History.icu https://www.history.icu Pinecast (https://pinecast.com) en-CAJames Dykstra James Dykstra mrpuffin@protonmail.com yes History.icu https://www.history.icu https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/3170b59e-4ef8-4e1d-a983-ac734006c4c2/itunes_square_logo.jpg serial Copyright 2019 History with a punchline. E1 The Defenestration of Prague https://pinecast.com/guid/8aec0610-687e-4e56-a768-525dd0834b36 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:14:54 -0000 00:05:05 Everything you know goes out the window This is the first episode of History.icu. It's going to be a short podcast, published about every two weeks, about weird, quirky, offbeat events that are suprisingly relatable.

Today's episode is about the Defenestration of Prague, or why you should check to see if someone has closed the window before you come very far into the room.

Music is supplied by jjstiano of www.looperman.com

]]> The Defenestration of Prague yes 1 E2 Dancing Plague of 1522 https://pinecast.com/guid/9936c581-a7c8-4f16-91bc-6d4e5a845740 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 08:00:57 -0000 00:05:19 As Gene Kelly said, Gotta dance! https://www.history.icu This episode is about the Dancing Plague of 1522. When times are tough, the tough go dancing.

Music is courtesy of jjstiano over at Looperman.com

]]> Dancing Plague of 1522 yes 2 E3 Jenny Geddes https://pinecast.com/guid/bf27a4b5-90a7-4985-857a-9d5f2aa3114c Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:00:18 -0000 00:05:21 How you can really change things when you just can't seem to sit still. This is the story of an average woman named Jenny Geddes. By being who she was she triggered a reformation in her church, and set rolling unforeseen consequence in the entire kingdom. She chose a place to take her seat and to take her stand and that changed everything.

Music provided by jjstiano over at Looperman.com.

]]> Jenny Geddes yes 3 E4 Klondike Big Inch Land Company https://pinecast.com/guid/496c3b61-a8eb-4d2b-816f-8913dceda8dc Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:00:55 -0000 00:05:17 How not to own a tiny piece of the Klondike. The story of how not to own a small piece of the Klondike.

Music provided by jjstiano over at Looperman.com.

]]> Klondike Big Inch Land Company yes 4 E5 Straw Hat Riot of 1922 https://pinecast.com/guid/4865161e-59f2-4e67-a491-90a85bb31545 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:00:31 -0000 00:06:09 When to take your hat off and when to leave it on This is the story of when a hat is fashionable, when it is not, and what you can do about that.

Music is courtesy of jjstiano over at Looperman.com.

]]> Straw Hat Riot of 1922 yes 5 E6 Great Emu War https://pinecast.com/guid/4dab60a9-81f2-45e6-a82a-df0daf2be1f8 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:00:07 -0000 00:06:26 There goes the neighborhood! 20,000 emus just moved in! What do you do when 20,000 emus overrun your farm? Go to war, obvously.

Music courtesy of jjstiano at Looperman.com

]]> Great Emu War yes 6 E7 Great Moon Hoax of 1835 https://pinecast.com/guid/e2c1ce6f-598b-4d9b-8244-a98d90f0dcde Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0000 00:07:16 For a few glorious moments, we thought we'd found friends https://www.history.icu/ What if there was other intelligent life in the universe? In all of the vastness of creation, what if we weren't the pinnancle being out there?

Music is courtesy of jjstiano over at Looperman.com. Cover art comes from chriscalderwoo1 at Pixabay.

]]> Great Moon Hoax of 1835 clean 7 E8 Igor Gouzenko https://pinecast.com/guid/62716946-83e3-4926-a166-c2337bdb25b8 Tue, 26 Nov 2019 09:00:19 -0000 00:07:00 Not your typical spy story https://www.history.icu This is the story of Igor Gouzenko, who is not your typical Cold War spy. On a Friday night, in September of 1945 he started the Cold War. But it didn't happen the way you think it might.

