England's King George III unwittingly helps indigenous people in North America, the McCullom Memo is issued and raises questions over provoking Japan to attack the U.S. Born on this day: Ann Eliza Smith, James Whitcomb Riley, and Michelle Alexander - with a reading from Alexander's "The New Jim Crow."

News of Bismarck's sinking brings celebration in London, but the sailors struggling in the cold Atlantic face a desperate fight for survival. This episode examines the rescue effort, the Royal Navy's reckoning with the loss of Hood, the German leadership's response to the failed operation, and how the destruction of Bismarck helped bring the era of German surface raiding in the Atlantic to an end.Credit Logo Image:

Everyone knows Ford doubled wages to five dollars a day. Almost nobody knows what it actually took to keep the full amount.On October 7, 1913, Ford's Highland Park plant began assembling Model T chassis on a moving line, a process innovation so punishing to the workers running it that annual turnover climbed above 370 percent within months. The famous five dollar day announced that January was Ford's fix for the crisis, but roughly half the wage was a conditional bonus, and the company created a

Lord Carnavan's wife lends a visiting sheikh her carved Indian jewel box for one afternoon, and the morning after she wears her diamond necklace to Buckingham Palace, the necklace is gone from the locked box and her husband wants the psychic detective next door on the case.Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTRCHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All

A meditation for the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, from Dom Guéranger’s “The Liturgical Year”, Volume V of the Time after Pentecost.The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on October 7, honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title as Queen of the Most Holy Rosary and commemorates the powerful intercession of the Rosary in the defense of Christendom. Its origins are especially associated with the victory of the Christian fleet over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto on October 7,

Known as "Shipwreck Alley," Thunder Bay near Alpena, Michigan, was designated a National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve today in 2000. In 1927, after five years of construction, the Detroit Institute of Arts opened its doors, marking Detroit as a hub of culture and progress.

In 1889, 25-year-old journalist Nellie Bly boarded a steamship in New York carrying one small bag, one dress, and a remarkable assignment: Travel around the world faster than Phileas Fogg. Inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Bly raced across oceans and continents by steamship and train. Along the way, she even stopped in France to meet Jules Verne himself. America followed her progress by telegraph. More than a million people entered a newspaper contest predicting exactly when

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Keen to consolidate the newly-united Germany, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck turned to diplomacy in an attempt to ensure the status quo in ...

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Some mysteries survive for centuries because the evidence is incomplete. Others become even stranger the more we discover.In this documentary, we explore some of the world’s most fascinating unsolved mysteries — ancient underground cities, enormous structures, mysterious archaeological sites, unexplained engineering, lost knowledge, strange discoveries, and places that continue to challenge researchers.From vast chambers hidden beneath the ground to prehistoric monuments built thousands of years

Léon Gambetta took to the skies above Paris in a hot air balloon on October 7th, 1870, soaring over the enemy German soldiers that surrounded the city on his way to raise new armies to swing the Franco-Prussian war back in France’s favour.Perhaps ill-advisedly, the charismatic statesman shouted “Vive la République!” as he went, thus attracting enemy fire which punctured his balloon, but the escape was successful, ultimately landing in an oak tree in Tours. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly

Get early episodes & ad-free audio on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianFall asleep as a caregiver in an early twentieth-century leprosy colony, where daily life unfolds through quiet routines, simple meals, careful treatments, handwritten letters, and small acts of companionship.In this immersive sleep history, you spend the day caring for residents who may have lived apart from their families for years. You help prepare meals, change dressings, tend gardens, distribute letters, keep