Decade Dames: Recent Episodes
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Join the Decade Dames as they cover overlooked environmental, entertainment, and eclectic events, decade by decade.
The year is 1768! Philip Astley brings the first circus to town, the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth is born, Jean-Paul Marat learns why it's not a good idea to take meetings while in the bathtub, and Steller's Sea Cow just...just be nice to animals, y'all.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license.
http://www.circopedia.org/Philip_Astley
https://www.britannica.com/art/circus-theatrical-entertainment/Philip-Astley-and-the-first-circuses
http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-origin/philip-astley/
https://www.philipastley.org.uk/
https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-philip-astley-the-father-of-the-modern-british-circus/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Marat
https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/charlotte-corday
https://www.historyhit.com/the-angel-of-assassination-who-was-charlotte-corday/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Edgeworthhttps://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/maria-edgeworth-was-a-great-literary-celeb-why-has-she-been-forgotten-1.3760188https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.13370
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/naturalist-georg-wilhelm-steller
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/pleistoseacow/522831/
https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1036/report.pdf
https://www.ashoka.edu.in/static/doc_uploads/file_1615554314.pdf#page=31
The year is 1767! The Beast of Gévaudan rampages bucolic France, the Devonshire Colic sweeps through (you guessed it) Devonshire, Maria Josepha faces her worst fear, and the Timuca people encounter the devastating and abusive European colonizers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820/ https://www.thecollector.com/beast-of-gevaudan/ https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/maria-theresia-of-austria/year-maria-theresa-tragic-death-maria-josepha/
https://creativehistorian.co.uk/blog/read_196169/almost-queens-maria-josepha-of-austria.html http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/minimed/DevonShireColicBaker.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791112310020
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1037515/?page=4 The Devonshire Colic, H.A. Waldron
The year is 1766!
Henry Cavendish declares what hydrogen is, James Christie makes a living selling household goods while the French Revolution rages, speech gets a little bit more free in Sweden, and James Quinn breaks the number one rule of the theater...maybe.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Freedom-of-the-Press-Act-of-1766
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-III
https://www.artprice.com/artmarketinsight/mr-christie-before-christies-his-early-days
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/james-christie-eloquent-auctioneer
https://www.christies.com/about-us/welcome-to-christies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Christie_(auctioneer)
https://www.aviationfile.com/jacques-charles-who-invented-the-hydrogen-balloon/
When Were the Elements Discovered? (Timeline) (thoughtco.com)
Single-Displacement Reaction Definition and Examples (thoughtco.com)
https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/studies/7/3/index.html
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-19-02-0152
https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/studies/7/3/index.html
https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Cavendish-Henry.html
Hydrogen | History, Uses, Facts, Physical & Chemical Characteristics (periodic-table.com)
Henry Cavendish and The Revolutionary Discovery of Hydrogen (interestingengineering.com)
The year is 1765!
Prokop Diviš, who is not Ben Franklin in disguise, also invents the lightning rod. Mary Bryant escapes Britain's penal colony. Claire Lacombe fights for women's rights. Abigail Adams Smith fights breast cancer.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license.
https://parcoursrevolution.paris.fr/en/points-of-interest/105-claire-lacombe-a-republican-militant Society of Revolutionary Republican Women (Société des républicaines révolutionnaires) (1793) | Towards Emancipation? Society of Revolutionary Republican Women - Wikipedia Claire Lacombe - Wikipedia Regulations of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women (9 July 1793) · LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION Women in the French Revolution: From the Salons to the Streets | 4 Corners of the World: International Collections and Studies at the Library of Congress https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/10/abigail-adams-smith.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/adams-children/ https://librarycompany.org/women/republicancourt/smith_abigail.htm https://www.news-medical.net/health/History-of-Breast-Cancer.aspx https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bryant-mary-1765
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bryant-mary-1843
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/348160?journalCode=isis
https://www.famousscientists.org/prokop-divis/
https://cbm-technology.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HISTORY-OF-LIGHTNING-PROTECTION-IN-POLAND.pdf
The year is 1764!
