The Weird History Podcast
By Joe Streckert
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Subscribers: 327
Reviews: 3
Episodes: 254
Thelc
Apr 21, 2019
Great podcast - always entertaining, interesting and weird. Job done!
Andy Andy
Mar 20, 2019
I really enjoy the content and excitement of delivery on this podcast. The audio is a little too quiet on some episodes, but I enjoy the show. Keep up the good work.
Nov 2, 2018
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237 A Danger Shared with Bill Lascher
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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236 Piracy in the South China Sea with Rita Chang-Eppig
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May 12, 2023 |
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235 Shakespeare Versus Hedgehogs
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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234 Lupercalia
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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233 The Golden Fortress with Bill Lascher
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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232 Navigating the Asian Maritime World with Eric Tagliacozzo
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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231 The History of Archaeology with Ann R. Williams
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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230 The Adventures of Mussolini’s Corpse
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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229 Douglas Wolk on All of the Marvels
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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228 The Mustache Strike
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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227 The Rasputin Disclaimer
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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August 2021 Announcement
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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226 Sara and Jack Gorman on Denying to the Grave
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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225 Los San Patricios
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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224 Carlton F.W. Larson on Treason in the U.S.
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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223 Grand Guignol Part Two: Tales of Terror!
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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222 Grand Guignol Part One: Theater of Horror!
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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221 Sasha Abramsky on Lottie Dod
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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220 Michel Paradis on Last Mission to Tokyo
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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219 Patient Zero
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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218 Juneteenth
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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An Update From Joe
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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217 The War of 1812 Part Two: Other Causes
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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216 The War of 1812, Part One: Surface Causes
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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215 Vortex One: An Excerpt From Storied and Scandalous Portland, Oregon
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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214 In Which Loki Ruins a Dinner Party
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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Bonus: A Visit From the Spirit of Vengeance or Ghost Rider Saves Christmas
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Dec 24, 2019 |
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213 Where Does Santa Claus Come From?
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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212 St. Nicholas
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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211 Stonehenges
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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210 Soviet Pepsi
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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209 The Ribbon Around Her Neck
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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208 Nosferatu
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Oct 26, 2019 |
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207 Les Klinger on H.P. Lovecraft
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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206 The Adventures of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Severed Head
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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205 Live at Rose City Comic Con: Roy Lichtenstein, Comics Stealer
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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204 The Life and Lies of George Psalmanazar
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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203 Iran-Contra Part, Four: Fallout
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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202 The Solitude of Michael Collins
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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201 Duncan Ryuken Williams on American Sutra
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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200 Q&A Dinosaur Party Extravaganza!
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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199 Melissa Kwasny on Putting on the Dog
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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198 Iran-Contra, Part Three: Secret Wars
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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197 Joshua Specht on Red Meat Republic
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May 24, 2019 |
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196 Iran-Contra Part Two: The Boland Amendments
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May 10, 2019 |
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195 Iran-Contra, Part One: Revolution in Nicaragua
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May 03, 2019 |
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194 Shakespeare Was Shakespeare
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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193 The Many Lives of Notre Dame
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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192 False Alarm
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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191 The Black Paintings
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Very Important Announcement
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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190 Faro, the Hottest Game in the West
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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189 Thom Wall on The History of Juggling
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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188 Swingin’ on the Flippity-Flop
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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187 Presidential Pets
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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186 Crystal King on The Chef’s Secret
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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185 The Georgia Guidestones
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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184 Is Taiwan a Country?
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Big News for 2019
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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183 Krampus and Friends
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Dec 16, 2018 |
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182 Atlantropa, the Plan to Drain the Mediterranean
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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181 Thanksgiving Mummery
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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180 Lucy Bellwood on Sailor Tattoos
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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179 Buried Alive!
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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178 Wendigo
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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177 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Okay With Ghost Tours
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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176 The Cadaver Synod
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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175 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part Two
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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174 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part One
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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173 Roanoke
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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172 Live at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, The Tempest and the New World
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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171 Live at Floyd’s, The Mythical Geography of the Pacific Northwest
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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170 Phreak Out!
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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169 The Telharmonium
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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168 Dorothy and Friends
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Jun 30, 2018 |
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167 North Korea Part Fifteen, How North Korea Ends
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Jun 23, 2018 |
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166 North Korea Part Fourteen, How to Escape From North Korea
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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165 Happy Defenestration Day!
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May 23, 2018 |
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164 North Korea Part Thirteen, How North Korea Got Nukes
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May 22, 2018 |
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163 North Korea Part Twelve, Kim Jong Il and the Arduous March of Famine
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May 10, 2018 |
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162 Michael P. Daley on Bobby Bluejacket
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May 01, 2018 |
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161 North Korea Part Eleven, The Tomb of the Eternal President
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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160 North Korea Part Ten, “Meanwhile, in South Korea!”
