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Unmasking Mardi Gras
Episode 1310
New Orleans witnessed its first modern Mardi Gras procession - kick-started by a group of students eager to revive the traditional masquerade, banned…
5 months ago
And The Winner Isn't
Episode 1309
The 89th Academy Awards reached its grand finale on 26th February 2017, with a balls-up that instantly entered Hollywood lore. Presenters Warren Beat…
5 months ago
The Lonely Hearts Serial Killer
Episode 1308
Henri Landru, known as ‘Bluebeard’ to the French public, was executed by guillotine on 25th February, 1922, having murdered at least ten women he dat…
5 months ago
Hello Francis, this is God
Episode 1307
Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone - now better known as St Francis of Assisi - attended Mass on 24th February, 1208, and heard the Gospel According to…
5 months, 1 week ago
Get Your Specs On!
Episode 1306
Optometry historians observe 23rd February, 1305 as the day eyeglasses were perhaps first discussed in public, when friar Giordano de Rivalto stood …
5 months, 1 week ago
Let's Colonise Florida
Episode 1305
Departing from Puerto Rico with grand plans to establish a new colony, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León set out on his ill-fated second expedition…
5 months, 1 week ago
Benedict Arnold: American Traitor
Episode 1303
When the Second Continental Congress calmly reshuffled the revolutionary army’s high command on 19th February 1777, they couldn’t have known they wer…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Prince Who Drowned in Wine
Episode 1302
Sentenced to death for treason against his brother King Edward IV, George, Duke of Clarence was executed on 18th February, 1478 - and, according to l…
5 months, 1 week ago
From Hitler To Herbie: The VW Beetle
Episode 1301
Between 1908 and 1927, the Ford Motor Company sold 15,007,033 Model Ts, making the car the best-selling automobile the world had ever seen. That reco…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Write Me A Cheque
Episode 1300
High-rolling merchant Nicholas Vanacker wrote out a cheque for a hefty £400 on 16th February, 1659 - one of the earliest modern cheques still preserv…
5 months, 2 weeks ago