EP 35: And They Called Him Moby Dick History Spelunkers podcast

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That is the question every man through time has faced. In today's episode we will delve into the social, political, and economic pressures that have influenced whether or not men as a class favor hair on their face throughout history. Shownotes Episode Photo is of President Rutherford Hayes, POTUS with the longest beard, public domain accessed via Wikimedia Commons Sound clip is from an interview of the Duck Dynasty cast on Jimmy Kimmel Live show, from youtube Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-had-best-civil-war-facial-hair-180951965/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914 https://daily.jstor.org/hair-gender-and-social-status-in-ancient-egypt/ https://uk.bulldogskincare.com/blogs/news/when-in-rome-the-ancient-history-of-traditional-shaving#:~:text=Beards%20among%20Romans%20was%20revived,out%20of%20fashion%20ever%20since. https://www.grunge.com/790046/why-ancient-egyptians-shaved-all-their-hair/ https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3829878 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555278/ https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/a-brief-history-of-beards/ https://www.truefittandhill.com/blogs/journal/history-of-beards-and-facial-hair https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/beards-mustaches-weird-history https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stubble-and-statecraft-how-beards-grew-political https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/28/21077676/beard-change-politics-beto-orourke-al-gore-david-letterman-conan-obrien https://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/12/politicians-with-beards-000559/?slide=0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military https://www.wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Walsh-Devan.pdf https://www.indianamuseum.org/blog-post/whiskers-for-votes-or-why-abraham-lincoln-grew-a-beard/ https://medium.com/@evgeny_o/why-the-greeks-grew-a-beard-while-the-romans-did-not-5d52a91c989#:~:text=The%20Romans%20believed%20that%20a,age%20solemnly%20shaved%20it%20off . https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Barba.html…

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EP 48: For the Love of Eggnog 31:23

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Happy Holidays, History Spelunkers! What would you do to get your booze on? Well the cadets at the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point are apparently willing to do a lot... Shownotes: Episode art: The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902, 1904, Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/egg-nog-its-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-starts-a-holiday-riot-180949281/ https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/university-of-virginia-riot-of-1836/…

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Ep 47: Reliving the Glory Days of History Spelunkers University 54:23

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Everyone gets up to some crazy stuff in college. For many it is the first time they are experiencing their first bouts of freedom and responsibility. Obviously the first thing we plan on doing with these new powers is to do something .... bizarre, but hey it cant be too weird if we are all doing it .... Right? Content Warning: Animal Abuse Shownotes: https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/1952-mizzous-panty-raids-get-out-of-hand-the-national-guard-is-called-in/collection_47206b6e-f118-582c-b94f-411669d47431.html https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/12/1/panty-raids-retrospection/ https://jimnicar.com/2014/11/24/the-great-panty-raid-of-november-1961/ https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/1939-year-goldfish-gulping https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-goldfish-swallowing-craze-1939-180954429/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/netherlands-catfish-swallowing/581359/ https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/ajc/id/7252/ https://www.chattanoogan.com/2014/4/7/273658/The-Memorable-Streaking-Craze-Of-The.aspx https://www.americanheritage.com/streaking-fad https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gallaudet-rat-graves https://thedailytexan.com/2020/02/10/one-special-fish-named-loompa-brings-ut-austin-community-together/ Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds Episode Art: Photo of a successful Panty Raid at the University of Southern California accessed at the UT History Corner, link https://jimnicar.com/2014/11/24/the-great-panty-raid-of-november-1961/…

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EP 46: The Rise and Fall of the Invisible Empire 1:24:41

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Content Warning: Racial and Sexual Violence Welcome back to another episode of History Spelunkers. In this episode we learn about the Ku Klux Klan and how they managed to become such a large and influential organization during the 1920s. It is important to know one's enemy in order to fight against them effectively. Shownotes: Episode Art is a photo of a KKK march in Washington D.C. in 1928, public domain, accessed via Wikimedia commons Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ku-klux-klan https://www.tpr.org/show/texas-matters/2017-03-17/texas-matters-how-the-kkk-took-control-of-texas-and-how-dan-moody-broke-them https://www.austincc.edu/jlw/klan https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-ku-klux-klan-in-the-1920s https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/vocesnovae/vol11/iss1/2/ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/second-klan/509468/ https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lily-white-movement https://www.jstor.org/stable/2197800 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/ https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/ https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/context/lynching.html https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-hosts-lynchings-and-liberators-exhibition-throughout-february#:~:text=Tuskegee%20University%20now%20houses%20the,African%20Americans%20and%201%2C297%20whites. https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/packets/1 https://wacohistory.org/items/show/200 https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279068/m2/1/high_res_d/1002659471-morris.pdf https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2104/5376/richard_fair_thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/exec/governors/12.html https://vtuhr.org/articles/10.21061/vtuhr.v11i1.145 https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-birth-of-a-nation#:~:text=Pressure%20from%20black%20voters%20causes,ban%20screenings%20of%20the%20film.&text=An%20African%20American%20newspaper%20in%20Denver%20argues%20against%20film%20coming%20to%20town.&text=Group%20of%20ministers%20in%20Iowa%20passes%20resolution%20denouncing%20film.&text=Birth%20of%20a%20Nation%20banned%20in%20Ohio . https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenkkk/ https://19thnews.org/2020/12/first-came-suffrage-then-came-the-women-of-the-ku-klux-klan/ https://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/learn…

