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The  Scopes Trial , formally known as  The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes  and commonly referred to as the  Scopes Monkey Trial , was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher,  John T. Scopes , was accused of violating  Tennessee 's  Butler Act , which had made it unlawful to teach  human evolution  in any state-funded school. [1] The trial was delibe...

Topsy  (circa 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female  Asian elephant  put to death at a  Coney Island ,  New York ,  amusement park  by electrocution in January 1903.   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.  

Ching Shih [1] :65  ( Chinese :  鄭 氏 ; literally: 'widow of Zheng') (born  Shih Yang  ( Chinese :  石 陽 ; 1775–1844),  a.k.a.   Cheng I Sao  ( Chinese :  鄭 一 嫂 ), was a Chinese  pirate  leader who terrorized the  China Seas  during the  Jiaqing Emperor  period of the  Qing dynasty  in the early 19th-century. She commanded over 300  junks  (traditional Chinese  sailing ships ) manned by 20,00...

Phineas P. Gage  (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable [B1] :19  survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left  frontal lobe , and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound...

When a 14-year-old British boy was savagely stabbed, no one could have imagined the bizarre chat-room fantasy world that lay behind the attack. A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502 --- 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 ....

The  Ludlow Massacre  emanated from a labor conflict: the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking  coal miners  and their families at  Ludlow, Colorado , on April 20, 1914, with the National Guard using machine guns to fire into the colony. Approximately twenty-one people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chie...

William Chaloner  (1650 – 22 March 1699) [1] [2]  was a serial  counterfeit   coiner  and  confidence trickster , who was imprisoned in  Newgate Prison  several times and eventually proven guilty of  high treason  by Sir  Isaac Newton , Master of the  Royal Mint . He was hanged on the gallows at  Tyburn  on 22 March 1699. [1] [3]   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd...

Dr. Chuck Tingle  is a  pseudonymous  author of gay niche erotica. [1] [2] [3]  He  self-publishes  his works through  Amazon.com , primarily as  ebooks , but also as  paperbacks and  audiobooks  (narrated by Sam Rand). [4] [5] [6] [7]  Tingle began his career by writing  dinosaur erotica  and expanded to stories based on  unicorns ,  Bigfoot , and various anthropomorphized objects and even concep...

Since August 20, 2007, at least 20  detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the  Salish Sea  in  British Columbia , Canada, and  Washington , US. The first discovery, on August 20, 2007, was on  Jedediah Island  in British Columbia. Feet have been discovered on the coasts of islands in British Columbia, and in the US cities of  Tacoma  and  Seattle .

David Koresh  ( / k ə ˈ r ɛ ʃ / ; born  Vernon Wayne Howell ; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the American [2] [3]  leader of the  Branch Davidians  sect, [4]  believing himself to be its final  prophet .   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...

A  beer bottle  is a  bottle  designed as a container for  beer . Such designs vary greatly in size and shape, but the glass commonly is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially  ultraviolet .   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 mo...

A  toilet [n 1]  is a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human  urine and  feces . In other words: "Toilets are  sanitation  facilities at the user interface that allow the safe and convenient  urination  and  defecation ". [1]  Toilets can be with or without flushing water ( flush toilet  or  dry toilet ). They can be set up for a sitting posture or for a squatting posture (...

My Immortal  is a  Harry Potter   fan fiction  serially published on  FanFiction. Net  between 2006 and 2007. Known for its incomprehensible narrative and constant digressions, the story centers on a 17-year-old female vampire called Ebony, a non-canonical character, and her relationships with the characters of the  Harry Potter  series, most notably her romantic relationship with  Draco Malfoy ....

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett  (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), more commonly known as  Ida B. Wells , was an African-American investigative journalist, educator, and an early leader in the  Civil Rights Movement . She was one of the founders of the  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People  (NAACP). [1]  She arguably became the most famous black woman in America, during a life that wa...

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova  ( Italian pronunciation:  [ˈdʒaːkomo dʒiˈrɔːlamo kazaˈnɔːva; - kasa-] ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an  Italian  adventurer and author from the  Republic of Venice . [1] [2]  His autobiography,  Histoire de ma vie  ( Story of My Life ), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. [3]   Our...

Le Pétomane  ( / l ə ˈ p ɛ t ə m eɪ n / ,  French pronunciation: ​ [ləpetɔˈman] ) was the  stage name  of the  French   flatulist  (professional farter) and entertainer  Joseph Pujol  (June 1, 1857 – 1945). He was famous for his remarkable control of the abdominal  muscles , which enabled him to seemingly  fart  at will. His stage name combines the French verb  péter , "to fart" with the - mane ,...

The  Entertainment Software Rating Board  ( ESRB ) is an American  self-regulatory organization  that assigns  age and content ratings  to consumer  video games . The ESRB was established in 1994 by the  Entertainment Software Association  (formerly the Interactive Digital Software Association), in response to criticism of  controversial video games  with excessively violent or  sexual content .

Rodney Glen King  (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was a construction worker turned writer and activist after surviving an act of  police brutality  by the  Los Angeles Police Department . On March 3, 1991, King was violently beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest for fleeing and evading on  California State Route 210 . A civilian, George Holliday, filmed the incident from his nearby balcony and...

Prohibition in the United States  was a nationwide  constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of  alcoholic beverages  from 1920 to 1933. During the nineteenth century,  alcoholism , family violence, and saloon-based  political corruption  prompted  prohibitionists , led by  pietistic  Protestants, to end the  alcoholic beverage  trade to cure the ill society and...

Carrie Amelia Nation  (forename sometimes spelled  Carry ; [1]  November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was an American woman who was a radical member of the  temperance movement , which opposed alcohol before the advent of  Prohibition . She is remembered for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a  hatchet .   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If yo...

The  Gregorian calendar  is the most widely used  civil calendar  in the world. [1] [2] [Note 1]  It is named after  Pope Gregory XIII , who introduced it in October 1582. The calendar spaces  leap years  to make the average year 365.2425 days long, approximating the 365.2422 day  tropical year  that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun.    Our theme song was written and performe...

Sigmund Freud  ( / f r ɔɪ d /   FROYD ; [3]   German:  [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt] ; born  Sigismund Schlomo Freud ; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian  neurologist  and the founder of  psychoanalysis , a clinical method for treating  psychopathology  through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. [4]   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support...

Stede Bonnet  (1688 [1]  – 10 December 1718) [2] [3]  was an early eighteenth-century  Barbadian   pirate , sometimes called "The Gentleman Pirate" [4]  because he was a moderately wealthy land-owner before turning to a life of crime. Bonnet was born into a wealthy  English  family on the island of  Barbados , and inherited the family estate after his father's death in 1694. In 1709, he married Ma...

The  1960 Valdivia earthquake  (Spanish:  Terremoto de Valdivia ) or  Great Chilean earthquake  ( Gran terremoto de Chile ) of 22 May is the  most powerful earthquake  ever recorded. Various studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the  moment magnitude scale . It occurred in the afternoon (19:11  GMT , 15:11 local time), and lasted approximately 10 minutes. The resulting  tsunami  affected southern C...

The  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  ( DARPA ) is an agency of the  United States Department of Defense  responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the  Advanced Research Projects Agency  ( ARPA ), the agency was created in February 1958 by President  Dwight D. Eisenhower  in response to the  Soviet  launching of  Sputnik 1  in...