Résultats pour "The Bet" dans Histoire

Eating is an indispensable human activity. As a result, whether we realize it or not, the drive to obtain food has been a major catalyst across all of history, from prehistoric times to the present. Epicure Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin said it best: "Gastronomy governs the whole life of man."

The Bet is back with powerful personal stories from more amazing Kiwis who have successfully overcome serious gambling addictions.In our new 2026 episodes, four survivors of gambling harm tell the unvarnished truth about how although their lives got derailed by dopamine hits and the promise of riches, they have moved beyond their addictions – or the impact of other peoples' gambling addictions.And in a special long-form interview, a researcher specialising in gambling harm explains the neuroscience, social norms and profound cynicism that keeps the gambling industry rolling on, despite the ...

What if the key to thinking better wasn't finding faster answers, but learning to formulate better questions?For centuries, the study of the Talmud has cultivated an extraordinary form of thinking: questioning the obvious, examining opposing interpretations, debating rigorously, learning...

A riveting narrative account of how prediction markets are changing our world and transforming the very nature of democracy. “In The Big Bet, Michael Auerbach explores the past, present, and future of the prediction market ... This is a dazzling and entertaining book ... But it is also an...

व्यंकटेश माडगूळकर लिखित मराठी कादंबरी 'मंतरलेले बेट ' सचिन सुरेश यांच्या आवाजात. न्यूयार्क मधील 'मॅनहटन' शहराचे...

Neglected by scholars and journalists alike, the years of conflict in Vietnam from 1968 to 1975 offer surprises not only about how the war was fought, but about what was achieved. Drawing on authoritative materials not previously available, including thousands of hours of tape-recorded allied councils of war, award-winning military historian Lewis Sorley has given us what has long been needed - an insightful, factual, and superbly documented history of these important years.

Excellent biographies have been written about Clara Barton, Sarah Josepha Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman, but their lives have never been looked at together as they intertwined with the Civil War narrative. Plumb compares and contrasts the qualities of the women to discover their common attributes for success and what was unique to each woman. Without leading troops in battle or wielding political power, these five women profoundly influenced the start of the war and its conduct throughout as North and South clashed.

Arthur Briggs's life was Homeric in scope. Born on the the tiny island of Grenada, he set sail for Harlem during the Renaissance, then to Europe in the aftermath of World War I, where he was among the first pioneers to introduce jazz music to the world. During the legendary Jazz Age in Paris, Briggs's trumpet provided the soundtrack while Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and the rest of the Lost Generation got drunk. By the 1930s, Briggs was considered "the Louis Armstrong of Paris," and was the peer of the greatest names of his time, from Josephine Baker to Django Reinhardt.

Journalist, attorney, and star of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York reshapes the cultural landscape of achievement by showing why Black unity is crucial to individual and collective success. When The Real Housewives of New York City hired its first black cast member after more than 13...

One of the enduring yet little-examined themes in Civil War lore is the widespread belief that on the field of battle and afterward, members of Masonic lodges would give aid and comfort to wounded or captured enemy Masons, often at great personal sacrifice and danger. This work is a deeply researched examination of the recorded, practical effects of Freemasonry among Civil War participants on both sides.

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his...

Better Odds tells the human stories behind America’s healthcare divide.Hosted by physician Dr. Doug Stoddard, Better Odds travels across America to meet the patients, doctors, nurses, paramedics, pilots, volunteers, and neighbors living on the outer edge of the healthcare system.Listeners will meet physicians operating without backup, paramedics covering entire counties, mothers driving hours to give birth, cancer patients crossing state lines for treatment, volunteers building hospitals inside gymnasiums, and communities fighting to save the institutions that keep them alive.This is not a ...

In our monthly podcasts we speak with different Jewish women from around the globe - rabbis and cantors, politicians and activists, artists and women in academia. We talk about their activities, their concerns and their achievements, their lives as Jews and their lives as women. With these conversations, we aim to highlight our positions as Jewish women and encourage new strategies for strengthening our roles in society. We thank Vienna Women's Affairs, MA57, for the generous support of our podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone has a public story. Stephen Dubner wants the rest. On Better in Person, Dubner invites remarkable people into his home for a kind of conversation that’s hard to find: curious, free-wheeling, even profound. They talk, play, eat and drink, argue and laugh. The result? Less interview, more shared discovery. This is how a conversation works.

Are you ready to move past historical nostalgia and actively construct a modern ecosystem of true financial self-reliance? This visionary and highly practical handbook provides an uncompromising structural blueprint for establishing generational wealth and sustainable group economics. It looks directly at the legendary foundations of early economic hubs and delivers concrete, modernized strategies to build, protect, and scale localized commerce within today's digital and physical landscapes.

Triumph over adversity using proven Special Operations habits and mindsets with this inspiring guide from retired Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Jason Redman.Adversity can often catch you by surprise and leave you struggling with what to do next. What if you could confront any...

You Bet Your Life is an American comedy quiz series that has aired on both radio[1] and television.[2] The original version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and sidekick George Fenneman. The show debuted on ABC Radio on October 27, 1947, moved to CBS Radio debuting October 5, 1949, and went to NBC-TV and NBC Radio on October 4, 1950. Because of its simple format, it was possible to broadcast the show on both radio[1] and television but not simultaneously. Many of the laughs on the television show were evoked by Groucho's facial reactions and ...

Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in the street by three hired assassins. Who is behind the contract killing? Is it the Swedish Count Coningsmark, young and glamorous with blond hair down to his waist?

Hosts Catherine and Nix discuss bizarre and unusual historical stories and facts with a new topic every week.

The first in-depth look at the marine hero who has become one of the most beloved and admired men in America today: Secretary of Defense James Mattis. A devout student of history and erudite reader revered by rank and file soldiers, officers, academics, politicians, and ordinary citizens...