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Beer Flood Claims Eight Souls

In the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution brought about considerable advances in agriculture, manufacturing, and t...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Body-Snatching Barnacles and Zombie Crabs

There is no small number of unsettling parasites crawling, flying, and swimming about the Earth, the lucky ones hitch...
Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Operation Midnight Climax

The US CIA and military is filled with a history of bad decisions, deceit, and in some cases what I would classify as...
Written by Shad Larsen • 26 Sep 2005 • Read →
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The Mysterious Toynbee Tiles

In 1992, a chap in Philadelphia by the name of Bill O'Neill starting noticing strange tiles randomly embedded in loca...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Sep 2005 • Read →
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Invasion of the Tongue Snatchers!

The Spotted Rose Snapper, which lives off the coast of California, is one of a handful of species of fish that are pl...
Written by Alan Bellows • 25 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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The Monumental Molasses Morass of 1919

How a massive, poorly built molasses storage tank in Boston caused damage and death.
Written by Alan Bellows • 23 Sep 2005 • Read →
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The Fax Machines of the 1800s

Although the fax machine did not begin to see wide acceptance until the late 1970s, the device's invention predated i...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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The Truth About Tourette’s

Tourette Syndrome is a highly misunderstood neurological disorder. It is depicted throughout popular media as an unco...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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The Inexplicable Voynich Manuscript

Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book Library is in possession of many fascinating historic texts, but perhaps its mos...
Written by Alan Bellows • 10 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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Starfish Prime

On the night of 9 July 1962 a number of beach front hotels in Honolulu, Hawaii were throwing “rainbow bomb” parties;...
Written by Jason Bellows • 08 Sep 2005 • Read/Listen →
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