The Year Was

We examine the year 1845asEdgar Allan Poe publishes “The Raven”.

With special guest Matt Vann.

Find Matt at:

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https://www.buzzsprout.com/246071

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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https://www.accessible-archives.com/2011/01/the-raven-by-poe-published-today/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-raven-is-published

https://www.biography.com/writer/edgar-allan-poe

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-09-12-me-42997-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1hCuTK4gUY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr-wOQSUWQk

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-raven/summary

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Informative_Murder_Porn

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-life-of-nikola-tesla-2015-10

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Ro%C3%A4c

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We examine the year 1987 as R. Budd Dwyer commits suicide on TV.

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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http://www.dwyermovie.com/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/r-budd-dwyer

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/budd-dwyer-41425.php

https://alleghenycampus.com/3287/features/documentary-reexamines-budd-dwyer-case/

https://apnews.com/6cffa3fdd182b37efd86fa3b18677837

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Budd_Dwyer

https://apnews.com/028fd0171159f6179412e20593edaeba

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/36560-to-be-or-not-to-be-that-is-the-question

https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/John_Coffey

https://stephenking.fandom.com/wiki/Andy_Dufresne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo

We examine the year 1947 as the body of Elizabeth Short, The Black Dahlia, is found.

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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http://blackdahlia.web.unc.edu/

https://www.history.com/news/life-for-the-average-family-during-the-great-depression

https://vault.fbi.gov/Black%20Dahlia%20%28E%20Short%29%20/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/the-black-dahlia

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2006/october/dahlia_102006

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/has-the-black-dahlia-murder-finally-been-solved-198247/

https://www.drphil.com/videos/how-a-man-discovered-that-his-father-may-have-murdered-the-black-dahlia/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/black-dahlia-murder-steve-hodel-elizabeth-short

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/grapesofwrath/character/jim-casy/

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490113.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyLV_luyKT8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KF8HazNueE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0e6CpfVCg8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVraEch7IhA

We examine the year 1902 as Francis G. Landon gets an anti-flirt bill passed. 

Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-york-state-once-introduced-anti-flirting-bill-180961687/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/patent-ductus-arteriosus/symptoms-causes/syc-20376145

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-law-basics/misdemeanors.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/02/stop-that-skirt-chaser-the-movement-to-outlaw-flirting-in-the-1920s/273068/

https://heyarnold.fandom.com/wiki/Frankie_G.

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

We examine the year 1894 as Fred Ott’s Sneeze get a copyright.

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https://www.loc.gov/item/00694192

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/04/13/fred-otts-sneeze-was-the-first-ever-film-to-be-copyrighted-in-1894/

We examine the year 1818 as Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus anonymously.

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https://slate.com/technology/2017/01/frankenstein-and-the-problem-with-playing-god.html

https://wiki.southpark.cc.com/wiki/Shelly_Marsh

https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/oct/26/art-fraud-margaret-walter-keane-tim-burton-biopic

https://www.mcall.com/opinion/mc-opi-frank-sheerhan-20191220-ymclehkolvd77g252d4xsimiwe-story.html

https://wesleybanksauthor.com/best-dog-sledding-movies/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnFr-DOPf8

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

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

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

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/frankenstein/summary/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/13/frankenstein-at-200-why-hasnt-mary-shelley-been-given-the-respect-she-deserves-

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2613444/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley-helped-wife-Mary-write-Frankenstein-claims-professor.html

https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Wrote-Frankenstein/dp/0943742145

We examine the years 336 as we look at the first recorded Christmas and 352 as we look at the first official Christmas.

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https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/25th.shtml

https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/301-600/celebrate-christmas-but-when-and-how-11629663.html

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2018/12/21/dubious-claims-pope-julius-i-decided-that-jesus-was-born-on-25-december/

https://www.christianity.com/wiki/people/who-was-lot-s-wife-why-was-she-turned-into-a-pillar-of-salt.html

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1SfzV67Bqw

https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy

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

We examine the year 1968 as Apollo 8 makes it lunar orbit and delivers a Christmas message from the moon.

Earthrise Photograph by NASA and William Anders

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpWalYduU4

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-first-earthlings-around-the-moon-were-two-soviet-tortoises

https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/orbital-missions/apollo8.cfm

https://www.space.com/17362-apollo-8.html

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/5453/what-would-happen-if-the-sps-did-not-fire-on-apollo-8

https://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/apollo8.html

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Fifty-years-ago-Apollo-8-sent-a-lunar-Christmas-13488814.php

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html

We examine the year 1839 as John William Draper makes the first celestial photograph of the moon, and 1849 as William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple capture the first Moon photo through a telescope .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAoFn23htE4

https://lightsinthedark.com/2016/03/23/this-is-the-oldest-surviving-photo-of-the-moon/

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/john-william-draper

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Cranch-Bond

http://www.artdeciel.com/astrophotography-telescope-detail.aspx?Telescope_ID=28

https://time.com/3805947/the-first-photograph-of-the-moon/

https://www.onthisday.com/events/december/18

We examine the year 1878 as an ultimatum is given that leads to the Anglo-Zulu War.

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https://www.britannica.com/event/Anglo-Zulu-War

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/zulu-war

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Timeline-of-the-AngloZulu-War/

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/anglo-zulu-wars-1879-1896