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Join history buff, Mike Corradi on a journey through time as he unfolds the rich tapestry of the Italian peninsula's history. This chronological story starts with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and leads you through the most iconic events, influential figures, and cultural milestones that have shaped Italy into what we see today. It’s all serious stuff, but we do take time to stop and laugh at battles over a bucket, rude names, naughty priests and popes, rabbits winning sieges, dov ...
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Guys Games and Beer

www.guysgamesandbeer.net

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Join the Gutter Geeks every week as our panel of 5 to 10 veteran gamers of all ages talk about the latest AND oldest in video and table top gaming. Whether it’s interviews with indie and established developers, deep dives on classic hardware, or just sitting around the table talking games while throwing back a few beers you are sure to have a great time with the gang from Guys Games and Beer! Contacting Us: If you are a developer and would like us to check out your game or product contact us ...
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Java Pub House

Freddy Guime & Bob Paulin

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This podcast talks about how to program in Java; not your tipical system.out.println("Hello world"), but more like real issues, such as O/R setups, threading, getting certain components on the screen or troubleshooting tips and tricks in general. The format is as a podcast so that you can subscribe to it, and then take it with you and listen to it on your way to work (or on your way home), and learn a little bit more (or reinforce what you knew) from it.
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/crypto-nathan/subscribe Hello every one this is my first every podcast and I will mostly talking about new cryptocurrency and my thoughts about them and also little bit of movies and more.So let’s get to it.
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Beyond Bitcoin Community

Beyond Bitcoin Community

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This is a repository for recordings of developer hangouts and other bits and pieces collected by the Beyond Bitcoin community. If you'd like to participate be sure to check steemit.com/@officialfuzzy and RSVP to one of the hangout threads! Email for Beyond Bitcoin Hangouts: beyondbitcoin@gmail.com
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It seems that the future of blockchain industry can go down very different paths, and each path has its group of hard core believers. They can’t all be right. Perhaps by hearing the experts debate, the rest of us can compare their reasoning and see the future a bit more clearly. Whether you’re a builder or investor, whether you consider yourself blockchain-savvy or blockchain-curious, if you want to hear all arguments before predicting the future of blockchain, this podcast is for you. Follo ...
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Hosted by software developer and creative entrepreneur, Ayo Oji, 'The Nigerian Prince Podcast' features honest conversations with a diverse range of fascinating guests - discussing life, technology, society, culture, politics, entrepreneurship, self-improvement, and more. Don't expect political righteousness, but every episode will inspire you and make you a little bit smarter.
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The Shiba Inu Burn Unit is here to give quick updates, and burn tokens by sending them to a dead wallet by way of revenue. Shiba inu coin (token) is headed to the moon! HODL My views are my opinion and my opinions are not to be taken as financial advice. I’m not a financial advisor just a solider with the ShibArmy trying to do my part helping burn Shib tokens. Use this link, and get TWO free stocks to trade 🙌 https://my.wealthsimple.com/app/public/trade-referral-signup?code=CY878Q
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Along with her own financial chaos, Amy Sharp had a 14 year old son hellbent on trying every street drug he could find. In an attempt to save her sanity, she started writing a story about the inner world of a woman like herself, living on the BC coast while her reality rippled and rolled._______ A year later, she had a professionally edited 93,000 word manuscript. After more twists and turns, she got a grant from Canada Media Fund to create the first episode in video.______ Alexine's sex pos ...
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The Venture