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EP 45: Reasonable and Christian Thoughts on the Origin of the Vampires 2:14:06

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Happy Halloween! Welcome back to another spooky episode of History Spelunkers in which we discuss the stories that led us to the modern perception of the most infamous of blood sucking beasties.... the vampire!!! Shownotes: Episode art is a scene from the 1922 film Nosferatu. The Vampyre: A Tale by John Polidori; accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6087/6087-h/6087-h.htm Dracula by Bram Stokerl accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu; accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, accessible via the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/VarneyTheVampyre/page/n1/mode/1up Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants of Hungary, Moravia, et al. by Antoine Augustin Calmet; accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29412/29412-h/29412-h.htm https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-mercy-brown https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-englands-mystery-vampire-was-likely-farmer-named-john-180972815/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=teFCP69trOI&ab_channel=CaitlinDoughty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EQ_axr1y7Y&ab_channel=KazRowe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9FIPSLMeM&ab_channel=ESOTERICA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-KMoEjXBQ&t=509s&ab_channel=Let%27sTalkReligion Portrait of Vladislav Dracula, Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vlad_Tepes_002.jpg Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds…

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EP 44: Can I Pick None of the Above? 1:49:55

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Hello all, and happy Election Season! 2024 is shapeing up to be one of the most dramatic and consequential year for national elections around the world. In the US many voters have expressed a desire for more options than the two main political parties, and they might be told that "this is how its always been". In this episode, we work to undo that myth and examine the long history of "third parties" in this country and hear about the most successful. Shownotes: Episode Art: 1912 Progressive Party Campaign Button; Anonymous/Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/revolution/overview/whigstories/ Political Platforms: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/app-categories/elections-and-transitions/party-platforms https://news.gallup.com/poll/651278/support-third-political-party-dips.aspx https://www.state.gov/briefings-foreign-press-centers/elections-2024/third-parties-in-elections Former and Current Third Party Legislators: https://www.senate.gov/senators/SenatorsRepresentingThirdorMinorParties.htm https://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/ https://ballotpedia.org/Current_independent_and_minor_party_federal_and_state_officeholders Political Platforms for Minor Parties: https://www.lp.org/platform/ https://www.gp.org/platform https://constitutionparty.com/principles/platform/ https://www.prohibitionparty.org/platform https://www.solidarity-party.org/platform https://pslweb.org/program/ Wizard of Oz Analysis: https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/populism-and-world-oz Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/ebooks/two-party-system.pdf https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text John C. Calhoun Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/John_C_Calhoun_by_Mathew_Brady%2C_1849.jpg…

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EP 43: Lets Make It Rain!! 57:41

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Are you a fan of a nice summer day? How about a cool fall wind? Do you like the look of a light snowfall in your yard? What if you could have whatever you wanted at a moments notice and all you had to do was call your local government? Well what if I told you that thanks to your tax dollars, you just might be able to get a permit for that..... Shownotes: https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-donald-trump-suggest-nuking-hurricanes-1535171 https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title15/chapter9A&edition=prelim#:~:text=No%20person%20may%20engage%2C%20or,Secretary%20may%20by%20rule%20prescribe . https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/weather/ https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v19n03_1961-02/page/n36/mode/1up?view=theater https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/weather-modification https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclear-weapons/hiroshima/black-rain.html https://www.science.org/content/article/can-nuclear-fallout-make-it-rain https://web.archive.org/web/20150828101449/http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/hailcannons2_preprint.pdf http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/hailcan/hailcan.htm https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-us-government-tried-make-rain-exploding-dynamite-sky-180970193/ https://grist.org/politics/believe-it-or-not-trump-isnt-the-first-to-propose-nuking-hurricanes/ https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17218872/nasa-rocket-engine-test-stennis-space-center-cloud-generation https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/television/1247465789178/excerpt-conspiracy-theory.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuc7SAyk2s&ab_channel=FOX10Phoenix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2JnXjwWBM&ab_channel=WFAA Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds Episode art is a sketch of the 1901 International Hail Cannon Congress; Plumandon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons…

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EP 42: Everything is Better with Pirates 1:50:17

