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The Exploding Tank of Beer
Episode 369
The London Beer Flood, which created a 15ft-high wave of booze, and claimed the lives of eight people, began on 17th October, 1814 - when an iron hoo…
3 years, 2 months ago
The First African-American Patents
Episode 367
Henry Blair, the only inventor ever denoted as a ‘colored man’ in the records of US Patent Office, received a patent for his invention of a mechanica…
3 years, 3 months ago
Martin Monti - American Traitor
Episode 366
Rerun. The first ever U.S. officer to be convicted of treason, Army Lieutenant Martin J. Monti Jr., defected from the Air Service to the Nazis on 13t…
3 years, 3 months ago
Dirty Weird! Jesus Story!
Episode 365
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ opened at New York’s Mark Hellinger Theater on 12th October, 1971. The Guardian summarize…
3 years, 3 months ago
Vatican II: This Time It's Personal
Episode 364
The Second Vatican Council - a conference of senior Catholics that transformed the way Mass is given in Churches around the world - began on 11th Oct…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Smell of the Big Screen
Episode 363
Scent-o-Vision, an in-cinema olfactory experience, was unveiled at the New York World’s Fair on 10th October, 1940.
Accompanying a short film ‘My Drea…
3 years, 3 months ago
Gambetta Takes Flight
Episode 361
Léon Gambetta took to the skies above Paris in a hot air balloon on October 7th, 1870, soaring over the enemy German soldiers that surrounded the cit…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Play That Never Ends
Episode 360
Rerun. Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’, the world’s longest-running play, opened at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham on 6th October, 1952, with a cast…
3 years, 3 months ago
The End of American Apparel
Episode 359
American Apparel, the company founded by charismatic weirdo Dov Charney, first filed for bankruptcy protection on October 5th, 2015.
It amounted to a …
3 years, 3 months ago
Here Comes The Orient Express
Episode 358
The first ever Orient Express set off from Paris on October 4th, 1883, immediately becoming a byword for extreme luxury.
With its wood panelling, silk…
3 years, 3 months ago