #WildWhiteHouse 🏰🐾 #PodcastFun If you enjoyed please pass along to friends and your online community. If you found the mistake I hid in the episode please head over to www.owlandtwine.com and email me the correct answer so I...

Mathew Henson  Explorer I think I am going to do a series of PLEASE SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THIS PERSON Tell me at the end if you would not sit and binge an entire series about Mathew Henson one of the first people to go to the NorthPole in our Black History month for I Can’t Believe That Happened. Born August 8 1866 on a farm in Maryland He was the middle child with an older and a younger sister His parents were free sharecroppers who escaped to Georgetown after the KKK made...

Welcome to I Can’t Believe That Happened and our first episode on the History of Cursed Jewels. A quick reminder I always throw in one wrong fact.  If you find it send me and email and let me know what the right fact is and what your source is. Let’s start with the Ring of Dwarf Hill that inspired The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien  What if I told you that some of his epic fantasy came from actual history?Let’s talk about: The One ring to rule them all.  The ring that had all of...

What is it about minerals and gemstones that we find so amazing even beyond their beauty? We give them a supernatural power from healing crystals, to purifications, to remembering our dead with memento mori, to of course curses of long-dead powerful rulers wishing to keep their riches in to the eternity of the afterlife.  We have told stories about cursed gems. There have been books and movies. You will certainly have heard of a few of the stories before or you might find out your favorite...

Mercy Otis Warren: Revolutionary Playwright, Historian, and Whistleblower July 4 Episode In researching the revolution so many names came up that even with my decades of love of history I had never heard. Mercy Otis is one. Which is surprising given how much she did during and after the revolution and the president’s who held her views in high regard. She not only wrote to presidents )who wrote back) but she published plays, pamphlets, and the first history of the revolution published by and...

A duck, a Rooster, and a sheep wander into a wicker basket. This is not a joke it is the start of our podcast and the beginning of the ability for humans to fly. 19 September 1783 at 1 PM a cannon blasts and our Heroes of the air walk and waddle their way into history in the courtyard of Versailles in front of 130,000 people including the Queen, Marie Antoinette and King Louis.Joseph and Étienne Montgolfier had spent the years earlier experimenting with hot air and in the beginning, laundry...

Beatrix Potter is beloved by so many of us for her darling illustrated children's books but did you know she was a scientist who changed the English landscape? It's time to learn all about this amazing woman, her love for animals, her brilliant scientific mind, and her love of nature. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our first black history month at 10-minute history podcast for kids! This week we are going to be taking a look at Elizabeth Jennings Grahm the woman who started the desegregation of the New York transportation system in the 1800’s. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Chess Playing Turk Automaton The magic trick that astounded the world was not made by a magician. It was not even intended to be a magic trick. It was a challenge and from the challenge one of the most interesting stories about magic and robots came to be. Maria Theresa of Austria had a performance planned for her court in 1769 to watch a demonstration of magnetic tricks.Her counselor, a Hungarian scientist Wolfgang Von Kempelen was unimpressed and said he could do better He returned in...

Created by Name: John Joseph Merlin (1735-18030) Apprentice to James Cox.Musical inventor, created a museum called Merlin's Mechanical Museum in Princes Street In the 1760’s created something like inline skates but forgot a braking system, he tested these two-wheel skates at a party while playing a violin where he became closely acquainted with a large and expensive mirror.  and James Cox ( 1723-1800) An incredible businessman who reminds me of P.T Barnum. He ran the most expensive museum...

Jaques de Vaucanson Early Life: Jaques de Vaucanson was born in Grenoble, France in 1709  10th child to a poor family of glove makers Jaques wanted to become a clock maker as a child. His mother being very religious took Jaques to church with her. While she was in confession Jaques would watch the clock until he memorized its’ mechanisms to such perfection he was able to recreate it at home. When Jaques father died when he was seven he was sent to live and train with the Jesuits. It was a...

Please Hit That Subscribe & Like. Remember, sharing is caring. Leonardo DaVinci’s Robots History Podcast for Kids. Robot Lion, first self-driving cart, and robot lion all from the 1400’s! Share and press like. Early Life: 1452- 1519 born into a challenging circumstance in Florence, Italy, but was given an apprenticeship at a painter's studio. Fishing reference. Robots: Leonardo’s Mechanical Knight:  The knight’s existence was discovered in 1957 by historian Carlo Pedretti. Designed 1495...

Name: Badīʿ az-Zaman Abu l-ʿIzz ibn Ismāʿīl ibn ar-Razāz al-Jazarī Early Life : Born 1136 CE Born in Upper Mesopotamia. Like his father, he served as chief engineer at Artuklu Palace. His book: The Book of knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices includes all we know of al- Jazari's life and only includes inventions he created himself. Wrote: The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Device descriptions of over fifty mechanical devices with instructions on how to build them. His book was...

