I regret to announce that — though, as I said, two years is far too short a time to spend among you — this is the end. I am going. I am leaving now. Good bye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"To Jack, however, it was glorious drama. He stood there, his Macmillan kilt bright against the grey smoke, chin up, fingers working, left elbow rhythmically squeezing the sack, right foot tapping the beat - playing a wild, heathen dance to Vulcan, the Roman fire god.” In his life, John had tragically lost his wife and two of his sons. So by the time he’d come face to face with a couple of young revolutionaries who got their way by executing helpless victims – he kept his cool. In the end there was nothing they could really threaten him with – and that very fact is was kept him calm enough to navigate his way through an international hijacking and hostage situation. But he had also learned something of a part of the world that he had previous not encountered. He learned that his hijackers, too, were victims of pain and loss. And the destruction being wrought upon their lives seemed to have no clear end in sight. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: King-Clark, R. 1997. Jack Churchill, unlimited boldness. Knutsford, Cheshire: Fleur-de-Lys. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Follow Autumn and learn more about Reading's Boys at the following links: @__autumnleaf__ https://thereadingpost.com/author/ahendrickson/ https://www.facebook.com/readingsboys It is my intention to cover as much of our town’s sons (and perhaps daughters too, should I find out about any young nurses or the like from Reading) as I can while also doing other writing for The Reading Post as well. If there is a story of a young person from Reading, Massachusetts who served during World War II that you would like to ensure gets told in some capacity, please contact me at aprilhen1031@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The stubbornness of this young man was beginning to get to me. He was just a kid – and I’m a mature command pilot. Besides all of that, this was my airplane, and it made me angry that this punk was trying to tell me what I could and could not do with it. I knew its capabilities and I knew its limitations. He waived his gun in my face again, Algera!" In his life, John had tragically lost his wife and two of his sons. So by the time he’d come face to face with a couple of young revolutionaries who got their way by executing helpless victims – he kept his cool. In the end there was nothing they could really threaten him with – and that very fact is was kept him calm enough to navigate his way through an international hijacking and hostage situation. But he had also learned something of a part of the world that he had previous not encountered. He learned that his hijackers, too, were victims of pain and loss. And the destruction being wrought upon their lives seemed to have no clear end in sight. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: Testrake, John, and David Wimbish. 1988. Triumph over terror on flight 847. Kingsway. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNrEPH7DgIc&ab_channel=dvidshub https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi9Cjezf3UUOEYMtYTCQFDQ AlienAqtor, Disorder of Rage (DxOxRx), Flanicx, and Rod Brandao - Tense (Parte 01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6DT2cRA21Q Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Forget everything else, every fight that has been won or lost before and all of those that will be contested in years to come. Forget every battle of man against man, of mind against mind, of soul against soul. This is the one. This is the greatest.”’ Ali affixed a higher purpose to his fights. His fight wasn’t against the human being in the opposite corner. It was against injustice against his brothers, the forced segregation of his people, the racially charged violence and all the inequities a poor black child born in the hopelessness of the American ghetto has to contend with. His fight went beyond the borders of America too, it stretched into the heart of Vietnam. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: Ali, Muhammad, and Richard Durham. 2015. The greatest, my own story. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8ZWZzt0bkQ&list=WL&index=3&t=2486s&ab_channel=reelblack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnY_FsxAChg&list=WL&index=4&ab_channel=JoeyGrabowski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNk2qHA3FA&list=WL&index=7&ab_channel=MuhammadAli_GOAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxczlps5_bg&list=WL&index=8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbMkzs9gQA&list=WL&index=10&ab_channel=MeMyselfI71 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55AasOJZzDE&list=WL&index=11&t=3232s&ab_channel=LeviJohansen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiD0wfduxKE&list=WL&index=12&t=8s&ab_channel=AlWilson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxuqSzE2mB0&list=WL&index=14&ab_channel=TheDickCavettShow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6DefSfqZ4w&list=WL&index=17&ab_channel=Browithafro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XSliiaDcRU&list=WL&index=6&ab_channel=S%C3%A9bastienCorso Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“One ought to teach the silly Christians rather than punish them.” - Julian the Apostate Our subject today, understanding his faith, on face value seems quite simple. And yet, the more you understand him, the more complex the relashiship gets. The story of this man’s life is very much the clash the Christianity and paganism. Woe to our subject for being caught on the edge of both. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: Teitler, H. C. 2020. The last pagan emperor: Julian the Apostate and the war against Christianity. Ammianus Marcellinus, and John Carew Rolfe. 1990. Ammianus Marcellinus. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBu_KC1RphcfJJ4X1_gn4hQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Quick update to a few housekeeping notes, show schedule, etc., plus some insight into what goes on with my time outside of podcasting. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
