Feb 5, 2025
A ghost ship, also known as a phantom ship, is a vessel with no living crew aboard; it may be a fictional ghostly vessel, such as the Flying Dutchman, or a physical derelict found adrift with its crew missing or dead, like the Mary Celeste.[1][2] The term is sometimes used for ships that have been decommissioned but not...
Jan 29, 2025
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus...
Jan 22, 2025
Tom cleans out his unrelated chrome tabs on interesting wikipedia articles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing
https://woodcarvingillustrated.com/deep-sea-jack-o-lanterns/
Jan 15, 2025
So we actually recorded this last week on Monday so one of the
last paragraphs of the episode has outdated info in it. The
Pizzagate guy was killed by police during a traffic stop after
allegedly pulling out a gun and pointing it at police. This
incident happened 4 days after we recorded this episode.
Jan 8, 2025
Pythagoras of Samos[a] (Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC)[b], often known mononymously as Pythagoras, was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath, and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the...