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Zeppelin Takes Flight
Episode 1417
Airships had flown since the 1850s, but the first rigid airship to comfortably carry passengers - the Zeppelin - had its maiden voyage at Lake Consta…
4 weeks ago
The First Tour De France 🚲
Episode 1416
Around sixty cyclists set off from a café in Montgeron, just outside Paris, on 1st July, 1903: the start of the first ever Tour de France.
The event…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Debating Darwin's Theory
Episode 1415
Thomas Huxley and Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, were among the prominent figures discussing Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution at the Oxfor…
1 month ago
When Kubrick Met Spielberg
Episode 1414
After nearly three decades of development, A.I. Artificial Intelligence finally had a theatrical release on 29th June, 2001. Written and directed by …
1 month ago
The Real Pied Piper
Episode 1412
What happened to the 130 children that went missing from the town of Hamlein, Lower Saxony on 26th June, 1284? According to legend, a vindictive ‘Pi…
1 month ago
Introducing... The Fork
Episode 1411
The fork had only recently received Royal approval in Britain when it was gifted to the Governor of Massachusetts, John Winthrop, on 25th June, 1633.…
1 month ago
Henry VIII's 'Ugly Wife'
Episode 1410
Anne of Cleves was dumped by her profligate husband Henry VIII on 24th June, 1540, when she was summoned to Richmond Palace and asked to accept an an…
1 month ago
Bobbitt
Episode 1409
Lorena Bobbitt cut off her husband John Wayne Bobbitt’s penis with a kitchen knife while he was asleep in their apartment in Manassas, Virginia on 23…
1 month, 1 week ago
I Invented The Donut 🍩
Episode 1408
Sea Captain Hanson Gregory claimed to have first cut a hole in a donut on 22nd June, 1847, sparking an American tradition: the nation now consumes te…
1 month, 1 week ago
Making The Metropolitan Police
Episode 1406
Sir Robert Peel received royal assent for the Metropolis Police Improvement Bill on 19th June, 1829 - leading to the creation of London's first profe…
1 month, 1 week ago