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The only thing standing between John Yates Beall and Johnson's Island was the USS Michigan... that and a terrible con man and the cowardice of his own men.
Categories: History, Series 14
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The only thing standing between John Yates Beall and Johnson's Island was the USS Michigan... that and a terrible con man and the cowardice of his own men.
Categories: History, Series 14
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When I learned that Ohio has a "John Hunt Morgan" heritage trail, and its end point was about a 45 minute drive away, well, I just had to check it out.
Categories: History, Supplement
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Thomas Henry Hines had a cunning plan to free Confederate prisoners-of-war and establish a "Northwest Confederacy." Too bad it was doomed to fail.
Categories: History, Series 14
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Legend says Lord Cornbury was New York's worst governor: a nepo baby failson, a bully, a bigot, a corrupt spendthrift, a sex pest. Was he all that awful?
Categories: Biography, History, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 14
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We're taking some time off between Series 13 and 14 and you know what that means... more stuff we like!
Categories: Meta
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Errata for Bound in Mystery and Shadow, Exceeding Great, Suffer Little Children, Scarlet Billows, A Warning to Future Man, 520%, Fuller Houses, and more.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata
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For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age... How old is Charo, really?
Categories: Biography, Entertainment & Media, Series 13
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Is the story of Joe Magarac, the American steel industry's answer to Paul Bunyan, an authentic folk tale or a relatively recent invention?
Categories: Myths & Legends, People & Places, Series 13
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It was the summer of 1932. Cecil Main and Frank Carr from Alliance, Nebraska were gophering for gold in the San Pedro Mountains west of Casper, Wyoming. As two men made their way through a gulch, they caught a glint of “color” on a nearby rock face. They lit a stick of dynamite to see […]
Categories: Intriguing & Unsolved Mysteries, Series 13, Wild Card
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In which #7 and #13 go up to Michigan to see the Dymaxion House.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Supplement
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It was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind... so why aren't you living in one right now?
Categories: Arts & Culture, Feats of Building & Engineering, Series 13
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A system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... and made from index cards.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 13
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