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The age of Atlantic ocean liners is mostly over, and these giants of the seas have evolved into cruise ships. In this ASMR bedtime story, I invite you to relive the epic of transatlantic passenger lines in the 19th and 20th centuries. I tell you the stories of famous liners: the RMS Titanic and her sister ships Olympic and Britannic, the RMS Lusitania and Mauretania, the SS Savannah, the SS Great Eastern, the SS Wilhelm der Grosse and Imperator, the SS Ile-de-France and SS Normandie, the SS Bremen, the SS Rex, the RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, the SS United States, the SS France, the RMS Queen Mary 2... Welcome to Lights Out Library Join me for a sleepy adventure tonight. Sit back, relax, and fall asleep to documentary-style bedtime stories read in a calming ASMR voice. Learn something new while you enjoy a restful night of sleep. Listen ad free and get access to bonus content on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LightsOutLibrary621 Listen on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LightsOutLibraryov ¿Quieres escuchar en Español? Echa un vistazo a La Biblioteca de los Sueños! En Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1t522alsv5RxFsAf9AmYfg En Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/la-biblioteca-de-los-sue%C3%B1os-documentarios-para-dormir/id1715193755 En Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LaBibliotecadelosSuenosov #sleep #bedtimestory #asmr #sleepstory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner RMS Lusitania, killing nearly 1,200 people, including many Ohioans. We tell the story of the tragedy through the lives of people like Charles Frohman, a Sandusky native who coined the term "stars" for describing beloved actors, and Theodate Pope, a Cleveland woman who became one of the first licensed architects in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sean bienvenidos a otro nuevo Spaces aqui en Twitter. Esta vez vamos a realizar un análisis de la película falso documental La Conspiración. Les sugiero que si no han visto la película lo hagan antes de escuchar nuestro análisis ya que vamos a destriparla completamente. Digamos que será no solo un spoiler de lo que podrían ver allí si no mas bien un desmenuzamiento de sus partes. Intentaremos desmontar la película trozo a trozo. Vamos a entrar en la sala del despiece del toro, je, je, je. Para ello utilizare un extracto de lo que nos dice chat GPT de esta película. 1. Introducción El documento "The Conspiracy" comienza con una cita significativa de Benjamin Disraeli, Primer Ministro británico de 1874 a 1880, quien mencionó que el mundo es gobernado por personajes muy diferentes a los imaginados. Esta cita sirve como punto de partida para adentrarse en la temática central del texto: la conspiración. La introducción plantea la idea de que la humanidad, en su conjunto, no es libre y que la supuesta libertad que se percibe es solo una ilusión creada por aquellos en el poder. Esta ilusión de libertad y elección es una de las primeras ideas que se presentan para cuestionar la realidad en la que viven las personas. El texto introduce al lector en un ambiente de sospecha y desconfianza hacia los poderes establecidos, sugiriendo que los individuos no son más que piezas en un juego manejado por otros. Esta premisa establece un tono sombrío y desafiante, aludiendo a la manipulación de masas y al control social que se ejercerían desde las sombras. 2. Fenómeno de las Teorías de la Conspiración El documento continúa explorando el fenómeno de las teorías de la conspiración, describiendo cómo estas han capturado la atención de las personas no solo por las teorías mismas, sino por el comportamiento y la mentalidad de quienes creen en ellas. Se hace énfasis en que las teorías conspirativas representan un fenómeno social fascinante que debe ser entendido para poder ser disipado. Este apartado discute la atracción que ejercen las teorías de la conspiración sobre ciertos individuos y cómo estas teorías crean una comunidad de personas que comparten una visión alternativa del mundo, una visión que cuestiona las narrativas oficiales y que busca desentrañar lo que perciben como una verdad oculta. La creencia en conspiraciones no solo afecta la percepción de la realidad de los individuos, sino que también tiene un impacto significativo en el comportamiento social y político de estas comunidades. 3. Encuentro con Terrance G. Uno de los personajes centrales del documento es Terrance G., un conspirador local cuya vida y creencias son exploradas a través de la narrativa. Se introduce al lector al entorno de Terrance, que se describe como un lugar donde él ha acumulado y organizado una vasta cantidad de información relacionada con diversas teorías de la conspiración. Este espacio, denominado por Terrance como "El Cuarto de Guerra", está lleno de recortes, documentos, y conexiones que él ha trazado entre eventos históricos y decisiones políticas, todos los cuales, en su visión, forman parte de una gran conspiración global. Nos lo muestran casi como un vagabundo, una persona desaseada y con una vida al borde del colapso en una casa descuidada. El "Cuarto de Guerra" de Terrance es emblemático de cómo los conspiracionistas organizan y procesan la información, buscando patrones y conexiones que, en muchos casos, son interpretados como evidencia irrefutable de sus creencias. Este entorno refleja una mentalidad profundamente analítica y a la vez obsesiva, donde cada nuevo dato es insertado en una red preexistente de suposiciones y creencias, reforzando aún más la visión del mundo que tiene Terrance. 4. Ejemplos de Conspiraciones Gobernamentales El documento menciona varios ejemplos específicos de lo que se presentan como conspiraciones gubernamentales, las cuales Terrance y otros como él creen que son parte de un plan más amplio de control y dominación. Estos ejemplos incluyen: Ley de Comisiones Militares (2006): Se describe cómo esta ley permite la detención indefinida de ciudadanos estadounidenses en lugares no revelados, lo que es visto como una herramienta para silenciar la disidencia y mantener el control social. Proyecto de ley H.R. 645 y los campos de FEMA (2009): Este proyecto de ley autoriza al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional a establecer una red de campos de internamiento en caso de una emergencia nacional. Terrance interpreta esto como una preparación para la implementación de la ley marcial y el control total de la población. Estos ejemplos son utilizados por Terrance para ilustrar su argumento de que existe una conspiración generalizada para restringir las libertades individuales y centralizar el poder en manos de unos pocos. Terrance conecta estos eventos legislativos con una serie de otras acciones gubernamentales y eventos históricos, sugiriendo que todos son parte de un patrón más grande y siniestro. 5. La Comunidad Conspiratoria en Línea Un aspecto crucial del documento es la descripción de la comunidad conspiracionista en línea. Este grupo de personas, que interactúa principalmente a través de foros y salas de chat virtuales como el "Café del Conspirador", es visto como una subcultura unida por su devoción a descubrir "la verdad". Esta comunidad utiliza Internet no solo como una herramienta para compartir información, sino también como un espacio para reforzar sus creencias y conectar con otros que comparten sus perspectivas. El documento destaca cómo Internet ha jugado un papel dual en la propagación de teorías conspirativas. Por un lado, permite la difusión rápida y masiva de ideas que cuestionan la narrativa oficial, desafiando los medios de comunicación tradicionales que históricamente han controlado la información. Por otro lado, Internet también facilita la vigilancia masiva, lo que refuerza la percepción de un control omnipresente por parte del "Gran Hermano". Un ejemplo concreto dentro del texto es la descripción de un video viral que muestra a Terrance compartiendo sus ideas, lo cual provoca no solo burlas sino también un sorprendente número de comentarios de apoyo. Este episodio ilustra cómo las teorías conspirativas encuentran un eco en sectores de la población que están dispuestos a aceptar narrativas alternativas, especialmente en un entorno donde la desconfianza hacia las instituciones es alta. 6. Teorías Clásicas de la Conspiración El documento explora varias teorías de conspiración bien conocidas que son parte integral del discurso de Terrance y de la comunidad conspirativa en general: Reserva Federal y control financiero: Se argumenta que la Reserva Federal es una institución que manipula la economía imprimiendo dinero sin respaldo, manteniendo al gobierno de los EE.UU. perpetuamente endeudado y bajo el control de poderes financieros ocultos. El Gran Hermano y la vigilancia: Terrance señala que la profecía de George Orwell sobre un estado de vigilancia total se ha hecho realidad, pero de una manera que el propio Orwell no anticipó: los ciudadanos mismos han creado y aceptado este sistema de vigilancia, especialmente a través de las redes sociales y la tecnología digital. Militarización y el papel de las milicias: Se discute el papel de las milicias en la historia de los EE.UU. y cómo, según Terrance, la constitución del país fue defendida inicialmente por milicias, no por un ejército regular. Este argumento es utilizado para justificar la existencia de milicias modernas que se preparan para resistir lo que perciben como un gobierno tiránico. Principales grupos conspirativos mencionados: El documento enumera varios grupos que son recurrentes en las teorías de conspiración, incluyendo el Grupo Bilderberg, los Illuminati, Bohemian Grove, el Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores CFR, y figuras como los Rothschild y los Rockefeller. Estos grupos y familias son vistos como los verdaderos poderes detrás de los gobiernos y las instituciones globales. Estos ejemplos de teorías conspirativas son fundamentales para entender el marco mental de Terrance y su comunidad. Cada teoría representa una pieza de un rompecabezas más grande, que juntos forman la visión de un mundo gobernado en secreto por una élite poderosa y despiadada. 7. Eventos Históricos Relacionados con Conspiraciones El documento también analiza varios eventos históricos que han sido reinterpretados por la comunidad conspiracionista como pruebas de conspiraciones masivas: Incidente del Lusitania y la Primera Guerra Mundial: Se menciona cómo el hundimiento del RMS Lusitania, un barco de pasajeros, fue utilizado como pretexto para que Estados Unidos entrara en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Terrance sugiere que este evento fue deliberadamente provocado para justificar la entrada del país en el conflicto. Incidente del Golfo de Tonkin y la Guerra de Vietnam: Similarmente, el incidente del Golfo de Tonkin es presentado como una fabricación destinada a justificar la guerra en Vietnam. Un documento desclasificado de la NSA que indica que el incidente nunca ocurrió es utilizado como prueba de esta manipulación. El 9/11 y sus teorías asociadas: El ataque del 11 de septiembre de 2001 es interpretado como un "ataque de falsa bandera", un evento creado o permitido por el propio gobierno de los EE.UU. para justificar la guerra en el Medio Oriente y la expansión del control interno a través de la seguridad nacional. Estos eventos históricos son fundamentales para el discurso conspirativo porque proporcionan precedentes de cómo, supuestamente, los gobiernos han manipulado a sus ciudadanos a lo largo del tiempo. Al conectar estos eventos, los conspiracionistas como Terrance construyen una narrativa que sugiere un patrón continuo de engaño y control. 8. Desaparición de Terrance En un momento determinado los documentalistas no logran ponerse en contacto con Terrance. Al final el casero les abre la puerta y ven que hay evidencias de lucha en la casa y que alguien ha desordenado las cosas de Terrance. Este no esta y sin embargo se ha dejado su tablón de recortes, que obviamente es un objeto muy valioso para el. Uno de los dos documentalistas, Aaron, decide llevarse los recortes de Terrance a su casa. Todo parece ir bien, hasta que en un momento dado algo hace click en la mente de Aaron y decide montar el puzzle que estaba haciendo Terrance. Su amigo ve lo que esta haciendo y cree que este se ha vuelto loco. Pero empieza a atar hilos y da con un patrón que lo lleva al club Tarsus. 9. Investigación sobre el Club Tarsus Uno de los hilos conductores más intrigantes del documento es la investigación sobre el Club Tarsus, una organización secreta que, según Aaron uno de los documentalistas, está detrás de muchos de los eventos más importantes del mundo. Esta organización es presentada como un retiro exclusivo para la élite global, donde se toman decisiones que afectan al futuro de la humanidad. El pseudo documental relata cómo Aaron descubre un patrón en las fechas de reuniones del Club Tarsus, las cuales preceden a eventos mundiales significativos. Un artículo escrito por un tal Mark Tucker y publicado en la revista Time en 2003, menciona estas reuniones y sugiere que los asistentes al Club Tarsus han jugado un papel en la configuración de la política global. Aunque el artículo fue censurado en su momento, la información que contiene es suficiente para que Aaron empiece a conectar puntos y formular una teoría de conspiración que gira en torno a esta organización. El Club Tarsus es descrito como un grupo de poderosos individuos que, desde la sombra, manipulan los mercados financieros, la política exterior, y otros aspectos críticos de la vida global. Se hace una analogía con la manipulación que ejercen las grandes corporaciones y las figuras políticas que participan en estas reuniones, sugiriendo que estos son los verdaderos gobernantes del mundo. 10. El Culto a Mitra En su investigación, Aaron también descubre lo que él cree es una conexión entre el Club Tarsus y el antiguo culto a Mitra. Este culto, que data de más de 4,000 años, tiene sus raíces en Persia y se extendió por todo el Imperio Romano. Según el documento, el culto a Mitra era tanto una asociación secreta como un culto religioso, y sus rituales y creencias podrían haber influido en las sociedades secretas modernas. El culto a Mitra es conocido por su ritual central, en el cual Mitra mata a un toro, una imagen que es comparada en el documento con la crucifixión en la cristiandad. Este rito de matar al toro es visto como un símbolo de poder y dominación, y se sugiere que las sociedades secretas modernas, incluyendo el Club Tarsus, podrían estar emulando estos antiguos ritos. El documento también menciona cómo algunas de las costumbres y prácticas de estas sociedades secretas podrían haber sido adoptadas de los mitraistas, como el apretón de manos, que según el texto, se originó en las ceremonias mitraicas. Este simbolismo refuerza la idea de que las élites modernas están conectadas con antiguos cultos y que su poder está enraizado en prácticas esotéricas. 11. Rituales del Club Tarsus Uno de los aspectos más oscuros y enigmáticos del documento es la descripción de los rituales que, según Terrance, tienen lugar en las reuniones del Club Tarsus. Se narra cómo los documentalistas logran infiltrarse en una de estas reuniones y grabar en secreto parte de un ritual, lo que supuestamente revela prácticas que van más allá de simples reuniones políticas o económicas. El ritual mencionado en el documento involucra la caza y masacre de un toro, un acto que es interpretado como una continuación de los antiguos rituales del culto a Mitra. La descripción del ritual es perturbadora y sugiere que estos actos tienen un significado profundo para los participantes, posiblemente relacionado con la reafirmación de su poder y control. La infiltración en el Club Tarsus, sin embargo, no solo revela los rituales, sino también el alto nivel de seguridad y secretismo que rodea estas reuniones. A pesar de la captura de imágenes y la obtención de información, el documento deja claro que quienes intentan exponer estas prácticas son rápidamente silenciados o desacreditados, manteniendo así la invisibilidad y el poder del Club. 12. Entrevista con William Jensen En una parte del documento se detalla una entrevista con William Jensen, fundador del Club Tarso Internacional, quien ofrece una perspectiva diferente sobre las acusaciones de conspiración. Jensen reconoce que el Club Tarsus ha sido objeto de numerosas teorías de conspiración, pero sugiere que estas teorías son simplemente una respuesta al hecho de que personas poderosas se reúnan y tomen decisiones que afectan al mundo. Jensen también discute cómo la globalización y la era de la información han creado un ambiente donde cualquier persona con una idea puede compartirla con millones, lo que ha facilitado la propagación de teorías de la conspiración. A pesar de esto, Jensen no niega que el Club Tarsus tiene influencia global, aunque trata de minimizar las acusaciones sugiriendo que lo que el club busca es una comunidad global unificada, un "Nuevo Orden Mundial", pero sin las connotaciones siniestras que le atribuyen los conspiracionistas. Esta entrevista es importante porque presenta el lado oficial de la historia, donde las reuniones del Club Tarsus son vistas como una fuerza positiva para la cooperación internacional y la creación de un mundo más interconectado. Sin embargo, para aquellos que ya están convencidos de las conspiraciones, las palabras de Jensen pueden parecer solo un intento de encubrimiento. 13. Conclusión El documento concluye con la desaparición de Aaron, uno de los investigadores que intentaba descubrir la verdad detrás del Club Tarsus. Esta desaparición, junto con la de Terrance, deja un sentimiento de inquietud y de preguntas sin respuesta. Se sugiere que aquellos que se acercan demasiado a la verdad son eliminados o forzados a desaparecer, lo que refuerza la narrativa conspirativa. La reflexión final del documento se centra en la idea de que, aunque estas teorías puedan parecer descabelladas, el hecho de que tantas personas crean en ellas indica una profunda desconfianza en las instituciones y un deseo de entender el mundo de una manera que las narrativas oficiales no pueden satisfacer. La película/documental cierra con un mensaje sobre la necesidad de cuestionar la realidad y estar alerta ante las fuerzas que podrían estar trabajando en las sombras para manipular a la humanidad. