Hi there! We saved you a spot in the smoke circle! Puff, puff, pass y'all!  Otherwise, KT has some "Cab Sav" for you if you're interested.

This week's episode covers a wide span of history starting with Laurel's story of more recent times about the Feather Heist of a scientifically and historically priceless collection of rare birds from the British Natural History Museum.  It is WILD so buckle in for the ride.  I mean, did you know there is basically a fly fishing underground?! What?

After our great heist adventure, KT takes us further back in the history books and tells us about the great Frederick Douglass, who inspired Black History Month.  We also get to meet the amazing women in his life that helped him achieve all the great things he accomplished.

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This episode is a "remastering" and made for video version. Some editing has been done since its original release in July 2021. Apologies for some of the audio issues in this episode, it was from our very early recording days! :-) Thank you for your patience!

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Sources:

The Feather Heist--

Cole, Sean. “The Feather Heist.” This American Life, 10 May 2018, www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the-feather-heist.

Johnson, Kirk W. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Books, 2019.

Frederick Douglass--

Cheeks, Vanessa, and Rebecca Rafferty. “The Great Women in Frederick Douglass's Life.” FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S ROCHESTER, Roccitynews, 21 Mar. 2018, rocdouglass.com/2018/03/20/the-great-women-in-frederick-douglasss-life/.

Trent, Noelle. “Frederick Douglass.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 5 Apr. 2021, www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass.

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

It's episode 93 and it is time for some HIGH seas and some HIGH-sts (heists, we might have been trying a bit too hard there with the word play)

First up, Kt takes us to Korea during Japan's invasions of the nation, commonly known as the Imjin War in Korea's Joseon Period (1392 to 1910). There we meet Korea's great admiral, Yi Sun-sin, who won several key battles against the odds, helping to turn the tides of the war.

Next, we head to 1911 Paris and watch as the heist of the world's most famous painting unfolds at the Louvre--the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. You won't believe how lax the security was and how easy it was to pluck pieces off the wall and walk out...

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 Mentioned in the Episode:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Map of Korean Peninsula (North and South Korea didn't exist at this time, this map is just to show the geography and location of Korea)

Map of the Battle of Meyongeyang  

Map of the Battle of Noryang

High Tales of History Episode 4: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dXDOSSdwGIHo3rkwNNw9G 

High Tales of History Episode 8 (Kt's History Crush): https://open.spotify.com/episode/4NP6N73C9DbQLmeBDBfjXm 

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Source Materials--

Yi Sun-sin--

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Myeongnyang 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yi-Sun-shin

 https://www.historynet.com/yi-sun-sin/#:~:text=Throughout%20his%20six%2Dyear%20naval,military%20record%20by%20any%20account. 

https://www2.hawaii.edu/~sford/research/turtle/index.html

IMJIN WAR Ep. 21 - The Battle of Myeongnyang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aguf30zoo1k 

Mona Lisa:

“Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa” by R.A. Scotti https://bookshop.org/p/books/vanished-smile-the-mysterious-theft-of-the-mona-lisa-r-a-scotti/8722082?ean=9780307278388 

https://www.history.com/news/the-heist-that-made-the-mona-lisa-famous 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/stolen-how-the-mona-lisa-became-the-worlds-most-famous-painting-16406234/ 

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It's episode 92 and we're talking about t*ts and shipwrecks! First up, we dive into North America's Great Lakes and learn about the first known shipwreck in 1679--Le Griffon--and bookend it with the last major shipwreck, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We also talk about the Great Storm of 1913 and the weather systems that can make the Great Lakes so dangerous! After the break, we saddle up our horses, let our hair down and spark one up for Lady Godiva, who may have gotten her t*ts out for lower taxes! Hurrah!

