Nicholas Alahverdian (born July 11, 1987), [4] [5] also known as Nicholas Rossi and Arthur Knight, among other aliases, [3] is an American sex offender who faked his own death in 2020. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement . Publishing the Book of Mormon at the age of 24, Smith had attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religion he founded continues to the present day, with millions of global adherents and several churches claiming Smith as their founder, the largest being The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa...
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC , Croix de Guerre , MBE (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom 's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II . The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct espionage , sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe against the Axis powers , especially Nazi Germany . SOE and OSS agents in France allied themselves wit...
Titan , previously called Cyclops 2 , was a submersible that imploded on 18 June 2023 while transporting tourists to visit the wreckage of Titanic . The submersible was created and operated by OceanGate . It was the first privately-owned submersible with a claimed maximum depth of 4,000 m (13,000 ft), [2] and the first completed crewed submersible with a hull constructed of titanium and carbon fiber composite materials. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to s...
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American media mogul , religious broadcaster , political commentator, presidential candidate, and Southern Baptist minister. Robertson advocated a conservative Christian ideology and was known for his involvement in Republican Party politics. He was associated with the Charismatic movement within Protestant evangelicalism . He served as head of Regent University and of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). Our theme song wa...
Olga ( Old East Slavic : Вольга, romanized: Volĭga ; [a] Old Norse : Helga ; Lith : Alge ; Christian name: Elena ; c. 890–925 – 969) was a regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name Elenа ( Old East Slavic : Ѡлена, romanized: Olena ). [2] She is known for her subjugation of the Drevlians , a tribe that had killed her husband Igor of Kiev . Even though it was her grandson Vladimir who converted the entire nation to Christianity, beca...
Trigger Warning: This week's episode contains references to animal cruelty as well as a bunch of other stuff that's really gross. This week, Heath talks about scientists gone wild. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details.
A Mars rover is a motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars . Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers : they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control. They serve a different purpose than orbital spacecraft like Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter . A more recent development is the Mars hel...
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity . The nearest star to Earth is the Sun . Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night , but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms , and many of the brightest stars have proper names . Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and prov...
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior United States Marine Corps officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the Philippine–American War , the Boxer Rebellion , the Mexican Revolution , and World War I . At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. By the end of his career, Butler had received sixteen medals, including five for heroism; he is the only Marine to be awarded the Br...
This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
William Stephen Belichick ( /ˈbɛlɪtʃɪk, ˈbɛlɪtʃɛk/ ; born April 16, 1952) is an American professional football coach who is the head coach and general manager [a] of the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Widely regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, [2] [3] [4] he holds numerous coaching records, including the record of most Super Bowl wins (six) as a head coach, all with the Patriots, along with two more during his time as the defensive coordinator o...
Christian video games are a video game genre and a form of Christian media that focus on the narrative and themes of Christian morals and Christianity . And, though not a categorical requirement, they all suck. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
A delicacy is usually a rare and expensive food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated, or peculiarly distinctive within a given culture. Irrespective of local preferences, such a label is typically pervasive throughout a region. Often this is because of unusual flavors or characteristics or because it is rare or expensive compared to standard staple foods . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you ca...
MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY SITS ON the northern side of Seattle 's Queen Anne Hill. Since its opening in 1879, the graveyard has been the resting place for the victims of some of Washington 's most infamous tragedies. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. (1921 [1] – June 7, 1982) was an American impostor . He was the subject of a movie: The Great Impostor , in which he was played by Tony Curtis . Demara's impersonations included a naval surgeon , [2] a civil engineer , a sheriff's deputy , an assistant prison warden , a doctor of applied psychology , a hospital orderly, a lawyer , a child-care expert, a Benedictine monk, a Trappist monk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher. One teaching job led to six months ...
ChatGPT [a] is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 families of large language models (LLMs) and has been fine-tuned (an approach to transfer learning ) using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques....
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), [a] were American aviation pioneers generally credited [3] [4] [5] with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated airplane . They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer on December 17, 1903, 4 mi (6 km) south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina , at what is now known as Kill Devil...
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1] also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name , Niten Dōraku, [2] was a Japanese swordsman , philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin , who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai ). Musashi, as he was often simply known, is considered a Kensei , a sword-saint of Japan. [3] He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū , ...
The Acali was a raft which was used in the Acali Expedition or Acali Experiment. [1] It has also been nicknamed the Sex Raft. [2] The raft had a complement of eleven people: five men and six women. It left Las Palmas , Spain on 12 May 1973 and took 101 days to drift across the Atlantic Ocean and reach Cozumel , Mexico , with a single stopover in Barbados. The experiment was conceived by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genovés (who had previously been a crew member of Thor Heyerdahl 's Ra expedit...
The Münster rebellion ( German : Täuferreich von Münster , "Anabaptist dominion of Münster") was an attempt by radical Anabaptists to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of Münster – then under the large Prince-Bishopric of Münster in the Holy Roman Empire . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) [2] was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours ; he is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour [3] (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after Wil...
Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic disorder, epidemic hysteria, or mass hysteria, involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion. [1] It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited ...
Energy resources bring with them great social and economic promise, providing financial growth for communities and energy services for local economies. However, the infrastructure which delivers energy services can break down in an energy accident, sometimes causing considerable damage. Energy fatalities can occur, and with many systems deaths will happen often, even when the systems are working as intended. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the s...
Horatio Nelson Jackson (March 25, 1872 – January 14, 1955) was an American automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
This week, Tom explores a series of forgotten sports, many of which should never have been lost. And the rest of which are cruelty to animals with a scoring system. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details.
The Catcher in the Rye is an American novel by J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form from 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation , and as a critique of superficiality in society. [4] [5] The novel also deals with complex issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, connection, sex, and depression. The main character, Holden Caulfield , has become an icon for teenage reb...
Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church . McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw in both additional audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorpo...
This is a list of automobiles known for negative reception. There are no objective quantifiable standards. Cars on this list may have been judged by poor critical reception, poor customer reception, safety defects, and/or poor workmanship. Different sources use a variety of criteria for including negative reception that includes the worst cars for the environment, [1] meeting criteria that includes the worst crash test scores, the lowest projected reliability, and the lowest projected residual v...
David Charles Hahn (October 30, 1976 – September 27, 2016), sometimes called the "Radioactive Boy Scout" or the "Nuclear Boy Scout", was an American nuclear radiation enthusiast who built a homemade neutron source at the age of seventeen. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here . Be sure to check our website for more details....
