Exploration is in our DNA, we starve for adventure and the places that we can go. But the early explorers cannot be overlooked the Sumerians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. They built the foundation for modern-day exploration. Today Elizabeth shares the stories of the early group of people who were known as savages, barbarians, and pirates. Known as the Vikings.

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a term coined by the contemporary press, was a series of unsolved serial murders and other violent crimes committed in and around the Texarkana region between Arkansas and Texas in the spring of 1946. They were attributed to an alleged unidentified serial killer known as The Phantom of Texarkana or simply the Phantom Killer or Phantom Slayer. This hypothetical perpetrator is credited with attacking eight people, five of whom were murdered, in a ten-week period.

In this episode of Oddballers, Elizabeth breaks the podcasting hiatus and returns with the dreadful tale of the Texarkana Moonlight Murders. 

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I am Burned Out!

An episode about normalizing burnout, prioritizing mental health, and learning how to say no. 

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Plagiarism dates back far and wide, and the event of Lord Byron was only one of history’s examples, Helen Keller, MLK, Johnny Cash, Melania Trump all famous plagiarists. Plagiarism can get you expelled from schools, end up in courts, and end up getting sued. But what about freelancing, ghostwriting, and the most famous (potential) plagiarist in history. Was it really the father or playwright, the experts of the sonnet, the literary icon that is William Shakespeare? Or is this just something rotten that the media has cooked up? We will find all of this out today and more when we talk with Drake University Professor, and Shakespeare Scholar Jeanette Tran.

Thank you Jeanette Tran for your time!

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Plagiarism dates back far and wide, and the event of Lord Byron was only one of history’s examples, Helen Keller, MLK, Johnny Cash, Melania Trump all famous plagiarists. Plagiarism can get you expelled from schools, end up in courts, and end up getting sued. But what about freelancing, ghostwriting, and the most famous (potential) plagiarist in history. Was it really the father or playwright, the experts of the sonnet, the literary icon that is William Shakespeare? Or is this just something rotten that the media has cooked up? We will find all of this out today and more when we talk with Drake University Professor, and Shakespeare Scholar Jeanette Tran.

Thank you Jeanette Tran for your time! 

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The one thing that we all share is grief, death, and fear. And in Celtic mythology, the real fears in general, come from death and grief. Grief is the only thing that we all share, and where there is grief, there is death, and where there is death there is The Banshee. The Banshee is one of the most famous and one of the most used of the creatures of Irish folklore. The modern idea of the Banshee can be seen all across modern popular culture. But what is a Banshee?

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In the northwest lands of Europe, the old world of great barbarian people spread across the vast areas of Western and Central Europe. These people transitioned this land into the iron age. they were a culture among the greatest technologies of the ancient world and laid the foundation of Western European civilization. These people were Craftsmen of metal, makers of chariots, builders of roads, experts in agriculture and pastoralism, and were great warriors of unparalleled courage, feared by even the Romans, who they sacked in 290BC. At the Zenith of their power, their territory extended from the British Isles to Turkey on the Eastern front. They were the Celts. 

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600 years ago England has torn apart in a series of bloody battles in a game over the throne. In the course, of 30 years the crown changed heads 7 times, and over 10,000 were slaughtered. It was one of the bloodiest and most turbulent times in English history. It was known as the Wars of the Roses. These wars were pivotal in England’s history and the outcome of this last great medieval war would determine the course of Europe and perhaps even the world, leading to one of England’s greatest dynasties. The Tudors. The battles in this conflict were more than just battels, however, the politics and the murders, the treachery and affairs and betrayals all played vital roles in the outcome of what was not more than a mere squabble and disagreement over the future of England and who would sit on the throne.

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600 years ago England has torn apart in a series of bloody battles in a game over the throne. In the course, of 30 years the crown changed heads 7 times, and over 10,000 were slaughtered. It was one of the bloodiest and most turbulent times in English history. It was known as the Wars of the Roses. These wars were pivotal in England’s history and the outcome of this last great medieval war would determine the course of Europe and perhaps even the world, leading to one of England’s greatest dynasties. The Tudors. The battles in this conflict were more than just battels, however, the politics and the murders, the treachery and affairs and betrayals all played vital roles in the outcome of what was not more than a mere squabble and disagreement over the future of England and who would sit on the throne. 

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Who is your OddBallers Podcast host?? Who is she? What is her journey into making OddBallers Episodes, starting her podcast, how does she spend her time, and was college worth it?  

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Thank you to all the supporters, welcome to season 2 of OddBallers.