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The  Ku Klux Klan  ( / ˌ k uː   k l ʌ k s   ˈ k l æ n ,   ˌ k j uː -/ ), [a]  commonly called the  KKK  or the  Klan , is an American  white supremacist   hate group  whose primary targets are  African Americans , as well as  Jews ,  immigrants ,  leftists ,  homosexuals , and, until recently,  Catholics . [9]  The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the hist...

Fyre Festival  was a fraudulent luxury  music festival  founded by  Billy McFarland , CEO of Fyre Media Inc, and rapper  Ja Rule . It was created with the intent of promoting the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the  Bahamian  island of  Great Exuma . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick....

The  Hitler Diaries  ( German :  Hitler-Tagebücher ) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by  Adolf Hitler , but forged by  Konrad Kujau  between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million  Deutsche Marks  (£2.33 million or $3.7 million) by the West German news magazine  Stern , which sold serialisation rights to several news organisations. One of t...

Anton Szandor LaVey [3]  (born  Howard Stanton Levey ; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, and  occultist . [4]  He was the founder of the  Church of Satan  and the religion of  LaVeyan Satanism . He authored several books, including  The Satanic Bible ,  The Satanic Rituals ,  The Satanic Witch ,  The Devil's Notebook , and  Satan Speaks!  In addition, he released...

Youree Dell Harris  (August 12, 1962 – July 26, 2016) was an American television personality best known as  Miss Cleo , a spokeswoman for a psychic  pay-per-call service  called Psychic Readers Network from 1997 to 2003. [1] [2]  Harris used various aliases, including Cleomili Harris and Youree Perris. [3]   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the sho...

The  French invasion of Russia , known in Russia as the  Patriotic War of 1812  ( Russian :  Отечественная война 1812 года ,  romanized :  Otechestvennaya voyna 1812 goda ) and in France as the  Russian campaign  ( French :  Campagne de Russie ), began on 24 June 1812 when  Napoleon 's  Grande Armée  crossed the  Neman River  in an attempt to engage and defeat the  Russian Army . [15]  Napoleon ho...

Hedy Lamarr  ( / ˈ h eɪ d i / ), born  Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler  (November 9, 1914 [a]  – January 19, 2000), was an  Austrian-American  actress, inventor, and film producer. She was part of 30 films in an acting career spanning 28 years, and co-invented an early version of  frequency-hopping spread spectrum . [1] [2]

Franz Anton Mesmer  ( / ˈ m ɛ z m ər / ; [1]   German:  [ˈmɛsmɐ] ; 23 May 1734 – 5 March 1815) was a German  doctor  with an interest in  astronomy . He theorised the existence of a natural  energy  transference occurring between all animated and inanimate objects; this he called " animal magnetism ", sometimes later referred to as  mesmerism . (In modern times  New Age   spiritualists  have reviv...

Steven Frederic Seagal  ( / s ɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː l / ; born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician who holds American, Serbian, and Russian citizenship. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website for more details.

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin  ( / r æ ˈ s p j uː t ɪ n / ; [1]  Russian:  Григорий Ефимович Распутин   [ɡrʲɪˈɡorʲɪj jɪˈfʲiməvʲɪtɕ rɐˈsputʲɪn] ; 21 January [ O.S.  9 January] 1869 – 30 December [ O.S.  17 December] 1916) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor  Nicholas II , the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late  imperial...

A  spite house  is a  building   constructed  or  substantially modified  to  irritate  neighbors or any party with  land stakes . Because  long-term occupation  is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently sport strange and impractical structures. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Pat...

A  lottery  is a form of  gambling  that involves the drawing of numbers at random for a prize. Lotteries are outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments; the most common regulation is prohibition of sale to minors, and vendors must be licensed to sell lottery...

This week's episode contains a series of short, uplifting stories to help get you through your state's stay at home orders. Or worse, your state's lack of them. --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our website for more details.

The  Bay of Pigs invasion  ( Spanish :  invasión de bahía de Cochinos ; sometimes called  invasión de playa Girón  or  batalla de Girón , after the  Playa Girón ) was a failed  landing operation  on the southwestern coast of  Cuba  in 1961 by  Cuban exiles  who opposed  Fidel Castro 's  Cuban Revolution . Covertly financed and directed by the  U.S. government , the operation took place at the heig...

Sport  includes all forms of  competitive   physical activity  or  games  which, [1]  through casual or organized participation, at least in part aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases,  entertainment  for spectators. [2]  Sports can bring positive results to one's physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from thos...

The  Spanish flu , also known as the  1918 flu pandemic , was an unusually deadly  influenza pandemic . Lasting from January 1918 to December 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a quarter of the world's population at the time. The death toll is estimated to have been anywhere from 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million, making it one of the  deadliest pandemics  in...

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs  (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American  socialist ,  political activist ,  trade unionist , one of the founding members of the  Industrial Workers of the World  (IWW) and  five times the candidate  of the  Socialist Party of America  for  President of the United States . [1]  Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, De...

The  Etruscan civilization  ( / ɪ ˈ t r ʌ s k ən / ) was a  civilization of ancient Italy  in the area corresponding roughly to  Tuscany , western  Umbria , northern  Lazio , [1] [2]  with offshoots also to the north in the  Po Valley , in the current  Emilia-Romagna , south-eastern  Lombardy  and southern  Veneto , and to the south, in some areas of  Campania . [3] --- Our theme song was written...

he  Hubble Space Telescope  (often referred to as  HST  or  Hubble ) is a  space telescope  that was launched into  low Earth orbit  in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the  first space telescope  but it is one of the largest and most versatile, well known both as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy. The Hubble telescope is named after astronomer  Edwin Hubb...

The  men's marathon  at the  1904 Summer Olympics  in  St. Louis  took place on August 30 of that year, over a distance of 24.85 miles (39.99 km). [2]  Thirty-two athletes representing four nations competed, but only 14 managed to finish the race, [3]  which proved to be a bizarre affair due to poor organization and officiating. [4]

Pornhub  is a  pornographic  video sharing and pornography website. [6] [7]  It was launched in  Montreal , in 2007. [8]  Pornhub also has offices and servers in  San Francisco ,  Houston ,  New Orleans  and  London . -- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here .  Be sure to check our webs...

The  Panama Canal  ( Spanish :  Canal de Panamá ) is an artificial 82 km (51 mi) waterway in  Panama  that connects the  Atlantic Ocean  with the  Pacific Ocean . The  canal  cuts across the  Isthmus of Panama  and is a  conduit  for maritime trade.  Canal locks  are at each end to lift  ships  up to  Gatun Lake , an  artificial lake  created to reduce the amount of  excavation work  required for...

Lizzie Andrew Borden  (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman who was the main suspect in the August 4, 1892  axe murders  of her father and stepmother in  Fall River ,  Massachusetts . Borden was tried and acquitted of the murders. --- Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episode basis, you can find our Patreon page here...

Dan Cooper  is the  pseudonym  of an unidentified man who  hijacked  a  Boeing 727  aircraft in the  northwest United States , in the airspace between  Portland , Oregon, and  Seattle , Washington, on the afternoon of Wednesday,  November 24, 1971. [1] [2]  The man purchased his airline ticket using the alias Dan Cooper but, because of a news miscommunication, became known in popular lore as  D. B...

Peter Bartholomew  (died 20 April 1099) was a soldier and  mystic  from  France  who was part of the  First Crusade  as part of the  army of Raymond of Saint-Gilles . Peter was initially a servant to William, Lord of Cunhlat.