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Me gustaria hablar de catacumbas cristianas, hipogeos o Mitreos de culto a Mitra y como ambas religiones estuvieron juntas durante por lo menos 300 años y lógicamente se produjo una colusión entre ambas. Lo que podríamos denominar como sincretismo entre el cristianismo y el culto a Mitra. Veamos algunos aspectos en los que ambas religiones coincidían y no solo en la ventana temporal y el culto subterráneo, dado que el cristianismo inicio su andadura perseguido por Roma y el culto mitraico se celebraba en cuevas para festejar el nacimiento de Mitra en una cueva. Digamos que en ambos casos, Jesucristo en un pajar con animales y Mitra en una cueva, eligieron sitios poco elegantes para nacer. El mitraísmo tenía rasgos de profundo simbolismo moral como el cristianismo. Era un culto totalmente cerrado, cofradía, que en eso recuerda al cristianismo de los primeros siglos, con sus agrupamientos exclusivos y su culto enteramente secreto. El secreto del mitraísmo no era la fe sino los ritos. Ritos de sacrificio y mitos de sacrificio como en el cristianismo. Cristo entregado a la muerte para borrar los pecados de los hombres. La trinidad cristiana, a diferencia del dios único del judaísmo, se asemeja a la trinidad de los cultos politeístas mitríacos, Padre Zeus en grecia u Ormazd en Persia, Mitra y el toro, o sea Padre, hijo y espíritu santo. El joven dios era hermoso, valiente, puro y enseñaba una moral austera que practicaba él mismo como Jesucristo. En el mitraísmo, existían siete niveles de iniciación, que pueden estar relacionados con los siete planetas de la astronomía de la época (Luna, Mercurio, Venus, Sol, Marte, Júpiter y Saturno), en este mismo orden, según la interpretación de Joseph Campbell. La mayoría de los miembros llegaban únicamente, hasta el cuarto grado (leo) y solo unos escogidos accedían a los rangos superiores. Los niveles, conocidos gracias a un texto de San Jerónimo que confirman varias inscripciones, eran los siguientes: Corax (cuervo); Cryphius (κρύφιος) (oculto). Otros autores interpretan este rango como Nymphus (esposo); Miles (soldado). Sus atributos eran la corona y la espada; Leo (león). En los rituales presentaban a Mitra las ofrendas de los sacrificios; Perses (persa); Heliodromus (emisario solar). Sus atributos eran la antorcha, el látigo y la corona;. Pater (padre). Sus atributos (el gorro frigio, la vara y el anillo) recuerdan a los del obispo cristiano. En los ritos, los iniciados llevaban máscaras de animales relativas a su nivel de iniciación y se dividían en dos grupos: los servidores, por debajo del grado de leo y los participantes, el resto. Parece ser que el rito principal de la religión mitraica era un banquete ritual, que pudo tener ciertas similitudes con la eucaristía del cristianismo. En algún momento de la evolución del mitraísmo, se utilizó también el rito del taurobolium o bautismo de los fieles con la sangre de un toro. Se prometía la expiación de los pecados por el efecto del baño. Solo en este culto se unía al bautismo la imposición de un signo en la frente, como en la Iglesia cristiana. Los alimentos ofrecidos en el banquete eran pan y agua, pero los hallazgos arqueológicos apuntan a que se trataba de pan y vino, como en el rito cristiano. Esta ceremonia se celebraba en la parte central del mitreo, en la que dos banquetas paralelas ofrecían espacio suficiente para que los fieles pudieran tenderse, según la costumbre romana, para participar del banquete. El día sagrado del mitraísmo era el domingo, y no el sábado. El día natalicio del sol era celebrado por los mitraicos el 25 de diciembre ya que conmemoraba el nacimiento de Mitra. Los atributos del pater —máximo nivel de iniciación en el mitraísmo— eran el gorro frigio, la vara y el anillo, muy similares a la mitra, el báculo y el anillo de los obispos cristianos. Si. Por si no lo sabéis desde los primeros Padres de la Iglesia todos los obispos y papas han llevado un sombrero llamado Mitra arriba de sus cabezas. Invitados: 丂卂ㄒㄖ尺丨 ㄖ卩乇尺卂 @Satori_Opera111 ... pues haber elegido pera A veces hago #spaces , no censuro ningún credo e ideología. Todas las opiniones desde el respeto son bienvenidas …. macaco @10macaco10 de relax y en vuelo …. Niño Jeromín #EnfocandoEnPositivo @BronsonJeromin No hay más sordo que quien no quiere ver, ni más ciegos que quienes no quieren escuchar. A pesar de todo, por aquí seguimos metiendo caña... Grupo O+. …. Ira @Genes72 …. Nunkálo Zabras @NZabras ALL WAYS WHAT XING …. No pos si @sonbienviboras Mexicano, norteño, por un futuro mejor, primer Campeón de karaoke …. Dani @DanyHobbit 43 conejos. Sin ciencia no hay Conan. Topo que viene del futuro como Terminator. Ya no ratifico nada …. Pierpaolo @Perapau71 Hasta que siga la obsolecencia programada no me toqueis la moral con que los pedos de vaca son la causa de la contaminacion. #yosoytu …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP @ayec98_2 Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: Hilo en Twitter película "the conspiracy", la conspiración https://x.com/tecn_preocupado/status/1829445870376399247 The Conspiracy | 2012 | SUBS: russian, spanish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRUXh8Gn4KY Película "the conspiracy", la conspiración https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/pelicula-the-conspiracy-la-conspiracion.2141409/ Sintonía Alfa 4x08 - Hipogeus (Hipogeos) Culto a Mitra https://www.ivoox.com/sintonia-alfa-4x08-hipogeus-hipogeos-enric-puig-audios-mp3_rf_26520071_1.html PODEMOS, LOS PITUFOS Y EL GORRO FRIGIO https://tecnicopreocupado.com/2014/11/27/podemos-pitufos-gorro-frigio/ Mitraísmo https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra%C3%ADsmo Los misterios de Mitra https://x.com/AmurakaHidden/status/1835514957707800983 Escaneo de iris: Empresa arriesga multa por hacer esto en Chile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6AsJ8KSkDE ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ………………………………………………………………………………………. Epílogo Ole Ole - Conspiracion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuhCBHCGwo
This episode explores the tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania in May 1915, a pivotal event during World War I that resulted in the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans. The incident ignited international outrage and shifted public opinion in the U.S. against Germany, ultimately influencing America's later entry into the war. The Lusitania's legacy highlights the complexities of wartime policy and the impact of civilian casualties on international
This series is dedicated to learning about the unique and important history of South Pender Pioneer families and their connection to S,DÁYES (South Pender Island) and the surrounding Salish Sea. Shelley will speak about the Henshaw family history on South Pender Island and trace the family story back to her grandmother, Mabel Baker, who survived the wreck of the RMS Lusitania in 1915. The Pender family connection, would begin with her uncle, Len, then her father, and a few of the other brothers would soon follow. Shelley explains that a group purchase of farmland in the Spalding valley by the Henshaw brothers would occur not long after. She would wind up spending many of her childhood summers on the island, and now, years later, has retired on South Pender. This interview has been made possible with funding from: the Capital Regional District, the Pender Island Community Resource Centre, the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council/W̱SÁNEĆ School Board, the Pender Islands Museum, and the South Pender Historical Society.
Bis zur Indienststellung ihres Schwesterschiffs „Mauretania“ war die „Lusitania“ das größte Schiff der Welt und ihr Schicksal glich dem der weltberühmten „Titanic“.
In conversation with award winning broadcaster and journalist, Tracey Matisak. ''America's most compelling popular historian'' (The Christian Science Monitor), Erik Larson is the bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed books, including The Splendid and the Vile, a chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz; In the Garden of Beasts, the story of the first American ambassador to Nazi Germany; The Devil in the White City, a history of the serial killer who stalked attendees of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago; and Dead Wake, the tale of the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania. A former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and a contributing writer for Time magazine, he has contributed articles to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Harper's, among other publications. In The Demon of Unrest, Larson delves into the five pivotal months preceding the Civil War to expose the controversies, crises, and personalities that led America into its bloodiest war. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 5/5/2024)
En el escenario global de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el teatro marítimo fue un campo de batalla crucial que influyó decisivamente en el curso del conflicto. Las estrategias navales de las potencias del Eje y los Aliados desencadenaron un enfrentamiento sin precedentes, donde la supremacía en el océano tenía ramificaciones directas en el frente terrestre. La Marina alemana implementó tácticas submarinas agresivas, desencadenando la "Guerra de los Convoys" en el Atlántico. Los submarinos alemanes, conocidos como U-boats, buscaban interceptar y hundir los buques de suministro aliados, buscando estrangular la cadena logística de las fuerzas opositoras. Este conflicto submarino alcanzó su punto álgido con el famoso hundimiento del RMS Lusitania en 1915 y la implementación de la táctica del "lupo gris" (lobo gris) en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el Pacífico, las batallas navales entre Estados Unidos y Japón marcaron la pauta. La batalla de Midway en 1942 fue un punto de inflexión, donde la Marina estadounidense infligió pérdidas devastadoras a la flota japonesa, cambiando el equilibrio estratégico en el Pacífico. Mientras tanto, en el Atlántico, las fuerzas aliadas emprendieron misiones para neutralizar las amenazas navales alemanas. La caza del acorazado Bismarck y del Tirpitz destacó la lucha por el control del Atlántico Norte. Esta guerra en el mar, repleta de estrategias ingeniosas y enfrentamientos épicos, no solo delineó el destino de naciones, sino que también demostró la importancia estratégica de los océanos en el tablero de ajedrez de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Acompáñennos en "Antena Historia" mientras exploramos a fondo este fascinante capítulo de la historia militar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antena Historia te regala 30 días PREMIUM, para que lo disfrutes https://www.ivoox.com/premium?affiliate-code=b4688a50868967db9ca413741a54cea5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produce Antonio Cruz Edita ANTENA HISTORIA Antena Historia (podcast) forma parte del sello iVoox Originals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web……….https://antenahistoria.com/ correo.....info@antenahistoria.com Facebook…..Antena Historia Podcast | Facebook Twitter…...https://twitter.com/AntenaHistoria Telegram…...https://t.me/foroantenahistoria DONACIONES PAYPAL...... https://paypal.me/ancrume ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¿QUIERES ANUNCIARTE en ANTENA HISTORIA?, menciones, cuñas publicitarias, programas personalizados, etc. Dirígete a Antena Historia - AdVoices Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
En el escenario global de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el teatro marítimo fue un campo de batalla crucial que influyó decisivamente en el curso del conflicto. Las estrategias navales de las potencias del Eje y los Aliados desencadenaron un enfrentamiento sin precedentes, donde la supremacía en el océano tenía ramificaciones directas en el frente terrestre. La Marina alemana implementó tácticas submarinas agresivas, desencadenando la "Guerra de los Convoys" en el Atlántico. Los submarinos alemanes, conocidos como U-boats, buscaban interceptar y hundir los buques de suministro aliados, buscando estrangular la cadena logística de las fuerzas opositoras. Este conflicto submarino alcanzó su punto álgido con el famoso hundimiento del RMS Lusitania en 1915 y la implementación de la táctica del "lupo gris" (lobo gris) en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En el Pacífico, las batallas navales entre Estados Unidos y Japón marcaron la pauta. La batalla de Midway en 1942 fue un punto de inflexión, donde la Marina estadounidense infligió pérdidas devastadoras a la flota japonesa, cambiando el equilibrio estratégico en el Pacífico. Mientras tanto, en el Atlántico, las fuerzas aliadas emprendieron misiones para neutralizar las amenazas navales alemanas. La caza del acorazado Bismarck y del Tirpitz destacó la lucha por el control del Atlántico Norte. Esta guerra en el mar, repleta de estrategias ingeniosas y enfrentamientos épicos, no solo delineó el destino de naciones, sino que también demostró la importancia estratégica de los océanos en el tablero de ajedrez de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Acompáñennos en "Antena Historia" mientras exploramos a fondo este fascinante capítulo de la historia militar. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antena Historia te regala 30 días PREMIUM, para que lo disfrutes https://www.ivoox.com/premium?affiliate-code=b4688a50868967db9ca413741a54cea5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Produce Antonio Cruz Edita ANTENA HISTORIA Antena Historia (podcast) forma parte del sello iVoox Originals ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- web……….https://antenahistoria.com/ correo.....info@antenahistoria.com Facebook…..Antena Historia Podcast | Facebook Twitter…...https://twitter.com/AntenaHistoria Telegram…...https://t.me/foroantenahistoria DONACIONES PAYPAL...... https://paypal.me/ancrume ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ¿QUIERES ANUNCIARTE en ANTENA HISTORIA?, menciones, cuñas publicitarias, programas personalizados, etc. Dirígete a Antena Historia - AdVoices Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
Three years after the Titanic, 1200 lives were lost when the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed. 200 Voices talks to the grandson of the last living survivor On 7 May, 1915, en route from New York to Liverpool, the luxury passenger liner Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Cork. Lusitania sank within 18 minutes. Yet, against the odds, 3-month-old Audrey Lawson Johnston survived. Audrey's grandson, Mark Hudson, recounts what happened that day. When RNLI Courtmacsherry volunteers rowed for more than 3 hours to reach the area, it would be the start of the family's long association with the RNLI. Audrey remained an ardent RNLI fundraiser all her life, helping to raise enough money for a lifeboat at New Quay. It wouldn't be the only lifeboat funded by the family. And when, in September 2023, Audrey LJ was retired from service, Mark and 20 others embarked on a fitting farewell. The money raised by the Tour de Dyfed and West Glamorgan will be shared equally by the lifeboat stations at New Quay and Tower. To donate, visit Mark's JustGiving page or follow the link: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/rnli-tour-de-dyfed-2023 200 Voices is produced by Adventurous Audio for the RNLI Interview by Adventurous Audio Soundtrack composed and performed by Jon Nicholls The RNLI is a charity celebrating 200 years of saving lives at sea - find out more at RNLI.org/200
Most of us have at least heard of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania being one of the proximal causes of the United States entering WWI, but that isn't *entirely* true. As usual, there is more to the story! Join the Rebeccas this week as they delve into the tragedy of this loss and learn how it differed in many ways from the other major maritime catastrophe of the era, the sinking of the Titanic. Comments or Questions? Or have an idea for future episodes - #pitchtothepod? Email us tourguidetellall@gmail.com Support Tour Guide Tell All: • Want to send a one off donation to support the podcast team? We have a venmo @tourguide-tellall • Check out our STORE for Tour Guide Tell All podcast paraphernalia from tote bags to stickers - https://tour-guide-tell-all.myshopify.com/ If you are looking for more information, we found these resources to be helpful: The Lusitania Disaster, Library of Congress RMS Lusitania: 18 Minutes That Shocked the World, Imperial War Museum Lost Liners: Lusitania, PBS Rewriting the Rules of War: Terror Aboard the Lusitania, The Pulitzer Prizes You're Listening To: Rebecca Fachner and Rebecca Grawl The Person Responsible for it Sounding Good: Dan King Technical & Admin Work Done During Toddler Naptime: Canden Arciniega Intro/Outro Music: Well-Seasoned from Audio Hero
In the early days of May 1915, as spring began to color the shores of New York City, an engineering marvel prepared to undertake a journey across the Atlantic. RMS Lusitania, the jewel of the Cunard Line, was a spectacle of power and elegance, a symbol of human ambition that pushed the limits of what was possible. With her four grand funnels and sleek hull stretching out at an impressive 787 feet, she was a sight to behold. As she loomed majestically in the New York harbor, preparing to set off for her destination of Liverpool, England, none could have predicted the chilling fate that awaited her in the icy waters of the Atlantic. Her passengers - a motley crew of the wealthy and influential, hopeful immigrants, and families seeking to reunite with loved ones - were embarking on a voyage that would unknowingly etch their names into the annals of history. Little did they know that their journey on the Lusitania would become a significant catalyst that would shift the course of the greatest war the world had ever seen. Meanwhile, beneath the waves, another vessel lurked. Far from the grandeur and elegance of the Lusitania, the German submarine U-20, a stealthy predator of the deep, was preparing to leave its own indelible mark on history. Commanded by the unwavering Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger, U-20 was ready to fulfill its chilling mission, and the Lusitania had entered its crosshairs. This is the story of the ill-fated voyage of the Lusitania, a tale of human ambition, political intrigue, and the unpredictable nature of warfare. A story set against the backdrop of the First World War that explores the events that led up to the disaster, the profound immediate and long-term impacts it had on the global stage, and the enduring legacy it left behind. As we delve into this fateful chapter of history, we invite you to journey with us across time and tide, into the heart of one of the most impactful maritime disasters of the 20th century.
