Suzie explores the curse of the Hope diamond and Trevor checks Ghengis Khan's environmental record.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE HOPE DIAMOND

Gizmodo, 2016 ‘6 Pieces of Real Life Cursed Jewelry That Could Destroy’ - http://io9.gizmodo.com/6-pieces-of-real-life-cursed-jewelry-that-could-destroy-1449245621

Mental Floss Inc., 2016 ‘8 Supposedly Cursed Gems’ - http://mentalfloss.com/article/68465/8-supposedly-cursed-gems

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 2016, ‘The Hope Diamond - http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/nmnh/hope.htm

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Hope Diamond’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond

**The Smithsonian link has a lot of books and information on the Hope Diamond listed for future reading**

GHENGIS KHAN - ECO WARRIOR

Coupled climate–carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO2 between AD 800 and 1850 - The Holocene August 2011 vol. 21 no. 5 843-851

Genghis Han killed so many people, that it was actually good for the environment, new study claims - ZME Science 26 May 2014

The Mongol Empire - www.allempires.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

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