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Feral Children
A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no exper…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Failed Constitutional Amendments
Episode 457
Hundreds of proposed amendments to the United States Constitution are introduced during each session of the United States Congress. From 1789 through…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Captain Thomas Moore
Episode 456
Captain Sir Thomas Moore (30 April 1920 – 2 February 2021), more popularly known as Captain Tom, was a British Army officer and fundraiser. He made i…
5 months ago
The Fir-Tree - by Hans Christian Andersen
Season 455
"The Fir-Tree" (Danish: Grantræet) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fi…
5 months, 1 week ago
Canals on Mars
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was erroneously believed that there were "canals" on the planet Mars. These were a network of long …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Great Feasts
Season 1 Episode 453
The Field of the Cloth of Gold (French: Camp du Drap d'Or, pronounced [kɑ̃ dy dʁa d‿ɔʁ]) was a summit meeting between King Henry VIII of England and …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Storm Chasers
Episode 452
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/chasing-tornadoes
National Geographic article on Storm Chasing called Chasing Tornadoes.
6 months ago
Robert Maxwell
Season 1 Episode 451
Ian Robert Maxwell (born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch; 10 June 1923 – 5 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak-born British media proprietor and politic…
6 months, 1 week ago
Collar Bomb Heist
Season 450 Episode 1
On August 28, 2003, pizza delivery man Brian Douglas Wells robbed a PNC Bank near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Upon being appre…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Penis Theft
Koro is a culture-bound delusional disorder in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear,…
6 months, 3 weeks ago