Never heard of her? Update your understanding of the Wizard of Oz alongside Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-feminist-inspired-witches-of-oz-180985334/

https://www.nps.gov/people/matilda-joslyn-gage.htm#:~:text=Matilda%20Joslyn%20Gage%20was%20a,Cicero%2C%20New%20York%20in%201826.

https://freethought-trail.org/profiles/profile:joslyn-hezekiah/

https://freethought-trail.org/historical-events/event:birth-and-early-life-of-matilda-electa-joslyn/

http://freethought-trail.org/profiles/profile:new-york-freethinkers-association/  

https://susanb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Matilda-Joslyn-Gage-Syracuse-NY-1852.pdf

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A snapshot of a strange, repeating mental health issue...on mars? Find out more about the Mars Rovers with Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://fermionbd.org/post/the-procrastinating-mars-rover

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasas-opportunity-rover-has-developed-robot-dementia-180953783/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30642548

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_%28rover%29

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mars-pathfinder/

https://www.planetary.org/articles/08-mer-update-opportunity-reboots-reformats

https://www.space.com/28974-mars-rover-opportunity-memory-amnesia.html

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Man of the people...eventually! Listen to how Eugene V. Debs made the government really, really mad, with Red & Scoot.

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27673131

https://web.archive.org/web/20080310173710/http://www.socialistworker.org/2007-2/638/638_12_Debs.shtml

https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A32382/datastream/OBJ/view/Eugene_V__Deb_s_Canton_Speech.pdf

https://networks.h-net.org/node/20317/reviews/21439/jozwiak-salvatore-eugene-v-debs-citizen-and-socialist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs#Sedition_conviction_and_appeal_to_U.S._Supreme_Court

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_railroad_strike_of_1888

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/espionage-act-of-1917-and-sedition-act-of-1918-1917-1918

https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2017/winter/debs-canton

https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/canton.htm

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-indictment-could-run-for-president-2-others-did-2023-3

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Spooky October continues with the only time history featured an apparition in a court case! Find out more with Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://greenbrierwv.com/editorials/the-greenbrier-ghost

https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2018/01/greenbrier-ghost.html

https://www.wboy.com/only-on-wboy-com/paranormal-w-va/how-the-greenbrier-ghost-helped-convict-a-west-virginia-murderer-in-1897/

https://archive.wvculture.org/history/crime/shuearticles.html

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Why do black cats have such a bad reputation? Once bringers of divinity and good luck, but now associated with the devil and Halloween; find out the real history with Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://archive.org/details/classicalcats00dona/page/182/mode/2up

https://feedsnitt.com/2018/12/25/vox-in-roma-what-a-small-change-in-history-can-do/

https://www.history.com/news/black-cats-superstitions

https://historycollection.com/thou-shalt-not-suffer-a-cat-to-live-why-pope-gregory-ixs-vox-in-rama-implicated-cats-in-devil-worship/

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

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

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

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

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From ancient Ireland to Black Halloween in the 1930's, Halloween's history is stranger than you'd think. Find out why with Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.candystore.com/blogs/facts-trivia/halloween-candy-map-popular?y=2021

https://www.candystore.com/blogs/holidays/definitive-ranking-best-worst-halloween-candies

https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue32/meehan_index.html

https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

https://www.ireland.com/en-us/features/ireland-home-of-halloween/?ds_c=TI_US_EN_PRO_PerformanceMax_All+Island_NA_IOI_NA_NA_NA_ACP_Halloween+2024&ds_ag=&ds_k=&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxsm3BhDrARIsAMtVz6NJ7z4BcsZ77kYvqTaPnZsy2RpZ2-DXi8WGzHITp9iqxECIUgG4spEaAnVIEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating#History

https://www.history.com/news/history-of-the-jack-o-lantern-irish-origins

https://www.irishpost.com/heritage/how-irish-great-famine-brought-halloween-to-america-161376

https://suburbanturmoil.com/heres-proof-halloween-a-century-ago-was-just-as-freaky/2018/10/30/

https://www.history.com/news/halloween-was-once-so-dangerous-that-some-cities-considered-banning-it

https://www.history.com/news/halloween-haunted-house-great-depression

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-that-celebrate-halloween

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A collection of times when the governments tried to take on local snakes and rats...and failed. How did tiny rodents (etc) beat back some of the most powerful governments in the world? Find out with Red & Scoot!

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/pmjrdg/is_there_evidence_for_the_cobra_effect_story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#:~:text=The%20original%20cobra%20effect,-The%20Indian%20cobra&text=The%20British%20government%2C%20concerned%20about,breed%20cobras%20for%20the%20income.

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

https://www.hanoivietnam.fr/le-massacre-des-rats-de-hanoi-en-1902/

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23416106

https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.787

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Was it a "Fall" of Rome or more of a gradual erosion and eventual crumbling-breaking-situation? Dig into the story of the Last Emperor of Rome with Red and Scoot.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(father_of_Romulus_Augustulus)

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

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

Kos, Marjeta Šašel (2008). "The family of Romulus Augustulus". Antike Lebenswelten : Konstanz, Wandel, Wirkungsmacht : Festschrift für Ingomar Weiler zum 70. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. OCLC 496844565.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah12184

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U.S. experimenting on humans, mind control, and real stories behind the "conspiracy" of MKUltra.

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

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

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-quest-for-mind-control-torture-lsd-and-a-poisoner-in-chief

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

https://abc7news.com/archive/6592388/

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/u-s-soldiers-used-as-human-guinea-pigs-in-top-secret-chemical-testing-program

https://screenrant.com/stranger-things-cia-project-mkultra-real-experiments-explained/

https://truthout.org/articles/the-hidden-tragedy-of-the-cias-experiments-on-children/

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Project_MKULTRA_the_CIA_s_Program_of_Res/TEqhqtrF3XEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA70&printsec=frontcover

https://web.archive.org/web/20020131080119/http://www.michael-robinett.com/declass/c010.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20180519204913/https://www.ozy.com/true-story/whitey-bulger-i-was-a-guinea-pig-for-cia-drug-experiments/76409

https://research.unc.edu/human-research-ethics/resources/ccm3_019064/

https://archive.org/details/brainwashsecreth0000stre/page/48/mode/2up

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

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

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/05/archives/files-show-tests-for-truth-drug-began-in-oss-marijuana-derivative.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron#MKULTRA_Subproject_68

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Horticultural experts attempted to pollinate vanilla and failed for half a century...until it was solved by the most unlikely person. Find out who with Red & Scoot :)

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla#:~:text=Aztecs%20from%20the%20central%20highlands,later%20inspired%20modern%20hot%20chocolate.

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X18307557

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963535/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bittersweet-story-vanilla-180962757/

https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/cooking-tips-techniques/what-is-vanilla-extract#:~:text=Vanillin%20is%20the%20source%20of,bean%20is%20also%20a%20flavor.

https://monchynaturalproducts.com/news/vanilla-global-market-report-july-2024/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090107200326/http://reunion.rfo.fr/article52.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20081005060731/http://www.afcam.org/Doc_illustration/CodeNoir/ARTICLES1A10.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20081003025824/http://reunion.rfo.fr/article534.html

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