St. Louis is settled by Europeans. Ivan the 6th of Russia is treated terribly. Madame Élisabeth of France was killed for being a sister; and Sophie Marie Louise de Grouchy, the French Philosopher, was born!
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license.
http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/madame-elisabeth-of-france/ https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/madame-elisabeth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élisabeth_of_France
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/white-settlers-buried-truth-about-midwests-mysterious-mound-cities-180968246/
https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-11-08/was-st-louis-actually-founded-by-pierre-laclede-and-auguste-chouteau-in-1764
https://www.lacledeslanding.com/discover/history/the-founding-of-st-louis/
Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis by Andrew Hurley
St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865 by Charles Van Ravenswaay
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: A History of Colonial St. Louis by Patricia Cleary
https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/condorcet-sophie-marie-louise-marquise-de-1764-1822
The year is 1763.
Thomas Bayes astounds and confuses us all so much that we have to discuss it twice. Pontiac's Rebellion begins. Anna Maria Garthwaite is very good at heart. And Marie-Josephte Corriveau is found guilty of murdering her husband.
Warning: Today's history discussion includes mention of violence and domestic abuse.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pontiac-Ottawa-chief
https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/chief-pontiac
https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/great-native-american-chiefs/group-of-native-american-chief/chief--pontiac--aka-obwandiyag
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pontiacs-rebellion-begins
http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/corriveau_marie_josephte_3E.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/la-corriveaus-cage-quebec-canada
https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/marie-josephte-corriveau/
https://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/04/05/at-anna-maria-garthwaites-house/ https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/2020/6/4/womens-history-on-my-walk-spitalfields https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/2020/9/23/anna-maria-garthwaite https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/228855 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Garthwaite
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstl.1763.0053
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayes-theorem/
https://www.accessscience.com/content/applications-of-bayes-theorem-for-predictingenvironmental-damage/YB100249
http://biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio621/misc/bayesbiog.pdf
The year is 1762!
Benjamin Franklin throws things away in Philadelphia! Peter the Great isn't great for very long. And we learn about America's oldest tavern, Fraunces Tavern, before hearing about the execution of Jean Calas.
Warning - the discussion of Jean Calas contains mentions of suicide.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/history https://www.frauncestavern.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern https://explorerspassage.com/chronicles/fraunces-tavern/ www.biography.com/.amp/political-figure/peter-iii https://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/the-romanov-dynasty/peter-iii/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Calas https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/03/13/broken-on-the-wheel/ https://www.epa.gov/npdes/industrial-wastewater http://www.phillyh2o.org/canvas/canvas02.htm http://www.wrc.udel.edu/wp-content/Research/The%20Delaware%20River%20Revival%20G%20J%20Kauffman%202010.pdf
The Delaware River Revival: Four Centuries of Historic Water Quality Change from Henry Hudson to Benjamin Franklin to JFK,
“Small Matters”: Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia and the “Progress of Cities” A Michal McMAhon
The year is 1761!
We're talking about the first Darkey Kelly Ireland's first "serial killer." But that's not all, we hear how Marie Tussaud turned a unique skill into a profit, King George III's love life, and Matthew Boulton's endeavor to create the world's first factory.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tussauds
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Tussaud
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/04/madame-tussaud-edward-carey-little
https://www.madametussauds.com/new-york/information/who-we-are
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/darkey-kelly-witch-serial-killer-or-wronged-woman
https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/darkey-kelly-brothel-keeper-of-dublin/
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-witch-darkey-kelly-irelands-serial-killer
https://www.google.com/amp/s/georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/royal-weddings/amp/
https://www.google.com/amp/www.kyrackramer.com/2017/09/08/the-marriage-of-king-george-iii-and-queen-charlotte/amp/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_of_Mecklenburg-Strelitz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III https://www.historytoday.com/archive/coronation-george-iii https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/george-iii http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/watt_james.shtml#:~:text=James%20Watt%20(1736%20%2D%201819)&text=The%20first%20working%20steam%20engine,model%20Newcomen%20engine%20to%20repair.
https://intriguing-history.com/matthew-boulton/
http://public.bacs.daisy.websds.net/PDFFiles/Articles/88013.pdf
https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Soho_Manufactory
The year is 1760!
