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Amy Robsart was born in 1532 in Norfolk, England to a fairly wealthy farming and grazing family.  When she was almost 18 she married Roberty Dudley, a younger son of the Earl of Warwick.  It was cons…

After a week off, we're back.  This week's topic is Davey Crockett of coonskin hat fame. Crockett is one of those larger than life characters that often seem to show up in early American history.  Wh…

Most people have belonged to a book club at some point in their lives, but have you ever thought about the history of book clubs?  Come find out about how book clubs have developed and changed over t…

Wolves were effectively irradicated from Yellowstone National Park in the early 20th century and were gone until reintroduced through human intervention in 1995.  While many could have predicted what…

While we sometimes talk about how the practice of medicine has evolved over time from pure magic and ritual to science-based practice, we often ignore the practice of veterinary medicine and how it e…

This week's podcast has a bit of a mobster flair.  It's a two parter with the first part dedicated to the life of Henry Hill, the subject of the movie Goodfellas and mentioned a bit previously on our…

In today's episode we turn our attention to a non-cryptid animal that inspires fear in many,.. the shark.  The book and film Jaws have made many afraid to go in the water, but did you know that the e…

In this week's podcast we discuss Baldwin IV, King of the Crusader state of Jerusalem and most famously known as The Leper King.  Baldwin contracted Leprosy at an early age but it was slow to develop…

The Boston Tea party is an iconic even that still lives on in American culture and politics.  However, how much do you know about the event itself and what led up to it.  Who planned it? Was it plann…

Ever wondered where your glass of foamy beer got its start?  Turns out beer has been around just about as long or longer than written record.  It seems that once humans had figured out how to grow gr…

The Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaira, better known as Sisi, became the Empress of Austria in 1854 when she married Emperor Franz Jospeh the First.  She was not raised to be a public figure…

This week's podcast revolves around a couple of mental health issues and the story surrounding them.  The first is the Pellagratic Delirium or Pellagrous Encephalopathy.  This condition is due to lac…

This week's subject is King Tut.  While the discovery of his tomb and the legend of the related curse has made his name well known around the world, who was he really?  Learn a bit about what we know…

While we have discussed Napoleon in the past on this podcast, today we talk about his younger sister Pauline.  Famous for her beauty and scandalous affairs, she is the only sibling to visit him in ex…

This week's podcast is dedicated to the search for the Yeti, not the top end drink cooler, but the Cryptid that is rumored to roam the Himalayas eating yaks and sometimes people.  The Yeti has attrac…

Mary Anning was a pioneer in the field of paleontology, working in the early 19th Century, she discovered many famous dinosaurs and marine reptiles such as Ichthyosaurus. Her contributions were often…

Today's podcast is about one of America's favorite conspiracy theories, The Roswell Incident.  In 1947, debris was recovered from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico that was recovered by personnel from…

The Pack Horse Library Project was part of the WPA's attempt to relieve rural poverty in Kentucky.  Since many people in Appalachian Kentucky didn't have access to books, the "book ladies" of the Pac…

While there might be some debate about what is indeed the world's oldest profession, what might be the world's oldest medical profession is that of the midwife.  Women have most likely been helping o…

This week we discuss the invention of the graham cracker... the tasty snack that is used for making smores, pie crusts, and other fun snacks.  However, its history is not what you might expect.  The …