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“These few words are being set down here as they come from my mind and my heart. And if I must write them with my hands in chains, I find that much better than if my will were in chains.” For Franz Jagerstatter, he somehow recognized the Nazi’s for who they really were. He could see their long game. He knew their ideology was one of destruction and death. Somehow, he knew it. And he also knew he could never be one of them. Franz’s own godson recalled that the only reason he never joined the Hitler youth groups was due to his godfather’s influence. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: Zahn, Gordon Charles. 1964. In solitary witness. [Place of publication not identified]: Henry Holt. Jägerstätter, Franz, and Robert A. Putz, Erna Krieg. 2009. Mc Franz Jagerstatter: letters and writings from prison . Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: https://www.larrybeekman.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/Deslow5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"O Sarah, I wait for you there! Come to me, and lead thither my children." https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/civil-war/war/historical-documents/sullivan-ballou-letter/ https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/sullivan-ballou-letter
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“The principle aim of John’s aristocratic knights was to seize foreign territory, settle on it themselves, create estates, install tenants, marry the sisters and daughters of other invading Normans and establish their own dynasty. They were land-hungry. They wanted medieval society’s primary recourse on which to create lordships and establish their status amongst their fellow aristocrats. Dunlevy’s aim was to recapture the land from which he had been driven. Their aims were unreconcilable. A battle was inevitable.” https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: Flanders, Steve. 2015. John De Courcy, Prince of Ulster. McNeill, T. E. 1980. Anglo-Norman Ulster: the history and archaeology of an Irish barony, 1177-1400. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvS4A2tucMc&t=62s&ab_channel=PatrickMcGinty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Discover the woman who commanded 70,000 pirates and owned the South China Sea. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory Further Reading/Principle Sources: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/mrs-cheng-ching-shih-pirate.htm http://www.theglobaldispatches.com/articles/the-pirate-ching-shih https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-chinese-female-pirate-who-commanded-80000-outlaws https://library.um.edu.mo/ebooks/b35720116.pdf Credits Photo Credit: "Pirates: An Illustrated History of Privateers, Buccaneers & Pirates from the Sixteenth Century to the Present" (Londond, 1996). P.230. Book note mentions that, "this fanciful depiction is from History of Pirates of all Nations published in 1836" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I can’t do it. I’ve got to get into something that brings me hard, solid gold in my hand." https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory Further Reading/Principle Sources: Hatch, Thom. 2014. The last outlaws: the lives and legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: The Marty Ray Project Also check out Marty Ray's podcast here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I am extremely fortunate to have the chance to interview Mr. Donald Cooke. His story picks up after the Ayatollah has seized control of Iran. And so enjoy this sequel of sorts, told from an eye witness to the dramatic events surrounding the Iran Hostage Crisis. https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
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“We made the Shah what he has become. We nurtured his love for grandiose geopolitical schemes and supplied him the hardware to indulge his fantasies. Now, his regime is coming apart under the pressures of imported modernization.” https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory
Further Reading/Principle Sources: Milani, Abbas. 2012. The Shah. New York: St. Martin's Press. Photo Credit: CJDiJulius.myportfolio.com Media Credit: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Soularflair https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXv2WLR9IEI&ab_channel=JudeTsang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkDKeij1CY&ab_channel=APArchive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5NLb55uwgU&list=PLE2YFd8t5FbNW4ELDUB4bZjMCrvcQIXhg&index=5&t=0s&ab_channel=ThamesTv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Dozens of stowaway microorganisms lurked on board, and Mir had developed the distinct aroma of sweaty men locked in a small house with cognac." https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory Further Reading/Principle Sources: http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/cosmonauts/english/krikalyov_sergei.htm https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-last-soviet-citizen Credits Photo Credit: https://www.rbth.com/history/330415-last-soviet-citizen-cosmonaut Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Only fancy to yourself, an old German Baron, with a large brilliant star on his breast, three French aides-de-camp and a large, spoiled Italian dog, and none of all that company could speak a word of English.” https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory Further Reading/Principle Sources: Lockhart, Paul Douglas. 