Poll winners!
Added 2018-11-30 01:06:57 +0000 UTCLooks like in the spring of 2019 we'll be getting 2 mini-series (2-3 ep each) of Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba and The Siege of Vienna, followed by a Lies episode.
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Diplomat, Warrior, Queen
In 1622, Nzinga walked into the peace conference and found that the Portuguese hadn't provided her with a chair. Unfazed, she ordered one of her servants to get down on all fours and sat on his back instead. The shocked Portuguese never regained the initiative, and she walked away with a recognition of her country's independence. And it wouldn't be the last time. Taking over after her brother's suicide, Nzinga would resist Portugal's slave-trading empire in both war and peace for the next forty years—forging alliances, displaying military acumen, and creating a refuge for those escaping the slave trade.
The Siege of Vienna: Ending Ottoman Expansion
1689. Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha arrives outside Vienna with 140,000 troops. Inside, the military governor has less than 20,000 men...and two months before help arrives. As the relief force approaches, attackers and defenders will fight a war underground, digging intercepting tunnels to try and detonate—or disarm—explosives beneath Vienna's walls. And when the relief finally comes, the battle will be on an epic scale: the largest cavalry charge in history, an end of Ottoman expansion, and maybe, (just maybe) the invention of the croissant.
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Shokhrukh Alimov
2019-01-29 00:55:52 +0000 UTCThis sounds very interesting. Agh.. cant wait.
John Mayers
2019-01-01 18:54:30 +0000 UTCTo be fair I didn't vote for him because I think he'd fit better into a full length series rather than an episode or two. There's a lot of material in his life and it should get the attention it deserves.
Ryan Wojciechowski
2018-12-01 19:04:04 +0000 UTCI Think my Mother is looking Forward to your Planned Irish Potato Famine Series; she's been doing some digging into our Family History and it turned out we're Descended from Irish Refugees who moved to London in the 1840s to Escape the Famine. Unfortunately the Irish Records only go Back so far so finding out who their Forebears were would be like looking for a Needle in a Haystack.
Martin Verran
2018-12-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTCI am an American and I did vote for Robert Smalls. It is a piece of American history i hadn't read about. Guess I can look him up myself. Learning the history of other lands is very important as well.
weirdo123
2018-11-30 10:42:00 +0000 UTCWhich is Frustrating for those of us not well Versed in North American History. [I'm European.]
Martin Verran
2018-11-30 10:05:10 +0000 UTCI'm an American. I actually didn't vote for Smalls; I'm generally far more interested in learning the history of other countries than in relearning the history of my own.
General Luigi
2018-11-30 05:57:24 +0000 UTCI'm sad for Robert Smalls. Maybe not enough Americans in EH's internet audience...
Erik Eldritch
2018-11-30 03:34:21 +0000 UTCouch; lost by 2 votes. *ma che vuoi*
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-11-30 02:10:48 +0000 UTCTHEN THE WINGED HUZZARS ARRIVED
Henry Vorosmarti
2018-11-30 01:10:24 +0000 UTC
