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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[Announcement] End of the First Era
Episode 43.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Curious Case of Adolphe Sax and his Saxophone
Episode 43: [Album Autopsy] Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines
Episode 42.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Pono Player
Episode 42: The Laki Eruption
Episode 41.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Third Wave Experiment
Episode 41: [Album Autopsy] Lulu
Episode 40.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Station Nightclub Fire
Episode 40: [Ruinous Rewind] Plague of Athens
Episode 39.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Norwegian Black Metal
Episode 39: The Peshtigo Firestorm
Episode 38.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Witchcraft Trial of Sarah Good
Episode 38: Darby Crash
Episode 37.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Jim Shooter's New Universe
Episode 37: The Great Tangshan Earthquake
Episode 36.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] British Airtours Flight 28M
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Episode 35: Climate Change, Part 1
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