What The History

What The History – Prohibition Party and Totally Flat

The Rufus Project — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:55:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie visits with Izzy and Moe and Trevor explores a flat Earth.

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REFERENCES

IZZY AND MOE

Abbott K 2012, ‘Prohibition’s Premier Hooch Hounds’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/prohibitions-premier-hooch-hounds-16963599/

Hanson D 2021, ‘Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith: Famous Prohibition Agents’ https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/izzy-einstein-and-moe-smith/

Maeder J 2017, ‘Rumhounds Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith turned Prohibition arrests into comedy’ https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/rumhounds-izzy-moe-turned-prohibition-arrests-comedy-article-1.787185

Time Magazine 1925, ‘PROHIBITION: Izzy and Moe’ http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,928717,00.html The History Guy 2017, ‘Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith, Prohibition Agents’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcl_HrmtgIk

THE FLAT EARTH SOCIETY

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Gets Into A Rap Battle With B.o.B Over Flat Earth Theory (NPR 26 Jan 2016)

Why some still believe the flat Earth conspiracy (MPR News 14 Feb 2022)

‘Mad’ Mike Hughes’ Last Ride: Inside a Flat-Earther’s Doomed Mission (Rolling Stone 15 February 2022

The Flat Earth (Donald E Simanek 2006)

This Month in Physics History (APS Physics June 2006)

Eratosthenes (World History Encyclopedia 3 March 2022)

When Sailors from Ancient Egypt Discovered the World is Not Flat, No One Listened (Ancient Origins 21 Sep 2018)

The Curious History of The International Flat Earth Society (Smithsonian Magazine 29 Jn 2016)

Do they really think the earth is flat? (BBC News 4 August 2008)

Flat wrong: the misunderstood history of flat Earth theories (The Conversation 29 Jan 2016)

Are flat-earthers being serious? (Live Science 17 December 2021)

THE FLAT EARTH THEORY (Chapter 4: Metaphysics, Introduction to Philosophy, an online textbook by Philip A Pecorino Ph.D.) Documenting the Existence of "The International Flat Earth Society" (The TalkOrigins Archive, 1993)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – From Flat to Fact - Ellect (Featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson)

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What The History: The Cheesy Goose and The Pirate Badger

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 10:10:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie checks out the Nottingham Cheese Riot and Trevor finds out what he can about Charlotte Badger.

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REFERENCES

NOTTINGHAM CHEESE RIOT

Breese C 2017, ‘Cheese riots and dragoons: The complete history of Nottingham Goose Fair’ https://nottstv.com/cheese-riots-and-dragoons-the-complete-history-of-nottingham-goose-fair-2016/

Patowary K 2020, ‘The Nottingham Cheese Riot of 1766’ https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/11/the-nottingham-cheese-riot-of-1766.html

Rossen J 2021, ‘Revenge of the Curds: Remembering the Great Nottingham Cheese Riot of 1766’ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/649200/nottingham-cheese-riot-of-1766

Visit Nottinghamshire 2021, ‘The Fantastic History of Goose Fair’ https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/blog/read/2019/09/the-fantastic-history-of-goose-fair-b5961

Yarnspinner V 2011, ‘Damn his Charity, we’ll have the Cheese for nought! Nottingham’s Great Cheese Riot & other 1766 Food Riots’ https://peopleshistreh.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/cheeseriotsebook.pdf

CHARLOTTE BADGER

Story: Badger, Charlotte - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1990)

Who is Charlotte Badger? - Quiet Mutiny

Charlotte Badger - Rejected Princesses

The first woman settler? - New Zealand History (8 Apr 2016)

Pirate Mystery: the story of Charlotte Badger - Radio National New Zealand (19 Mar 2018)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Cheese - Tim Minchin

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What The History: What The Halloween 5

The Rufus Project — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:04:00 +0000

Join Suzie and Trevor as they delve into two darker bits of history for our annual Halloween special!

Content warning: Description of domestic violence and murder from 18:40 to 19:06.

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REFERENCES

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

Hewitt, L 2021, ‘Gunpowder Treason and Plot 1605’ https://www.historicmysteries.com/gunpowder-plot/

History.com Editors 2019, ‘Gunpowder Plot’ https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/gunpowder-plot

History Extra 2015, ‘Guy Fawke and the Gunpowder Plot: Everything You Need to Know’ https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/guy-fawkes-gunpowder-plot-facts-bonfire-night/

The National Archives, n.d., ‘Gunpowder Plot’ https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/gunpowder-plot/#background

Trueman, C 2015, ‘English Catholics 1603 to 1606’ https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/stuart-england/english-catholics-1603-to-1606/ UK Parliament 2021, ‘Frequently Asked Questions: The Gunpowder Plot’ https://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/gunpowder-plot/ and ‘Thanksgiving Act’ https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/the-gunpowder-plot-of-1605/collections/thanksgiving-act/

THE GREENBRIER GHOST

How a Ghost's Evidence Convicted a Murderer - Huffington Post 19/2/16

The Unbelievable Story of The Greenbrier Ghost, Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder - Dusty Old Thing

Greenbrier Ghost: the deceased who had her husband condemned for murder - Random-Times 9/6/19

Greenbrier Ghost, Zona Heaster Shue - Greenbrier Valley

The Greenbrier Ghost - Appalachian History 23/1/18

The full tale of West Virginia's remarkable Greenbrier Ghost - West Virginia Explorer Magazine 14/9/21

HOW A GHOST’S EVIDENCE CONVICTED A MURDERER - Dying Words 13/2/16

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

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Jailbird Jack and Not So Skylab

The Rufus Project — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 03:30:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie examines the remarkable life of Jack Sheppard and Trevor recounts the downfall of Skylab.

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REFERENCES

JOHN SHEPPARD

History Collection n.d., ‘Jack Sheppard’ https://historycollection.com/money-life-5-famous-highwaymen-lived-fast-died-young/5/

Johnson B, n.d., ‘The Amazing Escapes of Jack Sheppard’ https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Amazing-Escapes-of-Jack-Sheppard/

National Portrait Gallery 2020, ‘Portrait of John Sheppard’ https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp04091/john-sheppard

Old Bailey Online 1724,Joseph Sheppard, Theft > housebreaking, Theft > housebreaking, Theft > burglary, 12th August 1724’ https://web.archive.org/web/20120105154748/http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?ref=t17240812-52 Original manuscript: https://web.archive.org/web/20131206005442/http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/images.jsp?doc=172408120007

Spitalfields Life 2020, ‘Jack Sheppard, Highwayman’ https://spitalfieldslife.com/2020/01/18/jack-sheppard-highwayman/

The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica 2020, ‘Jack Sheppard’ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-Sheppard-English-criminal The Ex Classics Website n.d., ‘The Newgate Calendar - Jack Sheppard’ https://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng173.htm

SKYLAB

The Day Skylab Crashed to Earth - history.com (11/7/2012)

Skylab - NASA

40 Years Ago, NASA's Skylab Space Station Fell to Earth - space.com (11/7/2019)

NASA's Skylab met its demise in Australia more than 40 years ago — but was it really an accident? - ABC News (31/5/2020)

When Skylab fell to earth - ABC Local (9/7/2009)

Balladonia, Skylab crash site in Australia: How a fallen space station caused mayhem in the outback - traveller.com.au (20/8/2020)

Great Balls Of Fire! - Perth Observatory (11/7/2019)

Dogs in Space - imdb.com

The Ballad Of Balladonia Night - Family - youtube

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – The Ballad of Balladonia Night - Family

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Artichoked and Bibles Gone Wild

The Rufus Project — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:23:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie finds out why the artichoke caused a kerfuffle and Trevor reads some very unfortunate typos in one of the world's most famous books.

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REFERENCES

THE ARTICHOKE WARS

Food Passages n.d., ‘The Artichoke Wars’ http://www.foodpassages.com/jottings-by-joel/jottings/the-artichoke-wars/

Lum L 2020, ‘Exploring Artichokes’ https://delishably.com/vegetable-dishes/Exploring-Artichokes

Smith N 2018, ‘When Marilyn Monroe Reigned as California’s Artichoke Queen’ https://medium.californiasun.co/when-marilyn-monroe-reigned-as-californias-artichoke-queen-3017ce58c1a5

Stradley L 2021, ‘Artichokes History’ https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/ArtichokeHistory.htm The Kitchen Project n.d., ‘The History of Artichokes’ http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/Artichoke/index.htm

BIBLE TYPESETTING ERRORS

Good Omens - neilgaiman.com

The 10 worst typos in the Bible - The Guardian 22 Oct 2015

History’s Worst Biblical Misprints - history.com 29 Aug 2018

Printing errors in the Bible - didyouknow.org

The Bible Museum’s ‘Wicked Bible’: Thou Shalt Commit Adultery - The Washington Post 19 Nov 2017 The ‘Wicked Bible’ Exists Thanks to a 17th Century Typo - Gizmodo 15 Feb 2021

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – On The Bible - Deuce

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What The Halloween 4

The Rufus Project — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:32:03 +0000

In this special Halloween episode Suzie visits Glamis Castle and Trevor checks out a vase with a difference.

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REFERENCES

GLAMIS CASTLE

Castle Ghosts of Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAW2wMUDWs

Dash M 2012, ‘The Monster of Glamis’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-monster-of-glamis-92015626/

Dunning B 2011, ‘The Monster of Glamis’ https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4276

Glamis Castle n.d., https://www.glamis-castle.co.uk/

Haunted Rooms 2020, ‘Glamis Castle, Angus, Scotland’ https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/glamis-castle-angus-scotland

Magical Europe 2019, ‘Glamis Castle Considered The Most Haunted Castle in Scotland’ https://magical-europe.com/2019/09/01/glamis-castle-considered-the-most-haunted-castle-in-scotland/

Royal Central 2015, ‘Ghosts of Glamis: Tales from Glamis Castle’ https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/insight/ghosts-of-glamis-ghastly-tales-from-glamis-castle-52672/

Sullivan K 2019, ‘The Dark Secret Behind the Hidden Room of Glamis Castle’ https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/dark-secret-behind-hidden-room-glamis-castle-006821 The Douglas Archives 2020, ‘Lady Janet Douglas of Glamis’ http://douglashistory.co.uk/history/ladyjanetdouglas.htm

THE BASANO VASE

The Curious and Deadly Tale of the Basano Vase - Gypsy Corner (12 March 2018)

The Bizarre Story Of The Curse Of Basano Vase - Planet Today (29 September 2020)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Things That Go Bump In The Night (Public Domain)

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Killer Fashion and the The Hippo Cartel

The Rufus Project — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:42:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie looks into deadly clothes and Trevor finds Hippos in a unlikely place.

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REFERENCES

CRAPE CLOTHING

Australian Museum 2018, ‘Mourning - Victoria Era’

https://australianmuseum.net.au/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/mourning-victorian-era/

Calberg A 2012, ‘19th Century Widower etiquette, Victorian era, Antebellum

https://ladyamcal.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/19th-century-widower-etiquette-victorian-era-antebellum/

Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History 2018, ‘Courtaulds’

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Courtaulds

Sears J 2018, ‘Wearing a 19th-Century Mourning Veil Could Result in — Twist — Death’

https://www.racked.com/2018/3/29/17156818/19th-century-mourning-veil

Today I Found Out 2016, ‘Why Do People Wear Black for Mourning’

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/11/people-wear-black-mourning/

United Nations of Roma Victrix 2019, ‘The Clothing of Ancient Romans’

https://www.unrv.com/clothing.php University of Michigan, The Dietetic and hygienic gazette. v.14 1898, p. 260

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076525693;view=1up;seq=296

SOUTH AMERICAN HIPPOS

Pablo Escobar - Encyclopedia Britannica

Pablo Escobar’s hippos: A growing problem - BBC News (26 June 2014)

Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' may be helping river ecosystems in Colombia - Live Science (30 March 2020)

Could Pablo Escobar's escaped hippos help the environment? - National Geographic (31 January 2020)

Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Fill a Hole Left Since Ice Age Extinctions - The New York Times (26 March 2020)

Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Have A Big Impact On Colombian Lakes - Forbes (30 January 2020)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas (Public Domain)

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Tasty Tasty Sin and the Unhappiest Place on Earth

The Rufus Project — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 10:13:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie looks into the Sin Eaters and Trevor visits Disneyland on its opening day.

