Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 149. This time we examine the year 1845 as the Republic of Texas is annexed by the United States and becomes the 28th state. 

Also new Microphone new problems.

Update schedule will be temporarily sporadic.

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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/Texas_Revolution

https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/texas-history-timeline

https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/texas

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/exhibits/annexation/part1/page2.html

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h302.html

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/texas-annexation

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/annexation/index.html

https://www.britannica.com/place/Texas-state/Annexation-and-statehood

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Photo: 

https://statequarterguide.com/images/Proof-Texas.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 148. This time we examine the year 2018 as the island of Anak Krakatau erupts and causes a landslide that leads to the Sundra Strait Tsunami.

Also new Microphone new problems.

There have been some issues with the upload schedule due to work, but with the holidays nearing an end it should be back to normal soon.

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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://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/5638/anak-krakatau

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/krakatoa-the-worlds-mightiest-explosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Sunda_Strait_tsunami

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46669280

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaz1377

https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/krakatoa/2018/dec/eruption-tsunami/updates.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/24/anak-krakatoa-the-dark-history-of-volcano-emerging-from-the-sea/

https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/sunda-strait-tsunami-indonesia/

https://thediplomat.com/2018/12/after-the-tsunami-in-indonesias-sunda-strait/

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Photo: 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46669280

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 147. This time we examine the year 1836 as The U.S. Patent Office burns down.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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

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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://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Which-was-the-first-patent-ever-to-be-granted/articleshow/806647.cms

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51814/first-10-us-patents

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

https://www.freemansauction.com/news/1836-us-patent-fire/

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3957.html

https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/support-centers/patent-and-trademark-resource-centers-ptrc/history-and-0

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

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2018/12/13/recalling-the-devastating-patent-office-fire-of-1836/

https://suiter.com/the-united-states-patent-and-trademark-office-fire-of-1877/

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836_U.S._Patent_Office_fire#/media/File:Blodget's_Hotel,_built_1793.tif

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 146. This time we examine the year 1980 as John Lennon is murdered outside his home in New York.

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

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Sources:

https://treehozz.com/who-was-john-lennons-parents

https://www.biography.com/musician/john-lennon

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Lennon

https://www.ranker.com/list/stories-about-john-lennons-dark-side/erin-wisti

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/mark-david-chapman-man-killed-john-lennon-parole/story?id=73149086

https://heavy.com/entertainment/mark-david-chapman-2020-now-today-update/

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/us/john-lennon-killer-denied-parole-trnd/index.html

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1958/07/15/julia-lennon-dies/

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

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-David-Chapman

https://nypost.com/article/mark-david-chapman-and-the-assassination-of-john-lennon/

https://pagesix.com/2020/11/22/the-album-john-lennon-signed-for-his-killer-is-up-for-auction/

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/album-john-lennon-signed-killer-sale-article-1.3330083

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon#/media/File:Yoko_Ono_and_John_Lennon_at_John_Sinclair_Freedom_Rally.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 145. This time we examine the year 1887 as A Study in Scarlet is believed to be published, and 1955 as Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat.

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

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Sources:

https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/12/the-real-first-publication-date-of.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeton's_Christmas_Annual

https://todayinhistory.org/12/01/rosa-parks-is-arrested/

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rosa-parks

https://www.rosaparks.org/biography/

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks

https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-this-exhibition/the-bus-boycott/rosa-parks-arrested/

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/12/the-arrest-of-rosa-parks.html

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Photo: 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Rosaparks.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 144. This time we examine the year 1963 as Jack Ruby shoots and kills presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

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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 

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.history.com/topics/1960s/jack-ruby

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-Ruby

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/who-was-jack-ruby/

https://www.earnthenecklace.com/what-happened-to-jack-ruby-how-did-jack-ruby-die/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jack-ruby-dies-before-second-trial

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-ruby

https://www.jfk-online.com/rubydeathbed.html

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby#/media/File:Jack_Ruby_mugshot.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 143. This time we examine the year 1894 as one of America's first serial killers, H.H. Holmes is caught.

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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.murdermurdermurder.com/blog/2017/4/23/creepy-last-words-of-6-infamous-serial-killers

http://hhholmes.blogs.plymouth.edu/category/capture-and-punishment/

https://casocriminal.org/en/serial-killer/h-h-holmes-the-serial-killer-who-built-a-castle-to-kill-people/

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/hh-holmes

https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/hh-holmes/

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/h-h-holmes-29982.php

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201406/origin-the-term-serial-killer

https://www.history101.com/november-17th-1894-h-h-holmes-arrested/

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes#/media/File:H._H._Holmes.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 142. This time we examine the year 1975 as the Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm in Lake Superior.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

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

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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.shipwreckmuseum.com/edmund-fitzgerald/

https://historycollection.com/23-photographs-cataloging-wreck-edmund-fitzgerald-dives-rediscover-wreckage/

https://www.weather.gov/mqt/fitz_fitz

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

https://www.shipwreckworld.com/maps/ss-edmund-fitzgerald

https://gcaptain.com/gales-november-look-storm-sank-edmund-fitzgerald-41-years-ago-today/

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/education/geology/digging/taconite.html

https://www.michiganseagrant.org/lessons/lessons/by-broad-concept/earth-science/data-sets/the-storm-that-sunk-the-edmund-fitzgerald/

https://www.truthorfiction.com/do-bodies-float-in-lake-superior/

http://weekinweird.com/2016/11/27/old-whitey-preserved-corpse-kamloops/

https://americanhistory.si.edu/ru/on-the-water/inland-waterways/great-lakes-mighty-rivers/edmund-fitzgerald

https://www.pbs.org/video/university-place-storm-sank-edmund-fitzgerald/

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Photo: 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Edmund_Fitzgerald%2C_1971%2C_3_of_4_%28restored%3B_cropped%29.jpg/1849px-Edmund_Fitzgerald%2C_1971%2C_3_of_4_%28restored%3B_cropped%29.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 141. This time we examine the year 1957 as the Soviet Union launches Laika the Dog into orbit, making her the first animal to orbit the Earth.

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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.thefactresearch.com/space-shuttle-disasters/

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_924.html

https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik.html

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-first-animal-in-space

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/60-years-ago-the-first-animal-in-orbit

https://www.space.com/17764-laika-first-animals-in-space.html

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-first-animals-in-space.html

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-was-first-animal-space

https://time.com/3546215/laika-1957/

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Photo: 

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/laika.jpeg?w=800&quality=85

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 140. This time we examine the year 1787 as Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay, begin publishing the federalist papers under the name "Publius".

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

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

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Sources:

https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1700s/The-Articles-of-Confederation/

https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/federalist-papers

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/what-was-the-olive-branch-petition/

https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/the-continental-congress

https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-madison-papers/articles-and-essays/james-madison-and-the-federal-constitutional-convention-of-1787/

https://bensguide.gpo.gov/m-federalist-papers-1787-1788

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/road-to-revolution/creating-a-nation/a/the-federalist-papers

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program//bib/ourdocs/federalist.html

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http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/11/151120_HIST_federalist-papers-immigration.jpg.CROP.cq5dam_web_1280_1280_jpeg.jpg