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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159 Spaghetti Trees
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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158 North Korea Part Nine, The DMZ, Assassinations, and the USS Pueblo
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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157 North Korea Part Eight, Juche
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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156 North Korea Part Seven, The Good Old Days
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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155 North Korea Part Six: War and No Peace
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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154 North Korea Part Five, The Spark of War
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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153 North Korea, Part Four: Red(ish) Dawn
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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152 North Korea, Part Three: Collaborators, Resistors, and Kim Il Sung
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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151 North Korea, Part Two: Japanese Occupation
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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150 North Korea, Part One: The Peaceful Peninsula
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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149 Sarah Fraser on The Last Highlander
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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New Series Announcement
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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148 In Which Your Christmas Decorations Are Wrong and Spain is Into Some Weird Stuff
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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147 David Goldfield on The Gifted Generation
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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146 The Lost City of Vanport
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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145 Bonnie MacBird on Unquiet Spirits
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Thankful
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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144 The Immovable Ladder of Jerusalem
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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143 Brandon Seifert on Werewolves
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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142 Icelandic Dracula
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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141 How Dracula Was Dracula?
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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140 The Adventures of Oliver Cromwell’s Severed Head
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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139 Rosenstrasse
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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September
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Sep 04, 2017 |
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138 Confederate Statues
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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137 Isaac Newton and the Cat Door
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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136 Durer’s Rhinoceros
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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135 Pad Thai, Nationalism, and Mandatory Hats
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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134 The Imaginary Islands of Benjamin Morrell
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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133 Hachiko
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Jul 05, 2017 |
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132 Crystal King on Feast of Sorrow
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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131 Polyamory, Polygraphs, and Wonder Woman
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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130 Human Mail
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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129 Phantom Time, the Dumbest Conspiracy Theory Ever
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May 30, 2017 |
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128 Quest For Thundercows
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May 22, 2017 |
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127 Bummer and Lazarus, the San Francisco Superdogs
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May 15, 2017 |
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126 Jenni L. Walsh on Becoming Bonnie
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May 08, 2017 |
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125 Italian Fascism Part Fourteen, The Fall of Fascism
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May 04, 2017 |
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124 Italian Fascism Part Thirteen, Italy in WWII
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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75 Redux, About Mussolini and Those Trains…
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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123 Italian Fascism Part Twelve, Eve of Destruction
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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122 Italian Fascism Part Eleven, Race and Racism in Mussolini’s Italy
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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121 Italian Fascism Part Ten, Mussolini and Hitler
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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120 Italian Fascism Part Nine, War With Ethiopia
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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119 Italian Fascism Part Eight, Illusions of Empire
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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Monday is the New Thursday
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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118 Italian Fascism Part Seven, Meagan Zurn on Antonio Gramsci
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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117 Italian Fascism Part Six, Church and State
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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Plague Has Taken Me
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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116 Italian Fascism Part Five, “All Within the State”
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Feb 10, 2017 |
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115 Italian Fascism Part Four, Voter Suppression and Murder
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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114 Italian Fascism Part Three, The March on Rome
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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113 Italian Fascism Part Two, What is Fascism, Anyway?
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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112 Italian Fascism Part One: The Idea of Italy
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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111 Heather Arndt Anderson on Chilies
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Mystery Series Announcement!
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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110 Years of the Reaper
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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109 Moose Cavalry
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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108 How Not to Kill Fidel Castro
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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107 Squanto, Tisquantum
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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106 Live at the Jack London, the Portland Vice Scandal
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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105 The Giants of Patagonia
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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104 Thomas Jefferson, Mastodon Hunter
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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103 How Gothic Got Goth
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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102 Five Scary Clowns
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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101 Kara Helgren on Witches, Puritans, and the Salem Tourist Experience
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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100 Q & A
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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99 Live Your Life Like You’re Examining a Platypus
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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98 Blood and Types
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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97 American Exiles
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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I’m Not Dead
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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96 Funeral on the Moon, the Story of Fallen Astronaut
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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95 Live at the Jack London Bar: Teddy Roosevelt and the Mystery of the Missing Time Capsule
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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94 The Know-Nothings, Part Two
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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93 The Know-Nothings, Part One
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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92 We Don’t Know Things About the Mesoamerican Ball Game
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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91 Kory Bing on Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Megafauna
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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90 The Fiji Mermaid
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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89 Live at the Jack London, Robertson V Baldwin
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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88 The Unknown Origins of Pasta, A Wonder of the World
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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87 Stalin’s Nonexistent Human/Chimp Hybrid Supersoldiers
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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86 Mandeville, Part Three
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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85 Mandeville, Part Two
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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84 Mandeville, Part One
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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83 Bill Lascher on Eve of a Hundred Midnights
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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82 For Amusement Only
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May 26, 2016 |
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81 Dancing Goats and Other Coffee Legends
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May 19, 2016 |
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80 Live at the Jack London, the Rise and Fall of Claymation
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May 12, 2016 |
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79 Cecelia Otto on the Music of the Lincoln Highway
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May 05, 2016 |
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78 A Statue of Crazy Horse
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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77 Molly Newman on Crafting Good Trivia Questions
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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76 The Yellow Kid
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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75 About Mussolini and Those Trains…
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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74 The Wizard of Oz, Populism, and Dubious Fan Theories
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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73 Jamie Jeffers on the Dating of Easter
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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72 There’s No Such Thing As Lemuria
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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71 Live at the Jack London, The Story of Oregon Trail
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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70 Shirtless Zeus-Like George Washington Versus Alexander Hamilton
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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69 Kingdom of the Mahdi, Part Three
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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68 Kingdom of the Mahdi, Part Two
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Feb 18, 2016 |
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67 Kingdom of the Mahdi, Part One
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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66 Longest War Ever
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Feb 04, 2016 |
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65 The Amazing Oceanic Adventure of 28,800 Adorable Rubber Duckies
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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64 Yesterday’s Tomorrows
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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63 The Forty-Seven Ronin, Part Two
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Jan 14, 2016 |
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62 The Forty-Seven Ronin, Part One
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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The Future!
