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Actually Happening 59: Election Special

November 26, 2013 · by victoria · in Podcast

Recapping all the important stuff that happened in this November’s election. And by “important” we mean Biden’s wrong number calls and Big Papi winning the write-in vote for mayor of Boston. Oh yeah, and Philadelphia electing a Whig.

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Actually Happening 58: Alice Roosevelt Drops the Mic

November 18, 2013 · by victoria · in Podcast

This week, we cover everything from the beginning of time to “How to Win” to the extremely unoriginal plots of early operas (did they only own one book or something?). And stay ’til the end for what’s likely our longest…

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Actually Happening 57: Nikita Khrushchev’s Non-Newtonian Fluids

November 2, 2013 · by victoria · in Podcast

In which we finally get to talk about the Great Molasses Flood!

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Actually Happening 56: Bob’s Obelisks.

October 17, 2013 · by victoria · in Podcast

In which we take a shopping trip to the strip mall of history.

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This week: — Bat people on the moon! — Poorly-considered religious symbols — Looting Egyptian artifacts, as usual — America’s first newspaper And it’s time to…

Actually Happening 55: Grover Cleveland? I hardly knew her!

October 6, 2013 · by victoria · in Podcast

This week’s episode contains a lot of information about bananas. None of the questions were about bananas.

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Actually Happening 54: Bunga Bunga

September 18, 2013 · by kevin · in Podcast

This week: short wars, crowdfunding radioactive substances, and the strange origins of the phrase “Bunga Bunga.”

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Actually Happening 53: Boris Yeltsin’s Pizza Delivery

September 10, 2013 · by victoria · in Podcast

A different sort of international incident.

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