The Weird History Podcast

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59 Man of Flames

Posted December 3, 2015 • 00:13:11

The Wicker Man is one of the most creative and fearsome execution devices of all time. A figure of a giant, made of bent wood and reeds, looms up over...

58 Malthus, Borlaug, and Feeding the World

Posted November 25, 2015 • 00:16:48

The planet Earth holds over seven billion humans. Somehow, against all manner of predictions to the contrary, we feed all of them. This would have astounded...

57 The Mysterious Affair of the Irish Crown Jewels

Posted November 19, 2015 • 00:15:31

The Irish crown jewels were stolen in 1907. To this day, no one knows who absconded with the regalia. While known as the "Irish crown jewels" today,...

56 Live at the Jack London, Lewis and Clark Through History

Posted November 12, 2015 • 00:29:49

Nowadays, Lewis and Clark are lionized and mythologized as American heroes, but their reputation was not always so grandiose. The expedition was initially...

55 The Pig War

Posted November 5, 2015 • 00:16:35

Nowadays the US-Canada border is one of the most peaceful international boundaries in the world, but in 1859 the US almost went to war with British...