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The  PS  General Slocum  was a passenger  steamboat  built in  Brooklyn ,  New York , in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions. On June 15, 1904, the  General Slocum  caught fire and sank in the  East River  of New York City. [1]  At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of  St. Mark's...

The  Lost Cause of the Confederacy , or simply  Lost Cause , is a literary and intellectual movement [1]  that describes the  Confederate  cause as a heroic one against great odds despite its defeat. The beliefs endorse the virtues of the  antebellum South , viewing the  American Civil War  as an honorable struggle for the Southern way of life, [2]  while minimizing or denying the central role of ...

Tycho Brahe  ( / ˌ t aɪ k oʊ   ˈ b r ɑː h i ,  ˈ b r ɑː ,  ˈ b r ɑː ə / , born  Tyge Ottesen Brahe  ( Danish:  [ˈtyːə ˈʌdəsn̩ ˈbʁɑː] [n 1] ); 14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601) was a  Danish   nobleman  known for his accurate and comprehensive  astronomical and planetary  observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of  Scania . Well known in his lifetime as an  astronomer ,  astrologer...

Eugenics  ( / j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / ; from  Greek  εὐγενής  eugenes  "well-born" from εὖ  eu , "good, well" and γένος  genos , "race, stock, kin") [2] [3]  is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the  genetic  quality of a group of individuals. [4] [5]  The exact definition of  eugenics  has been a matter of debate since the term was coined. --- Our theme song was written and perf...

The  Cadaver Synod  (also called the  Cadaver Trial ;  Latin :  Synodus Horrenda ) is the name commonly given to the posthumous ecclesiastical trial of  Pope Formosus , held in the  Basilica of St. John Lateran  in Rome during January 897. [1]  The trial was conducted by  Pope Stephen VI  (sometimes  called Stephen VII ), who was the successor to Formosus' successor,  Pope Boniface VI . Stephen ac...

The  Battle of Agincourt  ( / ˈ æ ʒ ɪ n k ʊ r / ; in French,  Azincourt   French pronunciation: ​ [azɛ̃kuʁ] ) was a major English victory in the  Hundred Years' War . [a]  The battle took place on Friday, 25 October 1415 ( Saint Crispin's Day ) in the  County of Saint-Pol ,  Artois , some 40 km south of  Calais  (now  Azincourt  in northern  France ). [5] [b] Henry V 's victory at Agincourt, again...

The  Great Molasses Flood , also known as the  Boston Molasses Disaster  or the  Great Boston Molasses Flood , occurred on January 15, 1919 in the  North End  neighborhood of  Boston ,  Massachusetts . A large  molasses  storage tank burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event entered local folklore and for decade...

New Coke  was the unofficial name for the reformulation of  Coca-Cola  introduced in April 1985 by  The Coca-Cola Company  to replace the original formula of its flagship  soft drink , Coca-Cola (also called  Coke ). New Coke originally had no separate name of its own but was simply known as "the new taste of Coca-Cola" until 1992, when it was officially renamed  Coke II . Coca-Cola's  market shar...

The  Donner Party , or  Donner-Reed Party , was a group of  American pioneers led by  George Donner  and  James F. Reed  who set out for  California  in a  wagon train  in May 1846. They were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the  Sierra Nevada . Some of the pioneers resorted to  cannibalism  to survive. Our theme song was written and perform...

Chung Ling Soo  was the stage name of the  American   magician   William Ellsworth Robinson  (April 2, 1861 – March 24, 1918), who is mostly remembered today for his death after a  bullet catch  trick went wrong.

Ghost hunting is a  fringe   pseudoscience  wherein its adherents visit and investigate  locations  that are reported to be haunted by  ghosts . Typically, a ghost hunting team will attempt to collect evidence that they see as supportive of  paranormal  activity.  Ghost hunters  often use a variety of electronic devices: the  EMF meter ; digital  thermometer ; handheld and static  digital   video...

John Harvey Kellogg , M.D. (February 26, 1852 – December 14, 1943) was an American medical doctor in Battle Creek, Michigan , who ran a sanitarium using holistic methods, with a particular focus on nutrition , enemas , and exercise . Kellogg was an advocate of vegetarianism for health and is best known for the invention of the breakfast cereal known as corn flakes with his brother, Will Keith Kell...

The Stanford prison experiment ( SPE ) was an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of perceived power, focusing on the struggle between prisoners and prison guards . It was conducted at Stanford University on August 14–20, 1971, by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students. [1] It was funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research [2] as an invest...

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), better known as J. Edgar Hoover , was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Ho...

Centralia is a borough and near- ghost town in Columbia County , Pennsylvania , United States . Its population has dwindled from more than 1,000 residents in 1980 to only 10 in 2010 [5] —a result of the coal mine fire which has been burning beneath the borough since 1962. Centralia, which is part of the Bloomsburg–Berwick metropolitan area , is the least-populated municipality in Pennsylvania. It...

Watergate was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s, following a break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972 and President Richard Nixon 's administration 's attempted cover-up of its involvement. When the conspiracy was discovered and investigated by the U.S. Congress , th...

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 and was the founder of the Democratic Party . Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson served in Congress and gained fame as a general in the United States Army . As president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man"...

The Goiânia accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, at Goiânia , in the Brazilian state of Goiás , after an old radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths. About 112,000 people were examined for radioactive contamination and 249 were found to have sig...

Only four episodes in and we've worked "ass" in to the title twice.   The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria , heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg , occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Gavrilo Princip . Princip was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak ) coordinated by Danilo...

  Kim Jong-un  born 8 January 1984 or 5 July 1984) [3] is the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly referred to as North Korea . Kim is the second child of Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) and his consort Ko Yong-hui . [6] Little is known for certain about Kim Jong-un. Before taking power, he had barely been seen in pu...

A near-death experience ( NDE ) is a personal experience associated with death or impending death . Such experiences may encompass a variety of sensations including detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of a light. [1] Neuroscience research suggests that an NDE is a subjective phenomenon resultin...

The Chernobyl disaster , also referred to as the Chernobyl accident , was a catastrophic nuclear accident . It occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat , in what was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). During a late night safety test which simulated power-failure and i...

This is a promo for our first episode. Expect all of the first five episodes to drop on Wednesday, May 17, 2017.