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REFERENCES

The Sin Eaters

Sharia M 2017, ‘History’s Worst Job: Village Sin Eater’ http://omgfacts.com/historys-worst-job-village-sin-eater/

Valjak D 2018, ‘The Macabre Story of Sin-Eaters’ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/06/sin-eaters/

Zarrelli N 2017, ‘The Worst Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater’ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-worst-paid-freelance-gig-in-history-was-being-the-village-sin-eater

Disneyland's Opening Day

Disneyland’s Disastrous Opening Day - History.com (17 July 2015)

10 Things to Know About Disneyland’s Opening Day in 1955 - Mickey Is Life (4 December 2018)

10 Things That Went Disastrously Wrong on Disneyland’s Opening Day - Mental Floss (17 July 2018)

Um, Disneyland's Opening Day In 1955 Sounds Like It Was A Dystopian Hell - Buzz Feed (17 October 2017)

Tour The Legendary Danish Amusement Park That Inspired Disneyland - Business Insider Australia (4 December 2012)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Mickey Mouse March - Andrew WK (2009)

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Exclusive Bonus – Join Our Cult: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rufus Project — Sat, 02 May 2020 06:37:08 +0000

Welcome to the preview edition of "Join Our Cult".

Join Trevor and Kristian as they geek out over the cult movie classic, "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

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Bad Poetry and Mad Inspiration

The Rufus Project — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 09:34:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie examines the work of the alleged worst poet in history and Trevor finds one of the stranger impacts of Rasputin's legacy.

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REFERENCES

William McGonagall

Abrahams M 2011, ‘Cheesy poems get a new audience’ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/mar/07/improbable-research-william-mcgonagall

BBC News 2019, 'Worst poet' outsells boy wizard http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7402920.stm

Bort E 2011,’Review: Poet McGonagall’ https://www.euppublishing.c om/doi/pdfplus/10.3366/scot.2012.0034

Hunt C 2020, ‘McGonagall Online’ https://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/

Interesting Literature 2020, ‘Five Fascinating Facts about William McGonagall’ https://interestingliterature.com/2015/09/five-fascinating-facts-about-william-mcgonagall/

Johnson B n.d., ‘William McGonagall - The Bard of Dundee’ https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/William-McGonagall-The-bard-of-Dundee/

McSmith A 2008, ‘The story of William McGonagall, the worst poet in the history of the English language’ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-story-of-william-mcgonagall-the-worst-poet-in-the-history-of-the-english-language-829993.html

Patowary K 2019, ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster And The World’s Worst Poem’ https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/11/the-tay-bridge-disaster-and-worlds.html

Poetry Foundation 2020, ‘Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah William McGonagall’ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-mcgonagall

Rasuputin and Felix Yusupov

Poisoned, shot and beaten: why cyanide alone may have failed to kill Rasputin - The Guardian 13 Jan 2017

How Rasputin Initiated the ‘All Persons Fictitious’ Disclaimer in Movies - The Vintage News 4 Mar 2019

The Shocking Story of Rasputin the Mad Monk - 13th Floor 2 Jan 2017The Strange Reason Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (You Guessed It: Rasputin!) - Slate 26 Aug 2016

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Rasputin - Boney M

All music used under fair use provisions.

Sad Sax and She Sells What?

The Rufus Project — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:00:00 +0000

In this episode Suzie checks out the turbulent history of the saxaphone and Trevor sees what exactly Mary Anning sold.

What the History?

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REFERENCES

Aldophe Sax and the Saxaphone

Adolphe Sax and Cie 2019, ‘Antoine-Joseph Sax - Inventor of the Saxophone’ https://www.adolphesax.be/en/adolphe-sax/

Encyclopaedia Brittanica 2020, ‘Adolphe Sax’ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Joseph-Sax

Kelsey-Sugg A 2020, ‘It was banned by the Nazis, Stalin and the Vatican. This is the surprising history of the saxophone’ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-25/saxophone-history-of-musical-instrument-brutal-and-beautiful/11960922

Stover S 2020, ‘Adolphe Sax’ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/adolphe-sax-mn0001661571/biography The Instrument Place 2019, ‘History of the Saxophone’ https://www.theinstrumentplace.com/history-of-the-saxophone

Mary Anning

The forgotten history behind the world’s most famous tongue twister - Vintage News (24 Jan 2018)

Mary Anning inspired 'she sells sea shells' — but she was actually a legendary fossil hunter - ABC Radio National (6 May 2019)

Mary Anning - Famous Scientists

Mary Anning (1799-1847) - University of Berkeley

Mary Anning - Lyme Regis Museum

The untold tale of the woman who dug up ancient sea monsters - The Guardian (17 Mar 2019)

Mary Anning, the fossil finder - Charles Dickens (1865)

Ammonite (2020) - IMDB

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Rufus Project Presents has a Patreon

The Rufus Project — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:50:40 +0000

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Jack of All Trades and Dazzling Marvel

The Rufus Project — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:10:18 +0000

In this episode Suzie visits a remarkable woman and Trevor gets down with a disco fizzler.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

Sources:

GENTLEMAN JACK

History Extra 2019, ‘The Real ‘Gentleman Jack’: The Secret Life of Anne Lister, Britain’s First ‘Modern Lesbian’’ https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/anne-lister-real-gentleman-jack-diary-code-history-secret-life-britain-first-modern-lesbian/

Mancini M 2019, ‘The True Story Behind Gentleman Jack: 10 Facts About Anne Lister https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/581234/gentleman-jack-anne-lister-facts

Newton G 2019, ‘Ann Walker: what happened to Anne Lister's lover and 'wife', portrayed by Sophie Rundle in Gentleman Jack’ https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/ann-walker-anne-lister-lover-wife-actress-sophie-rundle-gentleman-jack-what-happened-499067

Woods R 2019, ‘The Life and Loves of Anne Lister’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_life_and_loves_of_anne_lister

DISCO DAZZLER

Jim Shooter’s ‘Dazzler’ Movie Pitch, Starring Rodney Dangerfield and KISS, Is Completely Insane - Comics Alliance

The Debut of the Dazzler - Jim Shooter (4 July 2011)

The weird and wild history of Dazzler - Syfy Wire (10 July 2018)

‘Dark Phoenix': Why Dazzler Took 40 Years to Get to the Big Screen - The Wrap (6 June 2019)

Dazzler's Dark Phoenix Cameo Explained - Screen Rant (18 June 2019)

Read the insane Dazzler script starring Cher and Robin Williams - Gizmodo (12 July 2011)

Looking back at the (seriously weird) lost X-Men movie - Digital Spy (9 June 2019)

The Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) - IMDB

Howard the Duck (1986) - IMDB

Dark Phoenix (2019) - IMDB

X-Men Vol 1 130 - Marvel Fandom

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Gentleman Jack - O'Hooley and Tidow

All music used under fair use provisions.

Mooning Bats and the Peaceful Pause

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:46:08 +0000

In this episode Suzie goes on a lunar adventure and Trevor examines a treaty that was very long in the making.

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Sources:

THE GREAT MOON HOAX

Breitman D 2016, ‘Today in science: Great Moon Hoax’ https://earthsky.org/human-world/great-moon-hoax-august-25-1835

History.com 2018, ‘The Great Moon Hoax’ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax

The Museum of Hoaxes 2015, ‘The Great Moon Hoax’ http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax

Wills M 2017, ‘How the Sun Conned the World With “The Great Moon Hoax”’ https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-sun-conned-the-world-with-the-moon-hoax/

Zielinski S 2015, ‘The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/great-moon-hoax-was-simply-sign-its-time-180955761/

ATHENS AND SPARTA PEACE TREATY

Peace between Athens and Sparta: an agreement signed only in 1996 - Random Times (4 Dec 2018)

Athens, Sparta sign peace pact - UPI (12 Mar 1996)

Sparta vs. Athens: The War that Lasted 2,500 Years - The Vintage News (29 Aug 2018)

Spartan Battles - Lengends and Chronicles

Peloponnesian War - history.com (29 Oct 2009)

Sparta Versus Athens - Warfare History Network (27 Oct 2018)

The Peloponnesian War - ancientgreece.com

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Man on the Moon - REM and Batman TV Show Theme

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Holey Gage and Saving Lincoln

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:43:21 +0000

In this episode Suzie examines a medical oddity and Trevor recounts a particularly amazing coincidence.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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PHINEAS GAGE

Center for NeuroSkills 2019, ‘Frontal Lobes’ https://www.neuroskills.com/brain-injury/frontal-lobes.php

Cherry K 2018, ‘Phineas Gage's Brain Injury - His Injury Led to New Discoveries in Neuroscience’ https://www.verywellmind.com/phineas-gage-2795244

Costandi M 2010, ‘Phineas Gage and the effect of an iron bar through the head on personality’ https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/nov/05/phineas-gage-head-personality

Haas L 2001, ‘Phineas Gage and the science of brain localisation’, Journal of Neurology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Vol. 71, Issue 6 https://jnnp.bmj.com/content/71/6/761

Harvard Brain Tour 2016, ‘The Improbable Tale of Phineas Gage’ http://braintour.harvard.edu/archives/portfolio-items/phineas-gage

Mcmillian M 2008, ‘Phineas Gage – Unravelling the myth’, The British Psychological Society, The Psychologist, Vol. 21, pp. 838-831 http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-21/edition-9/phineas-gage-unravelling-myth

National Post 2015, ‘How Phineas Gage survived a horrific brain injury to become one of the most famous names in medical history’ https://nationalpost.com/news/how-phineas-gage-survived-a-horrific-brain-injury-to-become-one-of-the-most-famous-names-in-medical-history

The University of Akron 2019, ‘The Phineas Gage story’ https://www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot

Today I Found Out 2019, ‘The Remarkable Tale of Phineas Gage’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw0zbyQVCEc

Twomey S 2010, ‘Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/

Warren Museum at Harvard University School of Medicine n.d., ‘Phineas Gage 1823-1860’ http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/exhibits?page=4

EDWIN BOOTH AND ROBERT LINCOLN

John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved Abraham Lincoln’s Son’s Life Shortly Before Lincoln Was Assassinated - Today I Found Out (Nov 1, 2010)

John Wilkes Booth's Brother Saved Abe Lincoln's Son - Mental Floss (Mar 22, 2017)

Edwin Booth, John Wilkes Booth’s brother, saved the life of Robert Lincoln, on a train platform - The Vintage News (Jan 23, 2017)

John Wilkes Booth’s Brother Saved Abe Lincoln’s Son - KnowledgeNuts (Nov 2, 2013)

You Thought Abe Lincoln Had Bad Luck? Meet His Son, Robert - Did You Know Facts

Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination - history.com (Oct 27, 2009)

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) - Cracker

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Bubonic Brissie and Tragic Inspiration

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:40:00 +0000

In our 50th episode Suzie finds a famous disease in an unexpected place and Trevor looks at a terrible tragedy from the past that inspired something great. What the history?

