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Episode #170- Who Knows Houdini? (Part III)
Jan 11, 2023Houdini had a truly impressive run as an entertainer. In the decade between 1904 and 1913 he developed a number of escapes and illusions that are still considered the gold-standard for stage magicians...
Episode #169- Who Knows Houdini? (Part II)
Dec 28, 2022Over the course of 1899 Harry Houdini went from being an obscure circus performer to being one of the best known entertainers in America. He became known as the "Handcuff King" and made headlines chal...
Episode #168- Who Knows Houdini? (Part I)
Dec 14, 2022The word "iconic" gets thrown around pretty loosely these days, but there are some figures who truly earn the descriptor. Micheal Jordan and Mohammed Ali are icons because they truly transcended their...
Episode #167- Who Was The Fake Asian?
Nov 30, 2022In 1703 a curious character arrived in London claiming to be a native of the island of Formosa. These days Formosa is better known as Taiwan, but in early 18th century it was a place barely understood...
Episode #166- Who Was Liver Eating Johnson? (ft. Daniele Bolelli)
Nov 16, 2022Some of the most legendary figures to emerge from the history of the American West were the rough-and-ready "mountain men". But, the most legendary mountain man of all had to be the cannibal, Liver Ea...
Episode #165- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part III)
Nov 01, 2022There is a story that as Galileo stood in front of the Inquisition and listened as they declared that the Earth did not revolve around the Sun, he whispered under his breath "and yet, it moves". This ...
Episode #164- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part II)
Oct 18, 2022Galileo is often credited with inventing the telescope, but he never made that claim. He simply whipped up his own take on the device and sold it to the Republic of Venice before his Dutch competitors...
Episode #163- What Was The Galileo Affair? (Part I)
Oct 04, 2022The Pisan scientist Galileo Galilei has been remembered as the "father of modern science." The discoveries he made with his telescope led to a completely new understanding of Earth's place in the cosm...
Episode #162- Real Amazons? (Part II)
Sep 21, 2022Did you know that the Amazons once waged war on Atlantis? According to the ancient historian Diodorus of Sicily, the Amazons conquered Atlantis while carving out an empire in Northern Africa. This may...
Episode #161- Real Amazons? (Part I)
Sep 07, 2022When the conquistador Francisco Orellana was attacked by a band of female warriors deep in the heart of South America, he thought immediately of the Amazons of Greek mythology. His encounter with this...