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Mentioned in the Episode:

⁠⁠⁠⁠Map of the Great Lakes⁠

⁠Map of the Edmund Fitzgerald's Route⁠

⁠"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot⁠

⁠Episode on Robin Hood⁠

⁠Episode on the History of England⁠

⁠Episode on William the Conqueror⁠

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Source Materials--

Shipwrecks--

⁠https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/what-happened-to-the-lost-ship-le-griffon-and-was-it-ever-found/⁠

⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Storm_of_1913⁠

⁠https://shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-journey/⁠

⁠https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cargo-ship-suddenly-sinks-in-lake-superior⁠

⁠https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/as-an-underwater-graveyard-the-great-lakes-have-claimed-close-to-10-000⁠

Lady Godiva--

⁠https://www.history.com/news/who-was-lady-godiva⁠⁠ ⁠

⁠https://www.britannica.com/place/Coventry-England⁠

⁠https://manorialcounselltd.co.uk/lady-godiva-godly-goodly-real-life-legend/⁠

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Welcome to the Halloween Episode! In episode 91, we first take a dive into one of history's greatest adventure mysteries--The Dyatlov Pass Incident which has been unsolved for over 65 years! In the middle of winter in 1959, 9 experienced hikers disappeared in the Ural Mountains and died under mysterious circumstances. Theories range from avalanche to yeti attack to murder by the KGB. In 2019, Russia re-opened the case and may have come to a new conclusion...with a little inspiration from Disney's Frozen...

Next up, KT takes us through a brief history of witches--From their connection to mythology and folklore to why we have certain archetypes and visualizations of witches and the mass witch trials and hysteria all across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries

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Mentioned in the Episode: ⁠

⁠Pictures of Slab Avalanche Theory⁠ 

⁠Werewolf/Witch Trials ⁠ (Our previous episode number 90)

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Source Materials--

Dyatlov Pass--

⁠"Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident" by Donnie Eichar⁠

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-00081-8⁠ 

⁠https://web.archive.org/web/20210129101315/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2021/01/has-science-solved-history-greatest-adventure-mystery-dyatlov/⁠ ⁠

https://www.history.com/news/dyatlov-pass-incident-soviet-hiker-death-mystery⁠ 

Witches-- ⁠

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches⁠ ⁠

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140925-where-do-witches-come-from⁠ 

⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_(mythology)⁠

 ⁠https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs/⁠

 ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/witchcraft⁠

 ⁠https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches⁠

 ⁠https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/⁠ 

⁠https://www.tamuc.edu/tamuc-history-professor-busts-myths-about-the-salem-witch-trials/⁠ ⁠

https://www.readandcobooks.co.uk/blog/witchcraft-and-black-magic-history-witches/⁠ 

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Intro/outro music:

"Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Well howdy and welcome to episode 90 of High Tales of History! For the month of October we are taking a trip into spooky and horrible histories and in episode 90, we are taking a trip to Europe to hear all about their werewolf trials which came out of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries' anxieties about religious and political clashes as well as a gross attempt to find a scapegoat for these changes and harsh conditions.

https://www.history.com/news/werewolf-trials-europe-witches

https://cvltnation.com/howling-hour-inside-european-werewolf-trials/

https://listverse.com/2023/10/31/10-wild-and-terrifying-facts-about-the-european-werewolf-trials/

Poisons--

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2 (ep.89)In this episode, Kt hits us with some important medical history--the discovery, I mean, CO-discovery of insulin--and the hot drama that *CO* discovery created! After the break, Laurel brings the story of young Audrey Hepburn and her teens years as a helper in the Dutch Resistance in her heavily Nazi-occupied town.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Togo and the Serum Run (Balto story)

More celebrities in the resistance!

Our episode on Josephine Baker

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Source Materials--

Insulin--

https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/article/48/12/2270/5642437

https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanities-cultures/news/article/2521/the-controversy-of-insulin-and-its-nobel-prize-100-years-on

https://diabetes.org/blog/history-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin

https://www.who.int/health-topics/diabetes#tab=tab_1

https://www.google.com/search?q=diabetes&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS789US792&oq=diabetes&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyEggAEEUYORiRAhixAxiABBiKBTIGCAEQIxgnMgwIAhAjGCcYgAQYigUyEwgDEAAYgwEYkQIYsQMYgAQYigUyDQgEEAAYkQIYgAQYigUyBggFEEUYPDIGCAYQRRg8MgYIBxBFGDzSAQg2MDAwajBqNKgCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Audrey Hepburn--

Dutch Girl by Robert Matzen

https://time.com/5582729/audrey-hepburn-world-war-ii/

https://www.military.com/history/how-audrey-hepburn-aided-dutch-resistance-during-world-war-ii.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+poeple+were+involved+in+resistnace+acticities+in+ww2+europe&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS789US792&oq=how+many+poeple+were+involved+in+resistnace+acticities+in+ww2+europe&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCTE1MTM1ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Welcome to season four! To kick it off, we go to the not so distant past to a remarkable archeological find in Bosnia in 2019--a (probably) 14th century sword in the stone!