Content warning: Murder (11:57 - 12:40) and suicide (12:59 - 13:11)

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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THE PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018, ‘History of the Plague’ https://www.cdc.gov/plague/history/index.html

Crockford T 2018, ‘From disasters and plagues to celebrations: How Brisbane came to love its river’ https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/from-disasters-and-plagues-to-celebrations-how-brisbane-came-to-love-its-river-20181115-p50gc4.html

Dawson C 2011, ‘Brisbane's Lost Plague Cemetery’ https://www.fosbc.com/2017/03/plague-cemetery.html

Encyclopaedia Britannica 2019, ‘Alexandre Yersin’ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexandre-Yersin

Fraser Coast Libraries 2011, ‘Black Death in Maryborough 1905’ http://fclibrarieslocalstudies.blogspot.com/2011/08/black-death-in-maryborough-1905.html

Gerard C n.d., ’Bubonic Plague in Woolloongabba in 1900’ http://kangaroopointhistory.com.au/first-brisbane-case-of-bubonic-plague-in-hawthorne-street-27-april-1900/

History.com 2019, ‘6 Devastating Plagues’ https://www.history.com/news/6-devastating-plagues

Queensland Government – Queensland Health 2019, ‘Plague’ https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/index/plague

Rockhampton Morning Bulletin 1922, ‘Plague Rat Caught in Brisbane’ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54029850

The Brisbane Courier 1903, ‘The Closing of Colmslie Hospital’ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19220913

State Library of Queensland 2008 and 1900, ‘Black Death in Queensland’ and ‘Bubonic plague in Hawthorne Street, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland, 1900‘ http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/jol/2008/09/12/black-death-in-queensland/ and https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153915275?q&versionId=167820089

CAROLYN WASILEWSKI

Death of Suspect Complicates Probe In Murder of Girl, 14 - The Dispatch Nov 12 1954 (Google News)

Baltimore Police Hunt Girl's Slayer - Reading Eagle Nov 10 1954 (Google News)

Drape Grilled in Murder - The Baltimore Sun Nov 28 1954 (newspapers.com)

Slaying of student remains mystery; Homicide: In 1954, Carolyn Wasilewski stepped out in curlers to meet a girlfriend. She never came back. - The Baltimore Sun Mar 18 2000

Backstory: Cry-Baby and John Waters' Journey to Broadway - Broadway Buzz Apr 3 2008

Unsolved murder of 14-year-old girl remains a mystery after more than 60 years - Life! Death! Prizes! Jun 14 2017

Ten Off-Screen, Off-the-Wall Facts about John Waters - New Orleans Museum of Art Aug 1 2017

Cry-Baby (1990) - imdb.com

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Fifty Years - Uncanny X-Men

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Mystical Milton and The Rude Worm

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:36:46 +0000

In this episode Suzie visits the most ancient modern city around and Trevor explores the murkier depths of cyber space. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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MILTON KEYNES

Destination Milton Keynes 2019, ‘101 Facts about MK’ http://www.destinationmiltonkeynes.co.uk/About-us/101-Facts-about-MK

Jeffries S 2017, ‘50 reasons to love Milton Keynes (what, only 50?)’ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jan/20/50-reasons-love-milton-keynes-concrete-cows-wd-40

Masters B 2015, ‘Living the dream in Milton Keynes – why it’s my kind of town’ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/10/living-the-dream-in-milton-keynes-why-its-my-kind-of-town

MKInspire 2012, ‘About Milton Keynes’ http://www.mkinspire.org.uk/

MK Heritage – Two Villages Archive Trust n.d, ‘Milton Keynes and Broughton Villages’ http://www.mkheritage.org.uk/tva/ and Olney & District Historical Society 2018 ‘Olney High Street Heritage Trail http://www.mkheritage.org.uk/odhs/olney-high-street-history/

Royal Museums Greenwich n.d., ‘Equinoxes and Solstices’ https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/equinoxes-and-solstices

Sian and Jackie 2013, ‘Milton Keynes – A Modern Temple to the Sun’ http://sianandjackie.blogspot.com/

Society X 2012, ‘The Milton Keynes Midsummer Leyline’ https://5ocietyx.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/the-milton-keynes-midsummer-ley-line-2/ and http://5ocietyx.com/MK-Midsummer-leyline-microsite/MK.htm

The Parks Trust – Milton Keynes 2019, ‘Campbell Park’ https://www.theparkstrust.com/parks/campbell-park

Willis J 2013, ‘There’s Something Mysterious About Milton Keynes’, The Spooky Isles https://www.spookyisles.com/2013/08/theres-something-mysterious-about-milton-keynes/

THE WANK WORM

Hack to the future - The Age (25 May 2003)

When NASA Got WANKed - Real Clear Science (12 January 2019)

WANK Worm - University of Hamburg

Galileo - NASA Science - Solar System Exploration

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Blossom and Blood - Midnight Oil

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What The F…uture?

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:21:24 +0000

For our 2018 finale Suzie and Trevor look to the past for visions of the future. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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SUZIE'S TALES OF THE FUTURE

Donoughue P 2018, ‘Amy Shark, 5 Seconds of Summer biggest winners at ARIA Awards, as Gurrumul, Kasey Chambers are honoured’, ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-28/arias-2018-highlights-and-winners-from-the-show/10558198

Larsen E 1960, ‘The Everyday Encyclopaedia for Every Boy and Girl – The Future and You – Predictions Based on Facts of Today’ chapter, Spring Books, London, pp. 293, 296, 298, 300

Parekah R 2012, ‘How Much of The Jetsons' Futuristic World Has Become a Reality?’ https://adage.com/article/media/jetsons-world-a-reality/237394/

Zealins E, Ransom R, Leavitt T et al 2016, ‘The role of stem cells in limb regeneration’, Organogenesis, 2016 Jan; 12(1): 16–27. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882123/

TREVOR'S TALES OF THE FUTURE

London a Hundred Years Hence (1857) - Public Domain Review

The Great Smog of 1952 - history.com

Copter Cops - Modern Mechanix Blog

Audi is starting to test its ‘all-electric flying and self-driving car’ - Electrek

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out: In the year 2525 - Zager & Evans (1969)

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Resurrection Blues and Shock to the System

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:19:08 +0000

In this episode Suzie goes in search of the Resurrection Man and Trevor tells the shocking tale of Walter Summerford. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

Sources:

THE RESURRECTION MEN

Bay N, Bay B 2010, ‘Greek anatomist Herophilus: the father of anatomy’, Anatomy and Cell Biology Journal, v. 43 (4); 2010 Dec, pp. 280-283 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3026179/

Hypno C 2018, ‘The Resurrection Men – Body Snatching in 19th Century Britain’ https://owlcation.com/humanities/resurrectionists-body-snatching-in-19th-century-britain

Levinson D n.d ‘Body Snatching’ https://www.britannica.com/topic/body-snatching#ref1179705

Ravilious K 2013, ‘Haunt of the Resurrection Men’, Archaeology Magazine, https://www.archaeology.org/issues/89-1305/features/737-royal-london-hospital-burials

Ruxton D 2017, ‘‘The Irish Times’ 19th century guide to digging up a dead body’ https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-irish-times-19th-century-guide-to-digging-up-a-dead-body-1.2953684

Skulls in the Stars 2013, ‘The Resurrection Men: When people would kill to get into cemeteries’ https://skullsinthestars.com/2013/01/23/the-resurrection-men-when-people-would-kill-to-get-into-cemeteries/

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey 1831, ‘John Bishop, Thomas Williams, James May. Killing: murder’ Old Bailey Online https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t18311201-17-defend279&div=t18311201-17

WALTER SUMMERFORD

Paying a Divine Debt: The Unfortunate Story of Walter Summerford - Swale Life

Walter Summerford: Everything comes in threes, no wait fours? - The Folklorist

The British officer who was struck by lightning four separate times - The Vintage News

Did you know that a man named Walter Summerford was struck by lightning 3 times - This Will Blow Your Mind

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Shock Treatment (Shock Treatment OST)

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Locksmith on the Loose and Classy and Glassy

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 08:16:30 +0000

In this spooky episode Suzie follows the exploits of William Brodie and Trevor analyses the strange life of Charles the VI of France. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

Sources:

WILLIAM BRODIE

Brocklehurst S 2015, ‘The Real Jekyll & Hyde? The Deacon Brodie story’, BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-31018496 Holland S 2018, ‘My British Adventures!’ Johnson B n.d, ‘Deacon Brodie’, Historic UK https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Deacon-William-Brodie/ Radeska T 2017, ‘Gambler William Brodie, Edinburgh’s “real” Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, had keys to every rich family’s house’, The Vintage News https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/25/william-brodie-edinburghs-real-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde/ Royal Mile.com n.d, ‘Brodie’s Close’ http://www.royal-mile.com/closes/close-brodies.html Scotland’s Pubs and Bars – A Story to Tell 2014, ‘Deacon Brodies Tavern – A story of Architecture, History and Literature’ https://www.scotlandspubsandbars.co.uk/location/deacon-brodies-tavern/ The National Archives n.d, ‘History of HM Customs and Excise and predecessors’ http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C15703 Undiscovered Scotland 2018, ‘Deacon Brodie’ https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/deaconbrodie.html Young A 2013, ‘Deacon Brodie: The Real-Life Jekyll and Hyde’, Picture Britain – One Girl’s Journey http://www.picturebritain.com/2013/02/deacon-brodie.html

CHARLES VI

The "Glass Delusion" Was The Most Popular Madness Of The Middle Ages - Gizmodo (18 Sep 2014)

Charles VI Of France – The King Who Was Made Of Glass - Ancient Pages (22 Jan 2016)

Charles VI of France - New World Encyclopedia (6 Feb 2017)

The French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass - JSTOR Daily (29 Mar 2018)

Charles VI of France - Biography.com (2 Apr 2014)

History’s Nutcases: Charles VI - History Things (5 Jun 2016)

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Dr Heckyl and Mr Jive - Men At Work (1983)

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What The Halloween 3

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 07:07:56 +0000

In this spooky episode Suzie recounts the spooky tale of Half Hangit Maggie and Trevor examines the spooky show "Ghostwatch". What the history?

Trigger warnings:

Pregnancy and child loss - 7:21 to 8:06

Mental health and suicide - 20:16 to 20:53

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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HALF HANGIT MAGGIE

Blanco J n.d ‘Margaret Dickson’, Murderpedia http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dickson-margaret.htm Burnett J, Craigie R 1811, ‘A treatise on various branches of the criminal law of Scotland’ p. 570 Colville I 2010, ‘Hauf-hangit Maggie' Dickson’ http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2010/09/hauf-hangit-maggie-dickson.html The Grassmarket n.d. ‘Half Hangit Maggie’ http://www.the-grassmarket.com/history/maggie-dickson.html Undiscovered Scotland 2018, ‘Maggie Dickson’ https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/d/maggiedickson.html

GHOSTWATCH

Ghostwatch (1992) - IMDB

What was Ghostwatch? - The Sun (UK)

The BBC Halloween Hoax That Traumatized Viewers - Mental Floss

Ghostwatch: BBC Halloween spoof that 'gave children PTSD' turns 25 - The Independent

Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television - New Statesman

Ghostwatch: The BBC spoof that duped a nation - BBC News

BBC TV Schedule October 31 1992 - BBC Genome Project

Ghostwatch - Internet Archive

The Blair Witch Project (1999) - IMDB

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Everyday is Halloween - Ministry (2015)

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The Terrible Twos

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:57:12 +0000

In this episode Trevor and Suzie celebrate two years of What The History, well, history! We look back on some of our favourite tasty bits of history from the last twelve months. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Spring Heeled Terror and Spring Loaded Vice - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=spring-heeled-terror-and-spring-loaded-vice

The Tasty Shed and The Dire Digits - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=the-tasty-shed-and-the-dire-digits

Royally Peeved and The Long Run - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=royally-peeved-and-the-long-run

Bunny Battles and Catty Tactics - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=bunny-battles-and-catty-tactics

Highland Haunts and Japery Jaunts - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=highland-haunts-and-japery-jaunts

Riotous Behaviour and The Fleeing Nun - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=riotous-behaviour-and-the-fleeing-nun

The Unsinkable Story and the Storied Detective - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=the-unsinkable-story-and-the-storied-detective

The War of the Words Special - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=the-war-of-the-words-special

What The Christmas - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=what-the-christmas

Timely Wanderings and Lunar Wonderings - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=timely-wanderings-and-lunar-wonderings

Wunder Man and Covert Canines - http://www.wthpod.rufusproject.com/?podcast=wunder-man-and-covert-canines

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - The Happy Happy Birthday Song - The Arrogant Worms

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That’s a Big Nelson and Bloopdy Doop

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:55:17 +0000

In this episode Suzie examines the controversy behind a major English landmark and Trevor investigates a very odd sound. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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NELSON'S COLUMN

Fitzgerald J 2016, ‘Everything You Need To Know About Nelson's Column’, https://londonist.com/london/history/everything-you-need-to-know-about-nelson-s-column Hirsch A 2017, ‘Toppling statues? Here’s why Nelson’s column should be next’, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/toppling-statues-nelsons-column-should-be-next-slavery Long D 2013, ‘Bizarre London’ Constable and Robinson, London, pp. 70-72 Nelson Museum 2013, ‘Nelson’s Injuries and Illnesses’ https://www.nelson-museum.co.uk/injuries-illnesses.html

Park Grand London Paddington 2015, ‘15 Facts About Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square’ https://www.parkgrandlondon.co.uk/blog/15-facts-about-nelsons-column-in-trafalgar-square/ Readers Digest 1988, ‘Strange Stories Amazing Facts’, Readers Digest Services Pty Ltd, Surry Hills, p. 470 The Telegraph 2016, ‘Greenpeace to foot bill as campaigners spared jail for damaging Nelson's Column’, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/16/greenpeace-to-foot-bill-as-campaigners-spared-jail-for-damaging/ van der Krogt R, van der Krogt P 2014, ‘Nelson's Column’ http://statues.vanderkrogt.net/object.php?webpage=ST&record=gblo023 White C 2011, ‘Nelson: The Hero and the Man’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/nelson_01.shtml