James Armistead and Deborah Sampson both serve the country while their bravery gets overlooked. Ben Franklin becomes America's first environmentalist. And Ann Cargill travels the world!
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2008/09/18/history_ann_cargill_feature.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_(1774_EIC_ship)
http://www.oceantreasures.org/blog/do/tag/ann-cargill/ http://scillydivers.blogspot.com/p/wheels-wreck.html
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/deborah-sampson?gclid=EAIaIQobChMImrLM1ti98AIVlm5vBB0L6gVKEAAYASAAEgKBMfD_BwE
https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/deborah-sampson/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/deborah-sampson
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/diary-sheds-light-deborah-sampson-who-fought-revolutionary-war-180972547/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/james-armistead-lafayette
https://www.history.com/news/battle-of-yorktown-slave-spy-james-armistead
https://www.ushistory.org/franklin/science/stove.htm https://sustainingourworld.com/2014/01/30/benjamin-franklins-battle-against-water-pollution/
palaborhistorysociety.org/timeline-of-labor-history-in-pennsylvania
https://www.thegreenskeptic.com/2006/01/ben-franklin-early-american.html
Recovering Benjamin Franklin by James Campbell
The year is 1489!
There's a lot marriages for the Tudor family, including Princess Margaret and Catherine of Aragon, Cyprus sees Caterina Cornaro as its last queen, and the Aztecs are producing all sorts of delicious foods with the use chinampas.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://thehistoryjar.com/tag/treaty-of-medina-del-campo/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Medina-del-Campo
https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/tag/treaty-of-medina-del-campo/ https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-caterina-cornaro-the-last-queen-of-cyprus-108495 https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/margaret-tudor-english-princess-scottish-queen/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Tudor
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-aztecs-of-mexico-a-zero-waste-society
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-grow-a-floating-garden#how-to-make-your-own-floating-garden
https://www.sustainability-times.com/clean-cities/ancient-aztec-chinampas-hold-promise-for-urban-agriculture/
https://blogs.stockton.edu/aztecsociety/agriculture-and-exchange/
https://www.historyonthenet.com/aztec-agriculture-floating-farms-fed-the-people
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/tenochtitlan/
https://www.thoughtco.com/chinampa-floating-gardens-170337
The year is 1488!
Mary Stewart endures spousal changes against her will, Gustav Trolle demonstrates why you should not be his friend, Leonardo da Vinci leaves bread crumbs about his possible vegetarianism and Rathborne's Candles begins a 500+-year-old business.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://rathbornes1488.com/pages/our-history https://fora.ie/rathborne-candles-1488-interview-4983223-Jan2020/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathbornes_Candles https://www.google.com/amp/s/evoke.ie/2018/10/09/style/interiors/rathbornes-candles-once-used-by-prisioners-are-now-the-ultimate-in-luxury/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishtimes.com/business/work/future-proof-rathbornes-a-shining-light-for-far-longer-than-most-businesses-1.3464633%3fmode=amp https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/lifestyle/founded-before-columbus-discovered-america-rathbornes-still-burns-bright-29668833.html https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-drawing-hometown-592118
https://www.history.com/topics/renaissance/medici-famil
https://www.tuscany.co/guide-vinci/vinci.html
https://www.visittuscany.com/en/time-based-tours/day-trip-vinci/
https://leonardoda-vinci.com/early-life
https://ivu.org/history/davinci/hurwitz.html#:~:text=da%20Vinci%20was%20also%20referred%20to%20as%20a,Museo%20Ideale%20Leonardo%20da%20Vinci%20in%20Vinci%2C%20Italy
https://www.history.com/news/an-orphaned-teenager-was-mother-to-the-worlds-most-famous-artist
https://anancestoradayblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/17/mary-stewart-princess-of-scotland-and-countess-of-arran/
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mary_Stewart,_Countess_of_Arran#/google_vignette
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84654566/mary-hamilton
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-Eriksson-Trolle
https://www.britannica.com/event/Stockholm-Bloodbath
https://izi.travel/en/abb6-the-stockholm-bloodbath/en
https://medeltidsmuseet.stockholm.se/in-english/exhibitions/stockholm-bloodbath/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Trolle
The year is 1487!
