Bayou-Picayune

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP22: George Washington was Born on Two Different Days If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know George Washington was born on February 11, 1732, and February 22, 1732?It's true.The first solar calendar, the Julian calendar which commenced in 45 B.C.,

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP19: Losing the Election to a Dead ManIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!How do you lose an election to a dead man?Did you know that the longest-serving member in the U.S. House of Representatives Donald Young of Alaska lost a congressional election to a

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP18: The Inventor of the Stolen BaseIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know the stolen base originated because someone questioned authority?It’s true, and that leads to a second, deeper and more important revelation: Our social and cultural

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP17: Why lefties are called southpawsIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know baseball stadiums used to be constructed so that the pitcher was pitching from east to west.This was why, in the olden days when baseball was played during the daylight

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP16: A Sin Against the Baseball Gods If you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know the first time Major League Baseball committed the unforgivable sin of starting a baseball season in March (instead of April, as the baseball gods had always decreed it)

Bayou-Picayune Podcast, S02 EP15: The priest’s holeIf you enjoy the show, please review it on iTunes!Did you know there was a “priest’s hole” in many an old English manor house so that outlaw priests could escape undetected when the authorities came in search of them?The priest’s hole would be