THE BLOOP

The Bloop mystery has been solved: it was never a giant sea monster - WIRED

What is the bloop? - NOAA

PMEL Acoustics Program - NOAA

This Is What Actually Caused That Underwater “Bloop” Sound - URBO

The Bloop: An Underwater Mystery That Took Nearly 10 Years to Solve - Motherboard

Remember that scary undersea "bloop" noise? At last we know what caused it. - io9

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Hey There Cthulhu - Eben Brooks

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Royally Peeved and The Long Run

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:53:21 +0000

In this episode Suzie looks at an Australian anti royal plot and Trevor follows the adventures of Shizo Kanakuri. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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HENRY JAMES O'FARRELL

Algate J 2017, ‘Prince and the Assassin: Australia’s first royal tour; portent of terror’ https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/prince-and-the-assassin-australias-first-royal-tour-portent-of-terror/news-story/2496e2f3a6e47cc4b7fec9c91160c8df Gibbney H J 1972, ‘Edinburgh, Duke of (1844–1900)’ Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/edinburgh-duke-of-3467 Harris S 2017, ‘The Irishman who shot Queen Victoria’s son and heir’ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-irishman-who-shot-queen-victoria-s-son-and-heir-1.3179202 Webb C 2017, ‘The Duke is shot!' The day a royal was gunned down in Sydney’ https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/the-duke-is-shot-the-day-a-royal-was-gunned-down-in-sydney-20170705-gx4srj.html Wotherspoon G 2008, ‘Assassination attempt on Prince Alfred 1868’ https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/assassination_attempt_on_prince_alfred_1868

SHIZO KANAKURI

The Curious Case of Shizo Kanakuri’s 1912 Olympic Marathon Run - Today I Found Out

Better late than never for Japan’s first, “slowest” Olympian - The Japan Times

Shizo Kanakuri – The marathon runner who completed an Olympic marathon after 54 years - The Vintage News

The World’s Longest Marathon - Running Heroes

Shizo Kanakuri - Sports Reference

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Runnin Down a Dream - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

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Wunder Man and Covert Canines

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:48:50 +0000

In this episode Suzie rediscovers the Wunderkid and Trevor infiltrates a super secret society. What the history?

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

WHAT THE UPDATE

I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week - Vice Australia (Facebook)

MATTHIAS SINDELAR

Ashdown J 2018, ‘World Cup stunning moments: Austria's Wunderteam go close’ https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/apr/22/world-cup-stunning-moments-austria-wunderteam Four Four Two 2016, ‘The goal that defied the Nazis and killed a legend’ https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/goal-defied-nazis-and-killed-a-legend-0 Goal Profits 2017, ‘The Life of Matthias Sindelar: Austria’s Greatest Player’ https://www.goalprofits.com/matthias-sindelar-austrias-greatest-player/ History.co uk 2018, ‘History’s Forgotten People – Matthias Sindelar’ https://www.history.co.uk/article/historys-forgotten-people-matthias-sindelar History.com 2018, ‘This Day In History – March 12 1938 Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria’ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-announces-an-anschluss-with-austria Wilson J 2007, ‘Sindelar: the ballad of the tragic hero’ https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/apr/03/sport.comment3

THE ORDER OF THE PUGS

The Outlawed Secret Masonic Society of Pugs - Messy Nessy Cabinet of Chic Curiosities

The Order of the Pug, or Mopsorden - Freemasons for Dummies

There was a secret society for Catholics called “The Order of the Pug.” - The Vintage News

Mopsorden (the order of the Pug) - National Purebred Dog Day

The Lost History of the Freemasons - BBC Travel

In eminenti Papal Bull dealing with the condemnation of Freemasonry - Papal Encyclicals Online

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Who Let The Dogs Out - Baha Men

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Cup Chaos and Pigeon Power

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:46:32 +0000

In this episode Suzie gets sporty about the World Cup and Trevor discovers the surprising place pigeon's hold in history.

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THE 1938 WORLD CUP

ESPN n.d. ‘World Cup History 1938’ http://www.espn.co.uk/football/news/story/_/id/1834540/1938

FIFA 1996, ‘A problematic prelude to the 1938 World Cup’ and ‘1938 FIFA World Cup, France https://www.fifa.com/news/y=1996/m=4/news=problematic-prelude-the-1938-world-cup-71450.html and https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1938/awards/index.html History.com 2009, ‘1938 Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria’ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-announces-an-anschluss-with-austria Holocaust Enclyclopedia n.d., ‘The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936’ https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680

PROJECT PIGEON

B.F. Skinner - Biography.com

The Pigeon-Guided Missiles And Bat Bombs Of World War II - Gizmodo Australia

B.F. Skinner’s Pigeon-Guided Rocket - Smithsonian.com

Pigeon-guided missiles - Military History Monthly

Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles - Hack A Day

Strange: In WWII Pigeons Were Trained To Guide Missiles - War History Online

That Time the U.S. Coast Guard Had a Pigeon-Powered Sensor - War Is Boring

Pigeons can help with searches at sea - Ocean Watch

Coast Guard clips wings of pigeon project - UPI.com

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The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Doing The Pigeon - Sesame Street

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One From The Vaults and The Dastardly Danes

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:44:35 +0000

In this episode Suzie examines the Chase vault and Trevor finds out how a Claire Danes ban came about.

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THE CHASE VAULT

Can You Actually 2018, ‘Why Do The Coffins In This Mysterious Vault In Barbados Keep Moving?’ http://canyouactually.com/why-do-the-coffins-in-this-mysterious-vault-in-barbados-keep-moving/ Dunning B 2014, ‘The Moving Coffins of Barbados’ https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4399 Swancer B 2014, ‘The Mysterious Moving Coffins of Barbados’ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/07/the-mysterious-moving-coffins-of-barbados/ The Ghost Hunt UK n.d., ‘The Mysterious Moving Coffins of the Chase Family’ http://theghosthuntuk.com/mysterious-moving-coffins-chase-family/

THE CLAIRE DANES BAN

Brokedown Palace - IMDB

Manila Is Mad At Claire Danes - CBS News

Claire Danes Banned in Manila? - E News

5 celebrities who disrespected the Filipino people - kami.com

Manila Officials Ban Films That Feature Claire Danes - Orlando Sentinel

Manila Bans Claire Danes’ Movies - AP News

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Spirit Got Lost - Mental As Anything

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Bunny Battles and Catty Tactics

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:42:42 +0000

In this episode Suzie finds Napoleon's most surprising foe and Trevor looks at the surprising way a Persian king took on the Egyptians.

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NAPOLEON AND THE RABBITS

History.com Staff, 2009 ‘Napoleon Bonaparte’ http://www.history.com/topics/napoleon Raub O 2014, ‘Napoleons Greatest Failure (No, Not Waterloo)’ https://sites.psu.edu/interestinghistory/2014/03/20/napoleons-greatest-failure-no-not-waterloo/ Stepko B 2018, ‘Napoleon and the Battle of the Rabbits: Faced with the implacable animal horde, the Emperor beat a hasty retreat’ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/05/18/napoleon-and-the-battle-of-the-rabbits/ The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica 2016, ‘Battle of Waterloo’ and 2014 ‘Treaties of Tilsit’ https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Waterloo and https://www.britannica.com/topic/Treaties-of-Tilsit The Liverpool Herald April 6 1901, ‘Napoleon and Rabbits’ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37254325 White F 2014, ‘Napoleon’s battle against rabbits’ https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/people-politics/napoleons-battle-against-rabbits/

THE BATTLE OF PELUSIUM

The Battle of Pelusium: A Victory Decided by Cats - Ancient History Encyclopedia

War Cats: Egyptians Lost A War Because They Loved Cats - Ripley's Believe It or Not

Cambyses II, the Cat Throwing King of Persia - Fact Find

The Battle of Pelusium: ‘Cats’ and psychological edge lead Persians to victory - Realm of History

The Weapon that Conquered Ancient Egypt - History is Now Magazine

The Battle of Pelusium: Psychological warfare leads Persians to victory - Ancient Origins

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - I Have a Theory - Once More With Feeling Soundtrack

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Spring Heeled Terror and Spring Loaded Vice

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:40:54 +0000

In this episode Suzie follows the strange tale of a legendary terror and Trevor examines a pastime that was prohibited for a surprisingly long time.

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SPRING HEELED JACK

Comic Vine 2014, ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’ https://comicvine.gamespot.com/spring-heeled-jack/4005-64734/ D’Costa K 2016, ‘What's the Bogeyman?’ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/what-is-the-bogeyman/ Grundhauser E 2016, ‘Meet Spring-Heeled Jack, the Leaping Devil That Terrorized Victorian England’ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-springheeled-jack-the-leaping-devil-that-terrorized-victorian-england Jordan J 2015, ‘Boogeymen From Around The World’ https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/halloween-2014/ Strange Stories, Amazing Facts 1988, ‘Spring-Heeled Jack’, Readers Digest Services Pty Ltd, Surry Hills, p. 358

PINBALL PROHIBITION

That Time America Outlawed Pinball - History.com

The War On Pinball - Atlas Obscura

Pinball Prohibition: The Arcade Game Was Illegal in New York for Over 30 Years - 6 Square Feet

When Pinball was Illegal - Today I Found Out

A menace to society: the war on pinball in America - Aeon

Pinball Was Once Illegal - Kotaku Australia

The 22 Strangest Things That Have Been Banned Around The World - Buzzfeed

Prohibition - Encyclopedia.com

The History of Pinball Machines and Pintables - BMI Gaming

Pinball Machines Almost Banned in 1978 - Aus Retro Gamer

Other stuff:

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Pinball Wizard - The Who (1969)

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Riotous Behaviour and The Fleeing Nun

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:38:54 +0000

In this episode Suzie looks at some very strange reason's for riots and Trevor follows the adventure's of a very amazing individual.

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Sources:

WHAT THE UPDATE

'Very Angry Badger' Seizes Part Of 500-Year-Old Scottish Castle - Huffington Post

CLOTHING RIOTS

McRobbie L 2011, ‘6 Articles of Clothing That Caused Riots’ http://mentalfloss.com/article/27298/6-articles-clothing-caused-riots The British Newspaper Archive 2014, ‘The first top hat causes a commotion’ https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2014/01/15/the-first-top-hat-causes-a-commotion/ Calligeros M 2009, ‘Ugly scenes at swingers' resort as nudists war over dress code’ http://www.traveller.com.au/ugly-scenes-at-swingers-resort-as-nudists-war-over-dress-code-8ox3

CATALINA DE ERAUSO

Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun - Headstuff

Catalina de Erauso - Rejected Princesses

From Spain to the Americas, from the convent to the front: Catalina de Erauso's shifting identities - Eurozine

Catalina de Erauso - The Female Soldier

Lieutenant Nun - Penguin Random House

Other stuff:

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - I Predict a Riot - Kaiser Chiefs (2004)

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The Ultimate Drag Queen and Playing Games With History

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:36:36 +0000

In this episode Suzie investigates a very strange tale regarding Queen Elizabeth I and Trevor delves into the hidden origins of Monopoly.

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THE BISLEY BOY

Jones N 2015, ‘Bram Stoker and the Legend of the Bisley Boy’ https://www.spookyisles.com/2015/01/bram-stoker-and-the-legend-of-the-bisley-boy/ Stoker B 1910, ‘Famous Imposters’ https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stoker/bram/famous-imposters/chapter10.html The Elizabeth Files 2009, ‘The Bisley Boy’ http://www.elizabethfiles.com/the-bisley-boy/3255/ Tudor History.org n.d, ‘Elizabeth I, Queen of England’ http://tudorhistory.org/elizabeth/ Tudor Place n.d, ‘Blanche Parry’ http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/BlancheParry.htm White F 2015, ‘The Secret of the Virgin King: Was Queen Elizabeth I really a man?’ https://www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/the-virgin-king-was-queen-elizabeth-i-really-a-man/

THE LANDLORD'S GAME

6 Facts About Lizzie Magie: Monopoly’s Lost Female Inventor - biography.com

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie, Inventor of Monopoly - Mental Floss

Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism - BBC

The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins - The Guardian

Monopoly’s Inventor: The Progressive Who Didn’t Pass ‘Go’ - The New York Times

Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality - Smithsonian Magazine

Global MONOPOLY Celebration to Honor 75 Years of the World's Favorite Family Game Brand - Hasbro press release 25 August 2010

Other stuff:

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Monopoly Commercial (year unknown)

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The War of the Words Special

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:32:28 +0000

In this episode Suzie and Trevor have a rare convergence where their stories are related. Suzie looks into an infamous radio broadcast and Trevor checks out a controversial headline from the 1870s.

