A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing burnable material, typically tobacco , that is rolled into thin paper for smoking . The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption. Manufacturers have described the cigarette as "a drug administration system for the delivery of nicotine in acceptable and attractive form". [1] [2] [3] [4] The term cigarette , as com...
Jun 15, 2022•38 min
Frank William Dux ( /ˈdjuːks/ ; born April 6, 1956) is a Canadian-American martial artist and fight choreographer . According to Dux, a ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he was a teenager. He established his own school of ninjutsu called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu, and has said he won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. He was all the way lying about this, but his alleged victory at the Kumite served as the inspiration for the 1988 film Bloodsport starr...
Jun 08, 2022•38 min
On October 14, 2004, Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701 ( ICAO : FLG3701, IATA: 9E3701, or Flagship 3701) crashed near Jefferson City , Missouri , United States, while flying from Little Rock National Airport in Little Rock , Arkansas , United States, to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota , United States. Flight 3701 was a repositioning flight with no passengers aboard; both pilots were killed. Federal investigators determined the crash was due to the pilots' unprofessional beh...
Jun 01, 2022•36 min
Pankration ( /pænˈkreɪtiɒn, -ˈkreɪʃən/ ; Greek : παγκράτιον) was a sporting event introduced into the Greek Olympic Games in 648 BC, which was an empty-hand submission sport with few rules. The athletes used boxing and wrestling techniques, but also others, such as kicking, holds, joint-locks, and chokes on the ground, making it similar to modern mixed martial arts . [1] The term comes from the Greek παγκράτιον [paŋkrátion] , meaning 'all of power', from πᾶν ( pan ) 'all' and κράτος ( kratos ) '...
May 25, 2022•36 min
The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, [1] was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale ). Each of the two paleontologists used underhanded methods to try to outdo the other in the field, resorting to bribery, theft, and t...
May 18, 2022•34 min
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (German: [ˈmanfreːt fɔn ˈʁɪçthoːfn̩] ; 2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), known in English as Baron von Richthofen or the Red Baron, was a fighter pilot with the German Air Force during World War I . He is considered the ace-of-aces of the war, being officially credited with 80 air combat victories. 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 ...
May 11, 2022•39 min
Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography website. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by Mindgeek . [4] [5] As of June 2020, Pornhub is the 10th most trafficked website in the world and the third most-trafficked adult website after XVideos and XNXX . 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....
May 04, 2022•39 min
Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species . Common mating or reproductively motivated systems include monogamy , polygyny , polyandry , polygamy and promiscuity . Other sexual behaviour may be reproductively motivated (e.g. sex apparently due to duress or coercion and situational sexual behaviour ) or non-reproductively motivated (e.g. interspecific sexuality , sexual arousal from objects or places, sex with dead animals , homosexual sexual behaviour ,...
Apr 27, 2022•44 min
Ruth Brown Snyder (March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer . Her execution in the electric chair at New York 's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a well-publicized photograph....
Apr 20, 2022•34 min
A number of television shows have been judged the worst by both critics and audiences alike. This week, we'll discuss several of them. 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.
Apr 13, 2022•44 min
Sometimes Popes suck. Pretty much all the time, actually. But some Popes suck more, and that's what we're talking about this week. 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.
Apr 06, 2022•39 min
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed / suspension bridge in New York City , spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn . Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was also the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a deck 127 ft (38.7 m) above mean high water . The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the Eas...
Mar 30, 2022•41 min
John "Mad Jack" Mytton (30 September 1796 – 29 March 1834) was a British eccentric and rake of the Regency period who was briefly a Tory Member of Parliament.
Mar 23, 2022•43 min
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was an American writer and prominent socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and the only child he had with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee . Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III , a Republican Party leader and 38th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives , was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affai...
Mar 16, 2022•31 min
Since 1850, more than 5,000 people have gone over Niagara Falls , either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts ) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor , who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 121 years, thousands of people have been swept over the falls but only sixteen people have reportedly survived the feat. All instances of people having survived the trip over the fa...
Mar 09, 2022•39 min
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 . As a scientist , he was ...
