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Welcome to Essays from a Strange Country, a podcast about Australian identity. I’m your host Jasmine Wolfe. Each episode, through the lens of what our culture has produced, such as an Australian film, literature, art, and music to ask how this country has imagined itself, and who has been conveniently left out of the portrait. This is not a search for one neat national identity. Mercifully, no such thing exists. Instead, we’ll read the mess: the stories, images, songs, and screen myths that make Australia feel familiar, strange, beautiful, brutal, and faintly ridiculous.

Henry David Thoreau is known as a naturalist, a philosopher, and a leading Transcendentalist. But he was also an ardent abolitionist and political activist. He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves escape to freedom. He was the first to speak out, loudly and...

A psychologist explores the strangest corners of the human mind.

Lois Reddle is a young girl who works as a clerk in a lawyer’s office. One day her boss, Mr. Shaddles, asks her to pay a visit to Telsbury women’s prison on a legal errand. Whilst there she encounters an intriguing inmate only to discover that she is a notorious convicted murderer. Regardless of this fact she is somehow drawn to this woman and finds she remains on her mind after the visit. Her boss then recommends Lois to be hired by an esteemed client, and she takes on a job at the home of the Countess of Moron. Soon she encounters a man named Michael Dorn who seems to be more than ...

The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end.

The Persian Gulf Pro League is the highest level of Iranian soccer. The Iran Pro League, or IPL, as it is often called, dates back to 1970, but has been around since 2001 in its current form. The sixteen teams in the IPL play 30 games over the course of a season; each team plays a home game and an away game against the other fifteen squads. Teams earn 3 points for a win and 1 point for a tie, and the team with the most points at the end of the season is the league champion.

When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox reassesses our idea of...

This series explores the most bizarre and unbelievable true stories from history. From eerie coincidences and miraculous survival tales to unsolved mysteries and strange scientific phenomena, these real-life events challenge logic and defy explanation. Discover the stories of people who vanished without a trace, wars fought against animals, and mysterious sounds that science can’t explain. Packed with jaw-dropping facts and strange-but-true accounts, this series proves that reality is often stranger than fiction This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial ...

The podcast by YouTubers Colorado Martini that finds strange and curious subjects you want to know more about. On The Strange Podcast, Colorado Martini brings subject matter experts to the table to discuss and find unusual and obscure destinations and subjects.

What's the strangest thing that's ever happened to you? Strange is an indie podcast from journalist Christopher Wynn — real stories from real people about the moments that stay with you. Often creepy, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking. Have a story? christopher@strangepod.com

Beginning with his final departure from Neverland, Untouchable takes listeners through Jackson's final four years, as he shuttled from California to the Middle East, Ireland, Asia, the East Coast, and Las Vegas, planning to recapture his wealth and reputation with a comeback album and a series of 50 mega-concerts, for which he was rehearsing until the day before his death. Sullivan has never-before-reported information about Jackson's business dealings and the pedophilia allegations that irreparably marked his reputation, and he had exclusive access to inner-circle figures.

Among the earliest sci-fi books known in English, this account of a trip to the moon was originally published in 1638. The version recorded here is an abridged edition published in 1768. Domingo Gonsales is transported to the moon in a machine carried by a flock of geese—go figure—and meets the race of people who live there, whom he calls the Lunars. After a short stay, his geese bring him back to earth, setting him down in China. The book also recounts several other of Gonsales’ adventures before and after his moon trip. Who knew, when President Kennedy said that Americans would land a ...

Strange Epochs: History's Most Extraordinary True StoriesHistory is full of events so remarkable, so inexplicable, that they seem like they couldn't possibly be real. And yet they are.Every week, host Shawn Spainhour takes you deep inside one of history's most extraordinary true stories. Not the events you studied in school — the ones that got left out. The ones historians still argue about. The ones that make you question everything you thought you knew about the past.From medieval mass hysteria to unsolved disappearances, from forgotten wars to events that defied every reasonable ...

The Strange Bird Coffee Podcast is hosted by coffee professional, and founder, Stephen James Davidson. A talk show covering a broad spectrum of topics, with a focus on specialty coffee, sustainability, and featuring guests from all walks of life.

Welcome to Detective Strange This isn’t your typical true crime channel. Here, we dive deep into criminal psychology, crime psychology, and criminology, breaking down the subtle battles of wits between detectives and suspects.Welcome to Detective Strange This isn’t your typical true crime channel. Here, we dive deep into criminal psychology, crime psychology, and criminology, breaking down the subtle battles of wits between detectives and suspects.Inspired by JCS Criminal Psychology, we analyze body language, tone shifts, and question framing—showing you how the smallest detail can crack...

Welcome to Exploring My Strange Bible by Tim Mackie, lead theologian and co-founder of BibleProject.

Join Eric Blackburn as his extraordinary journey unfolds after the ship where he serves as the fourth officer is suddenly struck by a colossal meteorite, sinking within moments and leaving him as the sole survivor among 535 souls. By an incredible stroke of luck, he finds refuge in an overturned lifeboat, only to be rescued by the Yorkshire Lass. Little does he know, this new ship is embarking on a daring quest for hidden treasure on a mysterious tropical island, propelling Eric into a series of unprecedented adventures. - Summary by Carolin

Our universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine.We have been conditioned to see the world as a series of mundane boxes: a job to do, a body to feed, and a religious ritual to maintain. We’ve been told that the "real world" is the one we can touch, while the supernatural is a distant, optional extra.They told us wrong. Strange New Realms is an invitation to step out of the shadows and into the substance. We will explore the biblical worldview that the modern age has forgotten—or ignored. This isn't just a Bible study; it’s a recovery mission.From the ...

No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them before us with dramatic vividness... Strangest, perhaps, of all these possibilities for fiction is the 'anting-anting', at once a mysterious power to protect its possessor and the outward symbol of the protection.

In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is...