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WAR OF THE WORLDS

Chilton M 2016, ‘The War of the Worlds panic was a myth’, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/the-war-of-the-worlds-panic-was-a-myth/ Cruz G 2008, ‘Orson Welles' War of the Worlds’ http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1855120,00.html Emery D 2016, ‘Did the 1938 Radio Broadcast of 'War of the Worlds' Cause a Nationwide Panic?’ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/war-of-the-worlds/ History.com 2018, ‘This Day In History – October 30 – Welles Scares Nation’ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/welles-scares-nation Schwarz A 2015, ‘The Infamous “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/infamous-war-worlds-radio-broadcast-was-magnificent-fluke-180955180/ The New York Times 1938, ‘Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact Many Flee Homes to Escape `Gas Raid From Mars'--Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy’ http://www.war-of-the-worlds.org/Radio/Newspapers/Oct31/NYT.html

Welles O 1938, ‘Orson Welles - War Of The Worlds - Radio Broadcast 1938 - Complete Broadcast’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

THE NEW YORK ZOO HOAX

The Central Park Zoo Escape - The Museum of Hoaxes

‘A carnival of death’ on New York’s streets: The newspaper hoax that panicked a city - The Washington Post

“A Shocking Sabbath Carnival of Death” - Slate

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - The Eve of the War - Jeff Wayne (1978)

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Highland Haunts and Japery Jaunts

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:30:21 +0000

In this episode Suzie visits some battles that didn't know when to quit and Trevor explores the exploits of a very cheeky man.

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HAUNTED BATTLEFIELDS

Castelow E n.d., ‘The Battle of Killiecrankie’, Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Battle-of-Killiecrankie/ Harrington J 2013, ‘Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Flodden’ https://wizzley.com/battlefields-flodden-hauntings/ Harrington J 2013, ‘Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Killiecrankie’ https://wizzley.com/battlefield-killiecrankie-hauntings/ Johnson B n.d., ‘The Battle of Flodden’, Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Battle-of-Flodden/ Johnson B n.d., ‘Phantom Battle of Edgehill’, Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Phantom-Battle-of-Edgehill/

HORACE DE VERE COLE

A Fool There Was - The New York Times

King of the pranksters - the uproarious story of the Prime Minister’s brother-in-law - The Daily Mail

Horace de Vere Cole—The Great Prankster of Britain - Historian Hut Biographies

Horace De Vere Cole - The Inquisition

The Pranks of Horace de Vere Cole - The Museum of Hoaxes

William Horace de Vere Cole - Sniggle.net

Downton Was Right About the Prankster in Neville Chamberlain's Family - Time Magazine

Violet Crawley - Downton Abbey Wiki

Other stuff:

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - Original Prankster - The Offspring (2000)

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Timely Wanderings and Lunar Wonderings

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:16:29 +0000

In this episode Suzie investigates the mystery of the Moberly-Jourdain Incident and Trevor looks at the remarkable plan of John Wilkins.

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THE MOBERLY-JOURDAIN INCIDENT

Chateau de Versailles n.d., ‘History – The Reign of Louis XVI’ http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history#the-reign-of-louis-xvi- Docevski B 2018, ‘The Moberly–Jourdain incident: In 1901, two female academics claimed to have experienced a timeslip into pre-revolutionary France’ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/14/versailles-time-slip-3/ McGowan K 2013, ‘The Mystery of the Versailles Time Slip - PART ONE – The Original Time Slip of 1901’ http://www.kathleenmcgowan.com/the-mystery-of-the-versailles-time-slip/

JOHN WILKINS

Bishop John Wilkins - University of Cambridge

The Jacobean space programme: the life of John Wilkins - Royal Astronomical Society

The 'jacobean space programme': Rediscovering bishop John Wilkins - Science Daily

Cromwell's moonshot: how one Jacobean scientist tried to kick off the space race - The Independent

The 17th-Century Moon Mission That Never Got Off the Ground - Atlas Obscura

Amazing story of a 17th-century Moon mission - Sky Mania

Oliver Cromwell’s brother-in-law wanted to organize a space exploration program in the 17th century - Vintage News

Oliver Cromwell - History.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra (1964)

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The Tasty Shed and The Dire Digits

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:14:16 +0000

In our first episode of 2018 Suzie visits the infamous Dulwich Shed and Trevor examines the founding of the Anti-Digit Dialing League.

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THE SHED AT DULWICH

Butler O 2017, ‘I Made My Shed the Top Rated Restaurant On TripAdvisor’ https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/434gqw/i-made-my-shed-the-top-rated-restaurant-on-tripadvisor

THE ANTI-DIGIT DIALING LEAGUE

The Anti-Digit Dialing League - Orange Crate Art

Phones are for People - Orange Crate Art

HAYAKAWA, Samuel Ichiye - Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

The Anti-Digit Dialing League - The Village Voice Feb 14, 1963

Bay Area Residents Fight Digit System - The Ogden Standard-Examiner Jul 24, 1962

Now You Need an Area Code Just to Call Your Neighbors - The New York Times May 7, 2001

Our Numbered Days: The Evolution of the Area Code - The Atlantic

Ma Bell's Officially Recommended Exchange Names

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - Call Me - Blondie (1980)

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What The Christmas

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:12:36 +0000

In our final episode for 2017 we get festive with people all around the world!

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

Cooper J 2017, ‘Christmas Around The World’ Spain: https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/spain.shtml The Netherlands: https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/holland.shtml Ukraine: https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/ukraine.shtml and The Christmas Spider: https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/trees.shtml#spider Fox News 2013, ‘35 weirdest Christmas traditions around the world’ http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/12/24/35-weirdest-christmas-traditions-around-world.html Jessop T 2016, ‘What Is the Caganer, the 'Defecating' Catalan Christmas Figurine?’ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-catalan-caganer/ Lewis D 2016, ‘Each Christmas, Iceland’s Yule Cat Takes Fashion Policing to the Extreme’, Smithsonian.com https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/each-christmas-icelands-yule-cat-takes-fashion-policing-extreme-180961420/

Gävle Goat

The Unfortunate Fates of the Gavle Goat: A Timeline - Atlas Obscura

The Yule Goat - Storey

The Gävle Goat – A Global Christmas Symbol - Visit Gävle

The strange legend of the Swedish Yule goat - CBC Kids

This Colossal Goat Sculpture Is a Swedish Tradition, and Almost Every Year It Goes Up in Flames - Hyper Allergic

Some Jerk Burned Down Sweden's Giant Christmas Goat... Again - Huffington Post

Slovakia

In Slovakia, Christmas Dinner Starts In The Bathtub - NPR

If You Lived In Slovakia, You’d Have A Christmas Carp In Your Bathtub Right Now - Consumerist

Around the World in 21 Xmas Traditions - Gap Year

Bobalky--Ancient Slovak Christmas Bread - Myerchin

Kiviak and 16 other Strange Food-Related Christmas Traditions from Around the World - Phatcual

Krampusnacht

Krampusnacht: What Is It, and How Did it Start? - History Things

Beware the Krampus! - Thought Co

Who Is Krampus? Explaining the Horrific Christmas Devil - National Geographic

Kentucky For Christmas

Why Japan Celebrates Christmas with KFC - BBC

Why Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas - Smithsonian

Why is KFC a Christmas tradition in Japan? - Boing Boing

Other stuff:

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - The Season's Upon Us - Dropkick Murphys (2012)

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Making a Bond and Rising Damp

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:10:23 +0000

In this episode Suzie follows the career of Dusko Popov and Trevor checks out the rather wet streets of Dunwich.

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Sources:

DUSKO POPOV

BBC News 2002, ‘The name's Tricycle, Agent Tricycle’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1973962.stm Robinson B 2011, ‘Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening’, BBC History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/pearl_harbour_01.shtml Desowitz B 2016, ‘The life of Serbian spy Dusko Popov, the real 007’, USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2016/06/25/into-the-lions-mouth-the-true-story-of-dusko-popov-world-war-ii-spy-patriot-and-the-real-life-inspiration-for-james-bond-book-review/86208618/ History on the Net 2000, ‘Dusko Popov: The Triple-Agent, Real-Life James Bond Who Warned the U.S. About Pearl Harbor’ https://www.historyonthenet.com/dusko-popov-the-triple-agent-real-life-james-bond-who-warned-the-u-s-about-pearl-harbor/ Origjanska M 2017, ‘My name is Popov, Dusko Popov: The man who inspired James Bond’ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/10/24/my-name-is-popov-dusko-popov-the-man-who-inspired-james-bond/ Riedel M 2016, ‘The womanizing, gambling-loving spy who inspired James Bond’, https://nypost.com/2016/06/26/the-womanizing-gambling-loving-spy-who-inspired-james-bond/ U.S. Legal n.d., ‘Federal Mann Act’ https://prostitution.uslegal.com/federal-mann-act/ Zimmerman D 2011, ‘Dusko Popov, Real Life James Bond, Ran Afoul of the FBI - Dusko Popov, Pearl Harbor, and J. Edgar Hoover’ https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/dusko-popov-real-life-james-bond-ran-afoul-of-the-fbi/

DUNWICH

Dunwich underwater images show 'Britain's Atlantis' - BBC News

Dunwich: The storms that destroyed 'lost town' - BBC News

The streets of 'Britain's Atlantis' seen for the first time in centuries: 3D scans reveal the 'drowned' medieval town of Dunwich - The Daily Mail Australia

Sunken city known as 'Britain's Atlantis' was swept into the sea by years of violent storms - Mirror UK

Dunwich - The Search for Britian's Atlantis

Britain's Atlantis: the search for our lost capital - The Independent

Found: The Lost City of Dunwich - Britain’s Atlantis - Visit Suffolk

THE LAST RUINS OF DUNWICH, SUFFOLK’S LOST MEDIEVAL TOWN - Flickering Lamps

England’s Underwater Cities – Dunwich - Metal and Dust

Secret streets of Britain's 'Atlantis' are revealed - Science Daily

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - James Bond Theme (Original)

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The Unsinkable Story and the Storied Detective

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:08:30 +0000

In this episode Suzie looks at the strange tales of William Thomas Stead and Trevor investigates the life of Francois Eugene Vidocq!

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Sources:

WILIAM THOMAS STEAD

Carter C 2012, ‘Titanic sinking foretold in fictional accounts years before disaster’, CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/titanic-sinking-foretold-in-fictional-accounts-years-before-disaster-1.1289723 Encyclopedia Titanica 2017, ‘Mr William Thomas Stead’ https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/william-thomas-stead.html Hasan H 2012, ‘Author ‘Predicts’ Titanic Sinking, 14 Years Earlier’ TIME Magazine http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/14/author-predicts-titanic-sinking-14-years-earlier/ Stead W 1886 and 1892, ‘How the Mail Steamer went down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor’ and ‘From the Old World to the New’ W.T. Stead Resource Site http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/pmg/steamer.php and http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/reviews/oldworld.php Valjak D 2017, ‘A story written in 1886 predicted the 1912 “Titanic” disaster with eerie accuracy’ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/10/25/a-story-written-in-1886-predicted-the-1912-titanic-disaster-with-eerie-accuracy/

FRANCOIS EUGENE VIDOCQ

THE GREAT DETECTIVES: VIDOCQ - The Strand Magazine

Eugène Vidocq: The Convict Who Became the Father of Modern Criminal Investigation - Owlcation

Eugene Vidocq: The ex-convict who became the world’s first private investigator - Vintage News

LA VIE DE MONSIEUR VIDOCQ - The Vidocq Society

François Vidocq - Encyclopedia Britannica

François Eugène Vidocq - Thrilling Detective

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - My Heart Will Go On - Postmodern Jukebox (2015)

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What The Halloween Mark 2

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:06:28 +0000

In this extra gristly Halloween episode Suzie discusses the stories surrounding Countess Elizabeth Bathory and Trevor checks into H H Holmes's gruesome hotel!

CONTENT WARNING: We discuss some details of murder and torture in this episode. Those who wish to avoid these details should skip from 16:25 to 17:17.