Leap by McKinsey

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The Venture is an original podcast hosted by serial business builders from McKinsey. In each episode, our experts cut through the noise to show how leaders can launch new companies, testing their theories in conversations with legendary venture builders in Asia. We break down their journey – how they did it, the challenges they faced, how they built successful businesses.
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Having met Francesco II Gonzaga, at the battle of Fornovo, we take some time to go back and have a look at the beautiful city of Mantua from its legendary origins, surrounded by lakes created by the tears of a prophetess, through the period of our heroine, Matilda of Tuscany, countess of Canossa, to see the arrival and rise of the Corradi of Gonzag…
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To celebrate 2nd June, Republic Day as well as the release of the related film "C'è ancora domani" (There's still tomorrow) by director Paola Cortellesi, we are brushing up our episode on the Historical events that lead up to the referendum od 1946 which abolished the Italian monarchy, sending the Savoy family into exile. All of this against the ba…
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After leaving the Papal States with Cesare Borgia waiting for us, we head into the Republic of Florence to look at the struggle with the other Italian powers over Pisa and also stop to talk a little about the man who named America, the Florentine Amerigo Vespucci. After that it's over to the Duchy of Milan where duchess Beatrice d'Este dies in 1497…
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After seeing French King Charles VIII out of the Italian peninsula, we take a quick tour around to see what the situation is at the end of the 15th century and make sure everyone is on the same page. We look at Sardinia, Sicily, the Kingdom of Naples and the Papal States under the Borgias, but also take time to talk about syphilis and some naughty …
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Charles VIII of France is on his way out as king Ferrandino of Naples, along with Gonzalo de Cordoba, are gradually taking back the kingdom. Meanwhile Charles is headed off by the Holy League of Venice at the town of Fornovo in the Apennines of Parma. In the ensuing battle, he manages to get through, but not without losing all the supplies and spoi…
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So we continue to have guests in our show to talk to us about interesting things... This time is about Apache Tika. This is an incredible tool to do search file processing and metadata extraction. Think about that you have tons of unstructured files, like emails, or documents, and you want to extract, index and then search theses. This is Tika's pu…
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After almost 30 years Gregory Smith and Charlie Kraslavsky reprise there roles as Barry Burton and Chris Redfield at the Midwest Gaming Classic. The G2B crew sits down for an interview and talk about the start of the Resident Evil franchise and what is coming up. The Keeper's Diary: A Biohazard Storyhttps://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-keeper-s-d…
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Charles VIII of France finally managed to get to Naples, but doesn't hang around long, the players on the Italian scene feel he has worn out his welcome and Venice, Milan, the pope, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian and Ferdinand II of Spain band together in the Holy league to threaten France. Things kick off in the south with the new king of Naples Fe…
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A chance visit to the beautiful Ligurian town of Porto Venere, staying in a 900 year-old tower, Torre Capitolare (https://www.capitolare.com/) gave us the opportunity to meet not only with medieval history, the Republic of Genoa and Pisa, the Castle of the Doria, but also with the Romantic ports: Byron, Keats, Percy Shelly and the great Mary Shelly…
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After his election as pope Alecander VI Rodrigo Borgia gets straight down to business, sorting out the lawlessness in Rome, tinkering with the delicate national balance with the Duchy of Milan, the Republics of Florence and Venice as well as the kingdom of Naples. He then has to also deal with the descent of French King Charles VIII, but most of al…
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We have a great time talking to Matt Topol from Voltron Data on one of his Apache Software Foundation projects called Apache Arrow. It's both a spec and implementation of a columnar data format that is not only efficient, but cross-language compatible. We walk through the scenarios that it covers and how is becoming more and more pivotal for things…
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To celebrate the "A History of Italy" podcast joining the "Sentire" media network (sentire.media), we take a look at one of the most maligned women in history, Lucrezia Borgia. By the 20th century, her reputation was turned around a bit and from the poisoning murder and sexual predator, she became the innocent victim of the machiavellian scheming o…
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To celebrate A History of Italy of joining the Sentire podcast network (sentire.media) we go back to visit with a peculiar young girl who went from early, rather graphic and violent religious visions to become one of the most influential people of her time, able to grasp the attention of rulers and popes, treating them, if necessary, like children.…
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To celebrate the A History of Italy podcast becoming a member of the Sentire Media podcast network we go back and visit with one of our personal favourites, Matilda of Canossa Margarine of Tuscany, a woman of power in a time, the late 11th century when women were not supposed to wield power. She ruled over lands that stretched from the confines of …
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The CEO of a cutting-edge fintech explain how his start-up offers investment services once reserved for the ultra-wealthy to successful professionals. As the eight cofounders of Singapore-based Arta Finance got to know one other during their years together at Google, they recognized a massive market gap for investment services aimed people like the…
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After seeing Charles VIII though Rome with an uncertain deal with pope Alexander VI, Rodrigo Borgia, we go back to see how the Borgias came to Italy from Spain with Alphonse of Aragon, rose to the papacy with Callixtus III who in turn raised his nephew Rodrigo. He would eventually, thanks to one of his many lovers, have three children before becomi…
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The global coleader of Leap by McKinsey discusses the firm’s latest global survey, which finds that business leaders and investors are bullish on building new businesses. Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, businesses are increasingly enthusiastic about creating new ventures, according to McKinsey’s latest global survey on new-business building. …
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Alexine tells us more than we want to know about her should pain relief and having a 'moment' on a massage table. Her love for dog breasts, yes, dog breasts. And we hear about the first time she took her 14 year old son Harvey to the hospital after a reaction to his latest drug of choice. SFX from Artlist, Zapsplat, and Freesound.org; Specifically:…
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Alexine introduces us to a couple of cleans in luxury homes; one is stark and cold, the other is cluttered and cozy. She compares her pained body to the ladies of these grand properties. She finds friendship with Cairo, the family dog, even if her shoulders pay the price. SFX from Artlist, Zapsplat, and Freesound.org; Specifically: zaku18, matrixxx…
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To celebrate our 6th anniversary on 3rd January, we look back on some of the most memorable sketches that have accompanied the regular episodes. From the first appearance of the Great Turnip, through the fish, frog, falcon fly king, strange trade corporations in Florence, agreeing on baguette battles to a conversation with the supreme being himself…
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Alexine reflects on what exactly ruined the perfect bulge, that whole soul mate idea and yet another level of self care. The likelihood of a 'lipless wonder'... is that even possible?!? Oh and ball trimmers... I used a few seconds of Capricho Arabe by Nylon Bliss and added the entire song at the end of the episode because it's incredible and you wi…
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We spoke to Travel book author, adventurer and novelist Simon Gaul about his new book "White Suicide" which covers a dark period of Italian history in which Christian Democrat Party leader Aldo Moro was kidnapped and assassinated just as he was about to sign a historical deal which would have allowed the Italian communist party a seat at the table …
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Join the Supreme Justices of the foam juice as they cover Potosi Brewing's Wisconsin Holiday Beer. Will it bring holiday cheer? Will the Gutter Geeks sober up enough to declare a verdict? Find out in this amazing episode of Beer Court! Check out the G2B Support Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guysgamesandbeer or on YouTube: https://www.…
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We follow the life of mystic, prophet and monk, Gerolamo Savonarola, who came to have a great moral influence over Florence, particularly after the expulsion of the Medici. His increasing fiery denunciation of the immorality of the Florentines and then the church and pope Alexander VI made him more and more enemies, ready to pounce on him the momen…
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Charles VIII of France starts to head into Italy, beginning with the lands of Savoy where a 2-year-old duke leaves things to his mum to deal with the expensive guest who also asks her for a loan. Meanwhile, the Neapolitans try to go on the offensive by attacking locations along the Tuscan and Ligurian coast to no avail. Charles then meets with Ludo…
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