This week I have the privilege of being joined by Titanic-book household names Tad Fitch and J. Kent Layton once again! This time, they've brought along Tom Lynskey and Mike Poirier to discuss something not Titanic, which may shock us all! We are coming to learn about the R.M.S. Lusitania. Join me for this amazing episode of learning!Be sure to follow Tad all over the internet!@fitch_tad on TwitterAuthor Tad Fitch on Facebooktad.fitch on IGTad Fitch's websiteBe sure to follow Kent all over the internet!@JKentLayton on TwitterAtlantic Liners on Facebookatlantic_liners on IGJ. Kent Layton's websiteBe sure to follow Tom all over the internet!@HFXStudios on TwitterHFX Studios on Facebookthetominator2 on IGHFX Studio's websiteBe sure to like and subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting platform!@TitanicTalkine on TwitterTitanicTalkline on FacebookTitanicTalkline on IG Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1 de Mayo de 1555. Muere Marcelo II. 2 de Mayo de 1601. Nace Atanasio Kircher. 3 de Mayo de 2016. Muere Kaname Harada. 4 de Mayo de 1862. Sucede la batalla de Atlixco. 5 de Mayo de 1912. Muere Rafael Pombo. 6 de Mayo de 1405. Nace Jorge Castriota. 7 de Mayo de 1915. Es hundido el RMS Lusitania.
“I still think I see the struggling of poor passengers in the water.” This is the story of the United States' path into the Great War. The United States wishes to stay out of the Great War. Woodrow Wilson wins reelection (barely) on that very basis. But as Germany contends with Britain's blockade, its submarines, or “u-boats,” are attacking merchant and passenger ships (like the RMS Lusitania) without warning. This policy is touch and go, but worse still, the US learns in Februarly 1917 that Germany sent a secret telegram to Mexico offering to ally against the US! After more than two years of clinging to peace, President Woodrow Wilson can't turn a blind eye to this and Germany's other atrocities. In the name of protecting democracy, he calls for war. But what about Britain's unethical if not illegal “hunger blockade” of German ports? Do starving German children justify unrestricted submarine warfare? What about the billions of dollars in loans and goods the “neutral” US has sent to Britain and France over the years? Does that tip the scales on why the US is going to war? These complications and questions of right and wrong are for Congress to decide. ___ 4 Ways to dive deeper into History That Doesn't Suck Join our growing facebook community Get our weekly newsletter, The Revolution Become part of the HTDS Patreon family Subscribe to Greg's monthly newsletter, Connected History Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 7th, 1915 a German U-Boat torpedoed a British ocean liner, killing almost 1200 passengers and crew. As the ship sank, tensions rose, and set the stage for the US to enter the first World War. Follow us on social: https://twitter.com/mc_lotta https://twitter.com/handsomemaster2 Are you a FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: bit.ly/FIRSTRSS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
For the second quarter of Season 4 the guys are diving deep with our resident shipwreck enthusiast and producer Parker! You may recall Parker's excellent show on the White Star Line and RMS Titanic in Season 1, well he is back with another tragedy on the high seas, this time, the sinking of the Lusitania on May 7, 1915!The guys will be looking at the history of the ship, it's relationship to the First World War and the circumstances surrounding its sinking. It's a harrowing story and one that is still surrounded by controversy and debate to this very day. Even here within podcast! What do you think about the sinking of the RMS Lusitania? Comment on our social media @TheHistoryThingsPodcast or send us an email at historythingspodcast@gmail.com!The History Things Podcast is brought to you by HistoryNet, publisher of 9 different historical magazines including; the Civil War Times, American History, & Military History! Visit HistoryNet.Com to learn more or follow them on social media by searching for @HistoryNet! Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy the show!
The year 1915 was a significant year for the participants of the Great War, and a great many memorable events occurred. The Gallipoli Campaign commenced, along with the Raid on the Suez Canal, the Second Battle of Ypres began, the RMS Lusitania passenger ship was sent to the seabed by a German U-Boat, to name a few. A lot was happening. The Great War was heating up. These campaigns, events and battles are definitely areas of WWI that most military history enthusiasts have heard of, but have you heard of the Battle of Dogger Bank? You can find the Hardtack Community on all of our socials via our linktree. If you have any feedback on our episodes or suggestions for future episodes, please send us an email: hardtackpod@gmail.com Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Make your Own Hardtack! Hardtack Recipe (Survival Bread) - Bread Dad Civil War Recipe: Hardtack (1861) – The American Table Sources: Germany's high sea fleet in the World War, written by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer (Admiral in the Imperial German Navy) https://archive.org/details/germanyshighseaf00sche The king's ships were at sea : the war in the North Sea, August 1914-February 1915 by Goldrick, James https://archive.org/details/kingsshipswereat0000gold/page/n5/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/navaloperations00newbgoog/page/n14/mode/2up (from page 82) Philbin, Tobias R., III (1982). Admiral von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero. Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner Publishing Co. Battle of Dogger Bank: https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/world-war-one/battle-of-dogger-bank/ The Battle of Dogger Bank as then Lieutenant AD Boyle serving in HMS New Zealand recalled it: https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/world-war-one/battle-of-dogger-bank-lt-a-d-boyle/ SIGINT and Electronic Warfare (As it relates to Room 40) https://web.archive.org/web/20120805161935/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/electronic_warfare.pdf https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-war-at-sea https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-battle-of-dogger-bank-january-1915/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hardtackpod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hardtackpod/support
This is the conclusion of our four part series on RMS Lusitania, meaning it is also the conclusion to Season Two of Beyond the Breakers. We discuss contemporary reactions to the sinking, the inquiry headed by Lord Mersey, and explanations about how this tragedy occurred in the way that it did. Thank you for all the listens, the support, and the interactions on social media this season. We look forward to bringing you Season Three next year. Sources:“Atrocity and the Lusitania.” The Advocate of Peace, vol. 77, no. 6, June 1915, p. 129.Beesly, Patrick (1982). Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. Long Acre, London: Hamish Hamilton LtdGullace, Nicoletta E. “Friends, Aliens, and Enemies: Fictive Communities and the Lusitania Riots of 195.” Journal of Social History, Winter 2005, pp. 345 - 363.Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts': German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288. Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.“The Lusitania's ‘Guns'. The New York Times Current History of the European War, vol. 2, no. 4, July 1915, pp. 623 - 631Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker, 2002. Stack, Liam. “The Lusitania Telegraph Has Been Recovered, but It May Not Solve Any Mysteries.” The New York Times, 3 Aug 2017. Support the show
On May 7, 1915, something happened off the coast of Ireland that would change the course of history in the United States. That day, a German U-boat sunk the Lusitania, a passenger ship, bringing the USA one step closer to entering World War I. It was an important moment in history, but what else was being reported on the same day? _____ SOURCES “Advertisement: Grape-Nuts (Page 3).” The Potter Review (Potter, Nebraska), May 7, 1915. www.newspapers.com. Associated Press. “Russell Pethrick, 22, Admits Murder of Mrs. Ella Coppersmith.” St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri), May 18, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “Attempt Made In Court On Life Of Russell Pethick.” The Day Book (Chicago, Illinois), September 28, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “Board of Trade to Urge City Council.” The Palatka News and Advertiser (Palatka, Florida), May 14, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “Diamonds Object of Double Murder.” Altoona Tribune ( Altoona, Pennsylvania), May 7, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “Ella G Monahan Coppersmith (1887-1915) .” Find a Grave. Accessed November 17, 2022. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68725793/ella-g-coppersmith. “Emmeline and Dame Christabel Pankhurst: Suffragette Leaders.” English Heritage. Accessed November 17, 2022. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/emmeline-christabel-pankhurst/#:~:text=for%20the%20cause.-,'WAR%20BABIES',result%20of%20the%20social%20upheaval. “Fingerprints Reveal Slayer.” Lima Republican-Gazette (Lima, Ohio), May 21, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “Florida Woodenware Plant Destroyed.” The Palatka News and Advertiser (Palatka, Florida), May 7, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “Great Liner Lusitania Torpedoed and Sent to Bottom by Germans.” The Ogden Standard (Ogden, Utah), May 7, 1915. www.newspapers.com. Kettler, Sara. “Emmeline Pankhurst.” Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, November 12, 2021. https://www.biography.com/activist/emmeline-pankhurst. “Liner Lusitania Torpedoed Off Irish Coast and Is Reported Sunk.” The St. Louis Star (St. Louis, Missouri), May 7, 1915. www.newspapers.com. Lines, Chris. “The Nurse Who Kept Emmeline Pankhurst Alive.” City Magazine, September 18, 2018. https://citymag.city.ac.uk/emmeline-pankhurst-nurse/. Magazine, Smithsonian. “Telegraph Recovered from the Wreck of the 'Lusitania'.” Smithsonian.com. Smithsonian Institution, July 31, 2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/telegraph-recovered-wreck-lusitania-180964267/. McDermott, Annette. “How the Sinking of Lusitania Changed World War I.” History.com. A&E Television Networks, April 17, 2018. https://www.history.com/news/how-the-sinking-of-lusitania-changed-wwi. “Mrs. Pankhurst to Become Mother to Fifty War Babies.” The St. Louis Star and Times (St. Louis, Missouri), May 7, 1915. www.newspapers.com. “RMS Lusitania.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, November 16, 2022. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania. SOUND SOURCES Al Jolson. “I'll Say She Does.” www.pixabay.com/music. Lucille Hegamin and The Dixie Daisies. “Cold Winter Blues.” www.pixabay.com/music. Sophie Tucker. “Reuben Rag.” www.pixabay.com/music.
Here is Part Three of our season finale series - covering U-20's activities up until she encountered Lusitania, the sinking itself, passenger stories, and the evacuation of the vessel. Sources:Beesly, Patrick (1982). Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918. Long Acre, London: Hamish Hamilton LtdButler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000.Hoehling, A.A. and Mary Hoehling. The Last Voyage of the Lusitania. Madison Books, 1996. Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015.Preston, Diana. Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy. Walker, 2002. https://www.rmslusitania.info/people/second-cabin/theodore-naish/https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:91533#?c=&m=&s=&cv=6&xywh=-2036%2C-1%2C5606%2C2669Support the show
RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and that held the Blue Riband appellation for the fastest Atlantic crossing in 1908. It was briefly the world's largest passenger ship until the completion of the Mauretania three months later. She was sunk on her 202nd trans-Atlantic crossing, on 7 May 1915, by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.
