Legend says Edward Hyde, Lord Cornbury (1661-1723) was New York's worst governor: a nepo baby failson; a bully and bigot; a corrupt spendthrift; a sex pest with an ear fetish. Was he really all that awful?

And was he actually a transvestite?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/universally-detested/

Key sources for this episode include Patricia Bonomi's The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America; Alan Taylor's Writing Early American History; Charles Worthen Spencer's "The Cornbury Legend"; John Grant Wilson's The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892; and Shelley Ross's Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal and Corruption in American Politics from 1702 to the Present.

Special thanks to the Initiates who contributed their voice talents to this episode: #2 Robert White, Richard Le Poidevin (of "The Curiosity of...?!"), #7, Dorothy White, Kristen Harkness, and Mary Anne White.

This week we're promoting our friends Imperfect Men, the show about the heroes, legends, and sometimes utter goobers who actually founded America. Join Steve and Cody every other week as they figure out who's a Founding Father and who's a Floundering Father. https://shows.acast.com/imperfect-men

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The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it!

The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to sharing strange stories and amazing facts. No topic is off limits -- Hidden history! Hollywood! Hoaxes, frauds, and scams! Weird science, cults, and clones! If it's interesting or entertaining, we'll do an episode about it.

This series join us for episodes about Civil War spies, boat cults, fake mediums, cloud dongs, and more. (What's a cloud dong? You'll just have to listen to find out!)

Join us for our first episode, "Universally Despised," on August 19!

Look for us at order-of-the-jackalope.com, or wherever fine podcasts are sold.

This errata contains corrections, clarifications, and discussion of the following episodes:

• The Hot House
• Bound in Mystery and Shadow
• Exceeding Great
• The Spirit of Capitalism Made Flesh
• Suffer Little Children
• Scarlet Billows
• A Warning To Future Man
• 520%
• Unto Us A Child Is Born
• Errata #3
• Fruitcake Subculture Conspiracy Revisited
• The Realest Housewife of Beverly Hills
• The First Battle of the American Revolution
• Steampunk Google and the World City
• Fuller Houses

We're going on hiatus for a few months. We'll be back in mid-August with a fresh series of all-new episodes!

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For our milestone episode #100 we contemplate one of the most confounding conundrums of our age... How old is Charo, really?

00:00 Intro
00:32 Banter
02:00 Nothing But A Number
02:32 God I Feel Old
05:09 All That Matters is How Young Your Feel
07:44 I Don't Actually Care
10:28 Sources
10:48 Special Thanks
12:56 Outro

Key sources for this episode include Wikipedia and contemporary newspaper reports.

Full sources, transcript, links, and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/nothing-but-a-number/

A special thanks to everyone who helped us reach this amazing milestone, including: A.J. Sutton, Alex Baumans, Charlotte Lochinski, Chris White, David Blomenberg, David L. White, Dorothy White, Eric Leslie, Fearful Jesuit, Greg Armstrong, Jenn Voss, Jim Munizza, Kieran Davy, Kristen Harkness, Liz Roberts, Michael Finney, Richard Le Poidevin, Rob Brunksill, Robert B. White III, Robert Sibole, Rod Miller, Sam Link, Steven White, Tom Hand, Zane C. Weber... and you, our wonderful listeners.

After this episode we're going on hiatus for a few months. We'll be back in mid-August with a fresh series of all-new episodes!

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In the early Twentieth Century, Joe Magarac was the American steel industry's answer to Paul Bunyan. And then it was discovered he might not be an authentic folk tale, but a relatively recent invention...

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/jackass-forever/

Key sources for this episode include Owen Francis's "The Saga of Joe Magarac: Steelman"; Jennifer Gilley and Stephen Burnet's "Deconstructing and Reconstructing Pittsburgh's Man of Steel: Reading Joe Magarac Against the Context of the 20th-Century Steel Industry"; Kevin J. Patrick's "Joe Magarac and the Spirit of Pittsburgh"; and Marshal W. Fishwick's "Sons of Paul: Folklore or Fakelore?".

What I really recommend, though, is Irwin Shapiro's Joe Magarac and his U.S.A Citizen Papers. The dialect is charming instead of grating, the location- and period-authentic detail helps keep everything grounded, the jokes are actually funny, and the moral is still relevant today. And on top of that you have some really powerful illustrations by James Daugherty. Five stars, A+, would read again.

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"Wyoming's own midget mummy" was found in the San Pedro Mountains in 1932 and mystified thousands before disappearing in 1950. but what was he? A little person, a baby, a fake? And where the heck did he get off to?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/vote-for-pedro/

Key sources for this episode include Aaron Mahnke's The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures; Charles J. Cazeau and Stuart D. Scott's Exploring the Unknown: Great Mysteries Reexamined; Jeremy Fugelberg's "The Mysterious Pedro Mountain Mummy"; Richard Marshall's Mysteries of the Unexplained; and contemporary newspaper reports.

And sincere apologies to the Cryptonaturalist (https://www.cryptonaturalist.com/) for biting his style.

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R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House was a marvel of modern technology that promised to create freedom by liberating the mind and curing all of society's problems... so why aren't you living in one right now?

https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/fuller-houses/

Key sources for this episode include Jonathon Keats' You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future; Lloyd Steven Sieden's Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and His Work; and Michael Brian Schiffer's Spectacular Flops: Game-Changing Technologies That Failed... but especially Lorettta Lorance's Becoming Bucky Fuller, which is both the most thorough and most critical biography of Fuller and definitely worth checking out.

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Paul Otlet had a vision of an system that could search all the information ever created, from anywhere in the world, at the touch of a button... Too bad the most advanced technologies at his disposal were index cards.

Transcript, links, and more at:
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/steampunk-google-and-the-world-city/

Key sources for this episode include Alex Wright’s Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age; Françoise Levie’s L’homme qui voulait classer le monde: Paul Otlet et le Mundaneum; Paul Otlet’s Traité de documentation: Le livre sur le livre; Paul Otlet, Fondateur du Mundaneum, Architecte du savoir, Artisan de paix; and the newspaper archive of the KBR.

Presented by #42 (Alex Baumans). Pathologically interested in anything unusual and obscure. Closet goth, armchair general and amateur theologian. Favorite animals are ducks, octopodes and pigs. You will also find me surprisingly knowledgable about K-Pop girl groups.

Special thanks to the Collection Mundaneum in Mons for their assistance (http://www.mundaneum.org/en) and for providing images for our use. This episode is released under a Creative Commons except for the images, which may not be reproduced without the express permission of the Mundaneum.

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