Ship Happens and Mind Games
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
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.
