WTF History

Resources:https://www.history.com/news/who-was-lady-godivahttps://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/11/09/the-ancient-greek-model-who-disrobed-for-her-freedom/http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171108-the-it-girl-of-ancient-greecehttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Phrynehttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne5xaw/agnes-sorel-topless-mistress-france-history-francehttps://rachelemoss.com/2018/05/11/unsexy-history-writing-with-respect/https://theculturetrip.com/europe/france/articles/agnes-sorel-and-the-history-of-toplessness/Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Sources: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Lupercalia.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Valentines-Dayhttps://www.britannica.com/event/Guelf-and-Ghibellinehttps://scripta.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/scripta/article/viewFile/39826/36049http://theologyofromeoandjuliet.blogspot.com/2012/05/13th-century-verona.html Shadowplay by Clare Asquithhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483161Recommended reading:Shadowplay by Clare Asquithhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1586483161Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Twitter: @History_wtf@MeredithAncretAdditional Reading:Pagan Christmas: The Plants, Spirits, and Rituals at the Origins of Yuletidehttps://www.amazon.com/Pagan-Christmas-Spirits-Rituals-Yuletide-ebook/dp/B005VRKQE2/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=Resources:https://www.patheos.com/blogs/naturessacredjourney/2016/03/a-brief-history-of-ostara/2/https://www.newsweek.com/christmas-dead-christians-should-not-celebrate-jesus-birthday-catholic-priest-715953Shelley, Bruce L. 1999. “Is Christmas Pagan?” Christianity Today 43 (14): 85. http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.leidenuniv.nl:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=2792580&site=ehost-live.https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/debra-macleod/pagan-culture_b_7058758.htmlhttps://study.com/academy/lesson/history-of-christmas-carols.htmlhttps://biblepaedia.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/25-days-of-xmas-part-6-saturnalia-mistletoe-and-holly/https://folklorethursday.com/christmas/italys-pagan-santa-claus-story-befana/https://historycollection.co/16-pagan-christmas-traditions-that-people-mistakenly-credit-to-christianity/16/https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/holydays/wintersolstice.shtmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mari-lwyd-wales-horse-skull-holidays Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Transcript:Additional Reading: For those of you that giggled at my Monty Python joke, someone actually calculate the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. I have no idea how this could benefit anyone ever, but there you go. The link is available in the transcript.http://style.org/unladenswallow/Resources:https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2228.htmhttp://style.org/unladenswallow/https://www.wired.com/2014/10/fantastically-wrong-scientist-thought-birds-migrate-moon/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76208/how-stork-solved-scientific-mysteryhttps://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/archive/doc?id=L17760713aa&bc=%2Fdigitaladams%2Farchive%2Fbrowse%2Fletters_1774_1777.phphttps://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/us-military-and-vaccine-historyhttps://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/smallpox/https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.htmlhttp://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/from-corgis-to-corn-a-brief-look-at-the-long-history-of-gmo-technology/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/radioactive-atomic-gardeninghttps://www.atomicgardening.com/2017/01/01/yes-atomic-gardens-still-exist-today/https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/atomic-gardening/Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Resources:https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/inbreeding-was-common-among-early-humans-skeletal-deformities-suggesthttps://www.ancient.eu/Ptolemaic_Dynasty/https://www.thoughtco.com/queen-cleopatras-family-tree-4083409http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/12/25/14742/https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/the-dangers-of-royal-inbreeding/https://www.history.com/news/letters-may-prove-george-iii-was-madhttps://www.medicalbag.com/home/features/grey-matter/impact-of-europes-royal-inbreeding-part-ii/Transcript:https://medium.com/@MeredithAncret/inbreeding-or-why-your-family-reunion-is-not-the-place-to-score-a-date-c519af0fe263Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Resources:https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/the-first-president/thanksgiving/https://www.businessinsider.com/thanksgiving-took-the-place-of-evacuation-day-2014-11 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-establishes-modern-thanksgiving-holidayhttps://www.visitleiden.nl/en/discover-leiden/specials/pilgrimhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-pilgrims/2013/11/22/9f93e822-52c1-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/11/151121-first-thanksgiving-pilgrims-native-americans-wampanoag-saints-and-strangers/https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-17/native-americans-get-chance-tell-their-side-pilgrim-storyhttps://www.biography.com/political-figure/squantoTranscript:https://medium.com/@MeredithAncret/the-true-story-of-thanksgiving-or-how-the-pilgrims-did-brexit-first-d18b5e44fc6 Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Transcript:https://medium.com/@MeredithAncret/the-dutch-east-india-company-the-forgotten-trading-empire-b661466baa13Resources:https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Dutch_East_India_Companyhttps://www.businessinsider.com/how-todays-tech-giants-compare-to-massive-companies-of-empires-past-2017-12https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-and-fall-of-united-east-india-2013-11https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/first-company-issue-stock-dutch-east-india.asp http://www.thebubblebubble.com/tulip-mania/https://www.thoughtco.com/the-dutch-east-india-company-1434566https://www.thoughtco.com/nutmeg-the-unsavory-history-195274https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_2009_num_77_1_4127https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/timeline-dutch-history/1602-trade-with-the-east-vocAdditional Reading:Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in Asia 1595-1660https://www.amazon.com/Dutch-Ships-Tropical-Waters-Development/dp/9053565175Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal Cityhttps://www.amazon.com/Amsterdam-History-Worlds-Most-Liberal/dp/0307743756/Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Happy Halloween! Here's a special spooky episode on a brief cross section of the history of witchcraft.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Christopher Columbus is the worst, alright? And not just because of the genocide and the slavery, thought mostly because of that. Columbus Day is just celebrating a glory hog that showed up late to the party and took all the credit for setting it up, i.e. he didn't discover America at all, let alone first.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