In Part Two of our season finale, we discuss the history of RMS Lusitania, Cunard Line, the man who ultimately sank her, and the dedicated team of British intelligence personnel meticulously tracking the movement of German U-boats. Sources:Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000. Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts': German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288.Larson, Erik. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania. Broadway Books, 2015. “Lusitania Breaks All Records.” Scientific American, vol. 99, no. 9, 29 Aug 1908, p. 139Support the show
This week we begin our three-part season finale, in which we'll discuss one of the most famous maritime calamities in history - the sinking of RMS Lusitania. Sources for Part 1: Butler, Daniel Allen. The Lusitania: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. Stackpole Books, 2000. Hübner, Andreas. “A People of ‘Patriotic Hearts': German-Americans, U.S. Neutrality, and the Building of an Inclusive Coalition in New Orleans, 1915.” Louisiana History, vol. 60, no. 3, 2019, pp. 261 - 288. Tucker, Robert W. “An Inner Circle of One: Woodrow Wilson and His Advisers.” The National Interest, no. 51, Spring 1998, pp. 3 - 26. Watts, Jarica. “Submerged by Fear: The Politics of Wartime Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle.” Conradians, vol. 49, no. 1, Spring 2017, pp. 17 - 42. Reading: Danger! And Other Stories (Project Gutenberg) - a PDF of the reading will also be in a public Patreon postSupport the show
Hello, and welcome to another episode of CISO Tradecraft -- the podcast that provides you with the information, knowledge, and wisdom to be a more effective cybersecurity leader. My name is G. Mark Hardy, and today's episode is about how to better mentor your people (and in doing so, improve yourself as well.) Mentoring is an important part of being a leader, and I would venture that most listeners have achieved their current level of success with the insights of a mentor, along with a lot of hard work. Today we're going to give you a template for creating a personal development plan you can use with your team. I also want to introduce you to a booklet that I keep on my desk. It was written in 1899. Do you have any idea what it might be? Well, keep listening and you'll find out, and you may end up getting yourself a copy of your own. Let's take a moment to hear from today's sponsor Obsidian Security. Career success rarely happens independently -- it usually involves multiple milestones, promotions, and sometimes moves. But success shouldn't be a secret. As Tony Robbins said, "success leaves clues." One of the best ways to achieve personal or professional success, or indeed help others do the same, is through mentoring and sponsorship. But the right person rarely shows up at our doorstep offering us the key to the future -- we have to go out and make that relationship happen. Today we're going to talk about mentors, protégés, sponsors, and that little booklet that has a repeatable secret for success. Definitions Let's start with what is a mentor - the dictionary definition is "an experienced and trusted adviser." My definition is it's a person with more experience and WISDOM who is willing to provide guidance to someone else -- a protégé. Notice I didn't say anything about careers -- you can have a spiritual mentor, an academic mentor, and if you're a new grandparent you want to pass along some tips to help raise your grandkids. You may also hear the term "mentee" instead of protégé -- I see that used from time to time, but it makes me think of those big slow sea creatures that keep getting run over by speedboats. Mentor Let's talk about the who, what, when, why, and how of being a mentor. The WHO part is someone with experience and wisdom willing to share insights. Insights about WHAT, at least as far as we're concerned today, is usually career-related -- what jobs or assignments may be best, what personal characteristics are important, whom should you meet and why. The WHEN portion of mentoring is usually a condition of the type of relationship. A traditional one-on-one mentor relationship may be established formally or informally. We established a program at work where those willing to offer advice could volunteer as a mentor and those seeking advice could request the assistance of a mentor. I was asked by our most senior technical security expert if I would serve as his mentor -- an assignment which I was pleased to accept, and we held mentoring sessions quarterly. Of course, we worked together more frequently than that, but those sessions were specifically about what he could learn from me as a mentor, and what I could do to structure his experiences to help with his personal and career growth. [Irish whiskey story] The WHY can be either because there is a mentorship program at your organization (and if there isn't one, do your homework and consider proposing one) or because someone reached out and requested assistance. Mentoring is not like doing the dishes where anyone can do a competent job. It requires empathy, communication skills, wisdom, and time commitment. I'm at the point in my life and career where I actively try to help others who are not as old as I am. Many times, that's appreciated, but some people seem to prefer to make all of their own mistakes and resist the effort. Oh, well. As my Latin teacher used to say, "suum quique" -- to each their own. Finally, the HOW. Mentors should prioritize their sessions by preparing in advance and setting aside time without interruptions. Establish an agenda based upon specific requirements -- not just what the protégé wants but what the mentor believes he needs. Martina Bretous published an article on HubSpot where she points out ten ways to be an amazing mentor: Understand what you want out of the relationship. Set expectations together in the very beginning. Take a genuine interest in your mentee as a person. Build trust. Know when to give advice. Don't assume anything about your mentee – ask. Share your journey. Celebrate their achievements. Seek out resources to help your mentee grow. Be sure you have the bandwidth. In summary, if you want to be a mentor and seek out the right people in whom to invest your time, here's a short checklist. Look for protégés with a strong work ethic -- people who have built a reputation of delivering on time on budget. Select only those people of the proper character -- you don't want to be teaching a sociopath how to take over the organization. And you'll find you work better with others who share similar values. If you value hard work, honesty, humility, and perseverance, look for those characteristics, or at least the potential to develop those characteristics, in your potential mentee. We all know how hard it is to change ourselves. Think about how much harder it is to change someone else. In the end, you're just showing the way and it's up to the other person to take the appropriate actions, but you want to build a winning record of successful mentorships -- it doesn't help your own career if you're viewed as the incubator of failure. Protege As listeners of this show, you are likely in a position to be a mentor. But that doesn't mean you can't benefit from having a mentor yourself. Let's look at the who, what, when, why, and how of being a protégé. The WHO is someone who can gain insight from a relationship with someone farther along in a given path. Mentees may be assigned a mentor relationship, or they may seek out that relationship on their own. Both are valid paths, and even if a formal program exists it's often up to the mentee to select from available mentors. It doesn't always work the other way around [Navy mentor story.] The WHAT is the reason for participating in this type of relationship. Usually, it's to gain insight into career and professional goals, but as I mentioned earlier, it can be about most anything where you could learn from someone who's not in the role of a teacher or supervisor. WHEN should you seek the advice of a mentor? Well, there's probably never a time NOT to seek advice, but if you're heads-down in a long project that you enjoy or find yourself in a position where you're content and soon winding down your career, then I suppose you're fine going it alone. Otherwise, after you've been in a position for a year or so and you've figured out your current role and how you fit in, that might be a suitable time to start looking for a mentor. I think the WHY is obvious, but let's address it. No one knows everything, but someone usually knows what you need. Seeking a mentor is a rational way of gaining insights that can help move your career along. And HOW do you become a protégé? You need to a-s-k to g-e-t. Potential mentors are usually busy people -- they don't go looking for more things to add to an already overwhelming calendar. That said, the saying "if you want something done, give it to a busy person" is often true, because busy people are in the business of making things happen. If your organization offers a mentorship program, jump at the opportunity. Just make sure that the person with whom you are paired has the time, the expertise, and the interest to help you in your career. When searching for a mentor, remember that you should have a clear goal in mind. "Hey, I need a mentor" isn't very specific, and the Mr. Rodger's "won't you be my mentor?" isn't very compelling. Rather, start with a specific objective. For example, it could be, "how do I become fully qualified to become a first-line manager?" or "what does this organization look for when selecting a C-level executive?" Once you have your goal, you can start your search, but remember that you need to stay professional. You're not seeking a drinking buddy -- a mentor rarely is a peer (although technically I have heard of peer-to-peer mentoring, but that runs the risk of the parable of the two blind men who both fall into a ditch.) You want someone with relevant knowledge and experience. And ideally first develop a working relationship before you pop the question. A busy mentor will feel more comfortable working with a known quantity than being left to wonder if this person represents a reputational risk. Let's turn our conversation now to sponsors. Sponsors Executive coach May Busch recommends forming a career board of directors to advance your career. She points out that you need both mentors and sponsors -- sponsors are those in your organization with sufficient clout to put you into key assignments and can advocate behind closed doors for your career advancement. Wow -- sounds great; where do I sign up? The issue is that you typically can't recruit sponsors; they come looking for you. Like a mentee, a "sponsee" represents potential risk to sponsors -- they are putting their own credibility with peers on the line by advocating for you. If you crash and burn, you both lose. Like any sales effort, you shouldn't put all of your eggs in a single basket, so if you want to identify a potential sponsor, look for a couple of candidates. Now, where you work there may be exactly one person who controls the vertical and the horizontal, but in most matrixed organizations, there is a range of opportunities to find advocacy. Find out who is senior enough to influence the decisions that can affect your career and also whether they are "in on things" to ensure that recommendations move you in the right direction. There are people who continue to serve past their key roles -- often called "emeritus" as an honorary title, but they probably aren't keeping up with the details. Look for someone who is still actively "in the game." And, like finding a mentor, you must identify a natural link between their business interests and your interests. Now, the intersection of all these criteria might yield exactly zero people, and if so, it's up to you to figure out your own way forward. But if you do identify potential sponsors, you need to attract their attention. But how? Your potential sponsors need to see you in action. Find ways to deliver executive presentations where they are present or participate in working groups and let the quality of your work differentiate you from peers. Circulate innovative ideas that represent a step forward for your organization. The result of these efforts should be to get you noticed. Note also that you can do this for members of your team. You may want to sponsor them for bigger and better things but don't have the organizational capital to make it happen on your own initiative. By placing your best people in front of these more powerful decision-makers, you can facilitate their sponsorship when one of them decides this person should be going places. Now, it's not just about performance. During COVID, most of us got comfortable working in bunny slippers from home, but that's not going to differentiate you to a potential sponsor. If you want to convince executives that you're C-level material, then you need to consistently look the part. Check your appearance. Do you look like the other executives in your organization? I spent 30 years in the military, so part of that "look" was proper grooming, a pressed neat uniform, and being physically fit. I remember my last semiannual physical fitness test -- I scored 295 out of 300 points and the young Sailor taking scores remarked, "not bad for an old man." But looking the part is important if you are going to be present yourself as a leader. [story at CNL -- overweight memorandum.] Now, I suppose if you work in a dot com startup and the founders all wear t-shirts and jeans every day, then wearing a three-piece suit is not going to help. But find a way to align with the organization's senior leadership culture so that you don't look like an outsider, which translates into risk. Make sure your office space isn't full of junk and clutter and your home background on Zoom calls looks like a professional office space (or at least blur out the background.) Better yet, use a corporate-logo themed background which says, "I'm on the team." Okay, so let's say you've done all this and are now looking like you just came out of casting for The West Wing and you're sufficiently visible to senior executives. Beyond looking the part, you need to act the part. Sit up straight in meetings; don't fiddle with your phone when executives are in the room, no matter how boring the conversation may be at that moment. I remember back in 2000 when I was working at a startup, our CEO nearly lost our biggest client because she couldn't put down her Blackberry when we were briefing the client's head of security. He was a retired Navy captain and remarked to me privately (as a fellow Navy officer) how offended he was that this person couldn't be bothered to put down that phone for half an hour and focus on the conversation. Better yet? There is a superpower that few people have but you could master if you're a phone addict -- leave your phone on your desk when you go to a meeting. That's right -- separate yourself from your "life support unit." Now, in some circumstances you feel you need it because, "what if they ask who's available for a meeting next week and I don't have my calendar?" Bring your laptop or tablet instead, and only consult it when you're asked something that needs looking up to answer. Remember, even a CEO doesn't get a pass on distractions when your biggest client is in the room. In addition to looking the part and acting the part, you need to deliver. Make sure your work is exceptional and error-free. At the Pentagon we had a term -- "finished staff work." It means that what you turn in is correct, complete, and free of grammatical or typographical errors EVERY TIME. That's a tough discipline. I was a computer science and mathematics major at Northwestern, and there was nothing I wanted to avoid more than an English composition or writing class -- after all, I was going to be a technologist. Years later when I joined the staff of Booz|Allen, I saw the importance of mastering a professional writing style. As a consultant, you live or die by the pen -- how well you write proposals and deliverables. As I became more senior in both my civilian as well as my military career, I kept improving that ability to write well. A small but powerful book you should own and master is Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. It's the most succinct summary of writing rules I've read -- think of it as a syntax guide to the English language. Granted, some of these conventions are considered quaint or even obsolete -- the Oxford comma and two spaces after a sentence, but I still write that way. There's no reason if you can write a program that will compile (or if you're a Python programmer, not throw a Syntax Error) that you cannot write English with the same consistency. May Busch points out that there are four mistakes you can make that will ruin your attempts to attract a sponsor. One, which seems obvious, is that you're perceived as lacking potential. Note I said "perceived." I think all of us have slightly inflated expectations of ourselves -- that's called a healthy ego, but let's face it: some people are rightly classified as low potential, high achievers -- they work really hard to achieve mediocre results. "But I do consistently outstanding work at my current job!" Okay, I'll give you that. But remember -- we're talking about getting a sponsor for the NEXT job, and if you're not virtue signaling that you can perform at the next level, then a wise boss is likely to leave you where you are -- delivering consistently outstanding work. Remember my four-phase career model: technical, management, leadership, political? You can often move easily within one of those phases without sponsorship, but to get to the next level usually requires something or someone external to yourself. The second disqualifier is to be seen as "selectively motivated," meaning you only put forth full effort at the last minute. It's somewhat of a synonym for a procrastinator -- many of us know there's nothing like the last minute to make sure things get done. Sure, there are important things that are urgent, but if your MO is to goof off until just before a deadline and then rush out a finished product, that calls into question your long-term reliability for more responsible assignments. The third disqualifier is lack of self-confidence. If you present yourself as hesitant and uncertain, you do not inspire confidence. "Do you think, umm, maybe we might possibly consider doing this?" is not as reassuring as, "Here's what we're going to do." I'm not advocating for arrogancy here; but if you secretly worry about imposter syndrome or a belief that you're not as good as others perceive you to be, then that's likely to leak out in your words and actions and cause potential sponsors to pause. The fourth way you can discourage a potential sponsor is to be inappropriate. You say and do the wrong things at the wrong time to the wrong people. You put your feet up on the conference table or make inappropriate or even offensive jokes when no one was looking for that type of input. Walking up a senior executive and saying, "won't you be my sponsor?" is another example. It's fine for Mr. Rodgers to ask, "won't you be my neighbor?" but as you know by now, you have to become the one who attracts attention, not demands it. Being Inspirational One of the best ways to help others move forward is to show them an example of what represents success. I mentioned earlier the booklet that sits on my desk -- have you figured out what it might be? It's "A Message to Garcia" written by Elbert Hubbard, the founder of the Roycrofters in East Aurora NY. Hubbard was a writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher, who wrote that he sat down and penned this essay after dinner in under an hour. What started as article in his magazine grew rapidly. After receiving requests for a thousand copies of that issue, he inquired as to the reason. "It's the stuff about Garcia." The New York Central Railroad reprinted over one million copies in booklet form. The Director of Russian Railways was in New York, was so impressed that when he returned to Moscow, ensured a translated copy was given to every railroad employee in Russia. Every Russian soldier in the Russo-Japanese war had a copy, and when the Japanese officials noted Russian prisoners of war all carried it, they concluded it must be a good thing, translated it into their language and gave copies to every employee of the Japanese government. By December 1913, over forty million copies of A Message to Garcia had been printed. Tragically, Hubbard died on the 7th of May 1915 as a passenger onboard RMS Lusitania, which was torpedoed by a German U-boat. I have a number of his publications, but this is the one that I reread the most. It's not that long -- less than fifteen hundred words, and if you haven't heard it before, you should, and if you have heard it before and you're like me, you'll want to hear it again. Remember, the context is 1899. Here is… A Message to Garcia By Elbert Hubbard In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When war broke out between Spain and the United States, it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba- no one knew where. No mail nor telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his cooperation, and quickly. What to do! Some one said to the President, "There's a fellow by the name of Rowan will find Garcia for you, if anybody can." Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oil-skin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the Island, having traversed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia, are things I have no special desire now to tell in detail. The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing- "Carry a message to Garcia!" General Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias. No man, who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed, but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man- the inability or unwillingness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slip-shod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference, and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook, or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an Angel of Light for an assistant. You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office- six clerks are within call. Summon any one and make this request: "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio". Will the clerk quietly say, "Yes, sir," and go do the task? On your life, he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions: Who was he? Which encyclopedia? Where is the encyclopedia? Was I hired for that? Don't you mean Bismarck? What's the matter with Charlie doing it? Is he dead? Is there any hurry? Shan't I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself? What do you want to know for? And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia- and then come back and tell you there is no such man. Of course I may lose my bet, but according to the Law of Average, I will not. Now if you are wise you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the C's, not in the K's, but you will smile sweetly and say, "Never mind," and go look it up yourself. And this incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure Socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? A first-mate with knotted club seems necessary; and the dread of getting "the bounce" Saturday night, holds many a worker to his place. Advertise for a stenographer, and nine out of ten who apply, can neither spell nor punctuate- and do not think it necessary to. Can such a one write a letter to Garcia? "You see that bookkeeper," said the foreman to me in a large factory. "Yes, what about him?" "Well he's a fine accountant, but if I'd send him up town on an errand, he might accomplish the errand all right, and on the other hand, might stop at four saloons on the way, and when he got to Main Street, would forget what he had been sent for." Can such a man be entrusted to carry a message to Garcia? We have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expressed for the "downtrodden denizen of the sweat-shop" and the "homeless wanderer searching for honest employment," and with it all often go many hard words for the men in power. Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowsy ne'er-do-wells to do intelligent work; and his long patient striving with "help" that does nothing but loaf when his back is turned. In every store and factory there is a constant weeding-out process going on. The employer is constantly sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others are being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues, only if times are hard and work is scarce, the sorting is done finer- but out and forever out, the incompetent and unworthy go. It is the survival of the fittest. Self-interest prompts every employer to keep the best- those who can carry a message to Garcia. I know one man of really brilliant parts who has not the ability to manage a business of his own, and yet who is absolutely worthless to any one else, because he carries with him constantly the insane suspicion that his employer is oppressing, or intending to oppress him. He cannot give orders; and he will not receive them. Should a message be given him to take to Garcia, his answer would probably be, "Take it yourself." Tonight this man walks the streets looking for work, the wind whistling through his threadbare coat. No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular fire-brand of discontent. He is impervious to reason, and the only thing that can impress him is the toe of a thick-soled No. 9 boot. Of course I know that one so morally deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying, let us drop a tear, too, for the men who are striving to carry on a great enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is fast turning white through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indifference, slip-shod imbecility, and the heartless ingratitude, which, but for their enterprise, would be both hungry and homeless. Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone a-slumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds -- the man who, against great odds has directed the efforts of others, and having succeeded, finds there's nothing in it: nothing but bare board and clothes. I have carried a dinner pail and worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. There is no excellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation; and all employers are not rapacious and high-handed, any more than all poor men are virtuous. My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the "boss" is away, as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly take the missive, without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver it, never gets "laid off," nor has to go on a strike for higher wages. Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted; his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village- in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed, and needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia. -THE END- In 2009 as president of the Association of the United States Navy, I wrote a short article entitled "A New Message to Garcia." There I called out the actions of a Sailor who went above and beyond what was expected without even being asked. I hope he went on to bigger and better things because he had the right stuff. Take Action Let's put all of this together. One of the best ways to formalize mentoring is to create a written performance development plan. We've included a sample template in the show notes. This is a way to memorialize conversations with SMART goals -- you remember, specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound? If you are a mentor, you can use this as a template for your counseling sessions. If you are a mentee and there is no template in your organization, feel free to introduce this to your mentor -- you're showing initiative and creating potential value for more people than just yourself. By putting goals in writing, they experience a magical transformation. It was Napoleon Hill who wrote that "a goal is a dream with a deadline." Until you write it down, it's easy to find other things that seem more important or urgent at the moment. In addition, a written set of goals offers accountability -- it's a commitment between mentor and mentee that can be honored like a contract. Start with the manager's organizational priorities and goals that provide a context for the session. For example, if you are in the cybersecurity organization, these could be things such as, "create a cyber vigilant organization," "enable cybersecurity controls and compliance," and "safeguard the organization against major threats." Each of these could have subgoals that get into a little more detail -- awareness training for users, secure coding training for developers, establishing a governance structure around cyber risk. This requires inside knowledge, and if the mentor is within the same organization, it shouldn't be too difficult to ascertain. In addition, if the mentor is the supervisor, then even better -- this shows how the protégé's goals fit in with the boss's vision of what should happen. Better to find out early on that an idea isn't practical then to spend a year working on it only to find out it will never be implemented. Next, the protégé lists individual development goals. Not too many, especially if you are meeting quarterly. Two or three may be sufficient. If there are too many things to work on, the natural tendency is to go for those that are easiest, which may not be the ones that are the most important. Next comes the BHAG -- the big, hairy, audacious goal -- the one that will represent a signature accomplishment. Chances are, this won't happen in a month or a quarter, but it's perfectly reasonable for an annual cycle to align with performance reviews to specify a stretch goal. And by doing it in writing and knowing someone is holding accountability, it's more likely to happen. When it comes to making progress, actions can be separated into experiences, relationships, and learning. Most of our progress is done through experience, so list multiple experiences that one expects to accomplish before the next session. It can be part of a larger goal -- work on the team deploying a SIEM or complete a particular phase of a larger project. This is where the majority of the accountability will reside -- did you complete what you set out to do? It's helpful to be a bit aspirational, but this isn't another set of stretch goals. List at least two relationship improvement opportunities -- these can be key relationships or even potential sponsors. For example, it could include the head of a particular business unit that has specific security requirements -- that meeting would help address those concerns and provide an opportunity for the person seeking visibility. Lastly, include learning opportunities. Not all of us are going to school full-time, but we all should be working on self-improvement. For example, you might set a goal to complete the next course in your degree program or take the exam that grants a particular certification. What you have is a template for action and professional growth. The action comes from the accountability of a written document, and the growth comes from the joint goal-setting that takes place under the guidance of a mentor. Don't just file it away with the rest of your paperwork -- put it where you'll see it every day and challenge yourself to check off another accomplishment by week's end. By encouraging this culture of accomplishment, you'll significantly increase the probability of success. Conclusion Inside the front cover of my Garcia booklet is a short essay entitled "Initiative." Let me leave you with this as a final thought: The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and in honors, for but one thing. And that is Initiative. What is Initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told. But next to doing the thing without being told is to do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the Message to Garcia: those who can carry a message get high honors, but their pay is not always in proportion. Next, there are those who never do a thing until they are told twice; such get no honors and small pay. Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay. This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard-luck story. Then, still lower down in the scale than this, we have fellow who will not do the right thing even when some one goes along to show him how and stays to see that he does it; he is always out of job, and receives the contempt he deserves, unless he happens to have a rich Pa, in which case Destiny patiently awaits around a corner with a stuffed club. To which class do you belong? Thank you for listening to CISO Tradecraft; we hope you've found this show valuable. If you learned something that you like, please help us by leaving us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform -- those ratings really help us reach other security leaders. The more CISOs we can help, the more businesses we can protect. This is your host, G. Mark Hardy. Thanks again for listening and stay safe out there. References: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/mentor-tips-positive-impact https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6248-how-to-find-mentor.html https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3504-how-to-mentor.html https://maybusch.com/career-board-of-directors-advance-career/ https://maybusch.com/find-sponsor/ https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-4th-William-Strunk/dp/0205313426?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=-0-0-20&linkCode=ur2 https://www.nato.int/nrdc-it/about/message_to_garcia.pdf https://gmarkhardy.com/Navy_Articles/NRA-0909%20A%20New%20Message%20to%20Garcia.pdf Example: Individual Performance Plan Name: ________________________________ Date: ________________ Leadership's Cyber Priorities and Goals Create a Cyber Vigilant Organization Cyber Awareness Training, Secure Developer Training, and Proper Risk Approval and Governance Enable Compliance, Controls, and Cyber Security Controls (IT General Controls & SOX), Audits, and Cyber Maturity Frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, or FFIEC) Safeguard the Business against Key Threats Phishing and Ransomware, Software Vulnerabilities, and Third-Party Risks Individual Development Goals Goal: Goal: Signature Accomplishment My Big Goal is to accomplish … Actions I am taking this year (How) Experiences (70%) Experience 1 Experience 2 Experience 3 … Relationships (20%) Relationship Improvement Opportunity 1 Relationship Improvement Opportunity 2 Learning (10%) Learning Opportunity Support Needed from My Manager I need help with …
La tarde del 7 de mayo de 1915 un torpedo alemán impactó contra el RMS Lusitania, un buque de pasajeros. Instantes después una segunda explosión de mucha fuerza sacudió el barco. En solo veinte minutos el barco al que llamaban “el galgo de los mares” se había hundido, y casi mil doscientos hombres, mujeres y niños habían muerto. Hoy, una nueva investigación en dos etapas se ha puesto en marcha para determinar qué fue exactamente lo que hundió...
Welcome back B-oo's Crew! This week the gang heads over sea's for the first time to Cobh, Ireland. With history as old time, we discuss 2 prominent locations in the area... The Commodore Hotel and Spike Island. Having ties to not only the Titanic but also another vey famous ship that was bombed by the Germans in ww1, the RMS Lusitania. Grab yourself a pint of Guinness and get ready for a trip through time!!!Do you have a story you'd like read or played on the show? Are you part of an investigation team that would like to come on and tell your story and experiences? Maybe you have a show suggestion! Email the show at fortheboos12@gmail.comYou can also find us on Twitter @fortheboosAnd on Instagram @fortheboos_podcastYou can also find us on Facebook at For The BoosAnd on YouTube at For The BoosRemember to Follow, Subscribe and Rate the show wherever you listen to podcasts...It really does help!For The B-oo's uses strong language and may not be suitable for all audiences, listener discretion is advised!Catch us and our friend Rick from Maximum Oddities podcast every week on Twitter every Monday at 5pm for the Paranormal Oddities space!
To focus on Ireland's national marine research vessels, the Celtic Voyager and Celtic Explorer, Oceans of Learning made collaboration between the Marine Institute and Government departments and organisations across Ireland. The RV Celtic Voyager came into service in 1997 as Ireland's first custom-built multi-purpose research vessel. Her purpose was to facilitate the sustainable development of the country's vast marine resources. In 2003, the RV Celtic Explorer was commissioned as Ireland's first deep-sea research vessel. At the time of its launch, the Celtic Explorer was the quietest research vessel in the world, meeting international underwater noise requirements essential for fisheries research. National Marine Research Dr Paul Connolly, CEO of the Marine Institute said, “The Celtic Voyager and Celtic Explorer have been central to the Marine Institute's work and research, enabling us as a nation to engage in high-quality marine science and to actively contribute to international research programmes. “The new national marine research vessel, RV Tom Crean, comes into service in 2022, replacing the Celtic Voyager. As we look forward to a bright future with the Tom Crean and Celtic Explorer, we take a moment to appreciate the legacy of the Celtic Voyager. The vessel has served us well over the past quarter of a century, providing marine scientists, researchers and crew members with many years of experience at sea, and enabling us to deepen our ocean knowledge.” The RV Celtic Voyager replaced the 21 metre RV Lough Beltra, which had originally been a fishing trawler. Upgrading to a 31-metre research vessel was the beginning of a new era in marine science in Ireland, as the Marine Institute was able to provide a purpose-built platform that could operate further out in Ireland's ocean territory. The research vessel has played an essential role in fisheries scientific research, and a vital role in seabed mapping in Irish waters, as part of the INFOMAR programme. More than 200 shipwrecks around the coast of Ireland including the RMS Lusitania, have been mapped by the Celtic Voyager. In 2007, the survey of Galway Bay revealed for the first time a detailed seafloor and geology of the bay, confirming the location of the Galway Bay Fault. Over close to 25 years, the Celtic Voyager has completed more than 600 surveys, enabled more than 5,000 science days and sailed more than 400,000 miles. The 65 metre RV Celtic Explorer is designed for fisheries acoustic research, oceanographic, hydrographic and geological investigations as well as buoy/deep water mooring and ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) Operations. The vessel has a maximum endurance of 35 days offshore and can accommodate up to 35 personnel, including 20-22 scientists. Expeditions on the RV Celtic Explorer in Irish and international waters have resulted in many exciting discoveries – from deep-water shark nurseries, and cold-water coral reefs, to hydrothermal vents fields in the mid-Atlantic. Oceans of Learning As part of Oceans of Learning, the Marine Institute's Voyages video series profiles the people whose work is intertwined with Ireland's national research vessels. Voyages shares insights into the people behind the science of our seas – Dr Louise Allcock, Professor of Zoology at NUI Galway, and David O'Sullivan, INFOMAR Programme at the Marine Institute – modern explorers on a voyage of discovery to safeguard the ocean and our future. The Oceans of Learning series on marine.ie offers online interactive activities, videos and downloadable resources all about our ocean. A #SeaToMe social competition will encourage people across Ireland to share what the sea means to them for the chance to win weekly prizes. Through Oceans of Learning, the Marine Institute comes together with Government Departments and organisations across Ireland including Bord Iascaigh Mhara, Bord Bia, Met Éireann, Commissioners of Irish Lights and EPIC Irish Emigration Museum, to celebrate and highlight the v...
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The ocean liner's sinking was a turning point in the First World War, and the way war was fought from then on.