Beer gets better (and safer), Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (and by all accounts sounds like someone who should actually be in a position of leadership), Magdalena de la Cruz is a living saint (and by all accounts sounds like someone who should not be in a position of leadership), and Lambert Simnel claims he's heir to the throne of England.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/7SMpZlapQl/
https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/JE21QkzMmR/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celebrating-500-years-germans-beer-purity-law-180958878/
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/26/the-reinheitsgebot-the-beer-purity-law-of-1516-is-still-in-force-in-germany-today/
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/piel-castle/history/lambert-simnel/
https://spartacus-educational.com/H7Content5.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Simnel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Plantagenet,_17th_Earl_of_Warwick
https://christusvincitsite.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/diabolic-stigmata-the-notorious-case-of-magdalena-de-la-cruz/
https://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2011/12/sister-magdalena-of-cross-nun-who-made.html
http://www.mingtombs.eu/emp/09hongzhi/hongzhi.html https://www.chinafetching.com/hongzhi-emperor-zhu-youcheng
The year is 1486!
The Guldengroschen becomes the world's fanciest and most dangerous coin. Margaret, the Queen of Scotland, dies. Botticelli finishes The Birth of Venus. And the Medici Giraffe arrives in Italy, or in other words, a wealthy family refuses to let an adorable giraffe live in its native home in peace.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
Breitenlechner, Elisabeth, Marina Hilber, Joachim Lutz, Yvonne Kathrein, Alois Unterkircher, and Klaus Oeggl. “Reconstructing the History of Copper and Silver Mining in Schwaz, Tirol,” In: “Mining in Central Europe: Perspectives from Environmental History,” edited by Frank Uekoetter, RCC Perspectives 2012, no. 10, 7–20.
https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/land-silver-and-coins-mining-silver-and-minting-coins-tyrol
http://www.moneta-coins.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=2825&title=austria-tyrol1st-taler-1486&cat=500
https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/siegmund-rich-coin
https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/albrecht-vi-ambitious-second-son
https://www.taleruniverse.com/the-taler-universe-collection/austro-hungarian-talers-by-habsburg-ruler/archduke-sigismund-of-austria-1446-1490/
https://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/dollar.html#:~:text=From%20Thalers%20to%20Dollars&text=The%20word%20dollar%20is%20much,silver%20in%20Joachimsthal%20in%20Bohemia.
http://www.freyasflorence.com/the-exotic-in-florence-the-medici-giraffe/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_giraffe
http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/stewart_24.html
https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/margaret-of-denmark/margaret-denmark-queen-scots/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2012/12/04/margaret-of-denmark-queen-of-scots/amp/
The year is 1485!
Hernán Cortés is the epitome of evil. Richard III loses his horse. England's agricultural scene experiences changes. The sweating sickness appears and then disappears with no certain rhyme or reason. And why Al Capone would beat Cortés in a fight.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.ranker.com/list/terrible-facts-about-conquistador-hernan-cortes/setareh-janda www.history.com/.amp/topics/exploration/hernan-cortes
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hernan-Cortes www.history.com/.amp/news/the-mysterious-epidemic-that-terrified-henry-viii
https://www.britannica.com/science/sweating-sickness https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/opinion/blogs/just-what-was-english-sweating-sickness/20067690.blog?firstPass=false https://www.acraew.org.uk/history-common-land-and-village-greens https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111003-science-climate-change-little-ice-age/#close https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Europe/Landlords-and-peasants Rural Economy of England by Joan Thirsk
The year is 1484! Luisa de Medrano becomes one of the first known female professors, St. Catherine leads a very chaste life and inspires chocolate making, and Pope Innocent's Papal Bull of 1484 identifies the wrong cause of climate changes and exacerbates the European witchhunts.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.monstrousregimentofwomen.com/2018/08/luisa-de-medrano-first-female-professor.html?m=1
https://www.villafrancadeloscaballeros.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1044:abril-2016-luisa-de-medrano-atienza,-1484-1527&catid=64&Itemid=702
https://historycollection.com/10-little-known-witch-trials-from-history/5/https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=theses
https://salemcc.instructure.com/courses/451/pages/the-witch-bull-of-1484
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Innocent-VIII
https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/education/classes/files/content/page/3%20AlAsad%20-%20Paleoclimate%20of%20the%20Colorado%20Plateau.pdf
https://www.livescience.com/28219-holocene-epoch.html
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
The Year is 1483 - Old Tom Parr becomes the world's most adorable liar, Michelangelo hates his job, Tomás de Torquemada emboldens the Spanish Inquisition, and Richard III keeps himself busy during the summer.