In this week's episode we’ll be looking at several times in history where both elected governments and dictators put policies into action that had some absolutely fucking wild unintended consequences, including outbreaks of bubonic plague, feral hogs taking over the United States, and the death of 30 million people.MediumTwitterResources: The panda video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDQyNzTEDUhttp://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-cobra-effect-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/machiavellians-gulling-the-rubes/201610/the-cobra-effect-good-intentions-perverse-outcomeshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902https://www.huffpost.com/entry/unintended-consequences-h_b_10946526http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XZB705NKgjchttps://www.texasstandard.org/stories/hog-tied-why-a-bounty-on-feral-pigs-hasnt-solved-the-problem-in-rural-texas/http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/470841468052769105/Rationing-can-backfire-day-without-a-car-in-Mexico-city?fbclid=IwAR2VXhbRSIKbJM1R9fPsN1amTPtUOPsMymn4afXT9wzu4thC4amS0H0yYuISupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Iceland/Iceland-under-foreign-rulehttps://www.iheartreykjavik.net/2014/05/jorgen-jorgensen-icelands-favorite-rascal/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jorgenson-jorgen-2282http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/hogconvFurther reading: The Convict King, written by Jorgen Jorgenson, edited by James Francis Hogan. Available free, in its entirety, from The University of Sydney in PDF. 1891.http://purl.library.usyd.edu.au/setis/id/hogconvTranscriptSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Both the Axis and the Allies kept their soldiers going through the liberal application of meth and other assorted stimulants...which begs the question as to why my meth head cousin is such a shiftless loser.Sources:https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cocaine-coca-cola/https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/meth-addiction/meth-capital/#grefhttps://www.history.com/topics/crime/history-of-methhttp://lmharchive.ca/benzedrine-sulphate-used-in-war-operations-by-brook-durham/https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-winter-warhttps://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1411436-world-war-iihttp://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1001/a05.html?5235https://www.history.com/news/inside-the-drug-use-that-fueled-nazi-germanyRecommended Reading:Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany By Norman Ohlerhttps://www.amazon.com/Blitzed-Drugs-Germany-Norman-Ohler/dp/0241256992Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

Who am I? What is this show about? Who are you? Well...this podcast answers two of those questions. For the 3rd, I suggest some meditation or maybe a summer of backpacking through Europe.Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)

In 1784 a small corner of the Carolinas tried to become their own state and/or country...it went about as well as you'd expect. Sources: https://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1914_historyofwestern_northcarolina.htm https://www.history.com/news/5-would-be-u-s-states https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/state-of-franklin-declares-independence http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc01.asp http://www.carolana.com/Carolina/Proprietors/sirrobertheath.html http://www.smplanet.com/teaching/colonialamerica/colonies/carolinas Recommended Reading: The Lost State of Franklin: America’s First Secession. By Kevin T. Barksdale. https://www.amazon.com/Lost-State-Franklin-Secession-Directions/dp/0813129877 Western North Carolina: A History, 1730–1913. By John Preston Arthur. https://www.newrivernotes.com/topical_books_1914_historyofwestern_northcarolina.htmSupport the show (https://ko-fi.com/A0A6UA9K)