Tasty Birthday Nibbles
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!
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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
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.
