The Forty Elephants: London's All-Female Crime Syndicate
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For more than a century, an all-female crime syndicate from London's Elephant and Castle distric...
10 Okt 21min
Locusta of Gaul: The Poisoner Who Killed for Rome's Emperors
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Locusta came from the Roman province of Gaul and became the most notorious maker of poison in th...
10 Okt 22min
Komodo Dragon: Iron Teeth, Chainmail Skin, and the Venom Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Komodo dragon sounds invented: a lizard up to three meters long with bony armor under its sk...
10 Okt 28min
Juraj Janosik: The Real Outlaw Behind the Slovak Robin Hood Legend
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Juraj Janosik led a band of highwaymen for roughly two years before he was executed in 1713 at t...
10 Okt 20min
Man-Eater: How a Word for Jungle Terror Became a Pop Anthem
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Few words have traveled as far as man-eater. It began as a grim, literal label for human canniba...
10 Okt 19min
Tsetse Fly: The Milk-Making Insect That Drew the Map of Africa
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The tsetse fly gives live birth to a larva that can outweigh its mother, feeds it internally wit...
10 Okt 24min
The Sheriff: How a Medieval Tax Collector Became a Judge, Cop, and Host
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Picture a sheriff and you probably see a lawman with a star in a dusty Western town, or the vill...
10 Okt 25min
The Pillory: Public Shaming From Daniel Defoe to Delaware in 1905
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1703 the writer Daniel Defoe stood locked in a pillory for seditious libel, head and hands tr...
10 Okt 22min