Queens of the Mines paperback, ebook, and hardback novel now available on Amazon. In this episode, we dive into the life of Isadora Duncan. In How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the film from 2003, Kate Hudson's character Andy dons a yellow diamond necklace in one scene that they call the “Isadora Diamond”. That $6 million 80-carat yellow diamond in the necklace was designed by Harry Winston and is named after Isadora Duncan. whose philosophy earned her the title of “the creator of modern dance”. Angela Isadora Duncan, was born in San Francisco on May 26, 1877. The youngest of the four children of banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, Joseph Charles Duncan and Mary Isadora Gray. Soon after her birth, Joseph was caught embezzling from the two banks that he was hired to set up. He used the money to fund his private stock speculations. Joseph was lucky to avoid prison time. Her mother Mary left Joseph and moved the children to Oakland to find work as a seamstress and piano teacher. The family lived in extremely poor conditions in Oakland and Angela Isadora attended school until she was ten years old. School was too constricting for her and she decided to drop out. To make money for the family, Angela Isadora joined her three older siblings and began teaching dance to local children. She was not a classically trained dancer or ballerina. Her unique, novel approach to dance showed joy, sadness and fantasy, rediscovering the beautiful, rhythmical motions of the human body. Joseph remarried and started a new family, they all perished aboard the British passenger steamer SS Mohegan, which ran aground off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula of Cornwall England on the 14th of October in 1898. Only 91 out of 197 on board survived. Eventually, Angela Isadora went east to audition for the theater. In Chicago, she auditioned for Augustin Daly, who was one of the most influential men in American theater during his lifetime. She secured a spot in his company, which took her to New York City. In New York, she took classes with American Ballet dancer Marie Bonfanti. The style clashed with her unique vision of dance. Her earliest public appearances back east met with little success. Angela Isadora was not interested in ballet, or the popular pantomimes of the time; she soon became cynical of the dance scene. She was 21 years old, unhappy and unappreciated in New York, Angela Isadora boarded a cattle boat for London in 1898. She sought recognition in a new environment with less of a hierarchy. When she arrived, ballet was at one of its lowest ebbs and tightrope walkers and contortionists were dominating their shared music hall stages. Duncan found inspiration in Greek art, statues and architecture. She favored dancing barefoot with her hair loose and wore flowing toga wrapped scarves while dancing, allowing her freedom of movement. The attire was in contrast to the corsets, short tutus and stiff pointe shoes her audience was used to. Under the name Isadora Duncan, she gave recitals in the homes of the elite. The pay from these productions helped Isadora rent a dance studio, where she choreographed a larger stage performance that she would soon take to delight the people of France. Duncan met Desti in Paris and they became best friends. Desti would accompany Isadora as she found inspiration from the Louvre and the 1900 Paris Exposition where Loie Fuller, an American actress and dancer was the star attraction. Fuller was the first to use theatrical lighting technique with dance, manipulating gigantic veils of silk into fluid patterns enhanced by changing coloured lights. In 1902, Duncan teamed up with Fuller to tour Europe. On tour, Duncan became famous for her distinctive style. She danced to Gluck, Wagner and Bach and even Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Female audiences adored her despite the mixed reaction from the critics. She inspired the phenomenon of young women dancing barefoot, scantily clad as woodland nymphs who crowded theaters and concert halls throughout Europe. Contracts and the commercialization of the art while touring distracted Isadora from her goal, educating the young on her philosophy of dance. "Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement. Let us first produce a beautiful human being. let them come forth with great strides, leaps and bounds, with lifted forehead and far-spread arms, to dance.” In 1904, she moved to Berlin to open the Isadora Duncan School of Dance. The school had around 20 students who mostly had mothers who were the primary breadwinners, and the fathers were either ill or absent. The school provided room and board for the students. For three years, her sister, Elizabeth Duncan was the main instructor, while Isadora was away, funding the school from tour. Elizabeth was not free spirited like her sister and taught in a strict manner. During the third year, Duncan had a child with theater designer Gordon Craig. Deirdre Beatrice, born September 24, 1906. At the school, Duncan created a new troupe of six young girls. Anna, Maria, Irma, Elizabeth, Margot, and Erica. The group was called the "Isadorables", a nickname given to them by the French poet Fernand Divoire. At the start of World War I, the Isadorables were sent to New York with the rest of the new students from Bellevue. Occultist Aleister Crowley founded the religion of Thelema. He identified himself as the prophet entrusted with guiding humanity into the Æon of Horus in the early 20th century. Isadora and her bohemian companion Desti fell into his circle after meeting him at a party. Crowley fell in love with Desti and she became a member of Crowley's occult order. Crowley published widely over the course of his life and wrote that Duncan "has this gift of gesture to a very high degree. Let the reader study her dancing, if possible in private than in public, and learn the superb 'unconsciousness' — which is magical consciousness — with which she suits the action to the melody." Duncan had a love affair with Paris Singer, one of the many sons of sewing machine magnate Isaac Singer. The fling resulted in a son, Patrick Augustus, born May 1, 1910. A year later, Isadora was dancing on tables until dawn at the Pavillon du Butard hunting lodge mansion in the gardens of Versailles. Paul Poiret, the French fashion designer and founder of the haute couture house, known to throw lavish parties, was recreating the roman festival Bacchanalia hosted by Louis XIV at Versailles. On the table in a Poiret Greek evening gown, Duncan tried to not knock over the 900 bottles of champagne that were consumed by the 300 guests. The following year Isadora acquired the Hôtel Paillard in Paris, which she turned into her new temple of dance called Dionysion. Dionysion was the name of a poem that Crowley had published. Which maakes m e curious how far into Crowleys cult did Isaadora dive? On a rainy afternoon Annie Sims, Isadora's nanny, loaded the children into the car for a drive to meet Isadora in Versailles. Morverand, the chauffeur, had only just pulled onto the road, when a taxi-cab bolted towards the car. Morverand jammed on his brakes, causing the engine to also stop. He got out of the car to check the engine, and turned the starting lever and the car bounded forward towards the river, down the river bank and plunged down 30 feet into the Seine. Morverand was left standing on the street. In the downpour of rain, few were out and about. The only witness, a young woman who watched the car exit the gate then crash, ran back to Duncan's house. Augustine, Isadora's brother, was the only one home. Augustine ran to the scene, seized Morverand by the throat and knocked him down on the bank. A crowd of boatmen stopped the fight and began looking for the sunken car. The search lasted an hour and a half. A motor boat that was dragging the river discovered the car, which was hauled to the surface, where the bodies of the nanny and Isadora's two small children were found inside. Two doctors made efforts to save them but there was no luck. Morverand gave himself up at the police commissary. He explained that he did not understand how the accident happened. All of Paris was sympathetic. Isadora went through a depression while mourning her children, and spent several months on the Greek island of Corfu with her brother and sister. She then went for a stay at the Viareggio Seaside Resort in Italy, where she met the beautiful and rebellious actress Eleonora Duse. Duse wore men's clothing and was one of the first women in Italy to openly declare her queerness. The two had a romantic fling in Italy yet Duncan was desperate for another child. She became pregnant after begging the young sculptor Romano Romanelli, basically an Italian stranger to sleep with her. She gave birth to a son on August 13, 1914 but he died a few hours after birth. She immediately returned to the States. Three months later Duncan was living in a townhouse in Gramercy Park in New York City. Dionysion was moved to Manhattan in a studio at 311 Fourth Avenue on the northeast corner of 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue. The area is now considered Park Avenue South. One month later, The Isadorables made their American debut on December 7, 1914 at Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony. Mabel Dodge, who owned an avant garde salon at 23 Fifth Avenue, the point of rendezvous for the whole of New York's of the time, described The Isadorables: "They were lovely, with bodies like cream and rose, and faces unreal with beauty whose eyes were like blind statues, as though they had never looked upon anything in any way sordid or ordinary". Duncan used the ultra modern Century Theater at West 60th Street and Central Park West for her performances and productions. The keys were gifted to Duncan by Otto Kahn, sometimes referred to as the "King of New York". Kahn was a German-born American, a well known investment banker, appearing on the cover of Time Magazine. He reorganized and consolidated railroads, was a philanthropist, a patron of the arts and served as the chairman of the Metropolitan Opera. Isadora, somehow, was evicted from the Century by the New York City Fire Department after one month. Duncan felt defeated and decided to once again leave the States to return to Europe to set up school in Switzerland. She planned to board the RMS Lusitania, but her financial situation at the time drove her to choose a more modest crossing. The Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat 11 miles off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew. During her voyage to Europe, Isadora discovered that their manager had arranged for a tour for the Isadorables without her. She was so upset that she stopped speaking to her students, despite the man's actions being completely out of their control. After struggling to keep afloat there, the school was dispelled and the younger students sent home to their families. The girls eventually made up with Duncan and in 1917 Isadora adopted all six Isadorables. Yet troubles ensued. The Isadorables were living in Long Island and Isadora urged them to leave New York. Each girl, except for Gretel, had fallen in love and did not wish to go. When Isadora found out her brother Augustine assisted the group in a performance at the Liberty Theater, she forbade them from continuing, producing a legal contract which prevented them from separating from her. They had no choice but to cancel their time at the Liberty. The girls eventually left Duncan a few years later but stayed together as a group for some time. While Duncan ran another school in Paris that was shortly closed due to World War I, the girls entertained troops in the US. Isadora Duncan went against traditional cultural standards. Her scandalous love life as bisexual made her a controversial figure on the front pages of the papers. She was a feminist, a Darwinist, a Communist and an atheist. Her leftist sympathies took her to the Soviet Union at the end of the Russian Revolution. To her, it seemed to be the land of promise. Duncan opened a school in Moscow and Irma, one of the Isadorables, took the teaching position at the school while Isadora toured and performed. She met the poet Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin, eighteen years her junior in Russia and they were married in May of 1922, even though matrimony was against her beliefs. Together, they left for a US tour. Fear of the “Red Menace” was at its height in North America, and the couple was unjustly labeled as Bolshevik agents. On tour in Boston, she waved a red scarf and bared her breast on stage in Boston, proclaiming, "This is red! So am I!" For this, her American citizenship was revoked. As she left the country, Duncan bitterly told reporters: “Good-bye America, I shall never see you again!” Yesenin's increasing mental instability turned him against her and they were ultimately unhappy. He returned alone to the Soviet Union after the tour and committed suicide. Her spotlight was dimming, her fame dwindled. For a number of years she lived out public dramas of failed relationships, financial woes, and drunkenness on the Mediterranean and in Paris, running up debts at hotels. Her financial burdens were carried by a decreasing number of friends and supporters who encouraged her to write her autobiography. They believed the books success could support her extravagant waywardness. On September 14, 1927 in Nice, France Duncan was asked to go on a drive with the handsome French-Italian mechanic Benoît Falchetto in a sporting car made by the French Amilcar company. Desti sat with Isadora as she dressed for the occasion. Duncan put on a long, flowing, hand-painted silk scarf created by the Russian-born artist Roman Chatov. Desti asked her to instead wear a cape in the open-air vehicle because of the cold weather, but Isadora paid no mind. A cool breeze blew from the Riviera as the women met Falchetto at the Amilcar. The engine made a rumble as Falchetto put on his driving-goggles. Isadora threw the enormous scarf around her neck and hopped in. She turned to look at Desti and said "Adieu, mes amis. "Je vais à l'amour", "I am off to love'. They sped off and Isadora leaned back in her seat to enjoy the sea breeze. The wind caught her enormous scarf that, tragically, blew into the well of the rear wheel on the passenger side, wrapping around the open-spoked wheel and rear axle. Isadora was hurled from the open car in an extraordinary manner, breaking her neck and nearly decapitating her. Instantly killing her. At the time of her death, Duncan was a Soviet citizen. Her will was the first Soviet citizen to undergo probate in the United States. In medicine, the Isadora Duncan Syndrome refers to injury or death consequent to entanglement of neckwear with a wheel or other machinery. The accident gave rise to Gertrude Stein's mordant remark that “affectations can be dangerous.” Duncan was known as "The Mother of Dance" was cremated, and her ashes were placed in the columbarium at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. On the headstone of her grave is inscribed École du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris ("Ballet School of the Opera of Paris"). Duncan's autobiography My Life was published in 1927. The Australian composer Percy Grainger called it a "life-enriching masterpiece." A plaque commemorating Isadora Duncan's place of birth is at 501 Taylor Street on Lower Nob Hill, fittingly near the Theater District in San Francisco. San Francisco renamed an alley on the same block from Adelaide Place to Isadora Duncan Lane.
Welcome to our first spooky episode of 2022! This week we harkened back to our roots with some good old fashioned ship stories, and by old fashioned we mean OLD....like the oldest ship still afloat. Hope you enjoy, and if you have any episode suggestions please share them! Sources included: Wikipedia the official website for the USS Consitution www.shermanstravel.com Travelchannel.com
(Bonus) The American entry into World War I came in April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Europe. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-Tsarist element sympathizing with Germany's war against Russia, American public opinion had generally reflected a desire to stay out of the war: the sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans, and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among church leaders and women in general. On the other hand, even before World War I had broken out, American opinion had been overall more negative toward Germany than toward any other country in Europe. Over time, especially after reports of German atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and following the sinking of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania in 1915, American citizens increasingly came to see Germany as the aggressor in Europe.
How do you teach your child what it means to be a responsible person? Like most parents, you probably model the traits you hope they will acquire, and that's the best possible way. However, don't forget the power of literature. Fables, parables, stories, and humorous essays (such as this one) can spark discussions, provide vivid examples, and remind us of truths in ways that are more memorable and meaningful than straight admonition. Join me today for a reading of the classic essay, "A Message to Garcia” by Elbert Hubbard. It's the type of essay that can help you make an important point in an entertaining way. Enjoy! Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He is best known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community and as an influential advocate of the Arts and Crafts movement. He and his wife, Alice, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine in 1915. Janice Campbell is the graduated homeschool mom of four sons, and is the author of the Excellence in Literature curriculum and other books for homeschool families. RESOURCES Excellence in Literature CONNECT Follow Janice on Pinterest Like Excellence in Literature on Facebook Connect with Janice on Facebook Follow Janice on Instagram
D.A. Thomas, or Lord Rhondda as he became, was the most prominent Welsh capitalist of the turn of the Twentieth Century. He was also a prominent Liberal politician who rose to be a Cabinet minister under Lloyd George's wartime coalition as well as a notable peer. Emissary to America during the First World War, survivor of the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and father of one of the most remarkable women in Welsh politics.... Ewan Lawry summarises a life so rich it deserves a movie
On 7th May 1915, the ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with more than half the passengers and crew being killed. Some of those lost were Americans and the sinking hardened opinion in the United States against Germany and marked the beginning of the process which led to the USA entering the First World War on the side of the allies. To mark the anniversary of the sinking Stephen Payne joins the podcast. Stephen is a British naval architect and worked on designing passenger ships for over 40 years and is an expert both in their construction and their history. He and Dan discuss the circumstances of the sinking, whether there was any justification for it and the effect it had on public opinion and naval policy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On 7 May 1915, the ocean liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland with more than half the passengers and crew being killed. Some of those lost were Americans and the sinking hardened opinion in the United States against Germany and marked the beginning of the process which led to the USA entering the First World War on the side of the allies. To mark the anniversary of the sinking Stephen Payne joins the podcast. Stephen is a British naval architect and worked on designing passenger ships for over 40 years and is an expert both in their construction and their history. He and Dan discuss the circumstances of the sinking, whether there was any justification for it and the effect it had on public opinion and naval policy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of ...
Welcome aboard Hushlings, we travel back to 1912 on the RMS Titanic where we take a crash course into some conspiracy theories that could have caused the tragic sinking and deaths of over 1,500 people that shocked the world. We blast through all the watertight doors and seek all its unsinkable mysteries... Was her sister-ship Olympic, switched and disguised as Titanic, as an insurance scam? Did J.P. Morgan want to eliminate several prominent rival bankers? Did fires prior to the voyage weaken the hull? Was the ship cursed and doomed from the start? Set sail with us. (4:05) Your shipmates begin with the background of what happened on the night of April, 15th 1912, the lifeboats, different classes as well as who was on board the ship. (7:00) Dave and Mike bring us up to speed about the first theory of the Titanic being switched with her sister ship, the Olympic after a series of accidents for insurance purposes. (11:13) Dave looks through the window at the fact that Titanic and Olympic had different amounts of portholes and Fronk elaborates. (12:55) Rumors of the Titanic being sunk for insurance circulated through workers and the crew and most decided against working on the ship. (16:26) Many of the richest people that had booked tickets had cancelled their trips prior to the voyage, one being JP Morgan. He also owned the parent company who owned the White Star Line. (18:40) The SS Californian is brought up. It was an empty passenger ship that was not far from Titanic and it had over 3000 wool blankets. It never made it to the sinking ship and was part of the blame for the loss of life. (25:35) Mike and the boys question if Capt. Smith knew about the possible scam and why did he go down with the ship, maybe he didn't know? We cover both sides. (29:13) Fronk fills us in on how the watertight doors could have played a role in the ship splitting in two. (30:05) We touch on a fire that started several days before Titanic set sail and was burning throughout the maiden voyage. Mike and Fronk elaborate on the fact that burning the coal into the furnaces caused the ship to be traveling at full speed, around 30 mph. (34:04) JP Morgan was trying to create the Federal Reserve, and some of the wealthy people that opposed were aboard the Titanic and perished, another reason to sink the ship. (35:18) Fronk goes into the theory about a passenger named William Steed who claims that he was cursed by a mummy to other passengers. He perished as well. Your Preceptors discuss. (38:47) The theory of a German U-Boat could have sunk the Titanic and only 3 years after the sinking in 1915 a U-Boat sunk the RMS Lusitania. (40:49) Fronk gives a few out of the box ideas that could have sunk the ship like the tides and the aurora borealis. (42:07) We give our final thoughts about what we all think happened to the doomed vessel. If you have any questions or comments about the show please contact us at: HushHushSociety@planetmail.com or via Twitter, Facebook & Instagram. For all listening platforms go to: http://linktr.ee/hushhushsociety
In May, 1915 a German U-boat came across the RMS Lusitania, a luxury passenger ship, about 11 miles off the coast of Ireland making its way to Liverpool. Despite it being a non-military vessel, the U-boat fired a torpedo that sank the ship within 18 minutes.
Liverpool - EnglandLiverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. Its population in 2019 was approximately 498,042. This makes Liverpool the tenth-largest English district by population, and the largest in Merseyside and the surrounding region. It lies within the UK's sixth-most populous urban area. Liverpool's metropolitan area is the fifth-largest in the UK with a population of 2.24 million.Liverpool is on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary and historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in North West England's county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207 and a city in 1880. In 1889, it became a county borough independent of Lancashire. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, merchants were involved in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Liverpool was a major port of departure for English and Irish emigrants to North America. It was home to both the Cunard and White Star Line, and was the port of registry of the ocean liners RMS Titanic, RMS Lusitania, RMS Queen Mary, and RMS Olympic.This Episode contains the Hometown Murder Cases of:Anthony Delano Walker (21 February 1987 – 30 July 2005) was a Black British student of Jamaican descent who was murdered with an ice axe by Michael Barton (brother of footballer Joey Barton) and Barton's cousin Paul Taylor, in an unprovoked, racially motivated attack on the night of 29 July 2005 in Huyton, Merseyside. Walker was eighteen years old and was in his second year of A-levels. He lived with his parents, Gee Walker and Steve Walker, his two sisters and one brother. The case recently turned into a BBC drama.Rhys Milford Jones (27 September 1995 – 22 August 2007) was murdered in Liverpool at the age of 11 when he was shot in the neck. Sean Mercer, aged 16 at the time of the shooting, went on trial on 2 October 2008, and was found guilty of murder on 16 December. Mercer was sentenced to life imprisonment serving a minimum of 22 years.James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993) was a 2-year-old boy from Kirkby, Merseyside, England, who was abducted, tortured and killed by two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, on Friday, 12 February 1993. Bulger was led away from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle as his mother had taken her eyes off him momentarily. His mutilated body was found on a railway line 2.5 miles (4 km) away in Walton, Liverpool, two days after his abduction. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February 1993 with Bulger's abduction and murder.
