High Tales of History

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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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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The Socials and Patreon!

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

It's episode 85! We are rounding out our celebration of Pride month by going back to the 19th century, four years after the end of the American Civil War, to attend the earliest drag balls in Harlem, New York.

Over time, these balls turned into the house ballroom culture and the dance competitions that birthed voguing. After the break, KT takes us through time and around the world to look at the practices around the summer solstice in different cultures.

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https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/brief-history-voguing

https://time.com/5941822/ballroom-voguing-queer-black-culture-renaissance/

https://www.history.com/news/drag-balls-house-ballroom-voguing

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https://www.historyhit.com/culture/the-history-of-drag-balls/

https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/tgi-bios/willi-ninja

Summer Solstice--

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/solstice/what-is-the-summer-solstice/

https://www.slownorth.com/blogs/journal/the-significance-of-the-summer-solstice#:~:text=June%2021st%20will%20mark%20the,known%20as%20the%20summer%20solstice.

https://gleninneshighlands.com/winter-summer-solstice-celebrations.html#:~:text=Summer%20%26%20Winter%20Solstice&text=In%20Australia%20the%20summer%20solstice,on%2021%20or%2022%20June.

It's episode 84 and we have history! And horses! And non-binary 18th century preachers! We. Have. Everything.

In episode 83, KT wraps up her two part series on fantasy authors and friends with J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series. (In our previous episode, she covered C.S. Lewis) From his service in World War One to his time teaching at Oxford and Cambridge to his amazing world building of Middle Earth, KT takes us through the life of J.R.R. Tolkien--there and back again.

After the break, Laurel takes us on another literary quest, this time following the life of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son, Hernando Colón, and his lifelong pursuit of creating the greatest library in the world.

**Alert! In case you don't have the updated audio, you'll notice a blank space at the beginning of KT's story. This was to correct the pronunciation of the country she mentioned, which is Luh-SOO-too or Luh-SEW-Toe, depending on where you are in the world**

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Mentioned in the Stories:

⁠⁠Part One of the Author Series with C.S. Lewis

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Source Materials--

J.R.R. Tolkien--

Hernando Colón--

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716600905/christopher-columbus-son-had-an-enormous-library-its-catalog-was-just-found#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,'Libro%20De%20Los%20Ep%C3%ADtomes%2C'%20A%20500%2DYear%2D,it%20turned%20up%20in%20Denmark

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/11/christopher-columbus-son-worlds-first-search-engine-hernando-colon

https://nationalpost.com/news/professor-discovers-centuries-old-attempt-by-christopher-columbuss-son-to-index-every-book-in-existence

https://scholarworks.indianapolis.iu.edu/items/74e0df92-1f84-41da-b36c-9fb024baf09e

https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/hernandocolon/home/

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Welcome into the wardrobe for episode 82! At the back you'll find the Smoke Circle where we have snacks, history and...gin. Laurel first takes you to 18th century London when the greater access to spirits made gin a hot commodity and everyone a hot mess...or worse.

After the break, KT shares the life and creative mind of Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C.S. Lewis. Lewis authored over 30 books, including the popular Chronicles of Narnia series.

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Mentioned in the Stories:

⁠Gin Lane

He also made a Beer Street too

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The Socials and Patreon!

Patreon-- ⁠⁠⁠The Best Buds Club!⁠⁠⁠

[email protected]

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Source Materials--

Gin Craze--

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678967?read-now=1&seq=9#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23265151?seq=2

https://www.historyextra.com/period/georgian/gin-craze-panic-18th-century-london-when-came-england-alcohol-drinking-history/

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/gin-mania

https://www.uwyo.edu/numimage/currency.htm

C.S. Lewis--

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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/

Welcome to episode 81! In this episode, Laurel covers the story of the RMS Titanic's sinking and how it remained undiscovered on the ocean floor for the next 73 years until a top secret Cold War mission led to its (almost accidental) discovery in 1985. After we get back on dry land, KT brings us a long awaited topic near and dear to her heart: metal music. From its early foundations and icons to the passing of the torch to new metal sounds, KT covers the history of heavy metal music with a lot of heart.

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Mentioned in the Stories:

History I'd Like to F*ck with Dawn Brodey Titanic Episode, part 1

HILF Titanic Episode Part 2

Map of the Titanic, Thresher and Scorpion Wreck Sites (link opens to the blog page with map, just scroll down a little)

War Pigs by Black Sabbath

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The Socials and Patreon!

Patreon-- ⁠⁠The Best Buds Club!⁠⁠

[email protected]

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Source Materials--

Titanic Discovery--

https://courses.bowdoin.edu/history-2203-fall-2020-kmoyniha/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/titanic-lost-found?rnd=1714057355740&loggedin=true

https://www.history.com/news/titanic-final-hours-passengers-lifeboats

https://legionmagazine.com/declassified-documents-shed-new-light-on-notorious-sinking-of-uss-thresher/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/april/what-killed-thresher

https://courses.bowdoin.edu/history-2203-fall-2020-cdonohue/narrative-of-the-event/the-uss-scorpion/

All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion by Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-first-manned-expedition-sunken-wreck-titanic-180964021/

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-44488311

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/titanic-was-found-during-secret-cold-war-navy-mission?loggedin=true&rnd=1714057363908

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/100818-titanic-3-d-expedition-shipwreck-science-collapsing?rnd=1714398741201&loggedin=true

History of Metal--

https://www.vh1.com/news/8u66qa/unexpected-hard-rock-heavy-metal-influences

https://www.steel-boots.com/n/short-history-of-metal-music

https://teachrock.org/lesson/the-roots-of-heavy-metal/

https://www.britannica.com/art/heavy-metal-music

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/10-bands-leading-new-wave-nu-metal

https://www.bobthune.com/blog/2020/02/heavy-metal-music-a-rough-timeline

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/heavy-metal-music-guide

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

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