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Gunslinger   / ˈ ɡ ʌ n s l ɪ ŋ ər /  and  gunfighter  are words used historically to refer to men in the  American Old West  who had gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and had participated in gunfights and shootouts.  Gunman  was a more common term used for these individuals in the 19th century. Today, the term "gunslinger" is more or less used to denote someone who is  quick on the...

Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera  ( / ˈ ɡ ʊ z m æ n / ; [6]   Spanish:  [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo ɣusˈman loˈeɾa] ; born 4 April 1957), [7]  known as " El Chapo " ("Shorty",  pronounced  [el ˈtʃapo] ) because of his 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) stature, is a Mexican drug lord and former leader of the  Sinaloa Cartel , an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been the most powerful drug trafficke...

The  Oneida Community  was a  perfectionist  religious communal society founded by  John Humphrey Noyes  in 1848 in  Oneida, New York . The community believed that  Jesus  had already returned in AD 70, making it possible for them to bring about  Jesus's millennial kingdom  themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just in  Heaven  (a belief called  perfectionism ). The Oneida...

The  trolley problem  is a  thought experiment  in  ethics . The general form of the problem is this: You see a runaway  trolley  moving toward five tied-up (or otherwise incapacitated) people lying on the tracks. You are standing next to a lever that controls a  switch . If you pull the lever, the trolley will be redirected onto a side track, and the five people on the main track will be saved. H...

Aleister Crowley  ( / ˈ æ l eɪ s t ər   ˈ k r oʊ l i / ; born  Edward Alexander Crowley ; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English  occultist ,  ceremonial magician , poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of  Thelema , identifying himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the  Æon of Horus  in the early 20th century. A prolific writer, he publ...

Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition  of 1897 was an effort to reach the  North Pole  in which all three expedition members perished.  S. A. Andrée , the first Swedish  balloonist , proposed a voyage by hydrogen balloon from  Svalbard  to either Russia or Canada, which was to pass, with luck, straight over the North Pole on the way. The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a nort...

Mary Toft  (née  Denyer ; c. 1701–1763), also spelled  Tofts , was an English woman from  Godalming , Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to  rabbits .   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  Mountain Meadows massacre  was a series of attacks on the  Baker–Fancher  emigrant  wagon train  at  Mountain Meadows  in southern  Utah . The attacks began on September 7 and culminated on September 11, 1857, resulting in the mass slaughter of most in the emigrant party by members of the  Utah Territorial Militia  from the  Iron County  district, together with some  Southern Paiute   Native...

Project MKUltra , also called the  CIA mind control program , is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the United States  Central Intelligence Agency —and which were, at times, illegal. [1] [2] [3]  Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the ind...

The Finland conspiracy states that Finland is not a real country. Not only is it not a real country but there is actually no landmass there at all, and the space between Sweden and Russia is actually empty ocean. (Source: Reddit. So you know it's legit.)   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 pa...

The  demon core  was a 6.2-kilogram (14 lb)  subcritical mass  of  plutonium  measuring 89 millimetres (3.5 in) in diameter, which was involved in two  criticality accidents , on August 21, 1945 and May 21, 1946. The core was intended for use in a third World War II nuclear bomb, but remained in use for testing after Japan's surrender. It was designed with a small safety margin to ensure a success...

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard  ( / ˈ h ʌ b ər d /   HUB-ərd ;  [1]  March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American author of  science fiction  and  fantasy  stories, and the founder of the  Church of Scientology . In 1950, Hubbard authored  Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health  and established a series of organizations to promote  Dianetics . In 1952, Hubbard lost the rights to Dianetics...

The  Scopes Trial , formally known as  The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes  and commonly referred to as the  Scopes Monkey Trial , was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher,  John T. Scopes , was accused of violating  Tennessee 's  Butler Act , which had made it unlawful to teach  human evolution  in any state-funded school. [1] The trial was delibe...

Topsy  (circa 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female  Asian elephant  put to death at a  Coney Island ,  New York ,  amusement park  by electrocution in January 1903.   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.  

Ching Shih [1] :65  ( Chinese :  鄭 氏 ; literally: 'widow of Zheng') (born  Shih Yang  ( Chinese :  石 陽 ; 1775–1844),  a.k.a.   Cheng I Sao  ( Chinese :  鄭 一 嫂 ), was a Chinese  pirate  leader who terrorized the  China Seas  during the  Jiaqing Emperor  period of the  Qing dynasty  in the early 19th-century. She commanded over 300  junks  (traditional Chinese  sailing ships ) manned by 20,00...

Phineas P. Gage  (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable [B1] :19  survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left  frontal lobe , and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound...

When a 14-year-old British boy was savagely stabbed, no one could have imagined the bizarre chat-room fantasy world that lay behind the attack. A story of a near-fatal Internet attraction. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502 --- 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  Ludlow Massacre  emanated from a labor conflict: the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking  coal miners  and their families at  Ludlow, Colorado , on April 20, 1914, with the National Guard using machine guns to fire into the colony. Approximately twenty-one people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chie...

William Chaloner  (1650 – 22 March 1699) [1] [2]  was a serial  counterfeit   coiner  and  confidence trickster , who was imprisoned in  Newgate Prison  several times and eventually proven guilty of  high treason  by Sir  Isaac Newton , Master of the  Royal Mint . He was hanged on the gallows at  Tyburn  on 22 March 1699. [1] [3]   Our theme song was written and performed by Anna Bosnick. If you'd...

Dr. Chuck Tingle  is a  pseudonymous  author of gay niche erotica. [1] [2] [3]  He  self-publishes  his works through  Amazon.com , primarily as  ebooks , but also as  paperbacks and  audiobooks  (narrated by Sam Rand). [4] [5] [6] [7]  Tingle began his career by writing  dinosaur erotica  and expanded to stories based on  unicorns ,  Bigfoot , and various anthropomorphized objects and even concep...

Since August 20, 2007, at least 20  detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the  Salish Sea  in  British Columbia , Canada, and  Washington , US. The first discovery, on August 20, 2007, was on  Jedediah Island  in British Columbia. Feet have been discovered on the coasts of islands in British Columbia, and in the US cities of  Tacoma  and  Seattle .

David Koresh  ( / k ə ˈ r ɛ ʃ / ; born  Vernon Wayne Howell ; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the American [2] [3]  leader of the  Branch Davidians  sect, [4]  believing himself to be its final  prophet .   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...

A  beer bottle  is a  bottle  designed as a container for  beer . Such designs vary greatly in size and shape, but the glass commonly is brown or green to reduce spoilage from light, especially  ultraviolet .   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 mo...

A  toilet [n 1]  is a piece of hardware used for the collection or disposal of human  urine and  feces . In other words: "Toilets are  sanitation  facilities at the user interface that allow the safe and convenient  urination  and  defecation ". [1]  Toilets can be with or without flushing water ( flush toilet  or  dry toilet ). They can be set up for a sitting posture or for a squatting posture (...

My Immortal  is a  Harry Potter   fan fiction  serially published on  FanFiction. Net  between 2006 and 2007. Known for its incomprehensible narrative and constant digressions, the story centers on a 17-year-old female vampire called Ebony, a non-canonical character, and her relationships with the characters of the  Harry Potter  series, most notably her romantic relationship with  Draco Malfoy ....