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Episode14: What was the Führer missing?
Episode14: What was the Führer missing?
The mass-murderer Adolf Hitler surely had a whole number of deficiencies, but was he also missing something else decisiv... Read more
7 Feb 2016
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9mins
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Episode9: Bosom of Faith – Lactating Madonna´s Milk and Other Liquids
Episode9: Bosom of Faith – Lactating Madonna´s Milk and Other Liquids
Milk makes tired medieval saints chipper - but only Mary's Original™A show by podcastnik.com — visit the site for all pr... Read more
10 Aug 2015
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Episode16: New York from Below
Episode16: New York from Below
New York doesn't just consist of sky scrapers--also what's underground is very interesting: starting with a human-carryi... Read more
27 Apr 2016
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Episode17: Execution by Marriage
Episode17: Execution by Marriage
in 1561 a condemned Cologne citizen was given the choice between gallows and marriage---he chose the noose. How that end... Read more
9 May 2016
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15mins
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Episode22: Drinking and Sailing-Booze on the High Sea
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What shall we do with a drunken sailor? Tipsy sailors was not uncommon, since large amounts of alcohol used to be carrie... Read more
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Episode18: A Pile for Xmas
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26 Jun 2016
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Episode34: Bodily Abnormalities in Antiquity
Episode34: Bodily Abnormalities in Antiquity
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6 Apr 2017
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Episode33: Bottomless - of Popes, Eunuchs, and Castrati
Episode33: Bottomless - of Popes, Eunuchs, and Castrati
What's with the strange chair with a whole in the seat in the Vatican? Does it have anything to do with the supposed Pop... Read more
30 Mar 2017
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Episode27: XXX -- A Short History of Pornographic Film
Episode27: XXX -- A Short History of Pornographic Film
Pornographic film is about as old as cameras, and as soon as people started aiming them at each other. And it says a lot... Read more
17 Feb 2017
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Episode23: Of Your Fellow Man
Episode23: Of Your Fellow Man
Anthropodermic bibliopegy – The art of binding books with human skin. Often -- but not always -- with the donor's permis... Read more
6 Oct 2016
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Episode19: C.M. Linck - The Woman in Trousers
Episode19: C.M. Linck - The Woman in Trousers
Orphan, button maker, dyer, transvestite, prophet, soldier, husband, victim of justice. An unusual tale of an unusual wo... Read more
12 Jul 2016
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17mins
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Episode35: The Pharao's Staff
Episode35: The Pharao's Staff
Again a limb goes missing. This time: an important bit of pharao Tutankhamun. Spoiler: it was never actually gone. A sho... Read more
13 Apr 2017
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7mins
Ranked #13
Epsidode36: The Monster of London
Epsidode36: The Monster of London
A monster is on the prowl in the British imperial capital. A monster with a knife, who is on the lookout for young women... Read more
26 Jan 2018
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Ranked #14
Episode25: Secret Cabinet on Tour: JRR Tolkien CS Lewis in Oxford
Episode25: Secret Cabinet on Tour: JRR Tolkien CS Lewis in Oxford
The Secret Cabinet goes ---under risk of life and sanity--- into deepest Albion, to get to know to of the most creative ... Read more
5 Jan 2017
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Ranked #15
Episode31: Ota Benga - People in the Zoo
Episode31: Ota Benga - People in the Zoo
The sad and strange tale of Ota Benga, a Congolese pygmy who was kept in the Bronx Zoo Monkey House in the early 20th ce... Read more
16 Mar 2017
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Ranked #16
Episode28: A History of Book Thieves
Episode28: A History of Book Thieves
Book stealing is going around. Not only today are losses at the Leipzig Book Fair a problem. Already to GDR times -- but... Read more
23 Feb 2017
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7mins
Ranked #17
Episode26: What's that Smell? A Short History of Stink
Episode26: What's that Smell? A Short History of Stink
Today: smelly or stinking church-goers, medieval garbage disposal, public waste carriers, and the perfect stink bomb.A s... Read more
9 Feb 2017
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13mins
Ranked #18
Episode29: Roman Urine Washers and also Alchemists
Episode29: Roman Urine Washers and also Alchemists
Romans didn't just wash their hands in innocence, but also their clothes in urine. How urine fits into the Roman fullon'... Read more
2 Mar 2017
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9mins
Ranked #19
Episode32: Hot Air in the Moulin Rouge - Joseph Pujol, le Pétomane
Episode32: Hot Air in the Moulin Rouge - Joseph Pujol, le Pétomane
The talk of Paris was Moulin Rouge's shows of “le Pétomane”, Joseph Pujol, end of the 19th century. He brought crowds to... Read more
23 Mar 2017
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11mins
Ranked #20
Episode24: Charles Darwin - Man is but a Worm
Episode24: Charles Darwin - Man is but a Worm
Today's offer: musically challenged worms, illformed noses and pro/con marriage lists. Special Guest: Mr. Charles Darwin... Read more
22 Dec 2016
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9mins
