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From the horrid smell of human waste that wafted off of the Thames making people actually leave the city of London to the pea-souper, a thick greenish fog that clouded the streets making people sick or the great smog of 1952 that was to blame for thousands of deaths. These are 3 big events in British history that cleaned the city of toxins. 

Source: 

Smog Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Smog-of-London

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/the-great-smog-of-1952/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/great-smog-of-london-1952-coal-air-pollution-environmental-disaster?loggedin=true&rnd=1749849017715

Witness seminar :

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/assets/icbh-witness/bigsmoke.pdf

Pea-soupers Sources:

https://britishfoodhistory.com/2012/03/20/a-pea-souper/

https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/londons-historic-pea-soupers.html

Stink Sources:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/great-stink-of-1858/

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/04/story-cities-14-london-great-stink-river-thames-joseph-bazalgette-sewage-system

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November 1971 a group of school kids and two instructors made their way from Edinburgh to the Cairngorms for a simple climbing expedition. What started out as a routine hike quickly turned into their worst nightmares. The group split into two and out of the 8 members of the second group only 2 were rescued alive. 

Sources: 

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/cairngorm-plateau-disaster-remembered-50-years-on-3464761

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-59048640

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/3677901/cairngorms-plateau-disaster/

https://www.visitcairngorms.com/plan-your-visit/about-the-cairngorms-national-park/climate-and-weather/

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In this episode we are going to be going back in time a little to the early 1900’s. 

I will be talking about the failed expedition to Wrangel island and more importantly the incredible survival story of Ada Blackjack. She survived alone on the island for 57 days having taught herself woodworking, how to shoot a gun, trapping animals and even how to build a boat. Her amazing will to live and the thought of going home to her son is what got her through this horrible experience. 

Souces:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/09/obituaries/ada-blackjack-overlooked.html

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/ada-blackjack-stranded-on-wrangel-island.htm

https://daily.jstor.org/ada-blackjacks-secret-weapon/

https://arcticportal.org/education/quick-facts/the-arctic/3711-wrangel-island

https://www.history.com/articles/ada-blackjack-inuit-wrangel-island

https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/blog/ada-blackjack-forgotten-queen-of-arctic-expedition-survivors

https://fromthepage.com/stefansson-wrangel-09-34/wrangelisland/article/32052943

https://fromthepage.com/stefansson-wrangel-09-20-095/wrangelisland/article/32010894

https://fromthepage.com/dartmouthlibrary/wrangel-island-set/article/32010897

https://fromthepage.com/dartmouthlibrary/wrangel-island-set/article/32010896

Diaries

https://collections.dartmouth.edu/teitexts/ada-blackjack/diplomatic/mss8-adablackjack-diary-diplomatic.html

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A fun little bonus episode diving into a bit of Canadian history.

For today’s episode we are going to be taking it back a few years to 1903 when the town of Frank was devastated in what we know today as Canadas deadliest rockslide. 

Sources 

https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-1903-frank-slide-in-the-shadow-of-the-mountain/

https://frankslide.ca/learn

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/frank-slide-feature

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I have a wild story for you guys today. Often compared to the Dyatlov pass incident and referred to as “mountain madness”. This episode I will be talking about the Khamar Daban incident where a group of 7 hikers went up the mountain but only 1 made it back down. I will be talking about the crazy story the sole survivor had to tell about the incident and going over some of the more popular theories about what people think actually happened on the mountain. Oh yeah and I forgot to mention it’s and unsolved case and I’ve love to hear what you think really happened. 

Sources 

https://explorersweb.com/exploration-mysteries-the-khamar-daban-incident/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/khamar-daban/38850/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/227125692/timur-balgabaevich-bapanov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnYphRRF71M

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/15111-altitude-sickness

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-most-credible-theories-regarding-the-khamar-daban-incident-ae84d8a60be2

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Hey guys the first episode of my podcast we will be diving into Action Park, Americas most dangerous theme park. This place has quite the reputation in New Jersey and probably shouldn’t have been in business for as long as it was. But none the less I will be talking about some of the worst ride designs I have ever seen and some lives that were lost because of them.

Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-action-park-new-jerseys-most-dangerous-water-park

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2020/06/inside-action-park-americas-most-dangerous-amusement-park-founders-son-explores-thrills-spills-and-legacy.html

https://decider.com/2020/08/27/class-action-park-deaths-injuries/

https://wdhafm.com/listicle/5-of-the-craziest-action-park-rides-do-you-remember/

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/14/nyregion/flaw-found-in-ride-at-jersey-amusement-park.html

https://arlenlawfirm.com/the-real-facts-about-class-action-park/

https://weirdnj.com/stories/action-park/

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/nyregion/action-park-movie.html

Class Action Park Documentary 2020 film

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