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Dec 31, 2015 |
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Remasters and an eBook
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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61 Puritans Versus Christmas
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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60 The Goose’s Crusade
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Dec 10, 2015 |
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59 Man of Flames
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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58 Malthus, Borlaug, and Feeding the World
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Nov 25, 2015 |
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57 The Mysterious Affair of the Irish Crown Jewels
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Nov 19, 2015 |
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56 Live at the Jack London, Lewis and Clark Through History
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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55 The Pig War
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Nov 05, 2015 |
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54 The Uses and Abuses of Mummies
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Oct 29, 2015 |
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One Year Later
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Oct 27, 2015 |
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53 Bathory
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Oct 22, 2015 |
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52 Little Kill House on the Prairie
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Oct 15, 2015 |
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51 The Ultimate Palindrome
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Oct 08, 2015 |
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50 The Rise and Fall of Nauru
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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49 Destroy All Emus!
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Sep 24, 2015 |
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48 The Swedish Titanic
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Sep 17, 2015 |
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47 Live at the Jack London Bar, The Postmodern Icon
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Sep 10, 2015 |
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46 Paper Theater, Golden Bat
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Sep 03, 2015 |
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45 The White City of the Monkey God
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Aug 27, 2015 |
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44 Live at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, Thoughts on Richard III
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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43 Medusa
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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42 An Invention of Writing! Maybe.
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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41 His Majesty Gregor MacGregor, King of Con-Men and Cacique of Poyais
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Jul 31, 2015 |
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40 Prison of the Mind
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Jul 23, 2015 |
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39 How to Steal the Mona Lisa
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Jul 17, 2015 |
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38 The Secret Plan to Nuke the Moon
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Jul 09, 2015 |
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37 Roberts Versus Boswell
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Jul 03, 2015 |
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36 Thirteen Ships
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Jun 26, 2015 |
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35 Clairvoyance and Free Love on Campaign Trail ’72
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Jun 19, 2015 |
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34 Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
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Jun 11, 2015 |
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33 Live at Velo Cult, the Legend of Polybius
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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32 There’s No Such Thing as an Iron Maiden
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May 28, 2015 |
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31 The Kingdom of North Sudan
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May 21, 2015 |
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30 The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, Part Two
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May 15, 2015 |
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29 The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, Part One
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May 08, 2015 |
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28 Attack the Rock
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May 01, 2015 |
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27 King of Jewels and Centaurs
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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26 Joseph Barker on Artificial Intelligence, Strategy, and Games
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Apr 17, 2015 |
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25 Clockwork Genius
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Apr 09, 2015 |
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24 The Raider, the Playboy, the Sultan, and Roosevelt
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Apr 03, 2015 |
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23 A Dinosaur Named Sue
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Mar 27, 2015 |
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22 Live at the Clinton Street Theater: How Arthurian Legend is Like Comic Books
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Mar 19, 2015 |
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21 Shanghaied!
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Mar 13, 2015 |
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20 The Lost Empire of Scotland
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Mar 06, 2015 |
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19 Hey Big Spender
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Feb 27, 2015 |
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18 The Tulsa Race Riot
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Feb 20, 2015 |
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17 Jaime Kirk on Piratical History
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Feb 13, 2015 |
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16 The Siege of the Grand Mosque
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Feb 06, 2015 |
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Announcement!
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Feb 03, 2015 |
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15 Heather Arndt Anderson on the History of Breakfast
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Jan 29, 2015 |
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14 Nellie Bly Versus Phileas Fogg
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Jan 23, 2015 |
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13 Nellie Bly and the Asylum
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Jan 15, 2015 |
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12 Shortest War Ever
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Jan 09, 2015 |
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11 Maps of Time
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Jan 02, 2015 |
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10 The Habsburg and Juarez, Part Two
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Dec 24, 2014 |
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09 The Habsburg and Juarez, Part One
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Dec 19, 2014 |
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08 Sealand
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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07 The Mountain Range That Wasn’t There
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Dec 05, 2014 |
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06 Franksgiving
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Nov 27, 2014 |
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05 The Puppet Kingdom
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Nov 21, 2014 |
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04 BONE WARS!
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Nov 14, 2014 |
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03 Incorrect Ideas About Olmecs
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Nov 07, 2014 |
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02 Axe Murder
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Oct 31, 2014 |
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01 Ancient Propaganda
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Oct 28, 2014 |