Stuff You Should Know

Selects: The Tailesin Massacre

November 7, 2026·43 min·7-min readconversationalculture
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On this December 2020 episode of Stuff You Should Know, Josh Clark and Charles W. 'Chuck' Bryant tackle the Taliesin Massacre of 1914, the horrifying axe murder and arson that befell Frank Lloyd Wright's Wisconsin masterpiece, Taliesin. Along the way they cover Wright's scandalous affair

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Frank Lloyd WrightMamah BorthwickJulian CarltonPaul HendricksonDarwin MartinMiriam NoelOlga Ivana Lazovich HinzenbergHerbert FritzWilliam WestonDavid Lindblom

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Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Thingsby Josh Clark and Charles W. Bryant

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American HistoryArtHistorical FiguresTrue CrimeUnsolved Mysteries

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