Stuff you Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Bets and Burlesque: Joseph Oller
Joseph Oller was an entrepreneur with an incredible head for ...
Joseph Oller was an entrepreneur with an incredible head for business. He revolutionized gambling practices as a young man, and also opened the most famous burlesque house of all time -- The Moulin Rouge.
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Orphan Trains
Between 1854 and 1929, about 250,000 children were taken to ...
Between 1854 and 1929, about 250,000 children were taken to new families by train. Except … they weren’t called “orphan trains” at the time, the children weren’t all orphans, and “family” didn’t always factor into it.
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Frances Glessner Lee and Tiny Forensics
Many forensic investigation standards of today have roots in the ...
Many forensic investigation standards of today have roots in the work of a Chicago heiress who was more interested in crime scenes than high society. Her most notable contribution to the field came in the form of tiny homicide dioramas.
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The Flu Epidemic of 1918
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which killed somewhere between 20 ...
The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which killed somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people, started just as World War I was winding down. Nobody cured it, or really successfully treated it. A fifth of the people in the world got the flu during the pandemic.
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Voynich Manuscript Update
Our ongoing update series covers a more recent topic: Even ...
Our ongoing update series covers a more recent topic: Even though our Voynich Manuscript episode was just a little more than a year ago, the inscrutable book has been in the news a lot since. What are the latest theories?
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Blackbeard Update
Since the 2009 episode on Blackbeard, a lot of new ...
Since the 2009 episode on Blackbeard, a lot of new information has come to light about the life of the infamous pirate. We'll catch you up on the latest, then listen to the original episode for review.
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Gardner Museum Art Heist Update
Just about a year ago, the FBI informed the press ...
Just about a year ago, the FBI informed the press about new developments in the case of the massive art theft in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that took place on March 18, 1990. We'll cover the updates, then hear the original episode on the theft.
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Algebra's Arabic Roots
Algebra doesn’t have one single origin point -- it developed ...
Algebra doesn’t have one single origin point -- it developed over time and in multiple places, with many mathematicians contributing. One of those contributors was an 8th-century scholar from Baghdad named Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.
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The Mutiny and Massacre of the Batavia
While most of the survivors of the Batavia were scattered ...
While most of the survivors of the Batavia were scattered on a few tiny islands off the coast of Australia, a small group went all the way to Indonesia to get help.Meanwhile, a gruesome scenario was playing out among those they left behind.
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The Wreck of the Batavia
The story of the Batavia is a perfect storm of ...
The story of the Batavia is a perfect storm of nautical carnage: There's a shipwreck, a mutiny and a massacre. This first of two parts deals with the the first part of the voyage, the shipwreck and the rescue mission.
