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Episode 152. John Paul Jones was a Scottish-American sailor who fought against the British in the Revolutionary War. He is considered a naval hero and the "father of the US Navy." There's also a much darker secret that is largely unknown to this day. TRIGGER WARNING for sexual abuse. Listener discretion advised. 

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“John Paul Jones” by history.com editors (Oct 29 2009; updated May 28 2025)

https://www.history.com/articles/john-paul-jones

“John Paul Jones” (updated Mar 5 2020)

https://www.revolutionary-war.net/john-paul-jones/

“John Paul Jones Biography & Facts” by Edward St. Germain

https://www.americanrevolution.org/john-paul-jones-biography/

“John Paul Jones” 

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/john-paul-jones

“John Paul Jones Life Chronology” 

https://www.seacoastnh.com/Maritime-History/John-Paul-Jones/John-Paul-Jones-Timeline/

“Paris - John Paul Jones House”

https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/site_details.php?SiteID=238

“John Paul Jones” by Britannica Editors (Feb 18 2026)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Paul-Jones-United-States-naval-officer

“‘Я Тоже:’ The Rape of Katerina Stepanova and John Paul Jones’ Russian Legacy” by Jacob Bell (Apr 2019). Past Tense, volume 7 issue 1. Pp. 36-56

https://pasttensejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/past-tense-vol-7-spring-2019-2.pdf

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Sound Effect by Universfield from Pixabay

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Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay

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Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay 

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Sound Effect by David Dumais from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-grenade-explosion-14-190266/

Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/people-crowd-of-boys-cheering-102732/

Sound Effect by Otto from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-creaking-wood-199971/

Episode 151. Emileigh and Morgan detail the unbelievable story of how an argument over one 5 cent slice of watermelon started a riot and changed the politics in Panama for the following 100 years. 

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Episode 150. For hundreds of years, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were a mystery. The ability to read them had been lost to time, and scholars wondered if their secrets would ever be revealed. In 1799, a stone was recovered the town of el Rashid, also known as Rosetta. This stone had three styles of text carved into its face: hieroglyphs, Demotic, and ancient Greek. With time, consistency, and perseverance, the symbols were finally translated; Egyptology finally became an area of official study. 

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“Translation of the Rosetta Stone” from The Nile, Notes for Travellers in Egypt by E.A. Walis Budge (1905). 9th Edition, London, Thos. Cook and Son. pp 199-211. 

https://sacred-texts.com/egy/trs/trs07.htm

“Everything you ever wanted to know about the Rosetta Stone” (Jul 14 2017, updated Dec 18 2025)

https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-rosetta-stone

“What Is the Rosetta Stone?” by Elizabeth Nix (Apr 1 2015, updated Mar 2 2025)

https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone

“Two Hundred Years Ago, the Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt” by Meilan Solly (Sept 27 2022)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rosetta-stone-hieroglyphs-champollion-decipherment-egypt-180980834/

“The Rosetta Stone” by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker 

https://smarthistory.org/the-rosetta-stone/

“The Rosetta Stone: Unlocking the Ancient Egyptian Language” by Roy Scalf 

https://arce.org/resource/rosetta-stone-unlocking-ancient-egyptian-language/

“Ptolemy V Epiphanes”

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-V-Epiphanes

“Thomas Young, The Last Man Who Knew Everything” 

https://steven-shepard.com/2025/01/22/thomas-young-the-last-man-who-knew-everything/

“Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832)” 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/champollion_jean.shtml

“Egyptian Campaign” 

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/egyptian-campaign

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Music by Tomomi Kato from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-baroque-style-423524/

Episode 149. Emileigh and Morgan dive into the wonderful, wild, and dramatic world of Jacques Cousteau. 

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https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/jacques-cousteau--3

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/jacques-cousteau

https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-e0405c04-fab6-497c-9482-63d08deeb881?distributionPartner=google

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/cousteau-suit-names-son-3130709.php

Episode 148. Carter Woodson's passion was education and history, especially Black history. He made it his mission to document and educate others on Black history, and even dedicated an entire week to just the study of it; this would eventually go on to be Black History Month. Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss the man behind the month. 

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“Carter G. Woodson” by biography.com editors (updated Feb 3 2025)

https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/carter-g-woodson

“Carter G. Woodson” 

https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/legacy-of-leadership/carter-g-woodson/

“Carter G. Woodson” 

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/carter-g-woodson

“Carter G. Woodson: The Early Years, 1875 - 1903” by Burnis R. Morris 

https://asalh.org/about-us/carter-g-woodson-the-early-years-1875-1903/

“A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise” by Meilan Solly (Feb 10 2026)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/a-white-historian-claimed-that-black-people-had-no-history-this-trailblazing-scholar-dedicated-his-life-to-proving-otherwise-180988144/

“Carter G. Woodson - African American Trailblazers” by the Library of Va channel on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBEjJH1j5U&t=137s 

“10 Things about Dr. Carter G. Woodson - Father of Black History Month” by the Black Excellence Excellist channel on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-qjMiTQqw 

Sound Credits:

Music by SHIOU-SHIEN YEH from Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/music/chamber-music-the-pupa-cello-and-violin-417376/

Episode 147. For this week's Black History Month episode, Emileigh and Morgan honor the amazing life of Harriet Tubman and the complexity of the Underground Railroad. Her good deeds weren't limited to the Underground Railroad and she spent her entire life helping those around her. 

