Ridiculous History
Did San Diego fall victim to a real-life weather manipulating supervillain? What on Earth are Soviet bone records? Each week, longtime friends and veteran podcasters Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.
- Website
- https://www.ridiculoushistoryshow.com/podcasts/ridiculous-history.rss
- Description
- History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by HowStuffWorks.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-20 09:50
- last episode published
- 2024-11-19 16:56
- publication frequency
- 3.15 days
- Contributors
- HowStuffWorks
- Author Owner
- applepodcast@howstuffworks.com (HowStuffWorks)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 822
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Literature History Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2024-11-19 | House cats are astonishing, fascinating, and at-times frustrating little creatures -- yet they've made a comfortable home with humans, spreading in step with every civilization they join. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore an intriguing theo... |
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| 2024-11-16 |
CLASSIC: Napoleon Bonaparte Was Attacked by Bunnies -- And Lost Born in Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte rose from obscurity during the French Revolution, crowning himself Emperor of France in 1804. This brilliant, ruthless tactician changed the course of French history. Despite his meteoric rise and bloodied fall, Bona... |
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| 2024-11-14 | We've been going through a bit of a sports phase here on Ridiculous History, and of course we can't talk sports without talking baseball. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max dive into some of the strangest weather events to ever grace -- or curse -- ... |
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| 2024-11-12 | Most people never get the chance to travel to Bhutan. Nestled high in the Himalayan mountains, this ancient kingdom is unique on multiple levels. It's the only Vajrayana Buddhist nation on the planet -- and it's also the only nation that measures its s... |
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| 2024-11-09 |
CLASSIC: California Was Named for a Fictional Island Ruled by a Black Amazon Queen California was admitted to the United States as the 31st state in 1850, but it acquired its unique name much, much earlier. Join Ben and Noel as they trace the strange story behind California's name, from the fiction that inspired it to the loss and re... |
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| 2024-11-07 | OK, imagine this: you've been captured by a neighboring civilization, hauled off to an unfamiliar city, and your captors tell you: "Hold up, we're not going to kill you yet. In fact, if you can win this game in front of our audience, we will let you li... |
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| 2024-11-05 |
The World's Weirdest Sports, Part One: Buzkashī is Where You Fight Over A Dead Goat Regardless of everyone's differences in this wide, wide world, it's safe to say every culture loves some kind of sport. Often these sports can seem strange to outsiders -- but before we cast proverbial stones, let's remember almost every sport looks bi... |
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| 2024-11-02 | Like many ancient cultures, the civilizations of Mesoamerica had a vast and rich history of unique cultural practices, spiritual beliefs and ceremonies, some of which may seem bizarre to people in the modern day. In this episode, the guys examine a com... |
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| 2024-10-31 |
One Guy Was So Good At Violin That People Thought He Worshipped Satan There's no denying Niccolò Paganini was a virtuoso -- in his heyday, this violinist was an international rock star, wowing crowds across Europe with his rollicking, frenetic performances. He was, in fact, so good that people were at a loss to explain e... |
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| 2024-10-29 | In theory, the concept of credit scores is simple, and makes a lot of sense: lenders need to know they can trust someone to pay back their debts, and debtors need a way to prove they're trustworthy. In practice, however, credit scores are intensely con... |
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