Episode 11
Recent News
“To Hel and back? Not on bus 666 after Polish operator changes number,” reuters.com, June 14, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/hel-back-not-bus-666-after-polish-operator-changes-number-2023-06-14/
“Chinese zoo denies its sun bear is a human in a costume,” upi.com, July 31, 2023, https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/07/31/Hangzhou-Zoo-sun-bear-human-costume/9431690814827/
“Duck goes for a ride on Cedar Point roller coaster that reaches 93 mph,” wsaz.com, July 13, 2023, https://www.wsaz.com/2023/07/13/duck-goes-ride-cedar-point-roller-coaster-that-reaches-93-mph/
“Millennium Force,” cedar point.com, Date Unknown, https://www.cedarpoint.com/rides-experiences/millennium-force
Old News
“Who Was Sarah Winchester? The Story of the Troubled Woman Behind the Winchester Mystery House,” allthatsinteresting.com, March 27, 2022, https://allthatsinteresting.com/sarah-winchester
“The Giant Mansion Built for Ghosts: The Winchester Mystery House,” ripleys.com, January 31, 2018, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/winchester-mansion/
“The World’s First Computer Bug,” globalapptesting.com, Date Unknown, https://www.globalapptesting.com/blog/the-worlds-first-computer-bug-global-app-testing#:~:text=On%20September%209%2C%201947%2C%20the,by%20computer%20scientist%20Grace%20Hopper
“The Bug in the Computer Bug Story,” daily.jstor.org, May 3, 2022, https://daily.jstor.org/the-bug-in-the-computer-bug-story/
“Sep 9, 1947 CE: World’s First Computer Bug,” education.nationalgeographic.org, Date Unknown, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/
“NASA’s DART asteroid-smashing mission: The complete guide,” space.com, October 14, 2022, https://www.space.com/dart-asteroid-mission
“NASA will crash a spacecraft into a 525-foot wide asteroid in September. Here’s how to watch it,” phys.org, August 30, 2022, https://phys.org/news/2022-08-nasa-spacecraft-foot-wide-asteroid-september.html
“NASA smashes spaceship into asteroid in mission to save Earth,” mirror.co.uk, September 27, 2022, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/breaking-nasa-smashes-spaceship-asteroid-28087649#google_vignette
“In The 1870s And ‘80s, Being A Pedestrian Was Anything But,” npr.org, April 3, 2014, https://www.npr.org/2014/04/03/297327865/in-the-1870s-and-80s-being-a-pedestrian-was-anything-but
“The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football,” bbc.com, July 28, 2021, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210723-the-strange-19th-century-sport-that-was-cooler-than-football
Our Big Story
“William the Conqueror’s Exploding Corpse,” historic-uk.com, Date Unknown, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/William-The-Conqueror-Exploding-Corpse/#:~:text=William%27s%20corpse%2C%20bloated%20by%20this,crowd%E2%80%9D%2C%20according%20to%20Orderic
“Gross! William the Conqueror’s Corpse Exploded on People at His Funeral,” allthatsinteresting.com, December 1, 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/william-the-conqueror
“William the Conqueror’s Body Exploded in a Grotesque Shower at Funeral,” ancient-origins.net, August 16, 2022, https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/william-conqueror-0017143
“William I (the Conqueror),” westminster-abbey.org, Date Unknown, https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/william-i-the-conqueror
“The Death of William the Conqueror,” uchicago.edu, Date Unknown, https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/anglo-saxon/hastings/williamdeath.html
“Kilroy J. Oldster,” goodreads.com, Date Unknown, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9704904-death-is-the-great-equalizer-of-human-beings-death-is#:~:text=Sign%20Up%20Now-,Death%20is%20the%20great%20equalizer%20of%20human%20beings.,as%20many%20years%20as%20me
“The Stages of the Human Decomposition Process,” education.seattlepi.com, Date Unknown, https://education.seattlepi.com/stages-human-decomposition-process-4705.html