The Dark Secrets Behind The Wizard of Oz

The Dark Secrets Behind The Wizard of Oz

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Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Today we are revisiting a tragic case of negligence which originally captivated us back in 2024. When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898, the chemical element was quickly adopted by manufacturers for its luminescent properties that would go on to be used in, among o ...  Show more

The Pickwick Club Disaster

In the early morning hours of July 4, 1925, the crowd at The Pickwick Club in Boston were celebrating the holiday at the “Before-the-Fourth” dance when roughly fifty couples took to the dance floor for one of the final songs of the night. With so much revelry and vibrations from ...  Show more

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