By Joe Wiegand, Medora's TR 5/7/2020 R Barnstorms Southern California - May 7, 1903 and the 105th Anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine. One thousand one hundred and ninety-eight perished. One hundred and twenty-nine of the one hundred and thirty-eight Americans on board were killed. Many of the victims were women and children. Hear what TR said. Learn something astonishing about the jump from the deck of the Lusitania, the survival, and future work of the young American architect named Theodate Pope Riddle. Medora, ND: https://www.facebook.com/MedoraND Teddy Roosevelt Show: https://www.facebook.com/TeddyRooseveltShow Executive Producer: Joe Wiegand Editor: Dillon Olson Additional Production: Justin Fisk ©, 2020, all rights reserved. Wiegand's Victory Enterprises, Inc. and the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
On 7 May 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland, with almost 1,200 casualties. Produced and Presented by Brian Byrne for Kilcullen Diary.
Welcome back. We hope you're staying healthy.This week the Nerds invited Dev-i-Boy on again. He'll be joining us for the next while.First up is a discussion about Indiana Jones 5. Can Indy swing himself back into relevance for a new generation? Not if COVID-19 has anything to say about it. Indiana Jones 5 has been pushed back again due to the pandemic. The Nerds are hoping Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf doesn't make another appearance as Indy's son, but we'd be ok with him appearing as a cannibal tribesman. This of course leads into a discussion on Disney's other properties, including the notorious Pirates of the Caribbean and Jungle Cruise. This looks like a rough year for Disney.Dev-i-Boy has heard that Russians are behind everyone's favourite YouTube channel, Five Minute Crafts. In a story reminiscent of bad Cold War fiction, Russian propaganda is slipped into innocuous seeming YouTube videos. Now we just need a team of teenagers to sneak into the secret Russian video studio lab and uncover their plot.Activision has pulled off a major win in court against the maker of the Humvee. Modern warfare needs modern weapons, and the US courts have ruled in favour of realism over licensing fees. Finally, DJ and Dev-i-Boy can't handle the knowledge. An Australian lizard joins the tiny group of reptiles that both lay eggs and give live birth. This revelation is too much for them to handle though, so we move on to the games of the week.Professor and DJ play Generation Zero, a game about Swedish battle mechs and robot dogs that want to kill you. It's buggy, but generally a good experience. Dev-i played LoZ: Wind Waker again but breaks into a new dimension in VR Chat. Of course, he picked an anime girl avatar. Of course.On to the usual shoutouts and remembrances, and DJ refuses to wrap up the show by performing Waterloo. Maybe next week.Stay safe, and we'll see you all next week.Indiana Jones 5 -https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/indiana-jones-2022/YouTube viral video debunked - https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-to-cook-that-creator-ann-reardon-is-debunking-viral-youtube-videos.html/ Call of Duty lawsuit win -https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/call-duty-wins-first-amendment-victory-use-humvees-1287882A lizard can now lay eggs and give live birth -https://theconversation.com/this-lizard-lays-eggs-and-gives-live-birth-we-think-its-undergoing-a-major-evolutionary-transition-133630 - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.15409 Games PlayedProfessor– Generation Zero - https://store.steampowered.com/app/704270/Generation_Zero/Rating : 5/5DJ– Generation Zero - https://store.steampowered.com/app/704270/Generation_Zero/Rating : 4.5/5Dev-i-Boy - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_The_Wind_WakerRating – 5/5- VR Chat - https://store.steampowered.com/app/438100/VRChat/Rating – 3/5Other topics discussedIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones series.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_SkullThe timeline of the Indiana Jones films is the chronological order of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones and the film series.- https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_of_filmsTransformers film series (Transformers is a series of American science fiction action films based on the Transformers franchise which began in the 1980s. Michael Bay has directed the first five films.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film_series)Harrison Ford survives plane crash - https://money.cnn.com/2017/02/14/news/harrison-ford-plane-mishap/index.htmlDisney’s Artemis Fowl Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl2r3Fwxz_oJungle Cruise (The Jungle Cruise is a river boat attraction located in Adventureland at many Disney Parks worldwide, namely Disneyland, Magic Kingdom,Tokyo Disneyland and Hong Kong Disneyland. For years, Walt Disney Pictures had been toying with the idea of turning the Jungle Cruise into a full-length action adventure motion picture, which it would be loosely inspired by the theme park attraction of the same name.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_CruiseBruckheimer is very frank about how he almost passed on the project, which is based on the famous Disney theme park ride.- https://web.archive.org/web/20080102184110/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/425/425848p1.htmlPirates of the Caribbean 6th movie- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean_(film_series)#Sixth_film How to Cook That (Youtube channel by Ann Reardon)- https://www.youtube.com/user/howtocookthat/videosDebunking Fake Videos & WHO'S behind 5-min crafts? | How To Cook That Ann Reardon- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvqa8dsBtno Lonelygirl15 (lonelygirl15, the first of many shows within the fictional LG15 Universe, tells the ongoing story of a group of young adults fighting against a mysterious secret society called, The Order.)- https://www.youtube.com/user/lonelygirl15Sex-workers - idubbbz complains by iDubbbzTV- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQLzOuwDu_8Elsagate (neologism referring to the controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that are categorized as "child-friendly", but which contain themes that are inappropriate for children.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElsagateThe FTC action against YouTube and Google- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children Why Youtube doesn’t make any profit - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/4-reasons-youtube-still-doesnt-make-a-profit/ The Simpson – Lionel Hutz vs 10 high priced lawyers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hhAH4mlQk Donald Trump Violated First Amendment by Blocking Critics on Twitter- https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/donald-trump-violated-first-amendment-twitter-blocking-1203542245/ Temperature-dependent sex determination (a type of environmental sex determination in which the temperatures experienced during embryonic/larval development determine the sex of the offspring.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determinationDogs (Dogs are autonomous robotic quadrupeds, equipped with a series of lethal weapons.)- https://black-mirror.fandom.com/wiki/DogsBoston Dynamics : Spot - https://robots.ieee.org/robots/spotmini/Japanese students hold graduation ceremony in Minecraft amid school cancellation- https://soranews24.com/2020/03/15/japanese-students-hold-graduation-ceremony-in-minecraft-amid-school-cancellation/Katie Bouman: The woman behind the first black hole image- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47891902 Systers (founded by Anita Borg, is an international electronic mailing list for technical women in computing.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystersThe Eleventh Hour (The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery is an illustrated children's book by Graeme Base.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Hour_(children%27s_book)Hareraiser (video game released in 1984 in the UK in two parts: Prelude and Finale, comedian and computer game historian Stuart Ashen described and showed the game play, and called it "quite possibly the worst video game ever.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HareraiserAnimalia (an animated children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base.)- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia_(TV_series) The story behind Jackie Chan’s stunt in Police Story which involved slides several stories down a pole strung with lights, electricity arcing around him as he crashes through multiple panes of glass into a shop stall.- https://observer.com/2019/01/how-jackie-chan-police-story-stunts-changed-movies/Jackie Chan further explains the stunt in Police Story- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZEVz1V-X4w Waterloo ("Waterloo" is the first single from the Swedish pop group ABBA's second album, Waterloo and their first under the Epic and Atlantic labels.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(ABBA_song) That’s Not COVID (TNC Podcast)- https://thatsnotcanon.com/thatsnotcovidpodcast Shout Outs 5 April 2020 - Shirley Douglas, actress and mother of Kiefer Sutherland dies at 86 - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shirley-douglas-dead-actress-mother-kiefer-sutherland-was-86-1288624Shirley Douglas, an actress in films directed by Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg and the mother of actor Kiefer Sutherland. Douglas appeared in Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) and in other movies including Shadow Dancing (1988) and Wind at My Back (1996). In 2003, for her contributions to the performing arts, she was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Sutherland announced his mother's death on Twitter, saying "My mother was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life," Sutherland wrote. "Sadly she had been battling for her health for quite some time and we, as a family, knew this day was coming. To any families who have lost loved ones unexpectedly to the coronavirus, my heart breaks for you. Please stay safe." She died of complications surrounding pneumonia at the age of 86 in Toronto,Ontario. His son noted her passing was not related to COVID-19. 5 April 2020 – Anime ending this week 10 years ago according to Japanese netizens - https://soranews24.com/2020/04/05/whered-the-time-go-top-anime-series-that-finished-ten-years-ago-ranked-by-japanese-netizens/Here’s the top ten of this decade-old anime! Which ones have you watched recently?10. Kuroshitsuji II9. Durarara!!8. A Certain Scientific Railgun7. Nodame Cantabile Finale6. HeartCatch PreCure!5. Fullmetal Alchemist4. K-On!!3. Inuyasha: The Final Act2. Animal Detective Kiruminzoo1. Hidamari Sketch×☆☆☆6 April 2020 - ‘Jaws’ actress Lee Fierro dead at 91 from coronavirus complications - https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/jaws-actress-lee-fierro-dead-at-91-with-coronavirus-complications/Lee Fierro, best known as Alex Kintner’s mom in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 shark attack classic “Jaws,” In her iconic scene from “Jaws,” an enraged Fierro confronts Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and slaps him in the face. “I just found out that a girl got killed here last week and you knew, you knew there was a shark out there. You knew it was dangerous, but you let people go swimming anyway,” her character says, sobbing. “You knew all those things and still my boy is dead now, and there’s nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead.” Fierro reportedly had "objected to the profanity" of the scene's dialogue as originally drafted, and the director, Steven Spielberg, wanted dialogue that accorded with Fierro's "everywoman looks," so the scene's dialogue was rewritten the day before it was filmed. Fierro went on to reprise her role in 1987’s subpar “Jaws: The Revenge” opposite Michael Caine. She died from COVID-19 at the age of 91. Remembrances6 April 1520 – Raphael - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome, much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. He died from fever at the age of 37 in Rome, Papal States.6 April 1944 - Rose O'Neill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_O%27NeillRose Cecil O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She built a successful career as a magazine and book illustrator and, at a young age, became the best-known and highest- paid female commercial illustrator in the United States. O' Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie, the most widely known cartoon character until Mickey Mouse. Her Kewpie cartoons, which made their debut in a 1909 issue of Ladies' Home Journal, were later manufactured as bisque dolls in 1912 by J. D. Kestner, a German toy company, followed by composition material and celluloid versions. The dolls were wildly popular in the early twentieth century and are considered to be one of the first mass-marketed toys in the United States. Their name, "Kewpie", derives from Cupid, the Roman god of love. According to O'Neill, she became obsessed with the idea of the cherubic characters, to the point that she had dreams about them: "I thought about the Kewpies so much that I had a dream about them where they were all doing acrobatic pranks on the coverlet of my bed. One sat in my hand." She described them as "a sort of little round fairy whose one idea is to teach people to be merry and kind at the same time". O'Neill also wrote several novels and books of poetry, and was active in the women's suffrage movement. She was for a time the highest-paid female illustrator in the world upon the success of the Kewpie dolls. She died from heart failure at the age of 69 in Springfield, Missouri. 6 April 2003 - Anita Borg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. In 1997, Borg founded the Institute for Women and Technology (now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology). Two important goals behind the founding of the organization were to increase the representation of women in technical fields and to enable the creation of more technology by women. The Institute was created to be an experimental R&D organization focusing on increasing the impact of women on technology and increasing the impact of technology on the world's women. It ran a variety of programs to increase the role of technology, build the pipeline of technical women, and ensure that women's voices affected technological developments. Borg passionately believed in working for greater representation of technical women. Her goal was to have 50% representation for women in computing by 2020. She strove for technical fields to be places where women would be equally represented at all levels of the pipeline, and where women could impact, and benefit from, technology. She died from a brain tumour at the age of 54 in Sonoma, California. Famous Birthdays6 April 1958 - Graeme Base - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_BaseAuthor and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989. He worked in advertising for two years and then began illustrating children's books, gradually moving to authoring them as well. His first book, My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, was accepted by the first publisher he sent it to. He was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. 6 April 1975 - Zach Braff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_BraffAmerican actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his role as J. D. on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2005 and for three Golden Globe Awards from 2005 to 2007. He starred in The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, In Dubious Battle, and has done voice-work for Chicken Little, Oz the Great and Powerful, and the Netflix series Bojack Horseman. In 2004, Braff made his directorial debut with Garden State, which he also wrote, starred in, and compiled the soundtrack album for. He shot the film in his home state of New Jersey for a budget of $2.5 million. The film made over $35 million at the box office and was praised by critics, leading it to gain a cult following. He won numerous awards for his directing work and also won the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005. Braff directed his second film, Wish I Was Here, which he partially funded with a Kickstarter campaign. He was born in South Orange, New Jersey. 7 April 1954 - Jackie Chan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_ChanChan Kong-sang, known professionally as Jackie Chan, is a Hong Kongese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, stuntman, and singer. He is known in the cinematic world for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts, which he typically performs himself. He has trained in Wushu or Kung Fu and Hapkido, and has been acting since the 1960s, appearing in over 150 films. Chan is one of the most recognisable and influential cinematic personalities in the world, gaining a widespread following in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and has received stars on the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars and the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has been referenced in various pop songs, cartoons, and video games. He is an operatically trained vocalist and is also a Cantopop and Mandopop star, having released a number of albums and sung many of the theme songs for the films in which he has starred. He is also a globally known philanthropist and has been named as one of the top 10 most charitable celebrities by Forbes magazine. In 2004, film scholar Andrew Willis stated that Chan was "perhaps" the "most recognised star in the world". In 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth to be $350 million, and as of 2016, he was the second-highest paid actor in the world. He was born in Victoria Peak. 7 April 1964 - Russell Crowe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_CroweRussell Ira Crowe actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the historical film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, an Empire Award, and a London Film Critics Circle Award for best actor, along with ten other nominations in the same category. Crowe's other award-winning performances include portrayals of tobacco firm whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in the drama film The Insider, and John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind. Crowe's other films include, L.A. Confidential, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Cinderella Man, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, State of Play, Robin Hood, Les Misérables, Man of Steel, Noah, and The Nice Guys. In 2015, Crowe made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Crowe's work has earned him several accolades during his career, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA and one Academy Award out of three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000, and 2001). Crowe has also been the co-owner of the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006. He was born in Wellington. Events of Interest 6 April 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympic-gamesOn April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition. In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis. All the competitors were men, and a few of the entrants were tourists who stumbled upon the Games and could sign up. The track-and-field events were held at the Panathenaic Stadium, which was originally built in 330 B.C. and restored for the 1896 Games. Americans won nine out of 12 of these events. The 1896 Olympics also featured the first marathon competition, which followed the 25-mile route run by a Greek soldier who brought news of a victory over the Persians from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. In 1924, the marathon was standardized at 26 miles and 385 yards. Appropriately, a Greek, Spyridon Louis, won the first marathon at the 1896 Athens Games.6 April 1909 - Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability. - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pearys-expedition-reaches-north-poleOn April 6, 1909, American explorer Robert Peary accomplishes a long elusive dream, when he, assistant Matthew Henson and four Eskimos reach what they determine to be the North Pole. Decades after Peary’s death, however, navigational errors in his travel log surfaced, placing the expedition in all probability a few miles short of its goal. In 1908, the pair travelled to Ellesmere Island by ship and in 1909 raced across hundreds of miles of ice to reach what they calculated as latitude 90 degrees north on April 6, 1909. Although their achievement was widely acclaimed, Dr. Frederick A. Cook challenged their distinction of being the first to reach the North Pole. A former associate of Peary, Cook claimed he had already reached the pole by dogsled the previous year. A major controversy followed, and in 1911 the U.S. Congress formally recognized Peary’s claim. In recent years, further studies of the conflicting claims suggest that neither expedition reached the exact North Pole, but that Peary and Henson came far closer, falling perhaps 30 miles short. On May 3, 1952, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher of Oklahoma stepped out of a plane and walked to the precise location of the North Pole, the first person to undisputedly do so.6 April 1917 - Americans declares war on Germany - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/america-enters-world-war-iTwo days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-Tsarist element sympathising with Germany's war against Russia, US public opinion reflected that of the president: the sentiment for neutrality was particularly strong among Irish Americans, German Americans, and Scandinavian Americans, as well as among church leaders and among women in general. On the other hand, even before World War I had broken out, American opinion had been overall more negative toward Germany than toward any other country in Europe. Over time, especially after reports of atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and following the sinking of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania in 1915, American citizens increasingly came to see Germany as the aggressor in Europe. While the country was at peace, American banks made huge loans to Britain and France, which were used mainly to buy munitions, raw materials, and food from across the Atlantic. Wilson made minimal preparations for a land war but he did authorise a major ship-building program for the United States Navy. The president was narrowly re-elected in 1916 on an anti-war ticket.6 April 1974 - The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career. - https://www.mylifetime.com/she-did-that/april-6-1974-abba-won-the-eurovision-song-contest-for-waterloo-launching-their-international-careerSongwriters and musicians Ulvaeus and Andersson first met in 1966. However, it was in 1969 when the seeds of the soon-to-be Swedish supergroup were planted when Björn met his fiancée, Fältskog, and Benny met his fiancée, Lyngstad. Ulvaeus and Andersson knew how to write contagious pop hits. However, Fältskog and Lyngstad’s beautiful harmonies were integral to the global chart-topping ABBA sound. After “Waterloo” won the 19th edition of the Eurovision song competition, the winning tune reached the No. 1 spot on the UK chart and became a top ten hit in the US on the Billboard Hot 100. “Waterloo” sold six million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling singles of all time.Follow us on Facebook - Page - https://www.facebook.com/NerdsAmalgamated/ - Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/440485136816406/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/NAmalgamated Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6Nux69rftdBeeEXwD8GXrS iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/top-shelf-nerds/id1347661094 RSS - http://www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com/topshelfnerdspodcast?format=rssInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/nerds_amalgamated/General Enquiries Email - Nerds.Amalgamated@gmail.comRate & Review us on Podchaser - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/nerds-amalgamated-623195
Historians Laura Rowe and Saul David discuss the controversy surrounding the 1915 German torpedo attack that sank the RMS Lusitania, killing 1198 passengers and crew. Presented by Anindya Raychaudhuri.