From there, we travel back further into history to meet the inventor of the one of the most disruptive pieces of technology in at the turn of the 20th century--the diesel engine, created by Rudolf Diesel. While crossing the English Channel on an overnight ferry, Diesel disappeared. Was it suicide? Murder? Was the body found (yet not recovered) even his? The questions that swirled around the mysterious circumstances of his disappearance also fueled conspiracy theories that put two of the world's most powerful men as the culprits for his murder--John D. Rockefeller and Germany's Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Rudolf Diesel--

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-mysterious-case-of-rudolf-diesel-genius-power-and-deception-on-the-eve-of-world-war-i-douglas-brunt/19723987?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiuC2BhDSARIsALOVfBJFgFLfAi1TsHouVr6riUgtmXvOyCQEoFEG5wg9sm36PXN6iR-l_qMaAiK9EALw_wcB

https://www.quora.com/Which-scientists-were-imprisoned-or-killed-for-their-discoveries

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/10/01/100408236.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/rudolf-diesel

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/inventor-rudolf-diesel-vanishes

https://time.com/4049401/diesel-disappearance/

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/the-rockefeller-rudolf-diesel-murder-theory-is-full-of-holes/

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Hello Smoke Circle! We have missed you all and hope you are doing well. Season four will be kicking off in two weeks on Friday, September 13th.

Please be sure you are following or subscribed on whatever platform you love to listen on so you get notified right away when episode one of season four drops in a couple of weeks! Also, please follow us on Instagram or on TikTok and stay updated on the show and get some more great history content from your favorite Midwestern stoner history loving sisters! 💚

See you in two weeks on Friday, September 13th!

It’s episode 87, our last one for season 3!
To end it on a bang, we are doing some adventure and true crime history! We are joined by Laurel’s husband, Kristian, back from Season One Episode 4 to hear about another wild race from history—the 1908 Great Car Race in which six cars went on a race from New York to Paris.

We follow it up with George Remus, known as King of the Bootleggers as well as quite possibly F. Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for Jay Gatsby! Remus was once a criminal defense lawyer who turned to bootleggers and used his smarts to run a huge bootlegging game in the Midwest with the aim of owning ALL the pre-Prohibition bourbon….that is until snitches and murder unravel him

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PzFS76T9lc "Behind the Headlights" The Speed Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/automobiles

https://thegreatestautorace.com/the-people/

https://www.buffalohistorygazette.net/2018/02/new-york-to-paris-great-auto-race-of.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/

https://ameshistory.org/tribunearchives/1908-new-york-paris-great-race#:~:text=The%20Great%20Race%20of%201908,12%2C%201908%20in%20Times%20Square

George Remus--

https://remusbourbon.com/

https://sciotohistorical.org/items/show/170

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Remus

https://www.umw.edu/events/umw-localist/george-remus-a-real-life-gatsby-great-lives-lecture-series/

https://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entries/george-remus/

Welcome to episode 86! We are celebrating our three year anniversary of the show with a topic that kicked it all off for us: a kickass female pirate.

In this episode we meet al-Sayyida al-Hurra, a queen of her city-state of Tétouan in present-day Morocco. Due to a lack of formal navy against the might of the Portuguese and Spanish fleets, she created one out of privateers and pirates. Her ragtag crews terrorized the European ships and the plunder from them gave her city unprecedented wealth.

For this episode, Laurel is flying solo but Kt will be back along with a special guest for episode 87 and our final episode of season three!

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/41850741?searchText=&searchUri=&ab_segments=&searchKey=&refreqid=fastly-default%3Ac304d47af85e54b754e8900bd4f8cd4a&seq=1

https://www.medievalists.net/2022/08/pirate-queen-mediterranean-al-sayyida-al-hurra/

https://historiaislamica.com/en/sayyida-al-hurra-the-muslim-pirate-queen/

https://www.qaronline.org/blog/2020-05-25/pirate-profile-sayyida-al-hurra⁠