<p>In Gangland Chicago,  Al Capone emerged as Public Enemy Number 1.  Despite being massively outgunned, particularly on one particular Valentine's Day, his rival  Adelard Cunin, known to history as Bugs Moran, gave him a hard run for his dirty money.</p>

In Gangland Chicago, Al Capone emerged as Public Enemy Number 1. Despite being massively outgunned, particularly on one particular Valentine's Day, his rival Adelard Cunin, known to history as Bugs Moran, gave him a hard run for his dirty money.

George "Bugs" Moran:  Capone's Nemesis and Near Miss

Short-form episodes about history's "losers", air quotes essential, by Ray Agostinelli.  Wild and fun stories about people & products, brands & businesses, ideas & inventions that failed to ascend to the dominant position in their fields - business, science, politics, the arts - sometimes deservedly so, many times not.  What Hydrox is to the Oreo, Gabriel Metsu to Vermeer, Eulace Peacock to Jesse Owens, Iliodor to Rasputin; and very many more besides - diminished, obscured, forgotten.  Stories that are by turns instructive, humorous, enraging, illuminating, cautionary, and addictive.

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Short-form episodes about history's "losers", air quotes essential, by Ray Agostinelli. Wild and fun stories about people & products, brands & businesses, ideas & inventions that failed to ascend to the dominant position in their fields - business, science, politics, the arts - sometimes deservedly so, many times not. What Hydrox is to the Oreo, Gabriel Metsu to Vermeer, Eulace Peacock to Jesse Owens, Iliodor to Rasputin; and very many more besides - diminished, obscured, forgotten. Stories that are by turns instructive, humorous, enraging, illuminating, cautionary, and addictive.

Short-form episodes about history's "losers", air quotes essential, by Ray Agostinelli.  Wild and fun stories about people &amp; products, brands &amp; businesses, ideas &amp; inventions that failed to ascend to the dominant position in their fields - business, science, politics, the arts - sometimes deservedly so, many times not.  What Hydrox is to the Oreo, Gabriel Metsu to Vermeer, Eulace Peacock to Jesse Owens, Iliodor to Rasputin; and very many more besides - diminished, obscured, forgotten.  Stories that are by turns instructive, humorous, enraging, illuminating, cautionary, and addictive.

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George "Bugs" Moran: Capone's Nemesis and Near Miss