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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...

The  Münster rebellion  ( German :  Täuferreich von Münster , "Anabaptist dominion of Münster") was an attempt by radical  Anabaptists  to establish a communal sectarian government in the German city of  Münster  – then under the large  Prince-Bishopric of Münster  in the  Holy Roman Empire . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per episo...

Benjamin Jonson  ( c.  11 June 1572 –  c.  16 August 1637) [2]  was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the  comedy of humours ; he is best known for the  satirical  plays  Every Man in His Humour [3]  (1598),  Volpone, or The Fox  (c. 1606),  The Alchemist  (1610) and  Bartholomew Fair  (1614) and for h...

Mass psychogenic illness  ( MPI ), also called  mass sociogenic illness ,  mass psychogenic disorder ,  epidemic hysteria , or  mass hysteria , involves the spread of illness symptoms through a population where there is no infectious agent responsible for contagion. [1]  It is the rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating from a  nervous system  ...

Energy resources bring with them great social and economic promise, providing financial growth for communities and energy services for local economies. However, the infrastructure which delivers energy services can break down in an  energy accident , sometimes causing considerable damage.  Energy fatalities  can occur, and with many systems deaths will happen often, even when the systems are worki...

Horatio Nelson Jackson  (March 25, 1872 – January 14, 1955) was an American automobile pioneer. In 1903, he and driving partner  Sewall K. Crocker  became the first people to drive an automobile across the United States. 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...

This week, Tom explores a series of forgotten sports, many of which should never have been lost. And the rest of which are cruelty to animals with a scoring system. 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 Catcher in the Rye  is an American novel by  J. D. Salinger  that was partially published in serial form from 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951. Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of  angst  and  alienation , and as a critique of superficiality in society. [4] [5]  The novel also deals with complex issues of innocence, identity, belonging, loss,...

Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson  (née  Kennedy ; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as  Sister Aimee  or  Sister , was a Canadian  Pentecostal   evangelist  and media  celebrity  in the 1920s and 1930s,  famous for founding the  Foursquare Church . McPherson pioneered the use of  broadcast mass media  for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, usi...

This is a  list of  automobiles  known for negative reception . There are no objective quantifiable standards. Cars on this list may have been judged by poor critical reception, poor customer reception, safety defects, and/or poor workmanship. Different sources use a variety of criteria for including negative reception that includes the worst cars for the environment, [1]  meeting criteria that in...

David Charles Hahn  (October 30, 1976 – September 27, 2016), sometimes called the  "Radioactive Boy Scout"  or the  "Nuclear Boy Scout" , was an American  nuclear radiation  enthusiast who built a homemade  neutron source  at the age of seventeen. 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  Battle of Thermopylae  ( / θ ər ˈ m ɒ p ɪ l iː /   thər-MOP-i-lee ;  Greek :  Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν ,  Máchē tōn Thermopylōn ) was fought in 480 BC between the  Achaemenid Persian Empire  under  Xerxes I  and an alliance of  Greek city-states  led by  Sparta  under  Leonidas I . Lasting over the course of three days, it was one of the most prominent battles of both the  second Persian invasion...

Shock art  is  contemporary art  that incorporates disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is a way to disturb "smug, complacent and hypocritical" people. [2]  While the art form's proponents argue that it is "imbedded with social commentary" and critics dismiss it as "cultural pollution", it is an increasingly marketable art, described by one art critic in 2001 as...

The  battle of Castle Itter  was fought on 5 May 1945, in the  Austrian  village of  Itter  in the  North Tyrol  region of the country, during the last days of the  European Theater of World War II. Troops of the 23rd Tank Battalion of the  12th Armored Division  of the US  XXI Corps  led by Captain  John C. "Jack" Lee, Jr. , a number of  Wehrmacht  soldiers led by Major  Josef "Sepp" Gangl , SS-...