This week, Liz and Dakota ease back into the swing of things with a quick factoid episode about Valentine's Day

Episode Notes

https://www.womansday.com/relationships/a4702/10-fun-valentines-day-facts-103385/

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/valentines-day-ideas/a26863/valentines-day-facts/

https://www.history.com/topics/valentines-day/valentines-day-facts

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This week, Liz and Dakota look at an urban legend from Quebec and talk about how the actual history of a murderer quickly became something of a ghost story.

Episode Notes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/la-corriveaus-cage-quebec-canada

https://www.scaryforkids.com/la-corriveau/

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/la-corriveau

http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/corriveau_marie_josephte_3E.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Josephte_Corriveau

https://nuvomagazine.com/culture/la-corriveau-of-quebec-city

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Welcome back to season three!

This week, Dakota shares the story of a medical history/mystery from the French Revolution, the tale of the man who couldn't stop eating: Tarrare

Episode Notes

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/747/747-h/747-h.htm

https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/tarrare/

https://www.wiltons.org.uk/news/155

https://historianandrew.medium.com/tarrare-the-man-who-couldnt-stop-eating-including-puppies-and-a-maybe-toddler-dde79b8d50b7

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161014-the-man-who-couldnt-stop-eating

https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/07/13/whatever-you-do-dont-tell-the-french-about-tarrare/

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

https://allthatsinteresting.com/tarrare

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This week, Liz and Dakota look back at some of their favourite episodes from 2022, recounting memories and zingers, and looking forward to the future.

A huge thanks goes out to all of you who have tuned in this year... the podcast wouldn't be the same without you, and we are so incredibly appreciative that you take the time out of your day to listen to us talk history.

We look forward to connecting with you all again on January 18, 2023... Happy Holidays from us at The Reluctant Historian

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This week, Liz and Dakota delve into some Icelandic Christmas Folklore, learning about the Christmas Witch, a hungry Christmas Cat, and 13 meddlesome pranksters.

Episode Notes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-the-thirteen-yule-lads-icelands-own-mischievous-santa-clauses-180948162/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-icelands-christmas-witch-much-cooler-and-scarier-krampus-180967605/

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

https://www.britannica.com/place/Iceland

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/568050/gryla-christmas-troll-iceland

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In a different kind of trivia episode, Liz and Dakota share 15 random Christmas facts. Ranging from Candy Canes to the racist history of Jingle Bells, this episode takes you on a wild ride.

Episode Notes

https://bestlifeonline.com/christmas-facts/

https://www.berries.com/blog/45-fun-christmas-facts

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g2972/surprising-christmas-facts/

https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-jingle-bells

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This week's Wicked Wednesday is all about America's first plane hijacking, and the infamous story of Earnest "Larry" Pletch. Not to be confused with Earnest of the Earnest Scared Stupid variety.

Episode Notes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murderous-story-americas-first-hijacking-180956152/

https://fearoflanding.com/history/i-dont-know-why-i-killed-him-but-i-did/

https://awnaves.medium.com/a-senseless-murder-at-5-000-feet-americas-first-murder-on-a-plane-73179f4c34dc

https://www.newser.com/story/210944/how-americas-1st-hijacking-ended-in-murder.html

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This week, Liz and Dakota explore what happened aboard the ghost ship the Mary Celeste and share why the salvaging hearings didn't really go according to plan. Dakota analyzes some of his trauma in the meantime.

Episode Notes

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/

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

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mary-celeste

https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mary-Celeste

https://museumhack.com/mary-celeste/

https://www.kingmanyachtcenter.com/an-october-ghost-story-mary-celeste/

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This week, Liz and Dakota look back at the history of the lost city of Atlantis, and how this myth has had a huge influence on new age beliefs and the Nazis.

Episode Notes

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/where-is-the-lost-city-of-atlantis-and-does-it-even-exist

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Earth_from_Space_Strait_of_Gibraltar#:~:text=The%20Strait%20of%20Gibraltar%20connects,and%20Point%20Cires%20(Morocco).

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atlantis-legendary-island

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/atlantis

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

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/holocaust-remembrance-day/2019-01-24/ty-article/.premium/the-dark-link-between-nazis-and-atlantis/0000017f-f737-d5bd-a17f-f73fa29d0000

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

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/atlantis

https://www.history.com/news/top-6-theories-about-atlantis

https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html

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This week, Liz and Dakota look at the literary history of Merlin, tracing his story from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Thomas Mallory, Dakota and Liz learn a lot about this magic man on the way.

Episode Notes

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