Thanks to jjstiano at Looperman.com for the music, and to Paul Daley at Pixabay.com for the image.

]]> Igor Gouzenko yes 8 E9 Liechtenstein https://pinecast.com/guid/cd514190-f28b-4e18-a4d0-f30423d41321 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:21:00 -0000 00:05:38 A country that doesn't get the respect it deerves https://www.history.icu Pity poor Liechtenstein. Tiny and ignored and even bullied, it's still a country that knows what's important.

Thanks to jjstiano at Looperman for the music, and to pasja1000 at Pixaby for the image.

]]> Liechtenstein clean 9 E10 Silent Night https://pinecast.com/guid/46a7ce3a-0ab7-414a-b9c4-8729dea0d076 Tue, 24 Dec 2019 09:00:00 -0000 00:06:40 The night the guns fell silent. https://www.history.icu It was the night the guns went silent. Sometimes there's something more powerful in war than hate.

Music has been provided by jjstiano and and Kevin MacLeod.

]]> Silent Night clean 10 E11 Slip Sliding Away https://pinecast.com/guid/4d8e9692-15d7-4644-90eb-651f00b46a8f Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:00:29 -0000 00:05:32 The Dutch go to war on skates In this episode the Dutch teach the Spanish a few things about ice.

The theme music is courtesty of jjstiano

]]> Slip Sliding Away yes 11 E12 The Slimiest Man in Baseball https://pinecast.com/guid/ef08162d-e18c-4a24-ba4b-5e15fcd4f13e Tue, 21 Jan 2020 09:00:48 -0000 00:06:37 A quick look at Arthur Irwin Do you love him or do you hate him? What makes a hero? The great Arthur Irwin was said to be the slimiest man in baseball.

Music from jjstanio at Looperman.com. Art work courtesty of Wikipedia.

]]> The Slimiest Man in Baseball yes 12 E13 Rhinoceros Party https://pinecast.com/guid/28d6288b-4eb1-42ec-a260-895b872ac60c Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:00:00 -0000 00:05:01 Absurdity in politics before it became popular https://www.history.icu/?p=110 If you think politics today is absurd, you need to meet Canada's Rhinoceros Party.

Check out History.icu for show notes and a transcript of the podcast.

Thanks to jjstiano for the theme music, and Free-Photos for the rhino image.

]]> Rhinoceros Party clean 13 E14 The Great Ostrich Heist of 1911 https://pinecast.com/guid/2fb6d231-95d1-400d-a236-822f60c0ceca Tue, 18 Feb 2020 09:00:39 -0000 00:06:12 The race for the best feathers in the world, and how easily your fortune blows away. What happens when women want really big feathers on their hats? How far will people go to satisfy the craving? And how long will the craving last?

Music courtesy of jjstiano at Looperman, and image is from ivabalk at Pixabay.

]]> The Great Ostrich Heist of 1911 yes 14 E15 USS Seadragon https://pinecast.com/guid/1136839a-3522-435c-901c-dce63c0c31ce Tue, 03 Mar 2020 09:39:00 -0000 00:05:00 The baseball game played all the way around the world. The story of the USS Seadragon, its voyage under the ice, and the world's strangest baseball game.

Image from Wikimedia Commons and the music is from jjstiano at Looperman.

]]> USS Seadragon yes 15 E16 The 38 Minute War https://pinecast.com/guid/b89bcf9c-0b08-488b-874e-f4794239bf9d Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:50:36 -0000 00:05:47 It doesn't always have to take a long time to be important. The Anglo-Zanzibar War, at 38 minutes is the shortest war in history. Yet enough brief events can be of lasting significance.

The music is from jjstiano and the photo of the HMS Philomel comes from Wikipedia.

