The Band of Gold Mystery

The bubonic plague was blamed on witches, Jews, God’s wrath, and, on 20th March 1345, in a new theory propagated by the King of France, the rare planetary alignment between Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in Aquarius. Of course, the real cause of the Black Death lay in the microscopic ...  Afficher plus

Blaise Pascal created the first organised public transport system: the carrosses à cinq sols (“five-sou carriages”), which had its first full day of service in Paris on 19th March, 1662. Like a modern bus, the horse-drawn carriages followed fixed routes and scheduled departures, ...  Afficher plus

This week, Slate’s TV critic and host of the podcast Decoder Ring, Willa Paskin, and poet, essayist, podcast host, and author, Nichole Perkins, fill in for Dana and Julia. The panel begins by taking a spin with Julian Fellowes’ (creator of Downton Abbey) new show The Gilded Age. ...  Afficher plus

After no one asked, Blair and Carley look deeper at the lineup of men executed in the Salem witch trials.

If you ever thought “I wish they wouldn't sing so many musical theater songs,” never before has a Monkey's Paw curled so hard.

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Subscribe to Mamamia Tim Minchin regrets one of his most famous songs. And it tells us a lot about where culture has moved to. In this episode, we discuss the age of intolerance.  Plus, we help set up your weekend with some recommendations which include: a book, an album and two ...  Afficher plus

Listen girls, we're changing our audio set up for this season and no change goes over entirely smoothly. we tried to record this once and ruined the audio completely. We tried again, and the audio came out...a bit funky. But in the spirit of summer being a bit messy, here's th ...