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Lake Peigneur  (locally pronounced  [pæ̃j̃æ̹ɾ] ) is a saline [A] lake in the US state of  Louisiana , 1.2 miles (1.9 km) north of  Delcambre  and 9.1 miles (14.6 km) west of  New Iberia , near the northernmost tip of  Vermilion Bay . With a maximum depth of 200 feet (61 m), it is the deepest lake in Louisiana. It was a 10-foot (3 m) deep  freshwater  body, popular with sportsmen, until an unusual...

Sex robots  or  sexbots  are hypothetical  anthropomorphic   robot   sex dolls . [1]  As of 2018, although elaborately instrumented sex dolls have been created by a number of inventors, no fully functioning [ vague ] sex robots exist. There is controversy as to whether developing them would be  morally  justifiable.   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to suppo...

The  Damascus Titan missile explosion  (also known as the  Damascus accident [1] ) was a 1980  U.S.   Broken Arrow incident involving a Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural  Arkansas  when a  U.S. Air Force   LGM-25C Titan II   ICBM  loaded with a 9 megaton  W-53 Nuclear Warhead  had a  liquid fuel  ex...

The  United States Electoral College  is a body of electors established by the  United States Constitution , constituted every four years for the sole purpose of electing the  president and  vice president  of the  United States . The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, and an  absolute majority  of 270 electoral votes is required to win an election. Pursuant to  Article II, Section 1, Cla...

The  Dyatlov Pass incident  ( Russian :  Ги́бель тургру́ппы Дя́тлова ) refers to the unsolved deaths of nine ski  hikers  in the northern  Ural Mountains  in the  Soviet Union  (now  Russia ) between 1 February and 2 February 1959. The experienced trekking group, who were all from the  Ural Polytechnical Institute , had established a  camp  on the slopes of  Kholat Syakhl  in an area now named in...

Robert Smalls  (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an enslaved African American who escaped to freedom and became a ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician. He freed himself, his crew and their families from slavery during the  American Civil War  by commandeering a Confederate transport ship,  CSS  Planter , in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled w...

David Vaughan Icke  ( / aɪ k / ; born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker. A former  footballer [1]  and sports broadcaster, Icke has been known since the 1990s as a professional  conspiracy theorist . [2] [3]  He is the author of over 20 books and numerous DVDs, and has lectured in over 25 countries, speaking for up to 10 hours to audiences. [4] [5]

Joshua Abraham Norton  (February 4, 1818 [3]  – January 8, 1880), known as  Emperor Norton , was a citizen of  San Francisco , California who proclaimed himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States" in 1859. He later assumed the secondary title of "Protector of Mexico". [4]  Norton was born in England but spent most of his early life in South Africa. 

The  Nazino affair  ( Russian :  Назинская трагедия ,  translit.   Nazinskaya Tragediya ) was the  mass deportation  of 6,000 people to Nazino Island in the  Soviet Union  in May 1933. The deportees, mostly  political prisoners  and  petty criminals , were forcibly sent to the small, isolated island in  Western Siberia , located 540 kilometers (340 mi) northwest of  Tomsk , to construct a " specia...

Julie d'Aubigny  (1670/1673–1707), better known as  Mademoiselle Maupin  or  La Maupin , was a 17th-century swordswoman and  opera  singer. Her tumultuous career and flamboyant life were the subject of gossip and colourful stories in her own time, and inspired numerous portrayals afterwards.  Théophile Gautier  loosely based the title character, Madeleine de Maupin, of his novel  Mademoiselle de M...

The  Luddites  were a radical group of  English  textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting the use of machinery in a "fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard labour practices. [1]  Luddites feared correctly that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would r...

Sexology  is the scientific study of  human sexuality , including human sexual interests,  behaviors  and functions. [1]  The term  sexology  does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as  political science  or  social criticism . [2] [3] 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...

Gloria Ramirez  (January 11, 1963 – February 19, 1994) [1]  was an American woman dubbed "the Toxic Lady" by the media when several hospital workers became ill after exposure to her body and blood. She had been admitted to the  emergency department  while suffering from late-stage  cervical cancer . While treating Ramirez, several hospital workers fainted and others experienced symptoms such as sh...