]]> The 38 Minute War yes 16 E17 Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, and Cold Desserts https://pinecast.com/guid/6e8a0f18-0848-4754-9f05-9c21aebdafb2 Thu, 07 May 2020 01:56:44 -0000 00:05:56 When you're hot you're hot, and when you're not... https://www.history.icu The tale of Typhoid Mary is a famous one, but how was it that Mary Mallon managed to spread typhoid in New York? The tale is stranger than you think.

Music, as always, is by jjstiano, at Looperman.

Image from Lupo 09:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC) - According to http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-702b,0,3017376.photo?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation[dead link] this is an illustration that appeared in 1909 in The New York American. (According to http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/mary.html, the precise date was June 20, 1909)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=689799

Notes go here

]]> Mary Mallon, aka Typhoid Mary, and Cold Desserts yes 17 E18 Operation Manna https://pinecast.com/guid/954cdcfd-ea1a-4882-95bf-388ea1eb1ba8 Tue, 19 May 2020 12:33:00 -0000 00:05:53 Food from heaven When the odd are down and enemies actually collaborate for the greater good to make food fall from heaven, what can it be but a miracle?

Music by JJStiano at Looperman. Image of the Lancaster bomber is in the pubic domain and can be found on Wikipedia.

]]> Operation Manna yes 18 E19 Operation Paul Bunyan https://pinecast.com/guid/786efb2a-ef8d-45f2-aaa3-9a201e9037cf Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:10:21 -0000 00:06:34 If a tree falls in Korea... https://www.history.icu If they won't let you cut down a tree in Korea, does it make a sound? This is is the weird tale of a tree pruning operation in the Korean demilitarized zone in 1976.

Music is courtesy of jjstiano at Looperman.

]]> Operation Paul Bunyan clean 19 E20 The Death of Franz Ferdinand https://pinecast.com/guid/78ec2fa5-e8c9-4407-b367-775f284c01ac Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:00:00 -0000 00:06:26 All this for the lack of a good map. This is the story of the unlikely death of one man.

Music courtesy of jjstiano at Looperman. Image of the gun used in the assassination from Daniel R. Blume.

]]> The Death of Franz Ferdinand yes 20 E21 The Art of Drawing Attention to Yourself, aka Goldfish Swallowing https://pinecast.com/guid/7b20acd2-216e-4312-8042-980aaf416133 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 21:49:46 -0000 00:05:33 University students do the strangest things sometimes. https://www.history.icu People will eat strange things, but in order to draw attention to themselves, it might surprise you what people will do.

Music from JJStiano at Looperman. Goldfish picture by Dina263 at Pixabay.

]]> The Art of Drawing Attention to Yourself, aka Goldfish Swallowing clean 21 E22 Halley's Comet Panic of 1910 https://pinecast.com/guid/2a780573-4b8b-478b-a6ef-6b5dc3dc17fe Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:00:04 -0000 00:06:14 What not to do when a comet comes What do you do when a comet comes? Find out how many reacted when Halley's Comet made a visit in 1910.

Image courtesy of Buddy_Nath at Pixabay. Theme music is, as always, courtesy of JJStiano at Looperman.

]]> Halley's Comet Panic of 1910 yes 22 E23 You can't always get what you want https://pinecast.com/guid/0d5ab4a6-dd8f-4fc4-86b0-0e028f27afa9 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 09:00:00 -0000 00:05:56 The story of two places that should and shouldn't be there. How do you explain it when a place on the map should be there, but isn't and another shouldn't be there, but is? Today's story is about the island of Bermeja, and the hamlet of Aglo.

The music is courtesy of JJStiano, and the image of the beach being washed away is kordi_vahle.

]]> You can't always get what you want yes 23 E24 San Francisco and the Mask https://pinecast.com/guid/2c04cdbd-1a60-4b5d-809e-e4e897d8b766 Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:18:11 -0000 00:09:23 When that facial garment was really unpopular Episode Notes

You hate wearing masks? You're not alone. A lot of people had the same problem over 100 years ago. Find out more.

Music by JJStiano on Looperman.

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