2010. The drillmaster of Valley Forge: the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army. New York: Harper. Credits Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Most of all the blood, my arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Taubman, William. 2017. Khrushchev: the man, his era. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario, Song of the Volga Boatmen - Red Army Chorus - Leonid Kharitonov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“I stayed alive while most of my contemporaries, my classmates at the Academy, my friends with whom I had worked in the party organization, lost their heads as enemies of the people." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Taubman, William. 2017. Khrushchev: the man, his era. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Song of the Volga Boatmen - Red Army Chorus - Leonid Kharitonov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Surely, in a building that had 1,942 keys, there were people who knew how to get down to these cellars without the permission of the authorities..." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/08/26/unmasking-the-parisian-phantom-of-the-opera/ https://www.oldstyletales.com/single-post/2018/09/25/The-Phantom-of-the-Opera-Historical-Inspirations-Literary-Analysis-Film-Adaptations----a-Spooky-Spotlight-on-the-Gothic-Novel> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Although born a slave I always felt that I was a man and ought to be free, and I would be free or die.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Lineberry, Cate. 2018. Be free or die: the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From the bottom of my heart, I thank all of you history fans out there who found all of this worthwhile. Patreon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"So forever in the future Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter But to die again once more." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Axelrod, Alan. 2006. Patton: a biography. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I daresay that for every man remembered for acts of peace there are fifteen made immortal by war and since in my mind all life is a struggle to perpetuate your name, war is naturally my choice." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Axelrod, Alan. 2006. Patton: a biography. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"The skeleton sits forever with us at the feast. It may mean murder, it may mean abdication, but it serves always to remind us of the unexpected." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Tuchman, Barbara W. 1994. The guns of August. New York: Ballantine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Carpenter, Humphrey. 2002. JRR Tolkien: a biography. London: HarperCollins. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“First you kind of laugh at it, then you read about it, and it was just horrible.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Puleo, Stephen. 2019. Dark tide: the great Boston molasses flood of 1919. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I admire you for marching with your regiment; I dare say you are the only man of your rank who ever performed such a journey on foot." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Letters of hugh, earl percy, from boston and new york, 1774-1776. 2010. [Place of publication not identified]: Nabu Press. Credits:Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Dario Tartagni Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“It was a big, menacing thing. It also was the scariest thing I've ever seen." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source:http://www.gitwisters.com/gitwisters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"For the first time since trumpets flattened the walls of Jericho, a significant advantage was handed back to the side besieging a stoutly fortified castle." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: Crowley, Roger. 2014. 1453: the Holy War for Constantinople and the clash of Islam and the West. New York: Hachette. Credits: Cover Art Credit: cjdijulius.myportfolio.com Music Credit: MIT Concert Choir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"He has practiced deceit and now he has had it practiced on him." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source:Magie, David. 1921. Historia Augusta, Volume I: Hadrian. Aelius. Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius. L. Verus. Avidius Cassius. Commodus. Pertinax. Didius Julianus. Septimius Severus. Pescennius Niger. Clodius Albinus. http://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL139/1921/volume.xml. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"the sacred call of their country; their ancestral liberty; the gods of their German hearths; and their mother, who prayed, with himself, that he would not choose the title of renegade and traitor to his kindred, to the kindred of his wife, to the whole of his race in fact, before that of their liberator." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Wells, Peter S. 2004. The battle that stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the slaughter of the legions in the Teutoburg Forest. Princeton, N.J. Credits:Cover Art Credit: cjdijulius.myportfolio.com Music Credit: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“We annihilated the world before your very ears, and utterly destroyed the C. B. S. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source: Schwartz, A. Brad. 2015. Broadcast hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the art of fake news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“When I was a child of ten, I went down on my bare knees by my bedside one night and promised God that I should devote my life to an effort to free my country. I have kept that promise.“ Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Odonnell, Ruan. 2016. Patrick pearse - 16lives. Credits:Cover Art Credit: cjdijulius.myportfolio.com Music Credit: Herve Cudennec Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“You can appreciate my position, Chief Lane… in trying to keep two thousand red-blooded young men on campus when an occasion like this presents itself.