All this, plus Betsy and Amy manage to mention Henry Cavill...again!
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/spanish-and-portuguese-history-biographies/tomas-de-torquemada
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8153480/tom_s-de-torquemada
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/thomas-parr https://www.google.com/amp/s/strangeremains.com/2018/01/02/dissecting-the-true-age-of-old-tom-parr/amp/ https://medium.com/@Brumafriend/old-tom-parr-outliving-a-dynasty-ada0c5187b7a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Woodville https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_V_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England https://thehistoryofengland.co.uk/resource/the-1483-timeline/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-princes-in-the-tower/#gs.lznc5f https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/design-inspiration/a1291-10-things-you-did-not-know-about-the-sistine-chapel-barbara-priscila-nila-canedo/
https://www.history.com/topics/religion/vatican-city
https://www.tours-italy.com/discover-your-italy/guide-vatican/sistine-chapel
https://www.livescience.com/40802-sistine-chapel.html
http://www.travelingintuscany.com/art/sandrobotticelli/sistenechapel.htm
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/84176/15-lofty-facts-about-sistine-chapel
https://www.arttrav.com/it/how-to-paint-fresco/
https://www.whatalifetours.com/history-of-the-vatican-museums/
The year is 1482.
Mary of Burgundy faces difficult odds, Maximilian struggles as a successor, atrocious tragedy strikes Ghana, while Boticelli paints.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.thoughtco.com/mary-of-burgundy-3529745
https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/marrying-burgundy-maximilian-i-and-mary-burgundy https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/mary-burgundy-1457-1482 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(Botticelli) http://www.italianrenaissance.org/a-closer-look-botticellis-primavera/ https://www.theartstory.org/artist/botticelli-sandro/life-and-legacy/ https://www.notablebiographies.com/Be-Br/Botticelli-Sandro.html https://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/ghana
https://eros.usgs.gov/westafrica/country/republic-ghana#:~:text=The%20country%20is%20endowed%20with,wealthier%20nations%20in%20West%20Africa.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/27/africa/ghana-elmina-castle/index.html
http://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0109
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr1.html
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/el-mina-sao-jorge-da-mina/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p260.html
The year is 1481. The Reims Cathedral catches on fire. Anne De Mowbray tragically and mysteriously dies and her dog is nowhere to be found. Mehmed the Conqueror also dies. Approximately 30,000 people also, also die in the Rhodes earthquake. It was a rough year.
Also, Betsy and Amy campaign hard to convince Kim to start watching "The Great."
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.ancient.eu/Mehmed_II/
https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/anne-de-mowbray/anne-de-mowbray-the-royal-child-bride/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/debate-over-rebuilding-ensued-when-beloved-french-cathedral-was-shelled-during-wwi-180971999/
https://www.pariscityvision.com/en/france/champagne/reims-cathedral
https://walkingontravels.com/reims-cathedral-france/
https://frenchmoments.eu/reims-cathedral/#The_construction_of_a_grand_Gothic_church
https://curate.nd.edu/show/x346d220v7h
https://thetourguy.com/travel-blog/the-reims-cathedral-guide-with-history-and-facts/
The decade dames travel back into time for a NEW decade - the 1480s, of course!
Join Betsy, Kim, and Amy as they talk about Ferdinand and Isabella, Lucrezia Borgia, the reuse of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, and the Spanish Inquisition.
Listen now to get all the details.
Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-II-king-of-Spain https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isabella-I-queen-of-Spain https://medium.com/@kathycopelandpadden/ferdinand-and-isabella-power-couple-extraordinaire-7bbd5b640356 http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/royaltyr/AncientCities/web/rel%20372%20project/LIGHTHOUSE.htm https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/what-was-spanish-inquisition-facts-heretic-heresy-trial/
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/pharos.html
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/underwater-cultural-heritage/about-the-heritage/underwater-museums/alexandria-museum-project/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/raising-alexandria-151005550/
http://www.unmuseum.org/mob/pharos.htm
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/empereur.html
The decade is the 1920s and we're done talking about it!
Join Betsy, Kim, and Amy as they do a quick rundown of what they missed from the 1920s. Surprise - there's a lot!
King Tut's tomb is found by being clumsy, Natural Bridge State Park is established, a gruesome mystery strikes Hinterkaifeck, and Agatha Christie goes missing but then also comes back!
Listen now to get all the details.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://allthatsinteresting.com/hinterkaifeck-murders https://filmdaily.co/obsessions/true-crime/hinterkaifeck-farm-murders/ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/502044/chilling-story-hinterkaifeck-killings-germanys-most-famous-unsolved-crime
www.agathachristie.com www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/books/agatha-christie-vanished-11-days-1926.amp.html https://allthatsinteresting.com/agatha-christie-disappearance https://crimereads.com/agatha-christies-greatest-mystery-was-left-unsolved/ https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Investigates_the_Teapot_Dome_Scandal.htm http://www.redrivergorgeguide.com/natural-bridge-state-park.html http://environmentalhistory.org/20th-century/roaring-1920s/
The year is 1929. Polychlorinated biphenyls are being mass produced, a mysterious death plagues the Doheny family at their Greystone Mansion, and Al Capone is back with the world's nicest prison cell.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 movies and music, and we choose our next decade!
Listen now to get all the details.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-doheny-murder-20190216-story.html
https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/if-these-walls-could-talk
https://www.kcet.org/history-society/we-shall-never-know-murder-money-and-the-enduring-mystery-of-greystone-mansion
https://www.kcet.org/history-society/we-shall-never-know-murder-money-and-the-enduring-mystery-of-greystone-mansion
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/al-capone https://www.britannica.com/biography/Al-Capone https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/al-capone/ https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tf.asp?id=140&tid=26#bookmark01 https://www.epa.gov/pcbs/learn-about-polychlorinated-biphenyls-pcbs
https://theodorebham.com/history/
http://www.hudsonwatch.net/rachels01.html
The year is 1928. William Mulholland is back in the picture, this time building the St. Francis Dam. Women achieve the right to vote (finally) in Britain! Plus, we talk Anna Anderson and her attempt to pose as the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov of Russia.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 movies (and the debut of Steamboat Willie) and music.
Listen now to get all the details.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
Background Music: "The Great One Step" by Victor Dance Orchestra, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Victor_Dance_Orchestra/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_01192016/The_Great_One_Step_Victor_Dance_Orchestera
https://laist.com/2016/11/03/st_francis_dam.php
http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/st_francis_dam/St-Francis-Dam-for-ASCE-Press.pdf
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-news/francisquito-canyon-dam-st-francis-collapse-disaster-california-water-william-mulholland/30693/
https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-the-1928-st-francis-dam-collapse-20180206-htmlstory.html
https://damfailures.org/case-study/st-francis-dam-california-1928/
https://tsort.info/music/yr1928.htm
https://popculturemadness.com/Music/Charts/1928.php
IMDb
http://www.films101.com/y1928r.htm https://www.filmsite.org/1928.html www.history.com/.amp/topics/russia/romanov-family https://blog.newspapers.com/last-of-the-czars/ time.com/5340985/romanov-century-dna-myths/%3famp=true www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/anastasia-arrives-in-the-united-states
The year is 1927 and everything is horrible. The Radium Girls file a lawsuit because they're dying, Mount Rushmore's problematic beginnings, and a man who likes to spend time at home is murdered by his wife over insurance money.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 movies (spoiler- Amy ends up complaining about more than one of them) and music.
