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 15.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Smalls Lighthouse
Episode 15: Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Episode 14.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Cerebus the Aardvark
Episode 14: The Black Death - Part 2
Episode 13.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Apollo One
Episode 13: The Black Death - Part 1
Episode 12.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Satanic Panic and the PMRC
Episode 12: Egyptian Famine
Episode 11.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Oxford Comma
Episode 11: Cosmic Terror (at the End of the Universe)
Episode 10.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Wish You Weren't Here
Episode 10: Teignmouth Electron - Part 2
Episode 9.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Hindenburg Disaster
Episode 9: Teignmouth Electron - Part 1
Episode 8.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Factory Records
Episode 8: Fury of St Helens
Episode 7.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Mount Everest Mayhem
Episode 7: Woodstock '99
Episode 6.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Replacements Play SNL
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