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source: Tucker, Todd. 2018. Notre Dame vs. the Klan: how the Fighting Irish defeated the Ku Klux Klan. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=5471033. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“If he call me a dog, be sure that I will bite him so soon as I shall perceive my opportunity.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: SPINKS, STEPHEN. 2019. EDWARD II THE MAN: a doomed inheritance. [S.l.]: AMBERLEY PUBLISHING. TUCHMAN, BARBARA W. 1978. A distant mirror: a calamitous 14th century. ALFRED A. KNOPF. Prestwich, Michael. 1997. Edward I. New Haven (Conn.): Yale University Press. Stubbs, William. 1966. Chronicles of the reigns of Edward I and Edward II. London: Longman & Co. Credits Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Purple-Planet.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Although Tecumseh led a brilliant campaign against the Americans during the War of 1812, his death in 1813 and the disintegration of his pan-Indian confederacy spelled the effective end of organized Indian resistance in the Northwest.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Source: Wilson, Frazer Ells. 1993. The treaty of Greenville: being an official account of the same, together with the expeditions of Gen. Arthur St. Clair and Gen. Anthony Wayne against the northwestern Indian tribes, and an historical sketch of the territory northwest of the Ohio River, previous thereto. Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications. Edmunds, R. David. 1989. The Potawatomis, keepers of the fire. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“She could no longer look toward this flaming mass. Suddenly she awoke to a sense of her dangerous situation. Hot, blinding tears shut out all the glittering arms and bright uniforms, and the cries of the dazed inhabitants from their different coverts drowned the music of drum and fife.”
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Further Reading/Principle Sources: Van Deusen, Mary. 2018. Rachel Du Mont a brave little maid of the revolution. A true story of the burning of Kingston; for girls and boys, and older people. https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2019040402391203962984. Schoonmaker, Marius. 2019. History of Kingston, New York: From Its Early Settlement to the Year 1820. Forgotten Books. http://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/openreader?id=none&isbn=9780243719167. Credits Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Music Credit: Chris Flanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"If these things are not understood it is impossible for people in Europe to have any true idea of how things are in Japan, and they remain in a sort of confusion or perplexity. " Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources:Lockley, Thomas. 2019. African samurai: the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan. Toronto: Harlequin Enterprises, Limited. Moran, J. F. 2014. The japanese and the jesuits: alessandro valignano in sixteenth century japan. Routledge. CreditsCover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“Faroe is the one place in the world where the tradition of the old Vikings still lives. The ancient dances, as executed by the knights and their ladies, have come down through the centuries unchanged. The same old songs, the endless ballads, are still sung as accompaniment to the dances; the same verses are chanted over and over, the same long rows weave in and out of the complicated figures.” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: Freuchen, Peter. 2002. Arctic adventure: my life in the frozen North : the adventure classic. Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press. Freuchen, Peter. 1958. Vagrant Viking: my life and adventures. London: Pan Books. Freuchen, Peter, David Goldsmith Loth, and George Plimpton. 2003. Peter Freuchen's book of the Seven Seas. Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press. Credits Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"Ye discontented & mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in ye ship – That when they came a shore they would use their own libertie; for none had power to command them…” Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: Mack, Jonathan D. 2020. A stranger among saints: Stephen Hopkins, the man who survived Jamestown and saved Plymouth. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2361942. Johnson, Caleb, and Tom Parks. 2020. Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins: Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim. https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=01E6BB65-98A0-44B4-8266-E29B3EDEBF8E. Doherty, Kieran. 2013. Sea venture: shipwreck, survival, and the salvation of the first english colony in the new world. New York: St. Martin's Press. https://www.overdrive.com/search?q=302A4CD3-5DE0-4A96-8127-F7F16840E541. Credits Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"He had a speech incessant and voluble beyond all imagination, and this in divers tones and sundry voices, and (as was thought) in various languages." Patreon Further Reading/Principle Sources: Hall, David D. 2003. Witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England: a documentary history, 1638-1693. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press. Mather, Cotton, and Raymond J. Cunningham. 1970. Magnalia Christi Americana or, The ecclesiastical history of New England. New York: Frederick Ungar. JUDD, SYLVESTER. 2016. HISTORY OF HADLEY: including the early history of hatfield, south hadley amherst and granby ... massachusetts (classic reprint). [Place of publication not identified]: FORGOTTEN Books. Credits Cover Art Credit: Courtney DiJulius Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices