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Charles III  (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is  King of the United Kingdom  and 14 other  Commonwealth realms . [fn 4]  He acceded to the throne on 8 September 2022 upon  the death of his mother ,  Elizabeth II . He was the longest-serving  heir apparent  in British history and, at the age of 73, is the oldest person to ascend the British throne. Our theme song was written a...

Ghulam Mohammad Baksh Butt [1]  (22 May 1878 – 23 May 1960), commonly known as  Rustam-e-Hind  ( Hindi-Urdu  for  Rostam  of  Hindostan ) and by the  ring name   The Great Gama , [7]  was a  pehlwani  wrestler and  strongman  in  British Raj . In the early 20th century, he was an undefeated wrestling champion of  subcontinent . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd lik...

The  Lewis and Clark Expedition , also known as the  Corps of Discovery Expedition , was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the  Louisiana Purchase . The  Corps of Discovery  was a select group of  U.S. Army  and  civilian  volunteers under the command of Captain  Meriwether Lewis  and his close friend Second Lieutenant  William Clark . Cl...

A common misconception is a viewpoint or  factoid  that is often accepted as true but which is actually false. They generally arise from  conventional wisdom  (such as  old wives' tales ),  stereotypes ,  superstitions ,  fallacies , a misunderstanding of science, or the popularization of  pseudoscience . Some common misconceptions are also considered to be  urban legends , and they are often invo...

Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French  Romantic   writer  and  politician . During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the greatest French writers of all time. 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...

The  Piltdown Man  was a  paleoanthropological  fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the  fossilised  remains of a previously unknown  early human . Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains were still broadly accepted for many years, and the falsity of the hoax was only definitively demonstrated in 1953. An extensive scientific review i...

Frederick Russell Burnham   DSO  (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American  scout  and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the  British South Africa Company  and to the  British Army  in  colonial Africa , and for teaching  woodcraft  to  Robert Baden-Powell  in  Rhodesia . He helped inspire the founding of the international  Scouting Movement . Our theme song was w...

The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American far-left organization active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a vanguard army. The SLA was considered by the FBI and American law enforcement as the first terrorist organization to rise from the American left. Most fugitives of the group were apprehended in 1975 and prosecuted.

Among  Ancient Romans ,  bestiarii  (singular  bestiarius ) were those who went into combat with beasts, or were exposed to them. It is conventional [1]  to distinguish two categories of  bestiarii : the first were those condemned to death via the beasts (see  damnatio ad bestias ) and the second were those who faced them voluntarily, for pay or glory (see  venatio ). [2]  The latter are sometimes...

William Magear Tweed  (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), often erroneously referred to as William "Marcy" Tweed (see  below ), [1]  and widely known as " Boss "  Tweed , was an American politician most notable for being the  political boss  of  Tammany Hall , the  Democratic Party 's  political machine  that played a major role in the politics of  19th-century New York City  and  state . At the hei...

This episode is about forbidden places, like Ilha da Queimada Grande , also known as  Snake Island , an island off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean . It is administered as part of the municipality of  Itanhaém  in the  State of São Paulo . The island is small in size, only 43 hectares (106 acres), and has a temperate climate. The island's terrain varies considerably, ranging from bare roc...

Vincenzo Pipino  (born 22 July 1943), also known as  Encio , is an Italian thief from  Venice  whose exploits earned him the nickname "the gentleman thief". He is the first person to successfully steal from the  Doge's Palace , and has been responsible for some of the most sensational art thefts in the city. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the sho...

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin  ( / ˈ p uː t ɪ n / ; Russian:  Владимир Владимирович Путин ;  [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ ˈputʲɪn]   ( listen ) ; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the  president of Russia , a position he has filled since 2012, and previously from 2000 until 2008. [7] [c]  He was also the  prime minister from 1999 to 2000, and agai...

A common misconception is a viewpoint or  factoid  that is often accepted as true in current times. They often arise from  conventional wisdom  (such as  old wives' tales ),  stereotypes , a misunderstanding of science, or popularisation of  pseudoscience . Some common misconceptions are also considered to be  urban legends , and they are often involved in  moral panics . Our theme song was writte...

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand  ( / ˈ w aɪ ɡ æ n d / ; born December 17, 1942) is an American  biochemist  and  whistleblower . He is a former  vice president  of  research and development  at  Brown & Williamson  in  Louisville, Kentucky , who worked on the development of reduced-harm  cigarettes  and in 1996 blew the whistle on  tobacco  tampering at the company. This was adapted for 1999 film  The Insi...

A  cigarette  is a narrow cylinder containing burnable material, typically  tobacco , that is rolled into  thin paper  for  smoking . The cigarette is ignited at one end, causing it to smolder; the resulting smoke is orally inhaled via the opposite end. Cigarette smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption. Manufacturers have described the cigarette as "a drug administration system fo...

Frank William Dux  (   / ˈ dj uː k s / ; born April 6, 1956) is a Canadian-American  martial artist  and  fight choreographer . According to Dux, a  ninjutsu expert named Senzo Tanaka trained him as a ninja when he was a teenager. He established his own school of ninjutsu called Dux Ryu Ninjutsu, and has said he won a secret martial arts tournament called the Kumite in 1975. He was all the way lyi...

On October 14, 2004,  Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701  ( ICAO : FLG3701,  IATA : 9E3701, or Flagship 3701) crashed near  Jefferson City ,  Missouri , United States, while flying from  Little Rock National Airport  in  Little Rock ,  Arkansas , United States, to  Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport  in  Minnesota , United States. Flight 3701 was a  repositioning flight  with no passengers ab...

Pankration  ( / p æ n ˈ k r eɪ t i ɒ n ,   - ˈ k r eɪ ʃ ən / ;  Greek :  παγκράτιον ) was a sporting event introduced into the  Greek   Olympic Games  in 648 BC, which was an empty-hand submission sport with few rules. The athletes used  boxing  and  wrestling  techniques, but also others, such as kicking, holds, joint-locks, and chokes on the ground, making it similar to modern  mixed martial art...

The  Bone Wars , also known as the  Great Dinosaur Rush , [1]  was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive  fossil hunting  and discovery during the  Gilded Age  of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between  Edward Drinker Cope  (of the  Academy of Natural Sciences  of  Philadelphia ) and  Othniel Charles Marsh  (of the  Peabody Museum of Natural History  at  Yale ). Each of the...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen  ( German:  [ˈmanfreːt fɔn ˈʁɪçthoːfn̩] ; 2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), known in English as  Baron von Richthofen  or the  Red Baron , was a  fighter pilot  with the  German Air Force  during  World War I . He is considered the  ace-of-aces  of the war, being officially credited with 80  air combat  victories. Our theme song was written and performed by Anna...

Pornhub  is a Canadian-owned  internet pornography  website. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by  Mindgeek . [4] [5]  As of June 2020, Pornhub is the 10th most trafficked website in the world and the third most-trafficked adult website after  XVideos  and  XNXX . Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd like to support the show on a per epi...

Animal sexual behaviour  takes many different forms, including within the same  species . Common  mating  or  reproductively  motivated systems include  monogamy ,  polygyny ,  polyandry ,  polygamy  and  promiscuity . Other sexual behaviour may be reproductively motivated (e.g.  sex apparently due to duress or coercion  and  situational sexual behaviour ) or  non-reproductively motivated  (e.g. ...

Ruth Brown Snyder  (March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American  murderer . Her  execution  in the  electric chair  at  New York 's  Sing Sing Prison  in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a well-publicized photograph.

A number of television shows have been judged the worst by both critics and audiences alike. This week, we'll discuss several of them. 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.