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John "Mad Jack" Mytton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mytton

2022-03-22 04:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Alice Roosevelt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth

2022-03-14 21:06:02 +0000 UTC View Post

People Who Have Gone Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_gone_over_Niagara_Falls

2022-03-08 01:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Benjamin Franklin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1706][Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath who was active as a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.[1] Among the leading intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a drafter and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and the first United States postmaster general.

2022-03-01 21:31:18 +0000 UTC View Post

The New England Vampire Panic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_vampire_panic

2022-02-22 02:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Episode 253: Coleco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco

2022-02-14 17:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Exonerated Death Row Inmates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates

2022-02-08 16:13:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Insane Beauty Treatments

Usually we go with a Wikipedia link here, but when we step far enough outside the theme, we have to improvise.

https://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-most-bizarre-beauty-treatments-women-have-ever-used/sonja-holbrook

2022-02-01 00:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post

The USS William D Porter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_William_D._Porter_(DD-579)

2022-01-25 16:27:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Nuclear Close Calls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

2022-01-18 04:37:48 +0000 UTC View Post

The History of Condoms

Sorry about the late drop. Dealing with a little COVID in house and that's set us back by a bit. Should be back to our normal drop time next week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condom#History

2022-01-12 16:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post

The Cardiff Giant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant

2022-01-04 18:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post

Saints

In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term saint depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation. Official ecclesiastical recognition, and consequently a public cult of veneration, is conferred on some saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

2021-12-28 02:45:59 +0000 UTC View Post

Juan Pujol Garcia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa

2021-12-21 16:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post

The Great Diamond Hoax

The diamond hoax of 1872 was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false American diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in San Francisco and New York City. It also triggered a brief diamond prospecting craze in the western United States, in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado.

2021-12-13 20:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post

The Murder of John Lennon

On the evening of 8 December 1980, English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and fatally wounded in the archway of The Dakota, his residence in New York City. His killer was Mark David Chapman, an American Beatles fan who was incensed by Lennon's lavish lifestyle and his 1966 comment that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus". Chapman said he was inspired by the fictional character Holden Caulfield from J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, a "phony-killer" who despises hypocrisy.

2021-12-08 00:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post