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Sources:

COUNTESS ELIZABETH BATHORY

Breyer M 2012, ‘The Blood Countess: History's most prolific female serial killer’ https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/the-blood-countess-historys-most-prolific-female-serial-killer Cavendish R 2014, ‘Death of Countess Elizabeth Bathory’ http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/death-countess-elizabeth-bathory Craft K 2011, ‘Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory’ http://www.infamouslady.com/about_the_countess.html Guinness World Records 2017, ‘Most prolific female murderer’ http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-female-murderer History Channel 2017, ‘This Day In History December 26th – 1610 Bathory’s torturous escapades are exposed’ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed Holloway A 2014, ‘Elizabeth Bathory – 16th century deranged serial killer or victim of betrayal?’ http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/elizabeth-bathory-16th-century-deranged-serial-killer-or-victim-betrayal Medical Bag 2014, ‘The Legend of Elizabeth Báthory: The Blood Countess’ http://www.medicalbag.com/grey-matter/the-legend-of-elizabeth-bathory-the-blood-countess/article/472831/ Sherman E 2017, ‘The Disturbing True Story Of Elizabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess’ http://all-that-is-interesting.com/elizabeth-bathory-true-story Unknown author 2013, ‘Guilty or Innocent? Outlining a Historical Dilemma - Erzsbet Bathory – Portrait of a Killer? https://countessebathory.wordpress.com/

H H HOLMES

H.H. Holmes - Biography.com

MURDER CASTLE - History.com

A double dose of the macabre - Michigan Today

Top 10 Hotels That Will Scare the Daylights Out of You - How Stuff Works

Inside The Incredibly Twisted Murder Mansion Of H.H. Holmes - All That Is Interesting

Hotel of Horrors: The Murder Castle of Dr. H.H. Holmes - The Line Up

Can You Visit H.H. Holmes' Hotel? The "Murder Castle" Isn't What It Used To Be - Bustle.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - This Is Halloween - The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack (1993)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Tasty Birthday Nibbles

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:04:32 +0000

In this special first birthday episode of What The History we break from tradition. Not only do we bring you a meal sized episode, we make it out of bits and pieces that we couldn't make full episodes from. We also take a trip down memory lane to discuss some of our favourite episodes!

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Some of our favourite episodes:

Disco Inferno and Badgering History

Hatpin Warriors and Wonder Who's Origin This Is

Mary Mary Quite Contagious and The Umbrella Rebel

The Tichborne Identity and Monsieur Potato

Vengeance on a Viking and Capers in a Canal

The Pope who was Dead Wrong and The Birds (The Australian Cut)

Playing A Round and Liszt Maniacs

The Island of Death and The Island That Left

Flower Power Failure and a Mother of a Day

Pope-a-palooza and The Rocket Man

The Balls of Victims and Icelandic Self Discovery

Sources:

SUZIE'S NIBBLES

Rodrigues D 2016, ‘The First Strike Ever Recorded in History’ http://www.dulcerodrigues.info/historia/uk/historia_first_strike_uk.html Herodotus, ‘Chapter 124’, Herodotus, Histories, Edited by A D Godley Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D124

FindLaw 2017, ‘Louisiana Prohibited Consensual Sexual Activity Laws’ http://statelaws.findlaw.com/louisiana-law/louisiana-prohibited-consensual-sexual-activity-laws.html Justia 2017, ‘2011 Louisiana Laws, Revised Statutes, TITLE 14 — Criminal law, RS 14:107.1 — Ritualistic acts’ http://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/2011/rs/title14/rs14-107-1/

Stone K 2016, ‘The 5 Pettiest Abuses Of Power In Presidential History’ http://www.cracked.com/article_24271_the-5-most-unbelievably-petty-uses-presidential-power.html Wikipedia 2017, ‘List of Presidents of the United States of America’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

TREVOR'S NIBBLES

The Never-Built Airport That Was Never Intended to be Used Anyway - Now I Know

"What We Can Do To Stop Skyjacking", Herald-Journal - Jun 15, 1969 - Google News

Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl - YouTube

Parliament Arguing About Copper Wires In 1910 Makes For Some Amazing Reading - Gizmodo Australia

Censor nostalgia: Historian uncovers Australia's banned books - ABC News Australia

The Trial of Lady Chatterley - Banned

Censorship decision - 'The Trial of Lady Chatterley' - National Archives Australia

Censorship decision - 'The Trial of Lady Chatterley' (digitised records) - National Archives Australia

Clay tablet; letter from Nanni to Ea-nasir complaining that the wrong grade of copper ore has been delivered - British Museum Collection Online

This 1750 BC Babylonian Tablet Is An Ancient Customer Service Complaint - i09 Gizmodo

The oldest known complaint letter - ABC Science

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - Happy Birthday Song - Stevie Wonder (1980)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Under the Radar and Goodness Gracious Great Bats of Fire

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:02:22 +0000

In this episode Suzie looks at an Australian wartime secret and Trevor checks out the strange tale of the bat bomb!

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Sources:

VICTORIA'S SECRET RADAR STATION

Burin M 2011, ‘Life at Cape Otway Lighthouse’ http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/12/06/3384589.htm Cape Otway Lightstation 2006, ‘Winter Newsletter’ http://www.lightstation.com/files/newsletters/COL_Winter_Newsletter_2006.pdf Great Ocean Media n.d., ‘Cape Otway Lightstation’ http://www.lightstation.com/ Mornington Peninsula Magazine 2017, ‘Enemy Aircraft Over Port Phillip 75 Years Ago’ http://www.morningtonpeninsulamagazine.com.au/people-places/2017/2/3/enemy-aircraft-over-port-phillip-75-years-ago NewsCorp 2017, The Weekly Times, ‘Cape Otway Lightstation is home to a World War II secret bunker’ http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/cape-otway-lightstation-is-home-to-a-world-war-ii-secret-bunker/news-story/15c2f04e0275c258bbb603760aa3fe3d Smith B 2009, ‘Sonar science undercovers grim wartime secret’ http://www.smh.com.au/national/sonar-science-uncovers-grim-wartime-secret-20090331-9ib0.html Smith B 2009, ‘Long before Darwin attack our coast was a battleground’ http://www.smh.com.au/national/long-before-darwin-attack-our-coast-was-a-battleground-20090403-9rmn.html

BAT BOMBS

The Almost Perfect World War II Plot To Bomb Japan With Bats - Atlas Obscura

Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II - The Atlantic

Brilliant Mistakes: The Bat Bomb - Defense Media Network

‘Bat Bombs’: WWII’s Project X-Ray - Warfare History Network

During World War II, The U.S. Almost Used The Most Bizarre Weapon Imaginable Against Japan - Boredom Therapy

Carlsbad Caverns - National Park Service (USA)

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - War - Edwin Starr (1969)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Ship Cast Adrift and The Boy With Royal Underwear

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:56:33 +0000

In this episode Suzie tracks the Baychimo and Trevor follows the adventures of Edward Jones!

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Sources:

THE BAYCHIMO

Kelly D 2016, ‘The Mystery of the Ghost Ship SS Baychimo’ https://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2016/06/ghost-ship-ss-baychimo/ Knight N 2017, ‘One of the strangest ghost ship stories: It sailed the seas, unmanned for 38 years’ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/06/09/one-of-the-strangest-ghost-ship-stories-ever-it-sailed-the-seas-unmanned-for-38-years/ Leeming D 2016, ‘ABANDON SHIP! The bizarre ghost ship story of the SS Baychimo that was seen sailing the seas unmanned for 38 YEARS… and could still be out there today’ https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2454812/the-bizarre-ghost-ship-story-of-the-ss-baychimo-that-was-seen-sailing-the-seas-unmanned-for-38-years-and-could-still-be-out-there-today/ MacGowan D 2013, ‘The SS Baychimo’ https://www.historicmysteries.com/ss-baychimo/ Swancer B 2014, ‘The Mysterious Ghost Ship of the Arctic’ http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/09/the-mysterious-ghost-ship-of-the-arctic/

EDWARD JONES

The stalker who stole Queen Victoria's underwear - The Guardian

Story of Boy Jones who stole Queen Victoria's underwear - BBC News

Boy Jones: The Boy Who Stalked Queen Victoria - Historic Mysteries

This teen stalker stole Queen Victoria’s panties and lived in Buckingham Palace chimneys for a year - Timeline

The Boy Jones sneaked into Buckingham palace four times & stole Queen Victoria’s underwear - The Vintage News

Queen Victoria - biography.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music - The Ship Song - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1990)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Outlaw Corpse and Getting Barred

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:54:40 +0000

In this episode Suzie finds out all about Elmer McCurdy and Trevor checks out an award ceremony gone awry!

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Sources:

ELMER MCCURDY

Harvey S 2011, ‘Inept train robber had an unimpressive life but a celebrated afterlife’ http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/03/local/la-me-0703-then-20110703 Lakeland Ledger 1977, ‘Elmer McCurdy Goes Home to Boot Hill’ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19770423&id=UrcwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0foDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5721,5601106 Meier A 2013, ‘The Mummy Everyone Forgot Was Real’ http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/31-days-of-halloween-day-1-elmer-mccurdy The Human Marvels n.d, ‘Elmer McCurdy – The Wandering Dead’ http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/elmer-mccurdy-the-wandering-dead/ The Lineup 2014, ‘Elmer McCurdy: The Outlaw Mummy of Oklahoma’ https://the-line-up.com/elmer-mccurdy-mummy-man

BEST BAR NONE

Best Bar None UK

Best Bar None scheme - Wigan Council

Tackling pub and club crime: Best Bar None back to promote safer nights out for revellers across Wigan - Mancunian Matters

Best Bar None returns - Wigan World

Record breaking safety scheme - Wigan World

Violent crime fall is credited to scheme - Wigan Today

Best Bar None awards success - Wigan Today

Best Bar None awards ceremony ends in brawl - Wigan Today

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Island of Death and The Island That Left

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:52:01 +0000

In this island hopping episode Suzie visits the island of Poveglia and Trevor can't visit Sandy Island!

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Sources:

THE ISLAND OF POVEGLIA

Atlas Obscura 2017, ‘Poveglia Plague Island’ http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/poveglia-plague-island Matthews D 2016, ‘Isle of Madness: Poveglia Island is Haunted by the Ghosts of 160,000 Plague Victims’ http://weekinweird.com/2016/10/25/poveglia-island-is-haunted-by-plague-victims/ Riggs R 2014, ‘SOLD! The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia’ http://mentalfloss.com/article/24658/strange-geographies-happy-haunted-island-poveglia Starostinetskaya A 2014, ‘Poveglia Island: Like Hell, But in Italy’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-track-planet/poveglia-island-like-hell_b_4188986.html Trip Advisor Australia 2017, ‘Venice: Poveglia Island’ https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Travel-g187870-c166606/Venice:Italy:Poveglia.Island.html

SANDY ISLAND

How a Fake Island Landed on Google Earth - Live Science

Scientist unravels mystery of Coral Sea’s ghostly Sandy Island - The Washington Post

Missing Pacific island riddle 'solved' - The Telegraph

“Disappearance” of Sandy Island - General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans

Obituary: Sandy Island (1876 –2012) - EOS

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Island In The Sun - Weezer (2001)

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Venice Sees Pink and Trialling Monkeys

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:49:48 +0000

In this episode Suzie discusses Pink Floyd's influence on Venice and Trevor reports on the Scopes Monkey Trial!

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Sources:

PINK FLOYD IN VENICE

Lifton D 2015, ‘The Story of the Pink Floyd Concert That Brought Down Venice’s Government’ http://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-venice-1989/ Open Culture 2017, ‘Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign’ http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/pink-floyd-plays-in-venice-on-a-massive-floating-stage-in-1989.html Parmelee J 1989, ‘Venice Sees Red Over Pink Floyd’, The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/07/19/venice-sees-red-over-pink-floyd/dbee6905-43f0-4a4d-a055-85e1cef51c87/?utm_term=.b8011f80ab19 Szacka L 2016, ‘Tradition versus modernity in Venice, and that time Pink Floyd played St. Mark’s Basin’, The Architect’s Newspaper https://archpaper.com/2016/08/pink-floyd-venice/

THE SCOPES TRIAL

Monkey Trial begins - History.com

Scopes Trial - History.net

Scopes Monkey Trial: Science on the Stand - Live Science

The Scopes Trial - Digital History

Songs about The Scopes (Monkey) Trial - Dixieland and Jazz

Scopes Trial Play and Festival website

THE MONKEY TRIAL 1925 - Historic Films Stock Footage Archive - YouTube

Billy Murray & International Novelty Orch. - Monkey Biz-ness, 1925 - YouTube

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Monkey Biz-Ness - Billy Murray & International Novelty Orchestra (1925) available under public domain

All music used under fair use provisions.

