They were called "Gypsies" because Europeans mistakenly believed they came from Egypt. But Gypsies are actually an ethnic group called Roma (Romani or Romany), NOT to be confused with Romanians or the ancient Romans.

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2023/02/15/gypsy/

Schwerer Gustav was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, and in terms of overall weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built. It fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece, and it was referenced in Breaking Bad!

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2023/02/08/heavy-gustav/

On the morning of September 30th, 1999, at Japan's Tokaimura nuclear power plant, and a preventable accident caused an unfathomable amount of suffering for Hisashi Ouchi. 

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2023/01/25/unwillingly-kept-alive/

For the most part, water in boat=having a bad time. Well, there is one story from history that took this notion and flipped it on its head. The crazy sonz-a-bitches on the USS Texas during WW2 intentionally filled their vessel with water because it somehow helped them beat the Nazis!

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2023/01/18/the-uss-texas/

For my 3rd Anniversary episode, we will be taking a look back on the past year, not just in what the Podcast has done, but what my wife and I have been through in our personal lives. This is a reflection on 2022.

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2023/01/11/anniversary-episode-3/

Gustaf Håkansson applied to join in an endurance bicycle race in Sweden that spanned the entire country... his application was rejected because Gustaf was 66 years old.

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2023/01/04/gustaf-hakansson/

Within the last month or so, the US National Ignition Facility in California conducted a nuclear fusion experiment. That is because if nuclear fusion can be replicated on earth at an industrial scale, it could provide virtually limitless clean, safe, and affordable energy to meet the world’s demand.

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2022/12/21/nuclear-fusion-and-our-future/

Blanche Monnier's life story is tragic. There are two different stories surrounding her life one with a scary villain that did horrible things to her... and the true story that I find even more haunting. 

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2022/12/14/blanche-monnier/

Among Us is an enjoyable social game that also reveals quite a lot about us humans and how we work together. 

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2022/12/07/impostor/

May 19th of 1985 the Philadelphia Police dropped a bomb on a Philadelphian residential block. They let the fires blaze for over an hour and a half before allowing fire and rescue to respond.

Blog: https://acunit.home.blog/2022/11/30/philly-bombed-itself/