These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
Today's film came out in 1993, and starred Robert De Niro and Chazz Palminteri.
You'll also hear about Clarence Darrow in a story you're guaranteed to have never heard before, before he defended a teacher's right to teach the truth in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Today's cover image comes courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, and is titled Winston and Clementine Churchill Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence in Egypt 1921. The credit is listed only as Official Photographer.
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