Wikipedia Shorts: History

In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w...

Two-time American Olympic figure-skating medalist Nancy Kerrigan was hit on the leg with a police baton by an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_of_...

The Taiwan High Speed Rail opened, connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_High_Speed_Rail This content was created or edited with the help of artificial intelligence. CC BY-SA 4.0 (h...

Spirit (artist's impression depicted), the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, successfully landed on Mars... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_(rover) This content was created or edited...

The cryptocurrency network of bitcoin was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin This content was created or edited with the help of artificial inte...

While landing at Haneda Airport, Japan Airlines Flight 516 collided with a De Havilland Canada Dash 8 which killed five people in total... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Haneda_Airport_runway_collision This cont...

The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth This content was created or edite...

Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan, opened to the public as the world's tallest building... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101 This content was created or edited with the help of artificial intelligence. CC BY-SA 4....

Basque nationalist group ETA detonated a van bomb at Madrid–Barajas Airport in Spain, ending a nine-month ceasefire... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Madrid This content was created or edited with the help of ar...

American physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" at Caltech, anticipating the field of nanotechnology... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There This content was created o...

Kurdish–Turkish conflict: Acting on information that Kurdish militants were crossing the border from Iraqi territory, two Turkish F-16 jets fired at a group of villagers, killing 34 people... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.or...

The human-cloning company Clonaid claimed to have performed the first reproductive cloning of a human, but provided no evidence for the claim... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonaid This content was created or edit...

A violent tornado moved through several suburbs of Dallas, United States, killing ten and injuring almost 500 others... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Garland_tornado This content was created or edited with the...

After the loss of aircraft systems, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashed near Aktau International Airport while attempting to perform an emergency landing after being hit by a Russian defense missile... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://e...

Jihadists linked to al-Qaeda hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 to force the release of Islamist figures held in prison in India... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Airlines_Flight_814 This content was created...

The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Helmet This content was created or edited with the help of artifi...

Burhanuddin Rabbani of the Northern Alliance handed over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai This content was created or edited with th...

The world's heaviest aircraft, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, made its first flight... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya This content was created or edited with the help of artificial intelligence. CC BY...

Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Suzanne_Bloch This content was create...

The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(spacecraft) This content was create...

The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-Ameri...

Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_...

A hostage crisis in a Lindt chocolate café in Sydney, Australia, ended with police storming the building, killing the perpetrator and one of the hostages... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindt_Cafe_siege This conten...

The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sudanese_Civil_War This content was cre...

Kosovo War: Yugoslav forces ambushed a group of Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle weapons into Yugoslavia from Albania... All you need to know in just a few minutes. This podcast is funded by advertising. Find more podcasts, info, and offers from our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/WikiPods Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_14 This content was created or ed...