Whew, 1927 was just scandal after scandal. Listen now to get all the details.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.encyclopedia.com/law/law-magazines/ruth-snyder-judd-gray-trial-1927 https://tsort.info/music/yr1927.htm https://popculturemadness.com/Music/Charts/1927.php http://www.films101.com/y1927r.htm https://www.filmsite.org/1927.html IMDb
www.history.com/.amp/news/double-indemnity-1920s-murder-crime-tabloids https://allthatsinteresting.com/ruth-snyder https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/ https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/mount-rushmore-1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore http://environmentalhistory.org/people/radiumgirls/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187122198/albina-larice
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153926380/quinta-macdonald
https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.14141352
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/radium-girls
https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/history_of_medicine/manuscripts/us_radium_corporation
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/
The year is 1926. Rudy Valentino dies and people riot. Londoners are campaigning for protection from air pollution and dangerous working conditions. And, Harry Houdini also dies. People do not riot.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 movies (spoiler - a train explodes creating the most expensive Silent Film scene ever made) and music.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.lordgrey.org.uk/~f014/usefulresources/aric/Resources/Teaching_Packs/Key_Stage_4/Air_Quality/01.html#:~:text=The%20Industrial%20Revolution%20in%20the,on%20the%20use%20of%20coal.&text=The%201926%20Smoke%20Abatement%20Act,was%20pollution%20from%20domestic%20sources.
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1926/mar/23/public-health-smoke-abatement-bill-hl
http://www.films101.com/y1926r.htm IMDb https://playback.fm/charts/top-100-songs/1926 https://popculturemadness.com/Music/Charts/1926.php https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Houdini https://www.thegreatharryhoudini.com/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/houdini-biography/ www.history.com/.amp/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-harry-houdini www.history.com/.amp/news/what-killed-harry-houdini https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/3537452/houdini-1926/%3famp=true https://www.thehistoryreader.com/historical-figures/death-escape-artist-harry-houdini-appendicitis-surgery/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Valentino http://www.rudolph-valentino.com/last-days.html https://www.biography.com/actor/rudolph-valentino https://www.urbo.com/content/rudolph-valentinos-funeral-is-a-unique-event-in-hollywoods-history/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-latin-lover-and-his-enemies-119968944/
The year is 1925. We're talking about (mostly) good things. Puppies are saving children and getting the statutes they deserve. Dr. Alice Hamilton writes the first occupational toxicology textbook in the United States (about time). Even Al Capone is giving away turkeys.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 movies (spoiler - Lon Chaney is donning creepy makeup again) and music.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/al-capone www.biography.com/.amp/crime-figure/al-capone https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/al-capone/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/miami-al-capone/ https://www.filmsite.org/1925.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Valentino http://www.rudolph-valentino.com/last-days.html https://www.biography.com/actor/rudolph-valentino https://www.urbo.com/content/rudolph-valentinos-funeral-is-a-unique-event-in-hollywoods-history/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-latin-lover-and-his-enemies-119968944/ https://www.wired.com/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lead-poisoning-a-short-sad-history/
https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/30320660R/PDF/30320660R.pdf
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/alicehamilton.html
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/awards/hamilton/default.html
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The year is 1924. Things are blowing up in California, France makes the Winter Olympics happen, and movie mogul Thomas Ince mysteriously dies...or maybe just ate too many salted almonds.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 songs and top 5 silent films.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/mulholland.htm
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/california-scheming-69592006/
https://www.asce.org/project/first-owens-river-los-angeles-aqueduct/
http://yourlariver.com/
http://www.conservationsolutions.org/
https://mrca.ca.gov/los-angeles-river/
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Los+Angeles+River,+California/Owens+River,+California/@35.6223969,-120.1969623,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c2b7c873c06f81:0xa44a2d47e68ffb3b!2m2!1d-118.2231868!2d34.0154242!1m5!1m1!1s0x80be39a0d6711293:0x2f8f5d0ff53fdcd7!2m2!1d-118.3104015!2d37.2713485!3e0
https://lacounty.gov/government/about-la-county/history/
https://www.pge.com/includes/docs/pdfs/about/edusafety/training/pec/toolbox/arch/climate/california_climate_zone_06.pdf
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-feb-02-me-annual-rain-graphic2-story.html
https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/advanced-viewer/
https://www.quotetab.com/quote/by-william-randolph-hearst/truth-is-not-only-stranger-than-fiction-it-is-more-interesting https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-apr-04-me-24119-story.html%3f_amp=true https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mysterious-death-newport-movie-mogul-thomas-ince/
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Welcome to 1923!
