This week, we recap and review Mobile Suit Gundam episode 16 (15 in the US), "Sayla's Agony," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Song Dynasty ceramics, art looting in wartime, armies and salt, siblings on opposite sides of WWII, and Lop Nur, the probable inspiration for "Lop Lake" in this episode.

- Overview of Song ceramics, specifically aimed at collectors.

- About the planned Führer Museum in Linz, and the art storage facilities hidden in mines, Merkers and Altaussee.

- Outline of Japanese colonial rule in Korea and the "Three Alls" principle.

- The Kin no Yuri / Yamashita's gold conspiracy theory.

- About looted artifacts in Japanese museums and the art black-market in Japan.

- And an article and a book about looting!

B. Gaudenzi & A. Swenson, ‘Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century – Towards a Global Perspective’, Journal of Contemporary History, DOI: 10.1177/0022009417692409, final author manuscript.

Liu, Zhuozhen, "The Case for Repatriating China's Cultural Objects," Springer, Feb. 25, 2016.

- Historical facts about salt, and an explanation of hyponatriemia/low blood sodium.

- List of times that siblings wound up on the opposite sides of wars, including many examples older than those we discuss in this episode.

- News articles from the LATimes and CNN about the Akune and Oka brothers.

- All about Lop Nur, the inspiration for this episode's salt-lake, "Lob Lake."

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