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A history of… air conditioning (Part 2)
Benjamin Franklin saw “...the possibility of freezing a man to death on a warm summer's day”
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Paul Lenz
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August 2026
Dirty eructations, 1793
You can trust a priest… right?
Aug 28
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Andrew Chapman
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A history of… air conditioning (Part 1)
Transporting ice thousands of miles by ship was a "slippery speculation"
Aug 21
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Paul Lenz
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Bloody, but unbowed, 1875
Will the real Long John Silver please stand up?
Aug 14
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Andrew Chapman
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A history of… the Wow! signal and the Fermi paradox
Where is everybody?
Aug 7
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Paul Lenz
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July 2026
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Behind the scenes at Mole End, 1919
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A history of… association football (Part 2)
Some of the greatest teams in the world today started as offshoots of cricket clubs…
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A history of… association football (Part 1)
If an opponent is wearing a knife, try not to run into it…
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A history of… coffee (Part 3)
Mark Twain was very unimpressed by European coffee…
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Gunfire at the bank, 1903
Mont has a bad day at the office.
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A history of… coffee (Part 2)
It is great for drying up the running humours, such as the King's Evil...but is terrible for men's, err, "performance".
Jun 26
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