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Hartford Election Cake Is An Old-School Way To Eat Your Way Through A Campaign
Whatever you're feeling on this Election Day, you might enjoy a slice of an old-school election cake many Americans used to serve when it was time to vote.
Thomas Fitzpatrick Landed Two Planes On The Streets Of New York City
In the 1950s, a guy made a baffling choice: he got drunk, started flying an airplane and landed the plane on the streets of Manhattan. Two years later he did the same thing again.
The Rhino That Won A Seat On São Paulo’s City Council (Cool Weird Awesome 629)
Today in 1959, a write-in candidate for city council in São Paulo, Brazil, won a huge victory. The catch: that candidate was a rhinoceros from the São Paulo Zoo.
Before The Lightbulb, Thomas Edison Invented A Voting Machine – And Congress Said No (Cool Weird Awesome 411)
On this Election Day, here’s a story about an early and not-too-well-known effort to help count votes that came from none other than Thomas Edison.
The “Never Hayes” Movement Comes To Reddit
You know how on Twitter the 2016 election is still happening? On Reddit, the 1876 election is still happening.
Brady Talks 1992 On Civics 101
The great podcast Civics 101 is talking presidents and elections, and I got to talk with host Hannah McCarthy about the 1992 race.
Bringing Good Feelings To Civics 101
I got to talk on Civics 101 about the presidential election of 1820, and I hope it brings about an Era of Good Feelings for listeners everywhere.
Brady Returns To Civics 101!
I get to be back on New Hampshire Public Radio's Civics 101 podcast, AND I get to talk about the absolutely bonkers presidential election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden!
Massachusetts Once Had Like Six John Kennedys On The Same Ballot (Cool Weird Awesome 124)
Around the same time John Fitzgerald Kennedy was rising through the ranks of the US Congress, a guy called John Francis Kennedy decided to put his name on the ballot to run for Massachusetts state treasurer. In a few years, there would be other John Kennedys trying to win public office in the state.