The Year Was

It’s the catch-up episode!!!

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to days 200-203. This time we examine the days December 21, 1988 as Pan Am Flight 103 Explodes over Scotland, December 28, 2014 as the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire, January 1, 1903 as Topsy the Elephant is electrocuted, and January 11, 1787 as William Herschel discovers Uranus’ moons Oberon and Titania.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Pan-Am-flight-103

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/remembering-pan-am-flight-103-30-years-later-121418

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/europe/lockerbie-bombing-explainer-intl/index.html 

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/today-in-history-pan-am-flight-103-lockerbie

https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Ropax

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

https://maritimecyprus.com/2017/12/30/flashback-in-maritime-history-norman-atlantic-ferry-fire-on-28-dec-2014/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norman-atlantic-fire-4-more-maritime-officials-investigated-over-ferry-fire-1.2888243

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/01/the-deadly-fire-aboard-the-ferry-norman-atlantic/100882/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/topsy-the-elephant

https://www.grunge.com/770226/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-the-elephant/

https://medium.com/the-curiosity/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-an-executed-circus-elephant-83d36deee99c

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/topsy-elephant-was-victim-her-captors-not-really-thomas-edison-180961611/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/oberon-midsummer-nights-dream/

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/titania-midsummer-nights-dream/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/oberon/in-depth/

https://www.celebrateandlearn.com/?p=1851

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01352-uranus-largest-moon-oberon

https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/oberon-uranus-moon/

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01978-uranus-moon-titania

https://space-facts.com/moons/titania/

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/titania/in-depth/

https://www.universetoday.com/56048/titania/

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Photo: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topsy_elephant_electrocution_Luna_Park,_Coney_Island_January_1903.png

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Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 198/199. This time we examine the days December 7th, and December 14-and the years 1946 as the Winecoff Hotel Fire starts and 2012 as there is a school shooting at Sandy Hook..

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

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Sources:

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

https://library.massasoit.edu/americanfires/winecoff

https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10568390/the-winecoff-fire-our-nations-deadliest-hotel-fire

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-winecoff-hotel-fire-75-years-later-still-deadliest-us-hotel-blaze-in-history

http://southernghoststories.com/georgia-ghost-stories-the-winecoff-hotel

https://time.com/5168272/how-many-school-shootings/

https://news.yahoo.com/got-grow-little-brothers-never-231138580.html?guccounter=1

https://news.yahoo.com/got-grow-little-brothers-never-231138580.html?guccounter=1

https://www.britannica.com/event/Sandy-Hook-Elementary-School-shooting

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gunman-kills-students-and-adults-at-newtown-connecticut-elementary-school

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Photo: 

By Eoghanacht - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3122935

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 197. This time we examine the year 1936 as London's Crystal Palace Burns Down..

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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Sources:

https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Knowhere

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/london-fire-brigade-history-and-stories/fires-and-incidents-that-changed-history/the-crystal-palace-fire/

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/fire-destroys-crystal-palace

https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/737044/Crystal-Palace-fire-1936

https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-crystal-palace-was-constructed-of-iron-and-glass-so-how-and-why-did-it-burn-down/

https://londonist.com/2015/11/crystalpalace

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

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

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Crystal-Palace-building-London

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

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

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

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition#/media/File:Crystal_Palace_-_Queen_Victoria_opens_the_Great_Exhibition.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 196. This time we examine the years 1936 as Robert Johnson begins his recording sessions in San Antonio, and 1942 as Poon Lim begins his 133 days lost at sea.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

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

https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2016/11/18/today-in-music-history-robert-johnsons-first-recording-session

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson-American-musician

https://www.biography.com/musician/robert-johnson

https://www.inaraft.com/blog/a-remarkable-story-of-survival-at-sea-poon-lim/

https://www.historydefined.net/poon-lim/

https://www.ststworld.com/poon-lim/

https://www.grunge.com/587076/the-unbelievable-story-behind-a-man-who-was-lost-at-sea-for-133-days/

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

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Photo: 

