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John Herbert Dillinger  (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster of the  Great Depression . He led a group known as the " Dillinger Gang ", which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but escaped twice. He was charged, but not convicted, of the murder of an  East Chicago, Indiana , police officer who shot Dillinger in his ...

Frederick Douglass  (born  Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey , c. February 1817 [a]  – February 20, 1895) was an American  social reformer ,  abolitionist , orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from  slavery  in  Maryland , he became a national leader of the  abolitionist movement  in  Massachusetts  and  New York , becoming famous for his oratory [5]  and incisive  antislavery  writin...

The Sound and the Fury  is a novel by the American author  William Faulkner . It employs several narrative styles, including  stream of consciousness . Published in 1929,  The Sound and the Fury  was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful. In 1931, however, when Faulkner's sixth novel,  Sanctuary , was published—a sensationalist story, which Faulkner later said was written onl...

Homeopathy  or  homoeopathy  is a  pseudoscientific [1] [2] [3] [4]  system of  alternative medicine . It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician  Samuel Hahnemann . Its practitioners, called  homeopaths , believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called  similia similibus curentur , or "like cures...

James Orsen Bakker  ( / ˈ b eɪ k ər / ; [1]  born January 2, 1940) is an American  televangelist  and convicted  fraudster . Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program  The PTL Club  with his then wife,  Tammy Faye , and developed  Heritage USA , a now-defunct Christian theme park in  Fort Mill ,  South Carolina .

The  Black Sox Scandal  was a  Major League Baseball   game-fixing  scandal in which eight members of the  Chicago White Sox  were accused of throwing the  1919 World Series  against the  Cincinnati Reds  in exchange for money from a  gambling  syndicate led by  Arnold Rothstein . Judge  Kenesaw Mountain Landis  was appointed as a response to the incident to be the first  Commissioner of Baseball...

Atlas Shrugged  is a 1957 novel by  Ayn Rand . Rand's fourth and final novel, it was also her  longest , and the one she considered to be her  magnum opus  in the realm of  fiction  writing. [1]   Atlas Shrugged  includes elements of  science fiction ,  mystery , and  romance , and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of  Objectivism  in any of her works of fiction. The theme of  Atlas Shru...

Andrew Carter Thornton II  (October 30, 1944 – September 11, 1985) was a former narcotics officer and lawyer who became the head member of "The Company", a  drug smuggling  ring in  Kentucky . The son of Carter and Peggy Thornton of Threave Main Stud farm in southern  Bourbon County, Kentucky , Thornton grew up living a privileged life in the  Lexington, Kentucky , area and attended the prestigiou...

This week, Cecil takes us through a series of some of history's most courageous, most loyal, and most memorable animals. 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.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh  (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a  U.S. Air Mail  pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the  Orteig Prize  for making the first nonstop flight from  New York City  to  Paris  on May 20–21. Lindbergh covered the  33 + 1 ⁄ 2 -hour, 3,6...

Linda Laura Hazzard  ( née   Burfield ; December 18, 1867 – June 24, 1938), nicknamed the " Starvation Doctor " [1]  was an American  quack ,  fraud ,  swindler  and  serial killer  noted for her promotion of  fasting  as a treatment. She was imprisoned by the state of  Washington  for a number of deaths at a sanitarium she operated there in the early 20th century. Her treatments were responsible...

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic  is an animated television series produced by  Hasbro  as part of the  My Little Pony  toy franchise, which is tied in with the  2010 relaunch  of dolls and play sets and original programming for the American children's  cable channel   Discovery Family  (formerly Hub Network).  Lauren Faust  was selected as the creative developer and executive producer for the...

Fordlândia is a district and adjacent area of 14,268 square kilometres (5,509 sq mi) in the city of  Aveiro , in the Brazilian state of  Pará . It is located on the east banks of the  Tapajós river  roughly 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of the city of  Santarém . It was established by American industrialist  Henry Ford  in the  Amazon Rainforest  in 1928 as a prefabricated industrial town intended...

This list consists of albums or songs that have been considered the worst music ever made by various combinations of music critics, television broadcasters (such as MTV and VH1), radio stations, composers, and public polls. 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 w...

The  United States invasion of Grenada  began at dawn on 25 October 1983. The U.S. and a coalition of six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of  Grenada , 100 miles (160 km) north of  Venezuela . Codenamed  Operation Urgent Fury  by the U.S. military, it resulted in military occupation within a few days. [9]  It was triggered by the strife within the  People's Revolutionary Government  wh...

James Arthur Hogue  (born October 22, 1959) is an American  impostor  who most famously entered  Princeton University  by posing as a  self-taught   orphan . 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.

Kennedy scored major victories when he won both the California and South Dakota primaries on June 4. He addressed his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a  ballroom  at  The Ambassador Hotel  in  Los Angeles . [287]  Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a shortcut to a press room. [288]  He did this despite being advised by his bodyguar...

Carl Ethan Akeley  (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American  taxidermist , sculptor,  biologist ,  conservationist , inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American  museums , most notably to the  Milwaukee Public Museum ,  Field Museum of Natural History  and the  American Museum of Natural History . He is considered the father of modern  taxidermy ....

Unusual foods are foods that some people would consider unusual. Sorry... sometimes the title does all the heavy lifting. --- 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  1947 Texas City disaster  was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the  Port of Texas City , Texas, at  Galveston Bay . It was the deadliest industrial accident in United States history and one of history's  largest non-nuclear explosions . A mid-morning fire started on board the French-registered vessel SS  Grandcamp  (docked in the port) and detonated her cargo of abou...

Robert Philip Hanssen  (born April 18, 1944) is an American former  Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI)  double agent  who spied for  Soviet  and Russian intelligence services against the United States from 1976 to 2001. His  espionage  was described by the  Department of Justice  as "possibly the worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history." [3]  Hanssen is currently serving 15 consecutive  li...

The Free Town Project was a project that sought to move to a very small town and advocate for legal changes there. Two towns were involved:  Grafton, New Hampshire  and  Mentone, Texas . It was active in Grafton from 2004 to sometime in 2016. [58]  Grafton's appeal as a favorable destination was due to its absence of zoning laws and a very low property tax rate. [59]  Additionally, John Babiarz li...

The  Zimmermann Telegram  (or  Zimmermann Note  or  Zimmerman Cable ) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the  German Foreign Office  in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between  Germany  and  Mexico  if the  United States  entered  World War I  against Germany. Mexico  would recover   Texas ,  Arizona , and  New Mexico . The telegram was intercepted and decoded by  Bri...

The  Suez Canal  ( Arabic :  قَنَاةُ السُّوَيْسِ ‎,  Qanātu s-Suways ) is an artificial  sea-level   waterway  in  Egypt , connecting the  Mediterranean Sea  to the  Red Sea  through the  Isthmus of Suez  and dividing Africa and Asia. In 1858,  Ferdinand de Lesseps  formed the  Suez Canal Company  for the express purpose of building the  canal . Construction of the canal lasted from 1859 to 1869 a...

Louis Jay Pearlman  (June 19, 1954 – August 19, 2016) was an  American   record producer . He was the creator of successful 1990s  boy bands  such as  Backstreet Boys  and  NSYNC . In 2006, he was accused of running one of the largest and longest-running  Ponzi schemes  in US history, leaving more than $300 million in debts. After being apprehended, he pled guilty to  conspiracy ,  money launderin...