Category: History

In August 1945, Americans welcomed the news that Japan had surrendered and World War II would soon be over. Yet Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli reveal that a desperate last-minuted coup plot by the military in the face of humiliating surrender almost derailed peace and prolonged the war.

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Links for this episode:

• William Craig’s book The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific
• Emperor Hirohito
• Emperor Yoshihito
• Potsdam Declaration
• Surrender of Japan
• 1945 Coup
• 1936 Coup
• 1931 Coup
• Jewel Voice Broadcast
• Tyrannicide
• The Catechism on coups

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• Golden State Killer Admits Crimes
• Video of Golden State Killer Plea Hearing

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More than 3,000 years ago, a conspiracy was launched against the most powerful man on Earth, the Egyptian pharaoh. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore who the conspirators were, what they were trying to accomplish, and what dark arts they used in their plot.

Links for this episode:

• Susan Redford’s book The Harem Conspiracy
• Pascal Vernus’s book Affairs and Scandals in Ancient Egypt
• Bob Brier’s course The History of Ancient Egypt
• Records of the Harem Conspiracy
• Bob Brier’s article “The Mystery of Unknown Man E”
• Zahi Hawass paper “Revisiting the Harem Conspiracy and Death of Ramesses III”
• Summary of the Zahi Hawass paper
• Rameses’s tomb
• Episode 42, Was King Tut Murdered?

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• New Evidence of Nefertiti’s Tomb?
• Baby Lion Cub Mummies Discovered!

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In AD 41, the Roman emperor Caligula was killed by his own guards, ending the rule of an uncontrollable mad tyrant. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore the mystery of whether the stories of Caligula were true, what led to his death, and what mysterious connection he might have to the Bible and prophecy.

Links for this episode:

• Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars
• Philo’s Embassy to Gaius
• Robert Graves’s book I, Claudius
• Robert Graves’s book Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
• I, Claudius (TV series)
• Wikipedia on Caligula
• Germanicus
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• Book review of Poisoner in Chief
• New “Afghanistan Papers” parallel Pentagon Papers

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As an order of warrior-monks, the Knights Templar defended Christians in the Holy Land. But for 700 years, all kinds of rumors and theories of shocking crimes and secrets have surrounded them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss those theories and claims that the Knights are still among us.

Links for this episode:

• Prof. Thomas Madden’s audio course “The Lost Warriors of God”
• The Knights Templar
• Al-Aqsa Mosque
• The Knights Hospitallers
• The Crusader States
• Siege of Acre
• Philip IV of France
• Freemasonry
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• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Challenged on Media’s Overheated 12-Year Doomsday Warning
• A Thoughtful Critique of Mindfulness

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