Highlights

-Search for the tiny stone frog that thousands believe brings exam luck, then hear why the entire tradition was invented in the twentieth century

-Stand where a friar publicly argued that Spain had no right to conquer the Americas, laying the foundations of modern international law

-Piece together what really happened when a seventy-two-year-old philosopher confronted a one-armed general and an entire hall fell silent

-Learn why Columbus was turned down for funding by scholars who were actually right about his maths

-Trace a legend about the Devil teaching magic in a cave that somehow jumped an ocean and is still told in mountain villages in the Andes today