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238 In the Garden of Monsters with Crystal King

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237 A Danger Shared with Bill Lascher

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236 Piracy in the South China Sea with Rita Chang-Eppig

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235 Shakespeare Versus Hedgehogs

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234 Lupercalia

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233 The Golden Fortress with Bill Lascher

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232 Navigating the Asian Maritime World with Eric Tagliacozzo

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231 The History of Archaeology with Ann R. Williams

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230 The Adventures of Mussolini’s Corpse

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229 Douglas Wolk on All of the Marvels

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228 The Mustache Strike

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227 The Rasputin Disclaimer

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August 2021 Announcement

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226 Sara and Jack Gorman on Denying to the Grave

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225 Los San Patricios

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224 Carlton F.W. Larson on Treason in the U.S.

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223 Grand Guignol Part Two: Tales of Terror!

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222 Grand Guignol Part One: Theater of Horror!

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221 Sasha Abramsky on Lottie Dod

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220 Michel Paradis on Last Mission to Tokyo

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219 Patient Zero

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218 Juneteenth

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An Update From Joe

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217 The War of 1812 Part Two: Other Causes

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216 The War of 1812, Part One: Surface Causes

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215 Vortex One: An Excerpt From Storied and Scandalous Portland, Oregon

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214 In Which Loki Ruins a Dinner Party

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Bonus: A Visit From the Spirit of Vengeance or Ghost Rider Saves Christmas

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213 Where Does Santa Claus Come From?

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212 St. Nicholas

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211 Stonehenges

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210 Soviet Pepsi

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209 The Ribbon Around Her Neck

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208 Nosferatu

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207 Les Klinger on H.P. Lovecraft

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206 The Adventures of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Severed Head

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205 Live at Rose City Comic Con: Roy Lichtenstein, Comics Stealer

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204 The Life and Lies of George Psalmanazar

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203 Iran-Contra Part, Four: Fallout

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202 The Solitude of Michael Collins

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201 Duncan Ryuken Williams on American Sutra

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200 Q&A Dinosaur Party Extravaganza!

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199 Melissa Kwasny on Putting on the Dog

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198 Iran-Contra, Part Three: Secret Wars

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197 Joshua Specht on Red Meat Republic

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196 Iran-Contra Part Two: The Boland Amendments

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195 Iran-Contra, Part One: Revolution in Nicaragua

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194 Shakespeare Was Shakespeare

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193 The Many Lives of Notre Dame

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192 False Alarm

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191 The Black Paintings

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Very Important Announcement

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190 Faro, the Hottest Game in the West

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189 Thom Wall on The History of Juggling

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188 Swingin’ on the Flippity-Flop

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187 Presidential Pets

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186 Crystal King on The Chef’s Secret

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185 The Georgia Guidestones

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184 Is Taiwan a Country?

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Big News for 2019

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183 Krampus and Friends

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182 Atlantropa, the Plan to Drain the Mediterranean

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181 Thanksgiving Mummery

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180 Lucy Bellwood on Sailor Tattoos

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179 Buried Alive!

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178 Wendigo

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177 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Okay With Ghost Tours

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176 The Cadaver Synod

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175 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part Two

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174 Approved by the Comics Code Authority, Part One

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173 Roanoke

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172 Live at the Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven, The Tempest and the New World

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171 Live at Floyd’s, The Mythical Geography of the Pacific Northwest

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170 Phreak Out!

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169 The Telharmonium

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168 Dorothy and Friends

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167 North Korea Part Fifteen, How North Korea Ends

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166 North Korea Part Fourteen, How to Escape From North Korea

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165 Happy Defenestration Day!

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164 North Korea Part Thirteen, How North Korea Got Nukes

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163 North Korea Part Twelve, Kim Jong Il and the Arduous March of Famine

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162 Michael P. Daley on Bobby Bluejacket

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161 North Korea Part Eleven, The Tomb of the Eternal President

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160 North Korea Part Ten, “Meanwhile, in South Korea!”

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159 Spaghetti Trees

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158 North Korea Part Nine, The DMZ, Assassinations, and the USS Pueblo

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157 North Korea Part Eight, Juche

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156 North Korea Part Seven, The Good Old Days

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155 North Korea Part Six: War and No Peace

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154 North Korea Part Five, The Spark of War

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153 North Korea, Part Four: Red(ish) Dawn

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152 North Korea, Part Three: Collaborators, Resistors, and Kim Il Sung

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151 North Korea, Part Two: Japanese Occupation

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150 North Korea, Part One: The Peaceful Peninsula

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149 Sarah Fraser on The Last Highlander

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New Series Announcement

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148 In Which Your Christmas Decorations Are Wrong and Spain is Into Some Weird Stuff

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147 David Goldfield on The Gifted Generation

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146 The Lost City of Vanport

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145 Bonnie MacBird on Unquiet Spirits