Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: The Extraordinary Saga of the Unsinkable Nevada
At 9:00 in the morning on July 1, 1946, Major Harold Wood, bombardier of the B-29 Superfortress Dave’s Dream, peered through his bombsight at a massive fleet of warships gathered below. As the crossha...
26 Okt 202540min
The Great Vibrator Myth
Selfie stick. Electrical banana. Pocket pleaser. Magic wand. Divorce maker. Buzz Nightgear. Battery Operated Boyfriend. These are but a few colourful euphemisms for womankind’s best friend, found in m...
24 Okt 202535min
WTF is Up with the Swastika?
It is among the most feared and reviled symbols in the world, the very sight of which instantly evokes thoughts of hatred, mass murder, and the worst traits of humanity. It is so repugnant as to be ou...
22 Okt 202529min
The Insane Engineering of Atmospheric Diving Suits
In the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, Roger Moore’s Bond and Bond girl Melina Havelock - played by Carole Bouquet - dive to the bottom of the Ionian Sea to recover a top-secret code machine ...
20 Okt 202531min
What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWII?
During WWI, the senior members of the British Royal family kept awfully busy. One of them shattered his pelvis when a near thousand pound horse decided to ride him instead of the other way around, ano...
18 Okt 20251h 20min
What Did the British Royals Get Up to During WWI?
For those of us born relatively deep into the before times of the 20th century, it may come as a rather shocking realization that WWI occurred now over a century ago, playing as the backdrop on the po...
16 Okt 202548min
Hitler’s “Ideal Aryans” Who Were Actually Jewish Ad Campaign
Discover the untold story of Hitler’s Jewish poster children, Hessy Levinsons and Werner Goldberg—icons of Nazi propaganda hiding shocking secrets. A compelling tale of irony, danger, and defiance. ...
14 Okt 202522min
How NASA Learned to Land on the Moon
On July 20, 1969, the whole world gathered around their flickering television sets and watched in awe as astronaut Neil Armstrong who, if not for someone secretly slipping his very late application to...
12 Okt 202550min
