Mr. Pickle Goes On Tour
oh, the pickle-related places you'll go!
Why yes, of course we've gone out of our way to see the pickle-related sights. Here are a few of our favorites.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Supplement
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"Pittsburgh, PA"
Steel City USA doesn’t make a lot of steel these days, but it’s got a few hundred years of strange history that might just surprise you.
A Month of Billys
was Billy Sunday good at baseball?
Billy Sunday was America's foremost evangelist, whose admirers included young men, ex-presidents, and titans of industry... but how was his baserunning?
Categories: Biography, Series 13, Sports & Leisure
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Errata #3
in which we own up to even more mistakes
Errata for Wonder Marvelously; A Warning to Future Man; Air Crash Museum; Worse Than Frankenstein; Seven Minutes in Heaven; 520%; and more.
Categories: Bonus Episodes, Errata
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The Terror of Gillikin Country
they terrorized the rust belt for years, and the cops were none the wiser
For years the Torso Burchianti Gang terrorized the Monongahela Valley. It turned out the gang wasn't quite as fearsome as the cops thought...
Categories: People & Places, Series 6
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He Whooped to See Them Burn
Simon Girty (1741-1818) -- renegade and traitor, or man of principle?
Was "white savage" Simon Girty (1741-1818) a renegade and traitor, or a man of principle? We reexamine his history and try to figure out what made him tick.
Categories: Biography, History, Most Popular, Series 4
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Pleadings from Asbury Park
a fake marriage, a dead baby, and 21 absinthe frappes
The amazing story of Laura Biggar, the Anna Nicole Smith of 1901, and her crazy plot to steal an inheritance that may or may not have been rightfully hers.
Categories: Biography, History, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Least Popular, Series 4
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Death from Above by Chocolate
sometimes a story seems too good to be true because it is
In 1923, a plane flew over downtown Pittsburgh, dropped Baby Ruth candy bars on the crowd below, and caused widespread panic... or did it?
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 3, Wild Card
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The Ugliest Man in Baseball
big, rugged, and in his way, beautiful
He may have had the best worst nickname in baseball, but "Ugly" Johnny Dickshot was more than just a pretty face. He was also a character.
Categories: Biography, Series 1, Sports & Leisure
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