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In the Americas the United States is considered the first experiment at non-monarchical rule and democracy. But what if I told you that there might be a group that might've tested the sails of democracy on the high seas? Show Notes: Episode art is a photo of one of the few Jolly Roger flags that we know existed. The photo belongs to Karlsson, Anneli, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Recommend reading: The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/442239.The_Republic_of_Pirates Text of A General History of the Pyrates by Capt. Charles Johnson https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm Pirates of the Caribbean clip audio clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPBKt-x2Cw (OG belongs to Disney) Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds…

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EP 41: To Be Or Not To Be … In Ohio? 1:07:55

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With there being so many states, it understandable that sometimes it would be confusing to know which one you are in. But it gets more confusing when people begin arguing over which state you should be in and are willing to stab you if you disagree with them. Shownotes: Episode art is a map of Ellis Island from the NPS that shows the approximate boundary of the original island https://www.michigan.gov/dmva/about/history/military-events/highlights/the-toledo-war https://www.heritage.org/immigration/heritage-explains/the-toledo-war https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/4196 https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/vermontflag/ https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-history/ https://www.nps.gov/elis/faqs.htm Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds…

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EP 40: A Constellation of Lone Stars 53:07

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Hey yall! This is part two of the Texas Revolution deep dive and in this one we focus on the sister republic of Texas down in Yucatan. Texas might not be as unique in its independence than we like to think... Shownotes: https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/03/the-republic-of-yucatan/ https://militaryhistorynow.com/2022/04/28/the-yucatan-republic-how-a-mayan-independence-movement-became-a-sideshow-of-the-mexican-american-war/ Episode art is an 1848 map of Yucatan by Augustus Le Plongeon Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds…

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EP 39: You Can Blame Texas on Napoleon 1:19:25

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Howdy y'all and welcome back to History Spelunkers. In this episode we discuss the Texas Revolution and all of the convoluted history that led up to it. In this episode yes we do remember the Alamo, it just takes us about a while to get to that point. Shownotes: Episode art is The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Onderdonk;Public Domain via Wiki Commons https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-revolution https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/santa-anna-antonio-lopez-de https://libraries.uta.edu/usmexicowar/node/4883 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/revolutionary-army Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds…

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EP 38: POTUS- "Pets of the United States" 1:28:08

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Almost everyone loves animals. Join us as we go through the list of the famous pets of the POTUS. Now including a surprising number of alligators! Shownotes: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds Episode Photo is of First Lady Grace Coolidge and her racoon Rebecca; in the public domain through the Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons https://www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/pet-ownership-statistics/#:~:text=Dogs%20are%20the%20most%20popular,and%20baby%20boomers%20(24%25) . https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/sheep/ https://www.lancasterhistory.org/all-the-presidents-pets/ https://www.whitehousehistory.org/presidents-as-horsemen https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alligators-white-house-pets/ https://ethiopianism411.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/americas-first-presidential-hyena/ https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/laddie-boy-harding-dog-collar/iQF5o_cxt0aaiA?hl=en https://coolidgefoundation.org/resources/the-coolidge-pets/ https://americacomesalive.com/the-truman-dogs/ https://www.nps.gov/thri/learn/kidsyouth/teddybearhistory.htm…

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EP 37: Aloha America! Why are you here? 1:21:18

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Aloha everyone! In this episode we travel to the beautiful paradise in the middle of the Pacific know as the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii is one of the few states in these United States that can have the privilege of being their own independent nation. So today's question: why are these islands no longer independent? Shownotes: Episode photo is of the US Sailors and Marines from the USS Boston during the 1893 coup which deposed the monarch. Good books on the subject: How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Queen Lili'uokalani The Morgan Report: https://books.google.com/books?id=tBkiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA363#v=onepage&q&f=false The Blount Report: https://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/blount.php https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/raising-the-united-states-flag/ https://bulletin.punahou.edu/ending-the-kapu/ https://talesofhawaii.net/2020/10/20/kapu-system-of-traditional-hawaiian-religious-practice/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Hawaii chrome-extension://bdfcnmeidppjeaggnmidamkiddifkdib/viewer.html?file=https://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/reb/real_ed/re_ed/ce_prelic/land_in_hawaii.pdf https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-cook-killed-in-hawaii Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds…

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EP 36: The Tragedy of the Essex 46:33

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Welcome back to the continuation of our tragic tale of one of the most infamous events to ever occur on the high seas: The wreck of the whaleship Essex. Once we finish learning about the fates of these poor souls we go on to examine a variety of related stories. CW: death, murder, and cannibalism... a lot of cannibalism Cover art is a sketch by Thomas Nickerson of the whaleship Essex compared to the whale which sank it; public domain access via Wikimedia commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essex_photo_03_b.jpg https://www.britannica.com/topic/cannibalism-human-behaviour https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/05/essex-200005 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Essex-whaling-ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens#Cultural_impact https://www.google.com/books/edition/Arthur_Gordon_Pym/GvhDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Moby_Dick/XV8XAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds https://iwc.int/en/…

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EP 35: And They Called Him Moby Dick 51:04

1 year тому51:04