Vengeance on a Viking and Capers in a Canal

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:47:43 +0000

In this episode Suzie talks about the life of Sigurd the Mighty and Trevor visits The Yellow Fleet!

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Sources:

SIGURD THE MIGHTY

James E 2014, Overview: The Vikings, 800 to 1066, BBC History http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/vikings/overview_vikings_01.shtml#one Readicon 2016, Bizarre Viking Deaths: Sigurd the Mighty killed by a bite from a severed head, Readicon.com http://readicon.com/bizarre-viking-deaths-sigurd-the-mighty-killed-by-a-bite-from-a-severed-head/ Towrie S 1996-2017, Viking Orkney - King Harald and the establishment of the Earldom, Orkneyjar – The Heritage of the Orkney Islands http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/vikingorkney/earldom.htm Towrie S 1996-2017, Earl Sigurd the Powerful - The first earl of Orkney, Orkneyjar – The Heritage of the Orkney Islands http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/historicalfigures/sigmighty.htm

THE YELLOW FLEET

The Yellow Fleet - Now I Know

There Once Was a Country in the Middle of the Suez Canal - Conde Nast Traveler

The Yellow Fleet of the Suez Canal, 1967-1975 - Weird International Relations

The Great Bitter Lake Trophy - issuu.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Ship of Fools - World Party (1987)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Hatpin Warriors and Wonder Who’s Origin This Is

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:45:35 +0000

In this extra empowering episode Suzie explores the origin of the Hatpin Warriors and Trevor wonders about William Moulton Marston and his wonderful creation!

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Sources:

HATPIN WARRIORS

Abbott K 2014, “The Hatpin Peril” Terrorized Men Who Couldn’t Handle the 20th-Century Woman, Smithsonian.com http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hatpin-peril-terrorized-men-who-couldnt-handle-20th-century-woman-180951219/ Keane M 2008, What All These Hatpins Were For, and Why We Stopped Using Them, Collectors Weekly http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/an-interview-with-antique-hatpin-collector-jodi-lenocker/ MetaFilter 2016, Mashers versus Suffragettes with hatpins, umbrellas and Jiu Jitsu http://www.metafilter.com/162109/Mashers-versus-Suffragettes-with-hatpins-umbrellas-and-Jiu-Jitsu

WILLIAM MOULTON MARSTON

A Biography of William Marston, Creator of Wonder Woman - Marin Theatre

William Moulton Marston, the Psychologist Who Created Wonder Woman - Mental Floss

Profile - Elizabeth Holloway Marston - Feminist Voices

The Surprising Origin Story of Wonder Woman - The Smithsonian

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Wonder Woman TV Theme (1974)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Mary Mary Quite Contagious and The Umbrella Rebel

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:43:32 +0000

In this episode Suzie follows the contagious career of Mary Mallon and Trevor discusses Jonas Hanway's umbrella controversy!

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Sources:

TYPHOID MARY

Greenwood V 2015, The Frightening Legacy of Typhoid Mary, The Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-frightening-legacy-of-typhoid-mary-180954324/ Klein C 2015, 10 Things You May Not Know About “Typhoid Mary”, History in the Headlines, History.com http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-typhoid-mary Latson J 2014, ‘Refusing Quarantine: Why Typhoid Mary Did It’, TIME History http://time.com/3563182/typhoid-mary/ Marineli F, Tsoucalas G, Karamanou M et al 2013, ‘Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever’, Annals of Gastroenterology, pp. 132-134, v.26(2); 2013, PMC3959940 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/

JONAS HANWAY

HANWAY, JONAS - Encyclopedia Iranica

Jonas Hanway: Pioneer Philanthropist - The Therapeutic Care Journal

The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User - Atlas Obscura

MEET THE FIRST MAN WHO DARED TO USE AN UMBRELLA - Faena Aleph

Jonas Hanway - Westminster Abbey

THE HISTORY OF THE UMBRELLA - Schirm Oertel Bremen

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Umbrella - Rihanna (2007)

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Stay Frosty and Carry On and No-agra Falls

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:40:03 +0000

In this icy episode Suzie explores the Frost Fairs and Trevor visits Niagara Falls, when they weren't falling!

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Sources:

THE FROST FAIRS

BBC History n.d., ‘The Blitz’ - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/the_blitz de Castella T 2014, ‘Frost fair: When an elephant walked on the frozen River Thames’, BBC News - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25862141 Johnson B 2017, ‘The Thames Frost Fairs’, Historic UK - http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Thames-Frost-Fairs/

NIAGARA FALLS RUNNING DRY

March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry - Wired

March 30, 1848: The day Niagara failed to fall - The Buffalo News

What happened the night Niagara Falls stopped flowing - io9 Gizmodo

When Niagara Falls Ran Dry - Niagara Falls Museums

Facts About Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls Live

The day Niagara Falls ran dry: Newly-discovered photos show the moment the iconic waterfall came to a standstill - The Daily Mail

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice (1990)

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Fraudy Cat and The Invisible Man

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:37:52 +0000

In this episode Suzie recounts the tales of Henri Grin, or maybe Green, of Louis Redman or... (etc) and Trevor talks about someone who doesn't actually exist!

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Sources:

LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT

Andrews B 1981, 'de Rougemont, Louis (1847–1921)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/de-rougemont-louis-5961/text10171 Clinton C 2003, ‘Fanny Kemble (1809-1893)’, New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/fanny-kemble-1809-1893 Reader’s Digest 1988, ‘Strange Stories, Amazing Facts’, Reader’s Digest Services Pty Ltd, Surry Hills, p. 455 Stephens A 2015, ‘Was this the greatest liar Australia has ever known?’, Sydney Morning Herald, June 5th 2015 http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/was-this-the-greatest-liar-australia-has-ever-known-20150601-ghbiqz.html Stratmann L 2010, ‘Fraudsters and Charlatans: A Peek at some of History's Greatest Rogues’, The History Press, Gloucestershire, Chapter 8

GEORGE P BURDELL

Traditions - Georgia Tech

Meet the Georgia Tech Graduate Who Never Existed - Mental Floss

George P. Burdell - Georgia Tech Faculty

George P. Burdell, Tech's Most Famous Alumnus - Georgia Tech Alumni Association

The Pride of Georgia Tech - nowiknow.com

Successful people who never existed - CNN

George P. Burdell - Facebook

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Liar Liar - The Castaways (1965)

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Flower Power Failure and a Mother of a Day

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:35:39 +0000

In this Mother's (or is it Mothers') Day related episode Suzie examines how the humble tulip nearly wrecked a country and Trevor discusses how Anna Jarvis, the creator of Mother's Day, felt about Mother's Day.

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Sources:

THE TULIP BULB BUBBLE

Beattie A 2017, Market Crashes: The Tulip and Bulb Craze, Investopedia.com http://www.investopedia.com/features/crashes/crashes2.asp

Colombo J 2012, The Dutch “Tulip Mania” Bubble (aka Tulipmania), http://www.thebubblebubble.com/tulip-mania/

Sooke A 2016, Tulip Mania: The flowers that cost more than houses, BBC Culture http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160419-tulip-mania-the-flowers-that-cost-more-than-houses

ANNA JARVIS

Mother's Day's Dark History - National Geographic

The Mother's Day Church - Scenic USA

Mother's Day - Wikipedia

Women Who Made a Difference by Carol Crowe-Carraco - Google Books

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Tiptoe Through The Tulips - Tiny Tim (1968)

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Pope-a-palooza and The Rocket Man

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:33:40 +0000

In this delayed episode Suzie dives into the Great Western Schism and Trevor spends some time with Claude Ruggieri.

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Sources:

THE GREAT WESTERN SCHISM

Knight K 2012, ‘Western Schism’, New Advent, Catholic Encyclopaedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13539a.htm Oakley F 1990, ‘1378 The Great Papal Schism’, Christianity Today, Christian History http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-28/1378-great-papal-schism.html

CLAUDE RUGGIERI

One small step for livestock…One giant shortcut for the practical historian - The Practical Historian

Who the heck is Claude Ruggieri? - The Rocketry Blog

Ruggieri, Claude (fl. early 19th century) - Encyclopedia of Science

Rockets By Steven Otfinoski - Google Books

History - The Chemistry of Fireworks

The Sad Story of Laika, the First Dog Launched Into Orbit - Time

The Secret History Of The First Cat In Space - Gizmodo Australia

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space | The Greatest Moments in Flight - Space.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out

Rocket Man - Elton John (1972)

Bleating Sheep - http://www.orangefreesounds.com/bleating-sheep/ (creative commons)

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Playing A Round and Liszt Maniacs

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:31:05 +0000

In this mould breaker episode Suzie recaps the "career" of Maurice Flitcroft and Trevor examines the phenomena surrounding Franz Liszt.

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Sources:

MAURICE FLITCROFT

Golf Europe 2017, A History of Golf since 1497 http://www.golfeurope.com/almanac/history/history1.htm Kindred D 2007, The Great Pretender, Golf Digest http://www.golfdigest.com/story/kindred_gd0707 Montague J 2010, Maurice Flitcroft: The world's worst golfer http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/golf/07/16/maurice.flitcroft.worst.golfer/ Murray S 2008, The Guardian, Crazy golfer https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/sep/19/golf.rydercup The Telegraph 2007, Obituaries: Maurice Flitcroft http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1547158/Maurice-Flitcroft.html

FRANZ LISZT

Lisztomania The Franz Liszt Compendium

Franz Liszt - Biography.com

Franz Liszt The Virtuoso Years, 1811–1847 - Cornell Press

How Franz Liszt Became The World's First Rock Star - NPR.com

Lisztomania (1975) - IMDB

Lisztomania (song) - Wikipedia

Phoenix - Lisztomania - YouTube

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Lisztomania - Phoenix (2009)

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Ship Happens and Mind Games

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:10:48 +0000

In this mysterious episode Suzie examines the mystery of the Mary Celeste and Trevor plays around with the arcade mystery of Polybius.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE MARY CELESTE

History.com n.d, What happened to the Mary Celeste? http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-happened-to-the-mary-celeste Smithsonian.com 2007, Abandoned Ship: The Mary Celeste http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/abandoned-ship-the-mary-celeste-174488104/?page=1 The Mary Celeste – Fact Not Fiction, n.d. http://www.maryceleste.net/part1.htm

POLYBIUS

The Golden Age Arcade Historian - All in for a Quarter

Polybius: The story behind the world's most mysterious arcade cabinet - Eurogamer

The Urban Legend of the Government’s Mind-Controlling Arcade Game - Atlas Obscura

Polybius - Know Your Meme

THE POLYBIUS CONSPIRACY - Kickstarter

1981 in video gaming - Wikipedia

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Dance Till You Drop and Sweet Sweet War

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:08:32 +0000

This episode Suzie examines the dancing plagues of 1374 and 1518 and Trevor sweetens the podcast with The Honey War of 1839.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE DANCING PLAGUE

Andrews E 2015, What was the dancing plague of 1518? http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518 Cogitz 2009, The Dancing Plague of 1518 https://cogitz.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/ Waller J 2009, Dancing Plagues and Mass Hysteria, The Psychologist, The British Psychological Society, July 2009, Vol. 22, pp. 644-647 http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria Reference.com 2017, What are the symptoms of Saint Vitus Dance disease?, https://www.reference.com/health/symptoms-saint-vitus-dance-disease-a9c2fb709c4f3f21 Renlightenment 2012, Episode 37 ‘The Dancing Plague’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBCJU13SAoA You Tube 2013, Buffy the Vampire Slayer – Once More With Feeling – ‘Something to Sing About’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8uH26GlWeo You Tube 2015: 24th June 1374 Dance Plague breaks out in Aachen, Germany, History Pod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aXRna3yZpo

THE HONEY WAR

5 Lesser Known (Completely Ridiculous) American Civil Wars - Cracked

The Honey War Boundary Dispute - The History Engine

THE IOWA-MISSOURI BOUNDARY WAR - Iowa History Project

Honey War - Wikipdepia

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Cracked Actor and The Distressed Doctor

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:06:25 +0000

This episode Suzie discusses the career of Robert Coates and Trevor rocks out with Doctor in Distress

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

ROBERT COATES

Reader’s Digest 1988, Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, Reader’s Digest Services Pty Ltd, Surry Hills, p. 500 Strange Company 2014, Robert Coates: The Greatest of Bad Actors - http://strangeco.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/robert-coates-greatest-of-bad-actors.html

DOCTOR IN DISTRESS

Doctor in Distress - TARDIS Wikia

Doctor in Distress - YouTube

Who Cares?: The Story of “Doctor in Distress” – The Worst Little “Cause Rock” Single of Them All - Confessions of a Pop Culture Addict

Ian Levine - Wikipedia

Charity Songs - The Top 13

Extract from Doctor In Distress by Who Cares (1985) used under fair use provisions

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Pope who was Dead Wrong and The Birds (The Australian Cut)

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 03:02:07 +0000

This episode Suzie examines the Cadaver Synod and Trevor delves into a bit of Australian history with the Emu War

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE CADAVER SYNOD

Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007, ‘Formosus’ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Formosus#ref916569

Harper E 2014, ‘The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope's Corpse Was Put on Trial’ http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod

Sullivan K 2016, ‘Cadaver Synod: The Exhumed Corpse of Pope Formosus That Was Put on Trial’ http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/cadaver-synod-exhumed-corpse-pope-formosus-was-put-trial-007104?nopaging=1

Publications for Further Reading

There are a few publications which mention the Cadaver Synod, check them out!

