Beyond Serious the Podcast

09/21/2022

"The Reptile Dysfunction Edition" Brand New Episode 572: You can listen directly on Facebook and Twitter, or via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Audible and YouTube.

09/06/2022

"The Etch A Sketch Edition" Brand New Episode 591: You can listen directly on Facebook and Twitter, or via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Audible,

07/19/2022

On this date, 7-19-1903, Maurice Garin wins the first ever Tour de France.

The 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'Équipe. It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages over 2,428 km (1,509 mi), and was won by Maurice Garin.[1]

07/19/2022

On this date, 7-19-1848, The first women's rights convention, called The Seneca Falls Convention, begins. Famous speakers included Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Amy Post, and Frederick Douglass.

The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention.[1] It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman".[2][3] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 18...

07/19/2022

On this date, 7-19-1692, Sarah Good(39), Rebecca Nurse(71), Elizabeth Howe(57), Susannah Martin(71), and Sarah Wildes(65) were all executed for practicing witchcraft.

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men)...

07/19/2022

Happy Birthday Shout-Outs Go To: Lizzie Borden(would have turned 162 years old), Charles Horace Mayo(w.h.b. 157), Florence Foster Jenkins(w.h.b. 154), Alice Dunbar Nelson(w.h.b. 147), Max Fleischer(w.h.b. 139), Percy Spencer(w.h.b. 128), Isabel Jewell(w.h.b. 115), George McGovern(w.h.b. 100), Rachel Robinson(100), Alex Hannum(w.h.b. 99), Arthur Rankin Jr.(w.h.b. 98), Vikki Carr(82), Bernie Leadon(75), Brian May(75), Howard Schultz(69), Robert Gibson(64), Lisa Lampanelli(61), Anthony Edwards(60), Teresa Edwards(58), Nancy Carell(56), Jim Norton(54), Vitali Klitschko(51), Nathalie Boltt(49), Benedict Cumberbatch(46), Rick Ankiel(43), Jared Padalecki(40), Trai Byers(39), LaMarcus Aldridge(37), Jinder Mahal(36), Jon 'Bones' Jones(35), Shane Dawson(34), Romee Strijd(27), Owen Joyner(22),

July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 165 days remain until the end of the year.

07/10/2022

On this date, 7-10-2005, Hurricane Dennis slams into the Florida Panhandle, killing over 75 people and causing over $3 billion dollars in damage.

Hurricane Dennis was an early-forming major hurricane in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico during the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. Dennis was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the season. Forming in July, the hurricane became the strongest Atlan...

07/10/2022

On this date, 7-10-1991, L'Express Airlines Flight 508 crashes near Birmingham Municipal Airport(now Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport) in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 13 of the 15 people on board.

On July 10, 1991, a L'Express Airlines Beechcraft C99, flying as Flight 508 originating in New Orleans, and in transit from Mobile to Birmingham, crashed while attempting to make an ILS approach to Runway 5 (since renumbered to Runway 6) at Birmingham Municipal Airport (now Birmingham–Shuttleswort...

07/10/2022

On this date, 7-10-1925, Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution.

The Scopes Trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925 in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it un...

07/10/2022

On this date, 7-10-1913, The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.

Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley and most of Saline Valley. The park occupies an i...

07/10/2022

On this date, 7-10-1890, Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

Wyoming (/waɪˈoʊmɪŋ/ (listen)) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. The 10th largest state by area, it is also the least populous and least densely populated state in the contiguous United States.[a]