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• February 5, 2024

  Episode 83: From Beheading to Betrothing

  Let’s start at the very beginning with the very unromantic origins of Valentine’s Day. The beheading part of our title. Look at our lovely kneeling St. Valentine. This is just one of the many Valentines that lived, pictured here in St Valentine Kneeling in Supplication by David Teniers III from the 1600s. There were actually…
• January 29, 2024

  Episode 82: So What, Half Head?

  Let’s just start with this image of the Embassy Suites from the Trip Advisor as uploaded from the Hilton Charleston Historic District. This gives you a nice image of the hotel from back when it was a military academy. And here’s the modern image to compare with the one above, also uploaded by hotel management.…
• January 22, 2024

  Episode 81: Birds of a Feather Spread Fire Together

  The firehawks, which aren’t really hawks at all, use fire to hunt with! They’re from Australia and are really the Black Kite, the Whistling Kite, and the Brown Falcon. Click the link to read about what they do! This article here is the one M got many of their quotes from and as far as…
• January 21, 2024

  Episode 80: What Are You Hiding Under There?

  Let’s start with a look at the Spanish Farthingale. These gained popularity in the 1500s. They had these thick horizontal bands an a cone shape. Click the picture to read from the direct source. Next in 1700s, the pannier gained popularity. I ended up calling this a table dress during the episode. It had the…
• January 10, 2024

  Episode 79: Snowmen: Pornographic Protests to Modern Traditions

  This article touches on most of the things we talked about in this episode with some additional examples of snowman history thrown in as well! This is an article in list format that also touches on many things we talked about but adds some more examples that we didn’t talk about and aren’t in the…
• January 1, 2024

  Episode 78: Bob & Turbo: Solving the Y2K Problem

  This is a 9 minute long video about Y2K, a news broadcast about it. It really shows how scared people were of what they thought was going to happen. And an article actually explaining what it was and why it scared people. It’s about this time when we got distracted learning about the Y2K Czars!…
• December 25, 2023

  Episode 77: Silent Night: The 1914 Christmas Truce

  Here is a headline image from a 1915 addition of the London, England newspaper The Daily Mirror. You can see the photograph of the mix of German and English troops above. This image is from the Library of Congress and attached to the story of the 1914 Christmas Truce, and this article includes more images…
• December 23, 2023

  Episode 76: Cuetlaxochitl: The Poinsettia Story

  So let’s talk about the history of the cuetlaxochitl from its days as an important flower to the Mexica and other Indigenous Mexicans to the modern holiday plant. Every link tells you a little bit more about the history of this plant and why it is called what it’s called, the story behind it, how…
• December 16, 2023

  Episode 75: Sacajawea: The One Who Did All The Work

  Let’s start with the words from Rozina George from her article “Agaidika Perspective on Sacajawea.” This is an article from the Lemhi Shoshone about Sacajawea where it lays out all the things about Sacajawea that makes her Shoshone. Most sources say largely the same things about Sacajawea, unfortunately, and it’s because so much of what…
• December 16, 2023

  Episode 74: Elviscerated: Coke Bottle Penis

  Here in part 2 of our Elvis talk, we moved away from his marriage to Priscilla and talked about the other girls he spent time with, a lot of them young but some of them grown women. What did those women say, and what was Elvis like in the bedroom? We’re talking kinks, the portrayal…