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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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years ago
That Time Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen
Al Capone is rightly remembered as of the most notorious gangsters in US history -- but for a time residents of Chicago also thought of him as a bene…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula
For a brief period in 1942, the town of Pascagoula, Mississippi was terrorized by a strange criminal -- he would sneak into people's houses as they s…
5 years, 1 month ago
Joseph Bonaparte, Cryptid Hunter
Napoleon’s lesser-known, older brother Joseph was, at times, the polar opposite of his conqueror sibling. Yet by merely being related to Napoleon, Jo…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Mystery of the Devonshire Colic
For centuries, people around the world were baffled by a bizarre serious of symptoms that seemed to wax and wane in certain regions over time. Variou…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Troubling, Hidden History of Turpentine
Today turpentine is a substance with any number of industrial uses -- but most people don't know much about it, and even fewer people know its histor…
5 years, 1 month ago
A Race Across the World: From New York to Paris in 1908
In February of 1908, racing teams from multiple nations assembled for an unusual and ambitious race -- they planned to drive from Times Square across…
5 years, 1 month ago