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Let's Build The Pentagon
Episode 1244
Construction of the Virginia headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense began on September 11th, 1941 - spookily, the same date it was attacked b…
4 months ago
France's Last Execution
Episode 1243
The guillotine claimed its last victim on 10th September, 1977, when murderer Hamida Djandoubi was executed in Marseille, his grim end marking the cl…
4 months ago
Laughter, Uncanned
Episode 1242
'The Hank McCune Show' - an otherwise unremarkable footnote in American TV history - became the first single-camera sitcom to deploy a pre-recorded l…
4 months ago
Making Michelangelo's David
Episode 1241
Now celebrated as the most famous statue in the world, Michelangelo's David was first unveiled in Florence's Piazza della Signoria on 8th September,…
4 months ago
Welcome To Bavaria, U.S.A.
Episode 1239
oday, the small town of Leavenworth in Washington is known for its Bavarian-themed hotels, restaurants, shops and festivals, but when it was incorpor…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Quiz Show That Won The Jackpot
Episode 1238
On 4th September, 1998, the debut episode of the world-conquering game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? aired in the UK.
Initially titled Cash M…
4 months, 1 week ago
Who Invented The Air Fryer?
Episode 1237
Fred van der Weij, a Dutch electronics engineer with a craving for healthier chips, spent years tinkering in his garage to create the “frit air” - l…
4 months, 1 week ago
Queen Of The Cuban Sea
Episode 1236
Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was 64 years old when she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage for prote…
4 months, 1 week ago
Why Japan Loves Baseball
Episode 1235
How come baseball, that most American of games, is even more popular in Japan than in its home country?
It’s a story with roots into the nineteenth …
4 months, 1 week ago
The Last Of His Tribe
Ishi, a native American man who was widely acclaimed as the “last wild Indian” emerged from the wilderness on 29th August, 1911.
His arrival came as …
4 months, 2 weeks ago