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Painless Parker and the Dental Circus
Edgar Parker, later better known as "Painless Parker," wasn't your ordinary dentist. When his first practice was struggling in 1892, he began to thin…
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The Rise and Fall of Curative Plane Flights
In the early 1920s, the still-new technology of powered aircraft amazed folks across the planet. People weren't quite sure what this technology could…
4 years, 9 months ago
That Time People Paid Rent With Eels
Nowadays, most people pay rent with the currency of their given nation — but for a time in England, your rent might have been paid with eels (yes, li…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Miracle of the Gulls: A Cricket War
In 1848, times were dire for the Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake Valley. Massive swarms of crickets laid waste to everything in their path, destroying…
4 years, 9 months ago
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 2: Stereotypes, Superstitions and Science
In earlier centuries, when science and spirituality were considered one and the same, the world was full of advice and warnings surrounding pregnancy…
4 years, 9 months ago
A History of Pregnancy Cravings, Part 1: Pickles and Ice Cream
Pregnancy is amazing — and scary, and beautiful, and a thousand other things. The modern world has stereotypes and tropes aplenty about pregnancy, es…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Carrington Event, Part II: Attack of the Sun!
Less than 18 hours after Richard Carrington noticed something screwy on the sun’s surface, chaos erupted. Telegraph operators found their machines li…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Carrington Event, Part I: The Sun is Acting Strange
When amateur astronomer Richard Carrington gazed through his telescope on the morning of September 1st, 1859, he noticed something weird about the su…
4 years, 10 months ago
Loveday: Henry VI's Well-intentioned, Terrible Attempt at Making Peace
In an effort to prevent further conflicts in what would become known as the Wars of the Roses, King Henry VI called the warring parties to London, wi…
4 years, 10 months ago
Classic: Why do British lawyers wear wigs?
In today’s Classic episode, the guys travel back to their early days.
For centuries some lawyers and judges in the U.K. have worn distinctive wigs dur…
4 years, 10 months ago