By Copyright © 1989 Delta Haze Corporation.[2]The photograph was taken in 1936 by the Hooks Brothers Photographers studio, owned by Henry and Robert Hooks, located on Beale Street in Memphis.[3] In 1974, Johnson's half-sister Carrie Thompson entered a copyright transfer agreement with Stephen LaVere in which she represented herself as Johnson's sole and closest heir.[4] She agreed to transfer to LaVere "[a]ll of her right, title and interests, including all common law and statutory copyrights, in and to ... a photograph of Robert L. Johnson taken by Hooks Brothers Photography in Memphis, Tennessee, and showing Johnson in a sitting position with a guitar running diagonally across his body ..."[5]The photo was first published in 1989 in the journal 78 Quarterly (Vol. 1, No. 4) with LaVere's permission.[6] It was most notably featured as the cover artwork for the 1990 release of The Complete Recordings, distributed by Columbia Records under license from LaVere.[7] In a series of subsequent court decisions, the Mississippi court system identified Claud Johnson of Crystal Springs, Mississippi as Robert Johnson's sole heir and determined that he was entitled to royalties from LaVere's 1974 contract. Claud Johnson died on June 30, 2015;[8] upon his death, the interest passed to his heirs, including Michael Johnson.[9], Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12948079

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 195. This time we examine the year 1532 as Francisco Pizarro traps the Incan ruler Atahualpa, and massacres 5,000 Incan soldiers.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Pizarro

https://www.worldhistory.org/Inca_Civilization/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa

https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Francisco_Pizarro/

https://www.pdjnews.com/lifestyle/francisco-pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa

https://www.calendarz.com/on-this-day/november/16/francisco-pizarro

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

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Photo: 

By Anonymous - Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany / Art Resource, NY, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73333774

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Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 194. This time we examine the year 1938 as the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass starts the Holocaust.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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Sources:

https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/2022/november-9-in-pop-culture-history/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Kristallnacht

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-vom-Rath

https://www.history.com/news/kristallnacht-started-when-this-diplomat-was-murdered-in-cold-blood

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/18/herschel-grynszpan-photo-mystery-jewish-assassin-kristallnacht-pogrom

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUGaQUDTQ8

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Photo: 

By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-083-42 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5418870

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 193. This time we examine the year 1947 as the H-4 Hercules, the “Spruce Goose”, makes its first and final flight. 

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

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

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-J-Kaiser

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes/Later-years

https://allthatsinteresting.com/spruce-goose

https://naturespackaging.org/innovations-in-wood-the-story-of-the-spruce-goose/

https://simpleflying.com/spruce-goose/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules

https://www.thetravel.com/spruce-goose-airplane-what-is-it/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spruce-goose-flies

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-spruce-goose-mcminnville-oregon

https://nci.edu/2021/09/06/the-history-of-the-spruce-goose/

https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/exhibit/the-spruce-goose/

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

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules#/media/File:H-4_Hercules_2.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 192. This time we examine the year 1881 as the Earp family with Doc Holliday confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. 

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

https://www.onthisday.com/people/william-t-anderson

https://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1492/october_26_1492_33026.html

https://www.facebook.com/whumradio/posts/on-this-date-in-1492-lead-pencils-first-used-lead-pencils-do-not-actually-contai/10151983382144548/

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-lead-pencil-in-1492?share=1

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-gunfight-at-ok-corral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shootout-at-the-ok-corral

https://www.grunge.com/169885/the-messed-up-truth-of-the-gunfight-at-the-o-k-corral/

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

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/clanton-gang/

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/virgil-earp/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wyatt-Earp

https://www.grunge.com/269125/the-truth-about-the-forgotten-earp-brother-warren/

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/virgil-earp-43514.php

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/morgan-earp-35219.php

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Doc-Holliday

https://www.ok-corral.com/pages/history.shtml

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral#/media/File:VirgilEarp.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 191. This time we examine the year 1957 as the killer Michael Myers is born. 

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

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

https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Myers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Halloween)

https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Laurie_Strode

https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/2022/october-19-in-pop-culture-history/

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MichaelMyers2018.jpg -photo by Ryan Green

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 190. This time we examine the year 1810 as the first Oktoberfest is held. 

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/governor-general

https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/king-ludwig-i-of-bavaria/

https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/therese-of-saxe-hildburghausen-queen-of-bavaria/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oktoberfest

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

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_I_of_Bavaria#/media/File:Joseph_Karl_Stieler_-_King_Ludwig_I_in_his_Coronation_Robes_-_WGA21796.jpg