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They were driven from their homes, forced to live in houseboats, and persecuted... and all they really wanted was freedom to worship as they pleased.
Categories: Eccentrics & Prophecies, People & Places, Series 14
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A grab bag of Confederate plots: Fake peace conferences! Robbing banks! Burning down cities! Kidnapping the vice president!
Categories: History, Series 14
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In which we take a trip to see the only remaining bits of the USS Michigan, and then spend the rest of our time obsessing about rubber ducks and latkes.
Categories: History, Supplement
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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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