Martha Hughes Cannon: The First Female Senator Elected In The US, Defeating Her Own Husband.
Martha Hughes, or Mattie, as she preferred to be called, was born in Llandudno, Wales on July 1, 1857. Around the time of Mattie’s...
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The 1937 Great Ohio River Flood
The collection of photographs in Time magazine shows the impact of The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 - and is particularly poignant in...
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The Story Of How Mozart Came To Copy Down Allegri’s Miserere, After Hearing It Twice
Allegri’s sublime Miserere has been a choral favourite for centuries. Once it’s heard, it's never forgotten. That soaring high C, always...
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Duelling Pistols at the 1908 Olympics
Duelling Pistols was a short-lived sport at the start of the 20th century, in which two heavily protected competitors faced off and shot...
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That Time The NRA Fought For Tougher Gun Control (When The Black Panthers Had Guns)
With each passing day, the debate for or against gun control rages on within the United States. And although the National Rifle...
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Moroccan Scholar Ibn Battuta May Be The Greatest Explorer of all Time
The title of “history’s most famous traveler” usually goes to Marco Polo, the great Venetian wayfarer who visited China in the 13th...
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The Assassination Of Reinhard Heydrich, The 'Architect Of Holocaust'
When head of Nazi security police and governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, died in June 4, 1942, due...
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The Making Of Sgt Pepper
The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band may or may not still be the “greatest rock album of all time,” but it most certainly...
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Dr. Sally Ride, The First American Woman In Space
Say hello to Sally Ride, at just 32 years old, Ride was the first American woman, and the youngest American, to leave the atmosphere...
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Witold Pilecki, The Man Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned In Auschwitz.
Witold Pilecki – codenames; Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh, Witold- – was a founder of the Secret Polish Army. He was born in...
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The Very Hollow Lincoln Memorial
ASCEND THE 145 WHITE MARBLE steps at the Lincoln memorial, step forward into the shrine room with the seated Great Emancipator, and then...
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Károly Takács: A Man Of Focus, Commitment And Sheer Fucking Will.
Károly Takács might not be a name you're familiar with, but the Hungarian is a legend within his own country after winning successive...
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Stanislav Petrov, The Man Who Saved The World
The year was 1983. It was more than two decades after the Cuban Missile Crisis, that who-will-blink-first moment when President Kennedy...
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Ray Manzarek’s Keyboard Part On The Doors', Love Her Madly
I love when you can focus on the musicianship of a song you know very well by hearing it in a completely new way. The following audio...
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The Weird Butcher Beatles Album Cover
The Beatles decided to use this photograph for their Yesterday and Today album cover. The four normally squeaky clean Beatles had dressed...
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Say Hello To 'Starfish Hitler', The Weirdest Japanese TV Supervillain Of The 1970s
I admit that I’ve never seen it, but from every indication the 1974 Japanese TV series Kamen Rider X was bloody amazing. Kamen Rider...
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The British Enthusiasm For Concentration Camps
Today, the expression “concentration camp” evokes the horrors of Nazi Germany, conjuring up black-and-white images of Auschwitz and...
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The O’Halloran Sisters, Armed With Poles And Boiling Water, Fought For Their Land Against The Army
The O’Halloran sisters – Annie, Honoria and Sarah – lived with their parents and their brothers, Patrick ad Frank, in Bodyke, Co. Clare....
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The Man Who Killed Himself To Prove There Is Life After Death
Is there really life after death? For devout Spiritualist Thomas Lynn Bradford there was only one way to prove the existence of the...
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The Clash and Combat Rock, 40 Years On
Take a quick glance at the Clash’s 1982 album Combat Rock and you’ll see photographer Pennie Smith’s image of four men standing together,...
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An Animated Visualisation of the Bass Line for the Motown Classic, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough"
Jamerson is the Schoenberg of getting from the I chord to the IV chord. He’s algorithmically generating a new pattern every phrase…[He]...
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Humphry Davy, the first person in history to inhale laughing gas, and he never stopped!
History has taught us that the combination of a thirst for knowledge and personal sacrifice is the most powerful force behind some of the...
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Bad Luck, Starvation and Cannibalism. The Story Of The Donner Party And Their Doomed Journey.
Today, the Donner Party is virtually synonymous with one thing: cannibalism. But while most have heard about the gruesome tale of the...
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How the Israelis Captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann
“It was well known that there was at least one strong Jewish underground unit that had been working ceaselessly since the end of the war...
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