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Happy 200th episode Night Classmates! This week Hayley covers an ambidextrous inventor, nurse, and Black History month icon: Bessie Blount Griffin. Then, Kat covers the American city that failed trying to secede from the Union. (hint… it's in Florida.)

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Bessie Blount Griffin Sources:

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

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/bessie-blount

https://www.thoughtco.com/bessie-blount-physical-therapist-1991361

https://www.findlaw.com/education/student-conduct-and-discipline/school-discipline-history.html

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bessie-blount-griffin-1914-2009/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/bessie-blount-griffin

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/obituaries/bessie-blount-overlooked.html

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The Prison Episode! Kat takes us to North Korea where an American man made a very bad decision and ended up being their prisoner for 40 years. Then Hayley takes us on a witch-hunt of sorts covering the true crime legal drama of pediatric nurse, and tarot card reader, Lucia de Berk.

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Lucia de Berk Case Sources:

https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/why-everyone-should-know-the-story

https://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/berk-lucia-de.htm

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statistical-conviction-lucia-de-berk-story-suresh-babu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2263484.stm

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/statistical-conviction-lucia-de-berk-story-suresh-babu

https://www.science.org/content/article/unlucky-numbers-fighting-murder-convictions-rest-shoddy-stats

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Hayley covers the explosive finale to the Jack Parsons lesson. Kat follows it up with a town that was fully abandoned in the 1940s supposedly because of "Nantiinaq" lurking in the woods.

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Jack Parsons Sources:

https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/jack-parsons/

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

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Kat takes us to "Baby Land General Hospital" to cover the strange lore behind the popular toy of the 1980s: Cabbage Patch dolls. Then Hayley follows it up with part one of a lesson on THE sex-cult rocket man… and no, it isn't Elton John.

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Jack Parsons Sources:

https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/

https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/jack-parsons/

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

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Hayley covers the World War II story of a Iva Toguri and how she was wrongfully convicted of treason. Then, Kat follows it up with a lesson on a mysterious creature in the Congo that caused a bit of a feud between two scientists.

Kat's Etsy Shop for Friendship Bracelets: https://severaslays.etsy.com

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Tokyo Rose Sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH9MT7OcWiQ

https://www.history.com/news/how-tokyo-rose-became-wwiis-most-notorious-propagandist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/iva-toguri-daquino-and-tokyo-rose

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Kat missed a flight recently and decided to ask the question: TSA… are they necessary? Then Hayley follows it up with a lesson that birthed a rabbit hole into c-section history. (TW for birth stuff.)

Kat's Etsy Shop for Friendship Bracelets: https://severaslays.etsy.com

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C-Sections / Dr. James Barry Sources:

https://www.history.com/news/the-extraordinary-secret-life-of-dr-james-barry

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/cesarean/part2.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17893840/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20historians%20are%20certain,through%20her%20son%27s%20adult%20life.

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/african-healers-midwives-performed-cesarean-c-section-birth-in-uganda-robert-felkin/536-7f7e5d0d-4dd2-4d24-821f-935858174e15

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon)

https://hekint.org/2020/04/03/a-surgeon-and-a-gentleman-the-life-of-james-barry/

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Hayley teaches us about something that West Point's command historian Sherman Fleek said "Hardly anyone knows about it. If pooled among 4,400 cadets, 3,000 federal employees, 1,500 military staff and faculty, I doubt 30 people will know a thing about it." Kat follows it up by teaching about how suffragettes were conned by the cigarette industry.

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Egg Nog Riot Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog_riot#:~:text=The%20eggnog%20riot%2C%20sometimes%20known,north%20barracks%20of%20the%20academy.

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/the-eggnog-riot-of-1826/

https://www.history.com/news/when-eggnog-sparked-a-riot-at-west-point#

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Kat covers the time congress dumped a bunch of money into reindeer and why they carry santa's sleigh. Then Hayley follows it up with a shitty situation that smelled so bad it got it's own name.

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The Great Stink Sources:

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

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-great-stink-londons-unbearable-summer-of-1858

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au_Ut95-MIo

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-great-stink-londons-unbearable-summer-of-1858

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Hayley covers the "fluid silver" poison and Kat follows it up with her most graphic lesson yet.

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Mercury Poisoning Sources:

https://youtu.be/SeYxT7SxZBg?feature=shared

https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Inorganic_Chemistry/Chemistry_of_the_Main_Group_Elements_(Barron)/05%3A_Group_12/5.05%3A_The_Myth_Reality_and_History_of_Mercury_Toxicity

https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdfact-syphilis.htm

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp46-c5.pdf

https://mercurypolicy.scripts.mit.edu/blog/?p=367

https://www.verywellhealth.com/minamata-disease-2860856

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1103842

https://nature.berkeley.edu/classes/eps2/wisc/hg.html#:~:text=In%20many%20civilizations%20mercury%20was,used%20it%20as%20a%20medicine.

https://sites.dartmouth.edu/toxmetal/mercury/mercury-element-of-the-ancients/

https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2022/09/23/frontiers-environmental-science-maya-cities-polluted-with-ancient-mercury/

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

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Kat covers a collection of well preserved corpses of people that died from cholera in 1833. Then Hayley follows it up with a true crime prodcuer-pick: the story of Betty Broderick and her victims.

Link to "masturbating mummies" pic: https://images.app.goo.gl/p9ZJG8o6y7ojh3Hp9

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Betty Broderick Sources:

https://youtu.be/ieR0CZpzNyQ

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a32479974/betty-broderick-divorce-dirty-john-true-story/

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

https://thetab.com/uk/2020/08/18/netflix-dirty-john-real-life-171496

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a32654700/betty-broderick-children-today/

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a32660065/dirty-john-season-2-true-story-timeline/

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