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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin [a]  ( Russian :  Евге́ний Ви́кторович Приго́жин ,  IPA:  [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈvʲiktərəvʲɪtɕ prʲɪˈɡoʐɨn] ; 1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a  Russian  mercenary leader and  oligarch . [4]  He led the  Wagner Group  private military company and was a close confidant of Russian president  Vladimir Putin  until launching  a rebellion  in June 2023. [5]  Prigozhin was sometime...

HMS  Wager  was a square-rigged sixth-rate  Royal Navy  ship of 28 guns. She was built as an  East Indiaman  in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for the  East India Company  before the Royal Navy purchased her in 1739. She formed part of a squadron under Commodore  George Anson  and was wrecked on the south coast of  Chile  on 14 May 1741. The wreck of  Wager  became famous for the subsequ...

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani  ( / ˌ dʒ uː l i ˈ ɑː n i /   JOO-lee-AH-nee ,  Italian:  [dʒuˈljaːni] ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th  mayor of New York City  from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the  United States Associate Attorney General  from 1981 to 1983 and the  United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York  from 1983 to...

Sir William Wallace  ( Scottish Gaelic :  Uilleam Uallas ,  pronounced  [ˈɯʎam ˈuəl̪ˠəs̪] ;  Norman French :  William le Waleys ; [2]   c.  1270 [3]  – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish  knight  who became one of the main leaders during the  First War of Scottish Independence . [4] Along with  Andrew Moray , Wallace defeated an English army at the  Battle of Stirling Bridge  in September 1297. He was...

The  1939–1940 New York World's Fair  was a  world's fair  held at  Flushing Meadows–Corona Park  in  Queens , New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world's fair of  all time , exceeded only by St. Louis's  Louisiana Purchase Exposition  of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. [2] It...

Nicholas Alahverdian  (born July 11, 1987), [4] [5]  also known as  Nicholas Rossi  and  Arthur Knight , among other aliases, [3]  is an American  sex offender  who  faked his own death  in 2020. 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.  

Joseph Smith Jr.  (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of  Mormonism  and the  Latter Day Saint movement . Publishing the  Book of Mormon  at the age of 24, Smith had attracted tens of thousands of followers by the time of his death fourteen years later. The religion he founded continues to the present day, with millions of global adherents and sever...

Virginia Hall Goillot   DSC ,  Croix de Guerre ,  MBE  (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named  Marie  and  Diane,  was an  American  who worked with the  United Kingdom 's clandestine  Special Operations Executive  (SOE) and the  American   Office of Strategic Services  (OSS) in  France  during  World War II . The objective of SOE and OSS was to conduct  espionage ,  sabotage  and  reconnaissa...

Titan , previously called  Cyclops 2 , was a  submersible  that  imploded on 18 June 2023  while transporting tourists to visit the  wreckage of  Titanic . The submersible was created and operated by  OceanGate . It was the first privately-owned submersible with a claimed maximum depth of 4,000 m (13,000 ft), [2]  and the first completed crewed submersible with a hull constructed of titanium and c...

Marion Gordon  " Pat "  Robertson  (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American  media mogul ,  religious broadcaster , political commentator, presidential candidate, and  Southern Baptist  minister. Robertson advocated a  conservative Christian  ideology and was known for his involvement in  Republican Party  politics. He was associated with the  Charismatic movement  within Protestant  evange...

Olga  ( Old East Slavic :  Вольга ,  romanized:  Volĭga ; [a]   Old Norse :  Helga ;  Lith :  Alge ; Christian name:  Elena ; c. 890–925 – 969) was a  regent  of  Kievan Rus'  for her son  Sviatoslav  from 945 until 960. Following her baptism, Olga took the name  Elenа  ( Old East Slavic :  Ѡлена ,  romanized:  Olena ). [2]  She is known for her subjugation of the  Drevlians , a tribe that had kil...

Trigger Warning: This week's episode contains references to animal cruelty as well as a bunch of other stuff that's really gross. This week, Heath talks about scientists gone wild. 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.  

A  Mars rover  is a  motor vehicle  designed to travel on the surface of  Mars .  Rovers  have several advantages over stationary  landers : they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote  robotic  vehicle control. They serve a differen...

A  star  is an  astronomical object  comprising a luminous  spheroid  of  plasma  held together by  self-gravity . The  nearest star  to  Earth  is the  Sun . Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at  night , but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as  fixed  points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into  constellations  and  asterisms , and many of t...

Major General  Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed the Maverick Marine, was a senior  United States Marine Corps  officer. During his 34-year career, he fought in the  Philippine–American War , the  Boxer Rebellion , the  Mexican Revolution , and  World War I . At the time of his death, Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. By the end of his career,...

This  list of unusual deaths  includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of  death  recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. 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.

William Stephen Belichick  ( / ˈ b ɛ l ɪ tʃ ɪ k ,   ˈ b ɛ l ɪ tʃ ɛ k / ; born April 16, 1952) is an American professional  football  coach who is the  head coach  and  general manager [a]  of the  New England Patriots  of the  National Football League  (NFL). Widely regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, [2] [3] [4]  he holds numerous coaching records, including the record of mo...

Christian video games  are a  video game genre  and a form of  Christian media  that focus on the  narrative  and themes of  Christian morals  and  Christianity . And, though not a categorical requirement, they all suck. 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...

A  delicacy  is usually a rare and expensive food item that is considered highly desirable, sophisticated, or peculiarly distinctive within a given culture. Irrespective of local preferences, such a label is typically pervasive throughout a region. Often this is because of unusual flavors or characteristics or because it is rare or expensive compared to standard  staple foods . Our theme song was...

MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY SITS ON  the northern side of  Seattle 's Queen Anne Hill. Since its opening in 1879, the graveyard has been the resting place for the victims of some of  Washington 's most infamous tragedies. 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...

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.  (1921 [1]  – June 7, 1982) was an American  impostor . He was the subject of a movie:  The Great Impostor , in which he was played by  Tony Curtis . Demara's impersonations included a  naval surgeon , [2]  a  civil engineer , a  sheriff's deputy , an assistant  prison warden , a doctor of  applied psychology , a hospital orderly, a  lawyer , a child-care expert, a  Bene...

ChatGPT [a]  is an  artificial intelligence  (AI)  chatbot  developed by  OpenAI  and released in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's  GPT-3.5  and  GPT-4  families of  large language models  (LLMs) and has been  fine-tuned  (an approach to  transfer learning ) using both  supervised  and  reinforcement learning  techniques.

The  Wright brothers ,  Orville Wright  (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and  Wilbur Wright  (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), [a]  were American  aviation  pioneers generally credited [3] [4] [5]  with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful motor-operated  airplane . They made the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered,  heavier-than-air aircraft  with the  Wrigh...

Miyamoto Musashi  ( 宮本 武蔵 , c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), [1]  also known as  Shinmen Takezō ,  Miyamoto Bennosuke  or, by his  Buddhist name ,  Niten Dōraku , [2]  was a Japanese  swordsman , philosopher, strategist, writer and  rōnin , who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by  Itō Ittōsai ). Musashi, as he w...

The  Acali  was a raft which was used in the  Acali Expedition  or  Acali Experiment . [1]  It has also been nicknamed the  Sex Raft . [2]  The raft had a complement of eleven people: five men and six women. It left  Las Palmas ,  Spain  on 12 May 1973 and took 101 days to drift across the  Atlantic Ocean  and reach  Cozumel ,  Mexico , with a single stopover in Barbados. The experiment was concei...