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The Inquiry Office
Episode 653
Henry Robinson opened the Office of Addresses and Encounters on Threadneedle Street, London on 29th September, 1650. The centre provided a forward-lo…
2 years, 3 months ago
Let's Get Metric
Episode 652
Rerun. Feet, inches, palms, cubits, rods… all were SWEPT ASIDE on 28th September, 1889, when the first General Conference of the Weights and Measures…
2 years, 3 months ago
Let's Catch A Steam Train
Episode 651
George Stephenson drove Britain’s first-ever steam-powered passenger train, the Locomotion Number One, on 27th September, 1825, from Darlington to St…
2 years, 3 months ago
Yves Rossy: Rocketman
Episode 650
Pushing the boundaries of human flight to hitherto unknown extremes, Swiss aviator Yves Rossy entered the record books on 26th September, 2008, becom…
2 years, 3 months ago
Thank You For Not Smoking
Episode 649
The world did NOT wake up to the dangers of smoking on September 25th, 1878, despite the efforts of Dr. Charles R. Drysdale, who had a letter publish…
2 years, 3 months ago
Welcome to Downing St
Episode 647
Robert Walpole, first Lord of the Treasury, moved into 10 Downing Street on 22nd September, 1735, after three years of renovations. Although initiall…
2 years, 3 months ago
The 'Cod War' Heats Up
Episode 646
Rerun. ‘The Fish Feud!’ - as the tabloids originally termed the standoff between Britain and Iceland over fishing rights - had escalated into a fully…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Pope, the Antipope and the Other Pope
Episode 645
Robert of Geneva was elected Pope Clement VII on 20th September, 1378. Inconveniently, there was already a pope: Urban VI. Cue three decades of confu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Discovering The Iceman
Episode 644
When German hikers Erika and Helmut Simon stumbled upon a dead body in the Oertzel Alps on 19th September, 1991, they believed it to be a recently fa…
2 years, 3 months ago
Welcome To Tiffany's
Episode 643
Tiffany, now a $16 billion jewelry empire, opened their first store at 259 Broadway, New York, on 18th September, 1837. Their first day’s sales total…
2 years, 3 months ago