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....
Mar 22, 2023•38 min
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...
Mar 15, 2023•42 min
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 exhi...
Mar 08, 2023•35 min
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 ...
Mar 01, 2023•35 min
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....
Feb 22, 2023•39 min
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.
Feb 15, 2023•44 min
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...
Feb 08, 2023•51 min
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 incor...
Feb 01, 2023•41 min
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 ...
Jan 25, 2023•41 min
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....
Jan 18, 2023•46 min
The Battle of Thermopylae ( /θərˈmɒpɪliː/ thər-MOP-i-lee ; Greek : Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn ) was fought in 480 BC between the Achaemenid Persian Empire under Xerxes I and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Sparta under Leonidas I . Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the second Persian invasion of Greece and the wider Greco-Persian Wars . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support ...
Jan 11, 2023•38 min
Shock art is contemporary art that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is a way to disturb "smug, complacent and hypocritical" people. [2] While the art form's proponents argue that it is "imbedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as "the safest kind of art that an artist can go into the business of making today". [3] [4] But while shoc...
Jan 04, 2023•33 min
The battle of Castle Itter was fought on 5 May 1945, in the Austrian village of Itter in the North Tyrol region of the country, during the last days of the European Theater of World War II. Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Armored Division of the US XXI Corps led by Captain John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr. , a number of Wehrmacht soldiers led by Major Josef "Sepp" Gangl , SS- Hauptsturmführer Kurt-Siegfried Schrader , and recently freed French prisoners of war defended Castle Itter against a...
Dec 28, 2022•33 min
Sherman's March to the Sea (also known as the Savannah campaign or simply Sherman's March ) was a military campaign of the American Civil War conducted through Georgia from November 15 until December 21, 1864, by William Tecumseh Sherman , major general of the Union Army . The campaign began with Sherman's troops leaving the captured city of Atlanta on November 15 and ended with the capture of the port of Savannah on December 21. His forces followed a " scorched earth " policy, destroying milita...
Dec 21, 2022•36 min
The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection ) was a violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington . The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. Beer was difficult to transport and spoiled more easily than rum and whiskey. Rum distillation in the United States had been disrupted during the American Revolutionary War , and whiskey dist...
Dec 14, 2022•36 min
Charles Eugène Bedaux (10 October 1886 – 18 February 1944) was a French -American millionaire who made his fortune developing and implementing the work measurement aspect of scientific management , notably the Bedaux System . Bedaux was friends with British royalty and Nazis alike, and was a management consultant , big game hunter and explorer . 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 ....
Dec 07, 2022•36 min
Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily . Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael , a tramp who died from eating rat poison , dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain ( Acting Major ) William Martin . Correspondence between two British generals that suggested that the Allies planned to inv...
Nov 30, 2022•40 min
The Salvation Army ( TSA ) is a Protestant church and an international charitable organisation headquartered in London , England. The organisation reports a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million, [3] comprising soldiers, officers and adherents collectively known as Salvationists. Its founders sought to bring salvation to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their "physical and spiritual needs." As opposed to other charities, that only focus on things that exist....
Nov 23, 2022•41 min
An idiom is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative , non-literal meaning attached to the phrase; but some phrases become figurative idioms while retaining the literal meaning of the phrase. Categorized as formulaic language , an idiom's figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. [1] Idioms occur frequently in all languages; in English alone there are an estimated twenty-five million idiomatic expressions....
Nov 16, 2022•35 min
Sometimes, even with the very best marketing research and R&D departments that money can by, companies make bafflingly stupid decisions and bring terrible products to the market. This week, we explore a sampling. 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....
Nov 09, 2022•33 min
The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt , also known as the August Coup , [a] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev , who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time. The coup leaders consisted of top military and civilian officials, including Vice President Gennady Yanayev , who together formed the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP). They opposed Gorba...
Nov 02, 2022•33 min
Eve Online (stylised EVE Online ) is a space-based , persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games . Players of Eve Online can participate in a number of in-game professions and activities, including mining , piracy , manufacturing , trading , exploration , and combat (both player versus environment and player versus player ). The game contains a total of 7,800 star systems that can be visited by players. In 2009, a player alliance ...
Oct 26, 2022•45 min
The illegal drug trade or drug smuggling is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of prohibited drugs . Most jurisdictions prohibit trade, except under license , of many types of drugs through the use of drug prohibition laws . The think tank Global Financial Integrity 's Transnational Crime and the Developing World report estimates the size of the global illicit drug market between US$426 and US$652 billion in 2014 alone. [1] With a world GDP of ...
Oct 19, 2022•34 min
The Fall of Tenochtitlan , the capital of the Aztec Empire , was a decisive event in the Spanish conquest of the empire . It occurred in 1521 following extensive manipulation of local factions and exploitation of pre-existing political divisions by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés . He was aided by indigenous allies , and his interpreter and companion La Malinche . 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 o...
Oct 12, 2022•38 min
The International Space Station ( ISS ) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit . It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). [7] [8] The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. [9] The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific ...
Oct 05, 2022•37 min
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms . [fn 4] He acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022 upon the death of his mother , Elizabeth II . He was the longest-serving heir apparent in British history and, at the age of 73, is the oldest person to ascend the British throne. 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 Patr...
Sep 28, 2022•33 min
Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt [1] (22 May 1878 – 23 May 1960), commonly known as Rustam-e-Hind ( Hindi-Urdu for Rostam of Hindostan ) and by the ring name The Great Gama , [7] was a pehlwani wrestler and strongman in British Raj . In the early 20th century, he was an undefeated wrestling champion of subcontinent . 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 m...
Sep 21, 2022•27 min
The Lewis and Clark Expedition , also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition , was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase . The Corps of Discovery was a select group of U.S. Army and civilian volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark . Clark and 30 members set out from Camp Dubois , Illinois, on May 14, 1804, met Lewis and ten other members of the ...
Sep 14, 2022•40 min
A common misconception is a viewpoint or factoid that is often accepted as true but which is actually false. They generally arise from conventional wisdom (such as old wives' tales ), stereotypes , superstitions , fallacies , a misunderstanding of science, or the popularization of pseudoscience . Some common misconceptions are also considered to be urban legends , and they are often involved in moral panics . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you’d like to support the ...
Sep 07, 2022•46 min
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician . During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. 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....
Aug 31, 2022•44 min
