That’s a Big Nelson and Bloopdy Doop
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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Sources:
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
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
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 – Hey There Cthulhu – Eben Brooks
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