Utsuro-bune  ( うつろ舟   'hollow ship' ), also  Utsuro-fune,  and  Urobune , refers to an unknown object that allegedly washed ashore in 1803 in  Hitachi province  on the eastern coast of  Japan .When defining Utsuro-bune, the bune part means "boat" while Utsuro means empty, or hollow. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts:  Toen shōsetsu  (1825),  Hyōryū kishū  (1835) and  Ume-no-chiri  (18...

The  Everleigh Club  was a high-class  brothel  which operated in  Chicago, Illinois  from February 1900 until October 1911. [1]  It was owned and operated by  Ada and Minna Everleigh . [1]   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  Great Chicago Fire  was a  conflagration  that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2 ) of  Chicago ,  Illinois , and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [2]   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...

A  vibrator  is a  sex toy  that is used on the body to produce pleasurable  erotic stimulation . Most 2010-era vibrators contain an electric-powered device which pulsates or throbs, which is used to stimulate  erogenous zones  such as the  clitoris , the  vulva  or  vagina ,  penis ,  scrotum  or  anus . There are many different shapes and models of vibrators. Some vibrators designed for women st...

The  Darien scheme  was an unsuccessful attempt by the  Kingdom of Scotland  to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called "Caledonia" on the  Isthmus of Panama  on the  Gulf of Darién  in the late 1690s. The aim was for the colony to have an overland route that connected the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. From the beginning it has been claimed historically that the undertaking wa...

The  Bermuda Triangle , also known as the  Devil's Triangle , is a loosely-defined region in the western part of the North  Atlantic Ocean , where a number of  aircraft  and  ships  are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery. The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is amongst the most heavily traveled shipping lanes i...

Mary Mallon  (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as  Typhoid Mary , was an  Irish-American  cook. She was the first person in the United States identified as an  asymptomatic carrier  of the pathogen associated with  typhoid fever . She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. [1]  She was twice forcibly isolated by publ...

Tsar Bomba  ( Russian :  Царь-бо́мба ,  tr.   Tsar'-bómba ,  IPA:  [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə] ,  lit.   Tsar  Ivan bomb/King of Bombs ;) was the  Western  nickname for the  Soviet  RDS-220  hydrogen bomb  ( code name   Ivan [3]  or  Vanya ), the most powerful  nuclear weapon  ever created. Its test on 30 October 1961 remains the most powerful  explosive  ever detonated. It was also referred to as  Kuzma's mo...

Cocaine , also known as  coke , is a strong  stimulant  mostly used as a  recreational drug . [10]  It is commonly  snorted , inhaled as smoke, or dissolved and injected into a  vein . [9]  Mental effects may include  loss of contact with reality , an  intense feeling of happiness , or  agitation . [9] Physical symptoms may include a  fast heart rate , sweating, and  large pupils . [9]  High doses...

The  Principality of Sealand , more commonly known as  Sealand , is a  micronation  that claims  Roughs Tower , an offshore platform located in the  North Sea  approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) off the coast of  Suffolk , England, as its territory. Roughs Tower is a disused  Maunsell Sea Fort , originally called HM Fort Roughs, built as an anti-aircraft defensive gun platform by the British dur...

The  Tulsa race riot , sometimes referred to as the  Tulsa massacre , [2] [3] [4] [5]   Tulsa pogrom , [6] [7] [8]  or  Tulsa race riot of 1921 , took place between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob attacked residents and businesses of the  African-American  community of  Greenwood  in  Tulsa ,  Oklahoma . [1]  This is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in the  histor...

Phantly Roy Bean, Jr.  (c. 1825 – March 16, 1903) was an eccentric U.S.  saloon-keeper  and  Justice of the Peace  in  Val Verde County, Texas , who called himself "The Law West of the  Pecos ". According to legend, Judge Roy Bean held court in his saloon along the  Rio Grande  on a desolate stretch of the  Chihuahuan Desert  of southwest Texas. After his death, Western films and books cast him as...