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Once upon a time, the British Navy built one of the worst submarines ever put to sea and then promptly smashed them into one another repeatedly.

Sources:

N.S Nash. K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions.

Edwyn Gray. Disasters of the Deep: A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & Disasters

Anthony Preston. World's Worst Warships

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924120339/http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/issues/archives/issue_49/KforKatastrophe.html

https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-battle-of-may-island-january-1917-and-k-class-submarines-of-the-first-world-war/

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The conclusion to the Armenian Genocide series.

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Part 3/4

For full bibliography see episode 1 show notes.

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Joe and Tom take the stage at Rich Mix to tell the story about the world's first military high speed train chase. Get the whole episoide on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/126771552

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Part 2/4

Sources:

Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else.

Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response

Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide

Taner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Taner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

Taner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Vakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity.

Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916

Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.

Episodes 38-42 of G Gundam involve a horse being made to pilot a gundam. Is this animal abuse? Which country does the horse represent?

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Joe, Tom, and Nate live in London talk about the time the Russian Empire sent a fleet around the world to fight the Japanese Imperial Navy.

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This is the story of the Metz Yegern, The Great Evil Crime, or, what it would later become known as, the Armenian Genocide.

Sources:

Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else.

Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response

Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide

Taner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Taner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

Taner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Vakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity.

Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916

Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.

All good rebellions start at a bar. Note that we did not say 'successful' there. Quinn from the Failure to Launch podcast joins us as a guest host to discuss a time when francophone and anglophone Canadians joined forces to fight the British in hopes of declaring independence.

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When America entered WWI they found their Navy seriously lacking. To fill the gap, FDR bought a bunch of yachts from his rich friends and tried to turn them into subchasers. It did no go well.

Sources:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2015/june/gilded-men-and-suicide-fleet

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2011/january/when-frank-jack-met-maggie

https://airmail.news/issues/2024-8-24/the-new-york-yacht-club-goes-to-war

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1973/june/eagle-boats-world-war-i

https://www.navsource.org/archives/12/170527.htm