Episode
556: No Such Thing As A Ghost In Blue Jeans
The very theater we're recording this show in, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, was known in 1794 as the Fireproof Theatre. In 1809, it burned down.
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It avoided the Great Fire of London, then in 1672 it caught up with the curve and it burned down. Then it was rebuilt, then it was demolished and rebuilt again more than a century later, 1794 — that was the one that was…
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Ljubljana named the Christmas tree Melania. The journalists asked if they're going to make them change that name, and they said, no, we have nothing against the Christmas tree named Melania because this has nothing to…
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There was a piece about her in The New Scientist, or rather it was about human skin, which is an interesting thing. The piece began, on her 120th birthday, Jeanne Calment, generally regarded as the oldest person ever to…
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