PANEL DISCUSSION | BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON | 24.04.17 PANEL: Professor Sir Hew Strachan (Chair) | Professor Phillips O'Brien | Dr Alice Kelly CONTEXT Throughout the First World War, peace negotiations were conducted alongside visceral military conflict. But in December 1916, with President Wilson's attempt to arbitrate, the serious push for peace began. DISCUSSION SIR HEW STRACHAN (Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews), PHILLIPS O'BRIEN (Professor of Strategic Studies, University of St Andrews), and DR ALICE KELLY (Rt Hon Vere Sidney Tudor Harmsworth Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the History of the United States and WW1) on the US vision for peace and a new world order, including: (1) the US/British relationship, in particular, the contention that it was British propaganda that brought the US into the war in 1917, and the subsequent British missions to the US led by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour and the press baron, Lord Northcliffe; (2) how President Wilson's peace initiative shaped the remainder of the war and influenced the terms of the ultimate peace; and (3) the legacy of the US vision for peace and a new world order in WW1 across the long 20th century. HOW THE PEACE BROKER TURNED BELLIGERENT On 1 May 1915, RMS Lusitania left New York bound for Liverpool. Aboard were 1,959 passengers and crew. Only 764 would survive the voyage. On 7 May 1915, as she rounded the south coast of Ireland, German U-boat 20 torpedoed and sank the pride of the Cunard Line in just 18 minutes. Among the dead were 123 Americans. That evening, as the news broke, Colonel Edward House, President Woodrow Wilson's right-hand man, was dining with US Ambassador Walter Hines Page in London. ‘We shall be at war within a month', House declared. But Wilson, holding fast to his vision for peace, refused to be provoked and it was not until almost two years later, in April 1917, that the US finally entered the war. By then, Wilson's attempt to arbitrate in December 1916 had failed and German provocation could no longer be ignored. Germany was waging unrestricted U-boat warfare and the Zimmerman telegram had exposed German attempts to foment war between Mexico and the US. If the US wanted to secure peace, it would have to enter the war. The peace broker had finally turned belligerent. AUDIO CLIPS from ChromeRadio's podcast drama, ENTER THE PEACE BROKER by Martyn Wade, will illustrate the panel discussion. Based on contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports, the drama brings alive America's journey into WW1, a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue. Made with the support of the ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, the production includes a selection of WW1 songs arranged and performed by mezzo-soprano JESSICA WALKER with JAMES HOLMES on piano. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES at the BRITISH LIBRARY | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PANEL DISCUSSION | NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL, KANSAS CITY | 2.11.17 PANEL: Lora Vogt (Moderator) | Professor Jay Sexton | Professor Jennifer Keene CONTEXT Peace negotiations were conducted alongside military conflict from the outset of WW1, but it was President Wilson's attempt to arbitrate in December 1916 that initiated the serious push for peace. By then, the fighting on the Western Front had revealed the full horror of modern industrial warfare. However, Wilson discovered that to secure peace America would have to join the fight. DISCUSSION PROFESSORS JAY SEXTON (Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri) and JENNIFER KEENE (Chair, Department of History, Chapman University) on Wilson's vision for peace and a new world order, US military preparedness in 1917, and domestic reactions to US entry into the War. HOW THE PEACE MAKER TURNED BELLIGERENT On 7 May 1915, RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Among the dead were over 120 Americans. As news reports came in that evening, Colonel House, President Wilson's right-hand man, was dining with US Ambassador Walter Page in London. “We shall be at war with Germany within a month”, declared House. In fact, some two years would elapse before America finally entered the War on April 6, 1917. AUDIO CLIPS from ChromeRadio's podcast drama, ENTER THE PEACE BROKER by Martyn Wade, will illustrate the panel discussion. Based on contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports, the drama brings alive America's journey into WW1, a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue. Made with the support of the ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, the production includes a selection of WW1 songs arranged and performed by mezzo-soprano JESSICA WALKER with JAMES HOLMES on piano. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PANEL DISCUSSION | UNIVERSITE PARIS-SORBONNE | 25.11.17 PANEL: Professor Sir Hew Strachan(Chair) | Professor George-Henri Soutou | Professor Jennifer Keene CONTEXT Peace negotiations were conducted alongside military conflict from the outset of WW1, but it was President Wilson's attempt to arbitrate in December 1916 that initiated the serious push for peace. By then, the fighting on the Western Front had revealed the full horror of modern industrial warfare. However, Wilson discovered that to secure peace America would have to join the fight. DISCUSSION SIR HEW STRACHAN (Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews), GEORGES-HENRI SOUTOU (Professor Emeritus, Paris-Sorbonne, Institut de France) and PROFESSOR JENNIFER KEENE (Chair, Department of History, Chapman University) on: (1) the Franco-American relationship prior to American entry into WW1; (2) America's entry into WW1 in April 1917, including the arrival of American troops in France, and their reception; and (3) the legacy of American engagement in France 1917-1918. HOW THE PEACE MAKER TURNED BELLIGERENT On 7 May 1915, RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Among the dead were over 120 Americans. As news reports came in that evening, Colonel House, President Wilson's right-hand man, was dining with US Ambassador Walter Page in London. “We shall be at war with Germany within a month”, declared House. In fact, some two years would elapse before America finally entered the War on April 6, 1917. AUDIO CLIPS from ChromeRadio's podcast drama, ENTER THE PEACE BROKER by Martyn Wade, will illustrate the panel discussion. Based on contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports, the drama brings alive America's journey into WW1, a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue. Made with the support of the ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, the production includes a selection of WW1 songs arranged and performed by mezzo-soprano JESSICA WALKER with JAMES HOLMES on piano. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the UNIVERSITE PARIS-SORBONNE | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
When a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania on Friday, May 7th, 1915, Americans found two new enemies: Germany and the beer it was so associated with. Anti-German sentiment grew, and with it hostility to the breweries founded in the 19th century by German immigrants. Soon, the war effort and the temperance movement were linked: it was patriotic to abstain, and Prohibition became law.How did America cope? They swapped their stool at the bar for a seat at the soda shop, listening to new radios and the first ever baseball broadcasts. But Americans’ thirst wasn’t ever fully quenched: they turned to family doctors who prescribed “medicinal alcohol,” and then finally to the bootleggers, moonshiners and rum-runners who made, smuggled and sold hooch of all types, from top-shelf French cognac to homemade swill that might just kill you.For more about the Lusitania, check out Dead Wake: The Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson.Daniel Okrent’s Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition has more information on medicinal alcohol and how it was prescribed by doctors. To learn more about medicinal beer, this article by Beverly Gage for The Smithsonian is excellent.The 1991 study “Alcohol Consumption During Prohibition” by Jeffrey A. Miron and Jeffrey Zwiebel, is considered the definitive study about how much people actually drank during the noble experiment. For more information on how Prohibition played out in the early days, check out Professor David J. Hanson’s, “Alcohol Problems and Solutions,” a comprehensive, interactive site that outlines all the various stakeholders in the Noble Experiment.To read more about Americans behaving badly in Cuba and other places during Prohibition, check out Wayne Curtis’s And A Bootle of Rum: A History of the World in Ten Cocktails, as well as Matthew Rowley’s Lost Recipes of Prohibition. And, to learn more about rum-runners, Daniel Francis’s book, Closing Time: Prohibition, Rum-Runners and Border Wars is an excellent reference.Further references can be found in America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops by Christine Sismondo.Support this show by supporting our sponsors!
Grab your seat in the life boat, we're getting ready to talk about the sinking of the RMS Lusitania with the hilarious Nate Earl! Zach tells us about a treat from the German cineplex, Nate preserves an important detail of history, and Brian takes shots at the Irish (which he can)!If you can, please support the show by donating over at our Patreon page!Be sure to check out all the amazing shows on the Denver Podcast Network!
City Councillor Norm Kelly is likely best known for his reputation as the
City Councillor Norm Kelly is likely best known for his reputation as the ‘six dad' for his fervent advocacy on behalf of the city of Toronto, both on social media, and in real life…and he's lending his credibility to promote the upcoming Becel Ride for Heart. Libby talks with him to find out more. And – May marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. Kim Izzo has written the historical fiction, 7 Days in May, that follows the lives of four people, all of whom have connections to the fateful trip of the RMS Lusitania in 1917. Libby talks to her about her personal connection to the tragedy, and about her inspiration to write the book.
Boston in 1915 is a town on the move. Prohibition creates opportunities for corruption and evasion of the law. Stock scandals and political machinations keep the news wires humming. Women agitate for the vote, socialists for the good of the common man. A new sports phenomenon, the nineteen-year-old Babe Ruth, sparks enthusiasm for the local team by hitting one home run after another. A new invention called radio hovers on the brink of a technological breakthrough that threatens the established newspaper business. Over it all hangs the shadow of what will soon be known as the Great War. Boston, like most US cities of the time, has large populations of Germans and Irish that do not want to see their country fighting alongside Great Britain and France. Meanwhile, thousands of young men die daily in the trenches, and the RMS Lusitania sinks off the coast of Ireland, torpedoed by a German submarine captain who believes (perhaps rightly) that the British have stocked it with hidden munitions. Through the overlapping stories of the Townsend and Morrison families in Glenfiddich Inn (Sonador Publishing, 2015), Alan Geik weaves these disparate threads into a compelling portrait of early twentieth-century Boston and New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Boston in 1915 is a town on the move. Prohibition creates opportunities for corruption and evasion of the law. Stock scandals and political machinations keep the news wires humming. Women agitate for the vote, socialists for the good of the common man. A new sports phenomenon, the nineteen-year-old Babe Ruth, sparks enthusiasm for the local team by hitting one home run after another. A new invention called radio hovers on the brink of a technological breakthrough that threatens the established newspaper business. Over it all hangs the shadow of what will soon be known as the Great War. Boston, like most US cities of the time, has large populations of Germans and Irish that do not want to see their country fighting alongside Great Britain and France. Meanwhile, thousands of young men die daily in the trenches, and the RMS Lusitania sinks off the coast of Ireland, torpedoed by a German submarine captain who believes (perhaps rightly) that the British have stocked it with hidden munitions. Through the overlapping stories of the Townsend and Morrison families in Glenfiddich Inn (Sonador Publishing, 2015), Alan Geik weaves these disparate threads into a compelling portrait of early twentieth-century Boston and New York. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Darrell Castle talks about the 100th anniversary of the sinking of RMS Lusitania and how it became the springboard to the New World Order.
The sinking of the passenger liner RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 was one of the great controversies of World War I. Targeted by a German U-Boat as part of a campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare, the Lusitania was carrying 1,266 passengers and 696 crew members. She was also carrying a substantial cargo of supplies for the Allies. She sank in 18 minutes after being struck by a torpedo fired by U-20. 1,191 aboard lost their lives – including 128 Americans. Although the United States remained neutral in the aftermath of the disaster, the sinking of the Lusitania helped move public opinion in favor of entering the war on side of the Allies in 1917.
In 1915, the passenger liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,200 lives. The liner had been travelling from New York to Liverpool. It was one of the most controversial incidents in WW1 and helped turn American opinion against Germany. (Photo: Illustration from The Graphic - A Crime That Has Staggered Humanity: The Torpedoing Of The Lusitania, 15 March 1915, drawn by Charles Dixon. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
We take a swim down memory lane for the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic, and look at other maritime mishaps that don't get as much press.Show Notes:100-year anniversary cruise will take extreme tourists on Titanic’s route - http://www.titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/index.phpAnd here's the ship that will relive that fateful night (although, to be fair, while these pictures look pretty extreme, the ship DID survive) - http://gcaptain.com/incident-photo-of-the-week-cruise-ship-hits-rough-seas/Other ships mentioned in this podcast:The Queen Mary -http://www.queenmary.com/The Olympic -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_OlympicThe Imperator - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_ImperatorOther Maritime disasters:The Sultana - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_SultanaThe Indianapolis -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_%28CA-35%29The Lusitania:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania
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