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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Alaina returns to another small piece of 1893's Columbian Exposition, and look at the Woman's Building. Designed and decorated by trailblazing women, and filled with work and exhibits by women from around the world, it was one of the most popular buildings at the fair. The fair also hosted the World’s Congress of Representative Women, a week-long convention on women's issues and a landmerk in early feminist history. Did it fulfill its purpose? Who benefited the most? What can women's movements today learn from the successes and mistakes of 1893?
[Note: The murals were 58x12 feet, not inches]
Links!
- Transcribed speeches from The World's Congress of Representative Women
- Festival Jubilate, Op.17 sheet music
- The Woman's Building, Interior
- Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building, Cover
- Mary Cassatt's "Modern Woman" mural
- Pearl Hart, The Last Lady Outlaw
- Final Bid: The Cinematic Auction Game
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Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA has become "the world's preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls". As a lifetime member, Alaina tells us about Juliette Gordon Low's life, the development of the program, and the current challenges they face. Also, cookies. When does an organization develop past its roots? How do two very similar programs take such different stances to the changing times?
Links!
- Girl Scouts
- Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812, and of some preceding events
- Julette Gordon Low Birthplace
- The Golden Eaglet
- Juliette Gordon Low's gravesite
- Josephine Groves Holloway
- Girl Scout Cookie from 1917
- 50 years ago, a piano was dropped from a helicopter near Seattle: Here's what happened
- Iconic podcast
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Tuesday Apr 10, 2018
Tuesday Apr 10, 2018
Alaina turns her Disney series toward the company's best known product! Well, maybe second-best-known. Following tentative steps, an accounting issue led to the studio's first entirely live-action films, establishing some trends that have fallen away, and others that have continued for nearly 70 years. Are today's teen Disney stars the last echo of the old studio system? What is lost in the selective memory of media? How much room is there for art on an assembly line?
Links!
- TCM: Treasures from the Disney Vault
- Donald Duck - Der Fuehrer’s Face (1943)
- The Disney Strike of 1941: How It Changed Animation & Comics
- TCM's notes on Song of the South
- TCM Profile: Robert Newton
- The Academy Juvenile Award
- The Sword and the Rose
- Davy Crockett at the dedication of Frontierland
- Iron Eyes Cody on Snopes
- Walt Disney preparing to find the King of the Leprechauns
- Peter Ellishaw's offficial website
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Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Alaina treats herself on her birthday episode by talking about a tragic fire in the early 1900s. After the (primarily women and immigrant) workers of the New York garment industry began winning better conditions and pay, one factory lagged behind. Then, it burned down, killing 146 people in under 20 minutes. In the end, the owners made a profit on the insurance as the victims' families were left without their income. Is preparedness a substitute for systemic prevention? How do we focus grief into action? How do you place a value on human life?
Links!
- Cornell University's collection of documents on the fire
- Memorial to the (previously) unnamed victims
- Article on the Centennial observance
- UNITE HERE
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Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Happy Valencrimes Day! Alaina teaches us about Chicago's famed serial killer: HH Holmes. A career swindler and criminal, Holmes left a trail of wives, properties, and bodies in his wake. The question is, how reliable are these stories, and how can we be sure when so much evidence was destroyed or lost?
Links!
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Posts tagged "HH Holmes" at Mysterious Chicago
- Photos of Holmes' exhumed remains
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Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Alaina launches another series as we look at the fiasco that was the 1904 World's Fair in St Louis, Missouri! The fiar contained many notable firsts, but was also a center of scientific racism and mismanagement. What horrors has Judy Garland been disguising all these years?
Links!
- Official Guide to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition
- Official Daily Program, June 16
- Interactive map of the fairgrounds
- St Louis Art Museum
- The Jain Center of Southern California
- Philippene Exposition guide booklet
- Stereoviews of Anthorpological Exhibits
- Olympic-Sized Racism, via Slate
- Rat Poison and Brandy: the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Marathon
- Meet Me in St Louis, Louis; performed by Billy Murray
- Running 'Round Riverdale on the OneShotRPG Twitch stream
- OneShot NeoYear Charity Drive
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Happy New Year! Another New Year's special, another pair of topics. First, Grant takes us back 600 years to resolve the Great Western Schism and make sure we have the proper amount of Popes. Then, Alaina tells the story of a mine disaster in Butte Montana, bookended by the labor disputes that set the stage for it, and were set off by it.
Links!
- The Montana Sedition Project
- Rox in the Box - The Decemberists
- PitWatch.org Berkeley Pit news & Info
- MoonPie Online
- The Ruffians
- the neo-futurists
- The Halifax Explosion
- Littlest Pet Cast
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Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
Alaina's Disney series is back with an episode on the 4th and (so far) final theme park at Walt Disney World Resort: Disney's Animal Kingdom. Work began just after Hollywood Studios opened, and took 8 years and nearly a billion dollars to finish. Over a relatively short life this park has had it's own share of oddities and development, growing into one of the finest park experiences anywhere. Is the direct approach the best approach to make an attraction educational? Who really owns bones? Have we all been brainwashed by Happy Meals?
Links!
- March of the Animals/Artimals concepts and description
- McDonald's signage in Dinoland, USA
- Article on concepts and plans for Beastly Kingdom
- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
- Animal Kingdom: The First Adventure TV special
- Building a Thrill Ride: Expedition Everest
- McDonald's ad for the park opening and McRib
- LA Times article on the end of the 10-year promotion agreement
- Details on the condiment pipes in Dinosaur
- Sue the T-Rex on twitter
- Sue the T-Rex at the Feild Museum
- Pandora - The World of Avatar dedication
- Jammin' Jungle Parade photo gallery
- Article on the aesthetic design of Animal Kingdom
- Archive of old guidemaps
- Joe Rodhe's personal website
- Dragon and Goat: The Thyme Bandit on Kickstarter
- MadFuzz on Etsy
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Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Welcome back to our annual bone-chilling Halloween special! Alaina teaches us about graveyard traditions, haunted theaters, and the dark beginnings of farmersonly.com in the state of Indiana. Enjoy the season of spookums!
Links!
- Let There Be Light at Springdale Cemetery
- The Slippery Noodle Inn
- Rivoli Center for the Performing Arts
- The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
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Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
Alaina brings the show close to home. In fact, withing walking distance of our home! The Prairie Avenue District is a small part of Chicago's Near South Side neighborhood that was the hottest piece of real estate around at the end of the 19th century. We learn about the history of the neighborhood, some buildings that survive from the period, and some of the misadventures of their residents.
Links!
- Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance
- Glessner House Museum
- The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
- The Harriet F. Rees House standing alone on the block
- Gextra Life video playlist; Donation page
- The FPlus Live 6
- Alcohollywood: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Mokey on Instagram
- The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
- Toontown Public Works
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