‘The Bad Popes’ by E R Chamberlain (1969)

‘Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy’ Roger Collins (2004)

‘The Ring and the Book’ Robert Browning (n.d)

‘The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History’ Donald E Wilkes Jr (2001)

THE EMU WAR

SETTLEMENT OF RETURNED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 1914-18 - Australian Bureau of Statistics

Emu - The Animal Facts

Looking back: Australia's Emu Wars - Australian Geographic

How we lost the "Emu War" - Emu Gigs

The five funniest moments in Australian history - ABC News (Australia)

Emu War - Wikipedia

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Disco Inferno and Badgering History

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:58:00 +0000

For our first podcast of 2017 Suzie discusses Disco Demolition Night and Trevor discovers the importance of badgers in historical findings.

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Sources:

DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT

The Night Disco Died - Chicago Magazine

Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago 1979 - YouTube

Disco Demolition Night - Wikipedia

BADGERS

Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge discovered by badger - www.bbc.com

Badger Digs Up Medieval Treasure in Germany - Speigel Online

CENTURIES-OLD SKELETON OF GIRL FOUND ON ALBERTA FARM - New Historian

Badger Facts - Animal Facts Encyclopedia

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

These Aren’t The Winchesters You Are Looking For and Make Whiskey Not War

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:55:16 +0000

Suzie explores the Winchester Mystery House (tm) and Trevor examines the Whiskey War.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE (tm)

Wagner R, 2016 ‘The Truth About Sarah Winchester’ http://thetruthaboutsarahwinchester.com/

Wagner R, 2016 ‘The Truth About The Winchester House’ http://thetruthaboutthewinchesterhouse.com/

Winchester Mystery House ™, 2016. http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Wikipedia, 2016 ‘Winchester Mystery House’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

THE WHISKEY WAR

Hans Off! Canada And Denmark's Arctic Dispute - www.worldatlas.com

Canada and Denmark keep relations warm in Arctic island dispute - www.thestar.com

Canada, Denmark Wage "Whisky War" Over This Tiny Uninhabited Island - www.elitereaders.com

University student anoints himself “prince” of Hans Island - Nunatsiaq News

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Balls of Victims and Icelandic Self Discovery

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:52:04 +0000

Suzie celebrates The Victims Ball and Trevor finds a strange tale of a missing woman in Iceland.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE VICTIMS BALL

History.com n.d, ‘8 Things You May Not Know About The Guillotine’ http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-guillotine

Schechter R 1998, Gothic Thermidor: The Bals des victimes, the Fantastic, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Post-Terror France, No. 61, Special Issue: Practices of Enlightenment (Winter, 1998), University of California Press, p. 78 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902948?seq=1#fndtn-page_scan_tab_contents

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Bals des Victimes’ and ‘Jean-Paul Marat’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bals_des_victimes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat

Versailles Gossip, n.d, ‘Womens Fashions Under the Influence of Guillotine’ https://versaillesgossip.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/womens-fashions-under-the-influence-of-guillotine/

WOMAN SEARCHES FOR HERSELF IN ICELAND

Report: Missing tourist in Iceland joins search for herself - NBC News

Lost Woman Looks for Herself in Iceland’s Highlands - Iceland Review On Line

Konan fundin - tók þátt í leitinni að sjálfri sér - www.mbl.is (via Google Translate)

The Tichborne Identity and Monsieur Potato

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:34:20 +0000

Suzie examines the strange case of the Tichborne Claimant and Trevor shares the story of an unsung hero, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT

The State Library of New South Wales 2011, The Tichborne case: a Victorian melodrama. Viewed 27th October 2016 http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/justice/felons/tichborne/index.html

Wikipedia 2016, Tichborne case. Viewed 28th October 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case

PS check out the movie The Tichborne Claimant released in 1998 and directed by David Yates…if you can find this movie, let us know!!!!!

ANTIONE-AUGUSTIN PARMENTIER

Antoine Augustin Parmentier (Geni.com )

A pharmacist famous for his potatoes (The Pharmaceutical Journal)

The French and Their Acceptance of the Potato (The Historic Foodie's Blog)

Spud Sunday: Vive La Spud (The Daily Spud)

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (Wikipedia)

POTATOES PARMENTIER

800g of Potatoes

Salt for parboiling said potatoes

2 cloves of lightly crushed garlic

3 separate tablespoons of melted butter

2 tablespoons of chopped parsley

2 tablespoons of chopped coriander

2 tablespoons of chopped mint

Half a teaspoon of lemon zest

A squeeze of lemon juice (you can work out how lemony you want it)

Coarse salt (again, depends on how salty you like it)

Freshly ground black pepper (up to you)

Preheat your oven to 200 degrees celsius, scrub the potatoes but do not peel them, chop them into approx 1cm cubes then rinse them in cold water.

Put the potatoes in a saucepan with 2 ¼ cups of water, 1 ½ teaspoons of salt and the garlic cloves. Bring to a boil over a medium-high heat, then lower the heat and let them simmer for 2 minutes. Drain them, remove the garlic and return the potatoes to the saucepan then let them sit (off the heat) covered by a tea towel for about 5 minutes to let them dry out.

Toss the potato cubes in 2 tablespoons of butter and then spread the cubes in a single layer onto baking trays. Roast them in the oven for 30 minutes or until golden and crispy. Give the trays a shake about half way through.

Once the potatoes are cooked, mix the parsley, coriander and mint with the remaining butter and the lemon zest and toss the potatoes with the mixture.

Add the coarse salt, the black pepper and lemon juice to your preferred taste and then serve

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Pope Looks Like a Lady and The Naughty Night Trap

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:31:21 +0000

Suzie delves into the mystery of Pope Joan and Trevor geeks it up with some video game history featuring Night Trap.

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Sources:

POPE JOAN

Biography.com 2016, ‘Pope Joan’ http://www.biography.com/people/pope-joan-279083

Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. 2016, ‘Pope Joan’ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pope-Joan#ref178500

Martin of Opava or Troppau 1278, ‘Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum’ http://www.textmanuscripts.com/tm-assets/tm-descriptions/tm0117-description.pdf

Squires N 2010, ‘Pope Joan film sparks Roman Catholic Church row’, The Telegraph

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Pope Joan’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan

Books and Movies About, featuring and characterising Pope Joan

Pope Joan (aka Die Papstin)– 2009, directed by Sonke Wortmann, adapted from the novel of the same name, written in 1996 by Donna Woolfolk Cross

Pope Joan – 1972, directed by Michael Anderson, re-released in 2009 under the title of She….Who Would Be Pope

Papstin Johanna – 1813 play written by Ludwig Achim von Arnim

Pausin Johanna – 1986 monodrama written by Cees van der Pluijm

Top Girls – 1982 play written by Caryl Churchill

The Myth of Pope Joan – 2001 written by Alain Boureau

NIGHT TRAP

Night Trap - www.hardcoregaming101.net

Night Trap: a closer look at one of the most controversial games ever made - www.denofgeek.com

Night Trap ReVamped - www.kickstarter.com

History of the ESRB - www.esrb.org

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

What The Halloween?

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:27:07 +0000

In this very special spooky episode we bring you ghostly tales and gruesome horror!

Suzie shares the tale of Fisher's Ghost and Trevor visits the mansion of Delphine Lalaurie.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

**WARNING - This episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of very nasty stuff that happened to people. If you do not wish to hear this bit, or have younger listeners, we highly recommend you skip from 11 minutes 43 seconds to 16 minutes 55 seconds.

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Sources:

FISHER'S GHOST

Campbelltown City Council n.d, ‘Festival of Fishers Ghost’ http://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au/RFG/FishersGhost/

Gilbert R 2002, ‘Fishers Ghost, Australia’s Most Famous Ghost’, Australian Ghost Hunters Society http://www.castleofspirits.com/website/old/Australianghosthunters/fishersghost.html

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Fishers Ghost’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_ghost

THE MANSION OF DELPHINE LALAURIE

Delphine LaLaurie (Wikipedia) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie

This Day in History - A torture chamber is uncovered by arson (The History Channel) - http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-torture-chamber-is-uncovered-by-arson

MISTRESS OF DEATH: THE HAUNTED HISTORY OF MADAME LALAURIE (Prairie Ghosts) - https://www.prairieghosts.com/lalaurie.html

MADAME DELPHINE LALAURIE: THE MOST EVIL WOMAN IN NEW ORLEANS (The Lineup) - http://www.the-line-up.com/madame-lalaurie-evil-woman-new-orleans/

THE TWISTED TALE OF DELPHINE LALAURIE AND HER HOUSE OF HORRORS (Today I Found Out) - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/09/twisted-tale-delphine-lalaurie-house-horrors/

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Hope This Isn’t Cursed and Genghis Khan Eco Warrior

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:24:30 +0000

Suzie explores the curse of the Hope diamond and Trevor checks Ghengis Khan's environmental record.

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Sources:

THE HOPE DIAMOND

Gizmodo, 2016 ‘6 Pieces of Real Life Cursed Jewelry That Could Destroy’ - http://io9.gizmodo.com/6-pieces-of-real-life-cursed-jewelry-that-could-destroy-1449245621

Mental Floss Inc., 2016 ‘8 Supposedly Cursed Gems’ - http://mentalfloss.com/article/68465/8-supposedly-cursed-gems

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History 2016, ‘The Hope Diamond - http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/nmnh/hope.htm

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Hope Diamond’ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond

**The Smithsonian link has a lot of books and information on the Hope Diamond listed for future reading**

GHENGIS KHAN - ECO WARRIOR

Coupled climate–carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO2 between AD 800 and 1850 - The Holocene August 2011 vol. 21 no. 5 843-851

Genghis Han killed so many people, that it was actually good for the environment, new study claims - ZME Science 26 May 2014

The Mongol Empire - www.allempires.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

The Money Pit and World War Poo

The Rufus Project — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 01:43:59 +0000

Suzie explores the Money Pit of Oak Island, Canada and Trevor checks out North African camel dung during World War II.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

MONEY PIT

D’Arcy O’Connor 2004, The Secret Treasure of Oak Island: The Amazing True

Story of a Centuries‐Old Treasure Hunt, Globe Pequot Press

Lionel Fanthorpe, The Oak Island Mystery

Graham Harris, Oak Island and its Lost Treasure

The Museum of UnNatural Mystery, 1998 - http://www.unmuseum.org/oakisl.htm

Oak Island Treasure - http://www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk/

WORLD WAR II CAMEL DUNG

The Bacillus Subtilis Story - http://www.rense.com/general4/bac.htm

7 Creative Uses for Poop - http://mentalfloss.com/article/23998/7-creative-uses-poop

German Soldiers Forced to Eat Poop - https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/german-soldiers-eat-poop.html

10 Interesting Facts about WWII - http://www.replicaweaponry.com/replica_collector_blog/10-interesting-facts-about-world-war-2/

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from...

History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.