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Krampus
Season 2 Episode 52
St. Nicolas is famed for bringing gifts to good children. But in the Alpine regions of Europe, there is a legend about a grotesque creature - half human, half goat - that comes to punish naughty chil…
Published on 11 hours ago
Ghost Fleet of the Potomac
Season 2 Episode 51
30 miles south of Washington DC, in a small part of the Potomac River, lies an area called Mallows Bay. This bay is not home to a handful of shipwrecks or even a dozen. Or even 30 or 40 wrecks. Mallo…
Published on 1 day, 11 hours ago
Harry Colebourn and a bear named Winnie
Season 2 Episode 50
Most people probably know that Winnie the Pooh was based upon the stuffed toy bear of Christopher Robin Milne - the son of author A.A. Milne. But there is another tale behind the famed bear - which i…
Published on 4 days, 11 hours ago
Radium Girls
Season 2 Episode 49
With the discovery of Radium in 1898 it began to be used in numerous applications. The most famous was a glow in the dark paint. Thousands of women applied for jobs painting watch dials and other ins…
Published on 5 days, 11 hours ago
How the French Stole Christmas
Season 2 Episode 48
The French Revolution would bring about many, many changes in Europe. One of the most radical was the dechristianization of France - including the banning of religious holidays. Will Clark, the host …
Published on 6 days, 11 hours ago
Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
Season 2 Episode 47
At the outset of World War II, the United States faced a shortage of pilots. As a result, a plan was launched to help ease the situation. This was the creation of a unit of women to fly non-combat du…
Published on 1 week ago
Eradication of the Guinea Worm
Season 2 Episode 46
How do you fight a disease with no known cure - and spreads by just drinking water? This disease is no fantasy but rather Dracunculiasis, or Guinea Worm Disease. While not necessarily fatal, it is ex…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
Origins of Dungeons & Dragons
Season 2 Episode 45
In the early 1970s, in a small town in Southeastern Wisconsin, two young gaming enthusiasts, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, would concoct an idea for a new game. Little did they know they would create …
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
The Rif War
Season 2 Episode 44
From 1921-1926, in the dry craggy mountains of northern Morocco, a brutal conflict would unfold. Claiming tens of thousands of lives, it would see guerrilla warfare, massacres, poison gas attacks, an…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Season 2 Episode 43
On Nov 10, 1975, a storm swept over Lake Superior. For hours and hours, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald was tossed and battered. Then, a little after 7:00 pm, contact was lost with one of the biggest…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago