Horde of Rabbits

The true, strange, whimsical, overlooked stories from across all of human history — the bits that didn't make the textbooks. Join the rabbits as they discover those nuggets of history that you didn't learn about at school. New episodes drop twice a week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Horde of Rabbits is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #29

  Al-Khwarizmi: The Father of Algebra

  Aug 17, 202612 minS1

  Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, working in Baghdad's House of Wisdom around 820 CE, wrote "The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing" — the text that gave us the word "algebra" (from "al-jabr," meaning "restoration"). His name, Latinized as "Algoritmi," gave us the word "algorithm." He also introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals to the Islamic world, which eventually replaced Roman numerals in Europe. His work bridged Indian, Greek, and Babylonian mathematics and laid the groundwork for modern science and computing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #28

  Buried in Translation

  Aug 9, 202612 minS1

  In 1956, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev addressed Western diplomats at a reception. In Russian, he used a common idiom: 'Мы вас похороним' (My vas pokhoronim)—literally 'We will bury you,' but idiomatically meaning 'We will outlast you' or 'We will attend your funeral' in the sense of outliving capitalism economically. Western translators took it literally. Headlines screamed: 'Khrushchev threatens to bury the West!' The mistranslation fueled Cold War paranoia, justified massive military spending, and accelerated the space race. A linguistic misunderstanding shaped geopolitics for decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #27

  Ancient Computer

  Aug 6, 202612 minS1

  In 1900, Greek sponge divers found a Roman shipwreck off the island of Antikythera. Among the statues and amphorae was a corroded lump of bronze. Nobody paid much attention until 1902, when archaeologist Valerios Stais noticed it had gears. The Antikythera Mechanism turned out to be an ancient analog computer from around 100 BCE, designed to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance. It had 30+ bronze gears in a complex arrangement that wouldn't be seen again until medieval clocks. Scientists spent over a century figuring out how it worked. The ancient Greeks had built a computer 1,500 years before anyone thought such technology existed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #26

  A Most Honest Creature

  Aug 3, 202611 minS1

  For roughly five hundred years, European courts tried animals as genuine defendants — pigs for homicide, roosters for laying eggs, caterpillars formally excommunicated by the Church. By 1750 the practice was fading, but it had not yet disappeared. When a man named Jacques Ferron was caught committing a crime involving a donkey in the commune of Vanvres, just outside Paris, both were brought before the court together. Ferron was convicted and executed. The donkey's case was harder: the law required the court to determine whether she had been a willing participant or an unwilling victim. The people of Vanvres — her neighbours, the prior of the local convent, the principal inhabitants of the commune — signed a formal certificate attesting that they had known her for four years and that she was, in the precise legal French of the document, 'a most honest creature.' The court accepted the evidence, acquitted her, and sent her home. Strange in two directions at once: plainly absurd on its face, and yet — within a system that routinely denied the same courtesy to accused witches and servants — a small, careful act of communal solidarity for someone who could not speak in her own defence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode #24

  Flush of Doom

  Jul 27, 202613 minS1

  In April 1945, the German submarine U-1206 was on its first combat patrol in the North Sea when it sank — not from enemy action, but from a toilet malfunction. The sub featured a new high-pressure toilet system designed to work at depth, but it required specialized training to operate. When a crew member misused it, seawater flooded in and reached the batteries below, creating chlorine gas. Captain Karl-Adolf Schlitt was forced to surface, where the sub was spotted and bombed by Allied aircraft. The crew abandoned ship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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