Robert Stroud, a man who's unfortunate upbringing lead to an untimely encounter which set him into a lifetime in prison. Alaska's most well known criminal, and a respected ornithologist, Stroud was known as the Bird Man of Alcatraz. We dig into his 50+ years in prison and what lead to his receiving that moniker.
After WWI, the Australian Government struggled to find things for their veterans to do upon returning home. From 1915, a 'soldier settlement scheme' began to be rolled out across all states.
On the morning of June 30th 1908 a massive explosion occurred over the sparsely occupied eastern Siberian taiga. It flattened 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 km or 830 s miles, nearly the size of Tokyo (or the size of greater Vancouver, Canada)
Most of us know about Private Investigators from our favorite shows, books, or other media. Names like Sherlock Holmes, Dick Tracey, or more recently Veronica Mars pop into mind, but who started this as a career option and what were they like? Nathan digs into the tale of the first professional Police Detective and Private Eye, Eugene-Francois...
The tiny town of Moonville, Ohio is on no modern maps nor can you locate it with GPS. It does not, for all intents and purposes, exist anymore.
The bible is the most widely known Holy book to mankind, it's been around for hundreds of years, and is interpreted many different ways by a lot of different folks. Nathan dives into some scripture, discusses language and translation, and how that all relates to homosexuality in the bible. As someone who is intimate with the bible, this is a...
It's a pretty well known fact that cats were worshiped in Ancient Egypt. But did they actually worship them, or simply hold them in high regard?
Keanu Reeves beloved actor, the man that said 'woah' and the internet's first boyfriend.
Since William Shakespeare lived more than 400 years ago, and many records from that time are lost or never existed in the first place, we don't know everything about his life. For example, we know that he was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, 100 miles northwest of London, on April 26, 1564. But we don't know his exact birthdate, which must have...
On December 19th 2009 Brittany Murphy and her husband, Simon Monjack were watching movies in bed and eating thai take out in the hollywood hill's home they shared with Brittany's mother, Sharon. Brittany was tired as she had been sick for the last week.