Mar 02, 2022•35 min
The New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century throughout Rhode Island , eastern Connecticut , southern Massachusetts , Vermont , and other areas of the New England states. [1] Consumption ( tuberculosis ) was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives. [2] Bodies were exhumed and internal organs ritually burned to stop the "vampire" from attacking the local population and to prevent the spread of the di...
Feb 23, 2022•36 min
Coleco Industries, Inc. was an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as The Connecticut Leather Company. [3] [4] It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles , the Coleco Telstar dedicated consoles and ColecoVision . [5] [6] [7] While the company disappeared in 1988 as a result of bankruptcy, the Coleco brand was revived in 2005, and remains active to this day. Our theme song wa...
Feb 16, 2022•36 min
This list contains names of people who were found guilty of capital crimes and placed on death row , and were later found to be wrongly convicted . Some people were exonerated posthumously. 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....
Feb 09, 2022•40 min
Insane Beauty Treatments are a thing that doesn't have a Wikipedia page. Sorry. Normally we just do a quick and easy copy/paste for this, but that only works when we stay inside the format of the show. So ... how are things with you? We never talk about you. 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....
Feb 02, 2022•34 min
USS William D. Porter (DD-579), a Fletcher -class destroyer , was a ship of the United States Navy named for Commodore William D. Porter (1808–1864). William D. Porter was laid down on 7 May 1942 at Orange , Texas , United States , by the Consolidated Steel Corporation ; launched on 27 September 1942, sponsored by Miss Mary Elizabeth Reeder; and commissioned on 6 July 1943, Lieutenant Commander Wilfred A. Walter in command. [2] The ship is predominantly remembered today for the string of extreme...
Jan 26, 2022•38 min
A nuclear close call is an incident that could have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion. These incidents typically involve a perceived imminent threat to a nuclear-armed country which could lead to retaliatory strikes against the perceived aggressor. The damage caused by international nuclear exchange is not necessarily limited to the participating countries, as the hypothesized rapid climate change associated with even small-scale regional nuclear war could threaten f...
Jan 19, 2022•48 min
Whether condoms were used in ancient civilizations is debated by archaeologists and historians. [101] : 11 In ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, pregnancy prevention was generally seen as a woman's responsibility, and the only well documented contraception methods were female-controlled devices. [101] : 17, 23 In Asia before the 15th century, some use of glans condoms (devices covering only the head of the penis) is recorded. Condoms seem to have been used for contraception, and to have been known...
Jan 12, 2022•42 min
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m) purported " petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York . Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P. T. Barnum are still being displayed. The original is currently on display at The Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, New York . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to sup...
Jan 05, 2022•35 min
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism , Anglicanism , or Eastern Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. 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....
Dec 29, 2021•42 min
Juan Pujol Garcia MBE (14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol Garcia, was a Spanish spy who acted as a double agent loyal to Great Britain against Nazi Germany during World War II , when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans. He was given the codename Garbo by the British; their German counterparts codenamed him Alaric and referred to his non-existent spy network as "Arabal". Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosni...
Dec 22, 2021•39 min
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 . 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 mor...
Dec 15, 2021•36 min
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-k...
Dec 08, 2021•36 min
The Narváez expedition was a Spanish journey of exploration and colonization started in 1527 that intended to establish colonial settlements and garrisons in Florida . [1] The expedition was initially led by Pánfilo de Narváez , who died in 1528. Many more people died as the expedition traveled west along the explored Gulf Coast of the present-day United States and into the American Southwest . Only four of the expedition's original members survived, reaching Mexico City in 1536. These survivors...
Dec 01, 2021•43 min
Mithridates or Mithradates VI Eupator ( Greek : Μιθραδάτης ; [2] 135–63 BC) was ruler of the Hellenistic Kingdom of Pontus in northern Anatolia from 120 to 63 BC, and one of the Roman Republic 's most formidable and determined opponents. He was an effective, ambitious and ruthless ruler who sought to dominate Asia Minor and the Black Sea region, waging several hard-fought but ultimately unsuccessful wars (the Mithridatic Wars ) to break Roman dominion over Asia and the Hellenic world. [3] He has...
Nov 24, 2021•38 min
