Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? Maybe not, or at least maybe not lately. But humans throughout our history have pondered questions like; why are we here, what is this all for, and where does it all come from?

Perhaps a faith in a higher power or the simple feel of soil between your toes provide satisfying enough answers to these questions. But if you happened to be living in Ancient Greece, and you wanted to dig deeper into the nature of our universe, in Samos lives a wise old sage who might just have the answers you’re looking for.

Although you might have to give up eating beans to find out…

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Some men fight for sport, some men fight for their lives. Bill Richmond was man who fought for both. Fighting not only for the life he had, but for the better life he dreamed of. In back alleys, crowded pubs, and grand rings, Bill chained his destiny one right hook at a time. And all of London looked on in awe, as this young black man from across the Atlantic, rose to become a champion.

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Over course of 350 years, from the dawn of the 16th century till the second half of the 18th century, over 5 million men, women and children were kidnapped, bound and shipped from the continent of Africa to the other side of the world. To work and to die, to feed ever expanding European imperial ambitions. These empires plundered the world, off the backs of the people they deemed lesser.

But there was one they feared. A slave who became a rebel. A rebel who became a queen. A queen, who defied an Empire.

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From across the vast seas they came. First a trickle, then a torrent of pale men with fire in their hands and hunger in their eyes. While they spoke a strange tongue, the desire of these cross wearing foreigners was plain for anyone with eyes to see. They sought to plunder the gold in the rivers, and the silver in the earth.

And when these riches ripped from this sacred land began to spread back across the seas and beyond, a small village in the shadow of a mountain would become the centre of a new world…

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Empires rise, and empires fall. The never ending march of time will eventually grind all civilisations into the dust, preparing the ground for new nations to rise. Often it is the stories told of these empires that lives on through the ages. Tales of conquest or of social upheaval. Tales that provide an ideal to live up to or a warning to heed.

However the mightiest of empires can leave more than memories behind. The ancient structures that dot our world tell their own story of what came before. And sometimes, great works of the past can leave such an indelible mark upon the land that even the passing of a millennia cannot erase what a certain King of Kings had wrought…

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In the streets of 1770 colonial Boston, working men and woman are a flame with ideas of revolution. Straining under the ever growing economic oppression of the British parliament, the city was rapidly becoming a powder keg about to explode.

So when a shot from a red coat musket turned a riot into a massacre, why didn't the city erupt into chaos? The answer lies in the subsequent court case, where a future founding father took the stand to defend the guilty party...

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