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The Marx Brothers Bow Out
Episode 788
Comedy legends The Marx Brothers made their final on-screen appearance together on March 8th, 1959, in a TV short called "The Incredible Jewel Robber…
2 years, 4 months ago
Constantine's Sunday Sabbath
Episode 787
Rerun: Why is Sunday the Christian day of rest? Because Jesus said so? No! It was Roman emperor Constantine The Great who decreed on 7th March, 320 t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Shutting Down Napster
Episode 786
Pioneering music-sharing platform Napster faced a pivotal legal showdown on March 6th, 2001, when - despite the company’s defence that it was merely …
2 years, 5 months ago
Che In The Sky With Jacket
Episode 785
The famous 'Che' poster, entitled Guerrillero Heroico, taken by Alberto Korda at a mass funeral in Havana on 5th March, 1960. It went on to become on…
2 years, 5 months ago
John Lennon's Jesus Controversy
Episode 784
John Lennon's controversial statement that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus was first published in the London Evening Standard on 4th March, …
2 years, 5 months ago
I Want My MTV
Episode 782
Mick Jagger, Madonna, and David Bowie were amongst the megastars who participated in the ‘I Want My MTV!’ campaign which debuted on 1st March, 1982; …
2 years, 5 months ago
Salem's Witchcraft Epidemic
Episode 781
The strange behaviour of two young girls, Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris, sparked the infamous Salem Witch Trials on February 29th, 1692, whe…
2 years, 5 months ago
Dord: The Ghost Word
Episode 779
Rerun: Webster’s New International Dictionary (Second Edition) was the largest book to be mass produced, but - as was revealed on 28th February, 1939…
2 years, 5 months ago
Unmasking Mardi Gras
Episode 778
New Orleans witnessed its first modern Mardi Gras procession - kick-started by a group of students eager to revive the traditional masquerade, banned…
2 years, 5 months ago
Woodrow Wilson and the Grand Canyon
Episode 777
President Woodrow Wilson finally signed into law a bill establishing The Grand Canyon as the USA's 15th National Park on this day in 1919.
Although pr…
2 years, 5 months ago