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

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/11/09/the-ancient-greek-model-who-disrobed-for-her-freedom/

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171108-the-it-girl-of-ancient-greece

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phryne

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5xaw/agnes-sorel-topless-mistress-france-history-france

https://rachelemoss.com/2018/05/11/unsexy-history-writing-with-respect/

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/agnes-sorel-and-the-history-of-toplessness/

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Sources: 

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Lupercalia.html  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Valentines-Day
https://www.britannica.com/event/Guelf-and-Ghibelline
https://scripta.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/scripta/article/viewFile/39826/36049
http://theologyofromeoandjuliet.blogspot.com/2012/05/13th-century-verona.html

 Shadowplay by Clare Asquith
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483161

Recommended reading:
Shadowplay by Clare Asquith
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483161

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Twitter:
@History_wtf
@MeredithAncret

Additional Reading:

Pagan Christmas: The Plants, Spirits, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletide
https://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christmas-Spirits-Rituals-Yuletide-ebook/dp/B005VRKQE2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Resources:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturessacredjourney/2016/03/a-brief-history-of-ostara/2/

https://www.newsweek.com/christmas-dead-christians-should-not-celebrate-jesus-birthday-catholic-priest-715953

Shelley, Bruce L. 1999. “Is Christmas Pagan?” Christianity Today 43 (14): 85. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=2792580&site=ehost-live.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/debra-macleod/pagan-culture_b_7058758.html

https://study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-christmas-carols.html

https://biblepaedia.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/25-days-of-xmas-part-6-saturnalia-mistletoe-and-holly/

https://folklorethursday.com/christmas/italys-pagan-santa-claus-story-befana/

https://historycollection.co/16-pagan-christmas-traditions-that-people-mistakenly-credit-to-christianity/16/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/holydays/wintersolstice.shtml

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mari-lwyd-wales-horse-skull-holidays

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Additional Reading: For those of you that giggled at my Monty Python joke, someone actually calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. I have no idea how this could benefit anyone ever, but there you go. The link is available in the transcript.

http://style.org/unladenswallow/

Resources:

https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htm

http://style.org/unladenswallow/

https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-scientist-thought-birds-migrate-moon/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76208/how-stork-solved-scientific-mystery

https://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760713aa&bc=%2Fdigitaladams%2Farchive%2Fbrowse%2Fletters_1774_1777.php

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/us-military-and-vaccine-history

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/smallpox/

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/from-corgis-to-corn-a-brief-look-at-the-long-history-of-gmo-technology/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radioactive-atomic-gardening

https://www.atomicgardening.com/2017/01/01/yes-atomic-gardens-still-exist-today/

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/atomic-gardening/

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Resources:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/inbreeding-was-common-among-early-humans-skeletal-deformities-suggest

https://www.ancient.eu/Ptolemaic_Dynasty/

https://www.thoughtco.com/queen-cleopatras-family-tree-4083409

http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/12/25/14742/

https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/the-dangers-of-royal-inbreeding/

https://www.history.com/news/letters-may-prove-george-iii-was-mad\

https://www.medicalbag.com/home/features/grey-matter/impact-of-europes-royal-inbreeding-part-ii/

Transcript:

https://medium.com/@MeredithAncret/inbreeding-or-why-your-family-reunion-is-not-the-place-to-score-a-date-c519af0fe263

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Transcript:

https://medium.com/@MeredithAncret/the-dutch-east-india-company-the-forgotten-trading-empire-b661466baa13

Resources:

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Dutch_East_India_Company

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-todays-tech-giants-compare-to-massive-companies-of-empires-past-2017-12

https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-of-united-east-india-2013-11

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/first-company-issue-stock-dutch-east-india.asp 

http://www.thebubblebubble.com/tulip-mania/

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-dutch-east-india-company-1434566

https://www.thoughtco.com/nutmeg-the-unsavory-history-195274

https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_2009_num_77_1_4127

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/timeline-dutch-history/1602-trade-with-the-east-voc

Additional Reading:
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595-1660
https://www.amazon.com/Dutch-Ships-Tropical-Waters-Development/dp/9053565175

Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
https://www.amazon.com/Amsterdam-History-Worlds-Most-Liberal/dp/0307743756/

Happy Halloween! Here's a special spooky episode on a brief cross section of the history of witchcraft.

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Christopher Columbus is the worst, alright? And not just because of the genocide and the slavery, thought mostly because of that. Columbus Day is just celebrating a glory hog that showed up late to the party and took all the credit for setting it up, i.e. he didn't discover America at all, let alone first.

In this week's episode we’ll be looking at several times in history where both elected governments and dictators put policies into action that had some absolutely fucking wild unintended consequences, including outbreaks of bubonic plague, feral hogs taking over the United States, and the death of 30 million people.

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Resources:

The panda video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDQyNzTEDU

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/machiavellians-gulling-the-rubes/201610/the-cobra-effect-good-intentions-perverse-outcomes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/unintended-consequences-h_b_10946526

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XZB705NKgjc

https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/hog-tied-why-a-bounty-on-feral-pigs-hasnt-solved-the-problem-in-rural-texas/

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/470841468052769105/Rationing-can-backfire-day-without-a-car-in-Mexico-city?fbclid=IwAR2VXhbRSIKbJM1R9fPsN1amTPtUOPsMymn4afXT9wzu4thC4amS0H0yYuI

Sources: 

https://www.britannica.com/place/Iceland/Iceland-under-foreign-rule

https://www.iheartreykjavik.net/2014/05/jorgen-jorgensen-icelands-favorite-rascal/

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jorgenson-jorgen-2282

http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/hogconv

Further reading: 

The Convict King, written by Jorgen Jorgenson, edited by James Francis Hogan. Available free, in its entirety, from The University of Sydney in PDF. 1891.

http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/hogconv

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