Hey, we heard you like wood, so we stored wood in your wood so you can wood when you wood! When they first built the Windy City, perhaps they should have considered building materials that were a bit less timber-based. Controversy about Mrs. O'Leary's cow versus Daniel "Peg Leg" Sullivan aside, the great fire that tore through Chicago in October 1871 took no prisoners. A cow, a lamp, a drunk, a city made of kindling, and twenty-four hours of one of the worst infernos to hit a major US city.
Leigh's song pick:: Woundwort by Fall of Efrafa
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IleUPbCNU4HxnAHu38MX2?si=5EJOX_H7R-uvtpH6jFa8Bw
Peter's song pick:: Nobody's Listening by Linkin Park
https://open.spotify.com/track/1EU3VuKGZOvd1HTkxLPUXK
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Episode 55: The Almonte Train Disaster
Episode 54: Def Leppard
Episode 53: (Sex, Lies, and Nuclear Meltdowns) The SL-1 Disaster
Episode 52: The Bull Island Music Festival
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Episode 51: The 1979 Fastnet Race
Episode 50.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Byford Dolphin Incident
Episode 50: Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
Episode 49.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] 1904 Olympic Marathon
Episode 49 - Duke Nukem Forever
Episode 48.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Death in Space
Episode 48 - Edmonton Tornado, 1987
Episode 47.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] One Hungry Juror
Episode 47: Phil Spector
Episode 46.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Yellow Fleet
Episode 46: Kowloon, City of Darkness
Episode 45.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The WOOZ, Less Than A-MAZE-ing
Episode 45: Apollo 13
Episode 44.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] TIDAL
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