Lived: 1st century writing between 60-70 AD.  Was a student of Ctesibius a man believed to be the head of the Museum of Alexandria. It is thought he was a teacher and lecturer there as well. Historians believe this since his writings appear to be lecture notes. He was also inspired by Inspired by Philo of Byzantium (3 centuries before wrote about the use of trapped and compressed air) The museum was described to be a school that taught through experimenting and doing as well as by lecture....

Archytas of Terentum First Drone mathematician, political leader (elected seven times), and philosopher Alive and active during the time of Plato. We know this because he sent a ship to rescue Plato from Syracuse. (not the city → this guy). We only have four fragments of Archytas' work. We mostly rely on writings that took place fifty years after his death to piece together his life. 350 B. C. The first self-propelled flying device Wooden mechanical dove capable of flapping wings and...

Today I want to talk about Elizabeth Jennings her story is about the importance of challenging systems A special thank you to Mo Rocca and his show Mobituaries for bringing Elizabeth Jennings to my attention and patching up a massive hole in my US. history education. Elizabeth Jennings-Grahm Born free in 1827 to a freeborn father and a mother who was born into slavery. Her father Thomas L. Jennings was the first black patent holder in 1821 for developing a new clothes Cleaning method. He was...

For the start of black history month, we are going to head all the way back to the old west to meet a man who has been long thought to be the inspiration behind The Lone Ranger. Take a listen through and if you are familiar with the TV show or watched the latest movie let me know below what you think. Without any dispute Bass Reeves was one of the most feared lawmen of the west.  Born 1838 in Crawford County, Arkansas as a slave. The slave owner was Confederate Colonel George Reeves and...

Pandora: The myth of Pandora can be read as a warning against artificial intelligence or AI. As the first AI being created (by Hephaestus) she did define the chaos of what AI can bring. In Hesiod’s Theogony Pandora is made as a response to Prometheus giving the human’s fire. Zeus seemed to think that was just a step too far in the human power direction and not enough in the all-mighty Zeus and God power line up.  So Zeus goes to his brilliant design and crafting god, Hephaestus, and asks him...

Hello everyone and this is our first week of robots the history! Robots, can you tell excited I am?Welcome to I can't believe this happened. We are going to start with ancient Greece and we're going, to begin with, the robot Talos.Links:HephaestusMinosZeusCreteColossus of RhodesDo You Want To Contribute? Did you find the wrong fact? Do you have the right one? Would you like to let me know what skills you would give your room protection robot? Click here

Hello everyone and welcome to I Can't Believe that Happened, a short history podcast for kids and curious adults.. Thank you so much for your patience. I know that was a really long break and I am sorry but I think that your patience is going to be worth it because I have been researching for a new season and that is going to be the history of robots.  I am so excited about this. I hope you are too. I was thinking, the history of robots we'd be going back to the 1950s and back to the Jetsons...

Jean- Eugene-Robert-Houdin- (December 7, 1805 – June 13, 1871)  “A magician is merely an actor playing the part of a magician.”  Jean was born in Blois France to a watchmaker.  His father was set on Robert becoming a lawyer. Robert was set on becoming a watchmaker. He had a job as a clerk in a law office for a short time where he spent most of his time tinkering with mechanical objects in the office than writing and copying. He was sent back to his father where he became an apprentice...

visit www.owlandtwine.com to sign up for our newsletter and see the images discussed in the podcast. A for kids history podcast in 10 minutes. This week the emperor of America, Edward Norton. Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times. Edward Norton was a visionary of the gold rush who made decrees from equal rights to building the Bay Bridge. Lauded as the only emperor to shed no blood. Emperor Norton the King of America Did you know America had a king? This is one of my...

Hey all this is Monica from I can't believe that happened and I am so grateful for all of you coming back to the podcast it was a very long and unexpected but I try to have some exciting news I took the time because I was reading a book and I could really use your help on this it's at I will and Twine.com that's the website and I cannot live in some of the book it's also a game and I need as many people as possible to take a look at play the game and tell me what you like and don't like this...

Hazel Dorthy Scott born June 11, 1920 in Trinidad her parent: R. Thomas Scott a West African scholar from Liverpool and mother Alma long Scott a music teacher and classical pianist. Jazz and classical pianist Age 4 taken to New York as a musical prodigy8 given a scholarship to Julliard when the start age is suppose to be 16At 15 she started her own radio show and played with the Count Basie Orchestra As a teen performed piano and trumpet in her mothers all girl jazz band. In the mid 1930's...