We're talking the final straw that broke Hollywood and prompted the Hays Code, the Berkeley fire, and the persistent proposals of King George VI that led to a very fancy wedding.
All of this, plus the year's top 5 songs and top 5 silent films.
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow
https://www.filmsite.org/1923.html http://m.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-ww2-era/hays-code.htm http://users.monash.edu/~pringle/silent/ssotm/Dec97/ https://www.goldensilents.com/stars/wallacereid.html https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4130094/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/timeline.com/amp/p/6b27a1404552 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/19/moguls-and-starlets-100-years-of-hollywoods-corrosive-systemic-sexism
IMDb
https://tsort.info/music/yr1923.htm
https://www.nickiswift.com/118335/horrific-ways-old-hollywood-studios-abused-actors/?utm_campaign=clip
https://royalcentral.co.uk/uk/looking-back-at-the-wedding-of-king-george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-80990/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_Albert,_Duke_of_York,_and_Lady_Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/wedding-of-king-george-vi-of-the-united-kingdom-and-lady-elizabeth-bowes-lyon/
https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/sites/default/files/files/inline/bplhstrm_979.467_st76_the_story_of_the_berkeley_fire.pdf
http://www.sfmuseum.org/oakfire/berkeley.html
https://www.ebparks.org/parks/wildcat/
https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Home.aspx
The Decade Dames are back to discuss the forgotten events of 1922. You know, like that unbelievable time when people were blatantly dumping barrels of oil off of docks, or the much better time when insulin was invented, or the much creepier time when William Desmond Taylor was murdered.
All of this, plus 1922's top movies and music!
Intro Music: "Just Like a Rainbow" by The Columbians, licensed under the public domain license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Columbians/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_08252015/Just_Like_A_Rainbow,
We are also thankful for the use of "Lupi" by Blue Dot Sessions, licensed under an attribution-noncommercial license, found at https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/Orange_Cat/Lupi
Pollution of Navigable Waters: Hearings Before a Subcommittee on the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Sixty-eight Congress, First Session, on S. 42, S. 936, and S. 1388, Bills Relative to the Pollution of Navigable Waters. January 9, 1924
http://environmentalhistory.org/people/gifford-pinchot-and-the-anti-pollution-league/
https://foresthistory.org/research-explore/us-forest-service-history/people/chiefs/gifford-pinchot-1865-1946/
The Death of William Desmond Taylor by Heather Monroe on medium.com. Medium.com/@hlemonroe/the-death-of-William-Desmond-Taylor-90c74ef8fb75
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn I’d Hollywood by William J. Mann
https://www.filmsite.org/1922.html https://tsort.info/music/yr1922.htm
In 1921, the United States saw the discovery of leaded gasoline that dominated our vehicles for the better part of the century, challenges to medicinal beer, and one of Holllywood's first and most depraved scandals. It was a rough year, but hey, at least the flappers were still having fun.
Listen now as the Decade Dames explore these 1921 events.
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal that Changed Hollywood by Greg Merritt
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/health.html
https://archive.epa.gov/epa/aboutepa/lead-poisoning-historical-perspective.html
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.75.4.344
https://www.epa.gov/history
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2721861/
https://archive.epa.gov/epa/aboutepa/epa-takes-final-step-phaseout-leaded-gasoline.html
https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/photos/7-inventors-killed-by-their-inventions/thomas-midgley-jr
The Decade Dames kickoff their exploration of overlooked historical events, beginning with the 1920s! In this episode, the crew talks about what happened 100 years ago, in 1920. Learn about the Federal Water Power Act, Charleston's Historic Preservation Society, and the Mysterious Death of Olive Thomas.