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https://www.history.com/articles/underground-railroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXGK2wi5oM

https://www.biography.com/activists/harriet-tubman-timeline-facts

https://azpbs.org/2022/09/harriet-tubman-visions-of-freedom/

Episode 146. Morgan and Emileigh dive into the life of one of America's most famous scientists, George Washington Carver. He is most well known for his work with peanuts, but he did much more for the benefit of southern farmers and people around the world. 

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“George Washington Carver” by History.com Editors (Oct 27 2009, updated Jan 23 2026)

https://www.history.com/articles/george-washington-carver 

“George Washington Carver, The Black History Monthiest of Them All” by Gene Demby (Feb 11 2014)

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/11/275330069/george-washington-carver-the-black-history-monthiest-of-them-all

“George Washington Carver” 

https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/george-washington-carver/ 

“George Washington Carver” 

https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/carver.html

“George Washington Carver” 

https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/george-washington-carver/

“Innovative Iowans: Etta Budd” (Feb 2023)

https://history.iowa.gov/media/122/download?inline 

“A Brief History of Peanut Butter” by Kate Wheeling (Jan 2021)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-peanut-butter-180976525/

Sound Credits:

Music by soundoffreedom from Pixabay 

https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-film-ambient-atmosphere-413097/ 

Episode 145. Emileigh and Morgan honor the life and Legacy of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks. 

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https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rosa-parks

https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-jim-crow-laws

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Nixon

https://www.history.com/articles/rosa-parks

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/rosa-parks

https://blogs.loc.gov/families/2021/02/young-rosa-parks/

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

Episode 144. For thousands of years, the art of the visual medium has entertained audiences. But is sight and sound enough? What if you could smell the story, too? Hans Laube developed a system for incorporating smell into film in the 1930s, and worked to get his invention into theaters. Morgan and Emileigh explore the history of smell and other senses into film, and the highs and lows of each. 

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Stupid History: A Collection of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Through the Ages by Leland Gregory, 2019. Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC. Kansas City. 

“Hollywood And Its Efforts to Introduce the Wacky World of Smell-O-Vision” by Gilles Messier (Apr 3 2023)

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2023/04/hollywood-and-its-efforts-to-introduce-the-wacky-world-of-smell-o-vision-2/

“The Idea of Smell-O-Vision Has Been Around for Over a Century. AI May Finally Make It Work” by Michael Wolf (Aug 20 2024)

https://thespoon.tech/the-idea-of-smell-o-vision-has-been-around-for-over-a-century-ai-may-finally-make-it-work/

“Smell-O-Vision: The Curious Case of Cinema’s Forgotten Sense” by Kate Holtz (Aug 7 2025)

https://www.massiveactionmedia.com/post/history-of-smell-o-vision

“The Story of the Smell-O-Vision Wars” 

https://hyscent.com/the-story-of-the-smell-o-vision-wars/

https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/SPEC/belknap/exhibit2002/smell.htm

“A Brief History about Hans Laube” by Carmen Laube (Jan 01 2016; updated Dec 21 2025)

https://www.in70mm.com/presents/1960_smell_o_vision/library/hans_laube/index.htm

“In Glorious Smell-O-Vision! scented documentary” 

https://scentedstorytelling.com/2020/10/01/in-glorious-smell-o-vision-the-true-story-of-the-godfather-of-scented-cinema/

“Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee” by Hal Hodson (Mar 26 2013)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729105-900-smell-o-vision-screens-let-you-really-smell-the-coffee/

“Best ever April Fools’ pranks” (Mar 30 2007)

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/best-ever-april-fools-pranks-2mcmmb8hlwn

“Smell O vision 2026” (Jan 3 2026)

https://olorama.com/smell-o-vision/

Sound Credits:

Music by Julius H. from Pixabay 

https://pixabay.com/music/marching-band-cheerful-march-happy-march-music-292405/

Episode 143. Emileigh and Morgan dive into the underbelly of London in the late 1800s to explore the world of the city's most notorious all woman gang. The Forty Elephants were terrorizing shop owners, the police, and the citizens with crimes and violence for decades. 

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Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79K0MpXxFY

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/forty-elephants-south-londons-supreme-shoplifters/

https://sagasofshe.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/the-forty-elephants/#:~:text=She%20also%20created%20the%20Hoister's,a%20percentage%20of%20their%20takings.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/forty-elephants-gang-who-real-mary-carr/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/40-elephants/28301/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants#Leadership