Whether you like history or not, if you care about bravery, wisdom, passion,

larger than life characters and some of the most emotionally intense moments in human experience,

you've come to the right place.

Danielle E. Bellelli's a university history professor, a writer and a martial artist,

he shall be your guide in a journey to the place where history, epic, colloque.

Let's go say history on fire.

There's a song by the great full dad, but I love very much.

It's called ripple. If you're not familiar with it, I strongly suggest you do yourself a favor and check it out.

A little while ago I was spending some time with my daughter and we were listening to ripple.

And that's when the concept for this episode came to me.

So many events in history, beginning such mundane, ordinary ways,

the no one at the time recognizes that they are witnessing the origin of something that will have a huge impact for generations to come.

In the Doudaching, the classic foundation of a philosophical dauis, it is written,

a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

This applies perfectly in this episode since this whole thing is about people doing things that don't seem like much when they begin.

And in the short run, they don't look like they will have a big impact on history, but they must definitely end up doing so eventually.

Or maybe they are significant in their own time, but they still have dramatic and forcing effects, way into the future.

And this got me thinking about how many things we do, are the equivalent of the roping pebbles in the pond of history.

Many of them will have no impact on anyone other than perhaps in the year and now, but occasionally, just sometimes,

our actions can breathe a new life long after we carried them out.

Sometimes, long after our earthly existence is over.

So potentially, this is a never ending topic, because there are so many events throughout history that fit this pattern,

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