Episode 19
Recent News
“New York unveils statue commemorating alligator sewer myth,” CNN, October 22, 2023, https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nyc-alligator-sewer-statue-trnd/index.html
“4,000-year-old rock with mysterious markings becomes a "treasure map" for archaeologists,” CBS, October 17, 2023, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/saint-belec-slab-treasure-map-archaeologists-bronze-age/
“Pennywise-style clown 'stalking' streets of Scottish village leaves games for residents to solve,” SKY News, October 17, 2023, https://news.sky.com/story/pennywise-style-clown-stalking-streets-of-scottish-village-leaves-games-for-residents-to-solve-12986106
“Rescue Chimps Celebrate Fall by Sipping on Animal-Friendly Pumpkin Spice Lattes,” People Magazine, October 23, 2023, https://people.com/rescue-chimps-celebrate-fall-with-animal-friendly-pumpkin-spice-lattes-8364872
Old News
Bartels, Meghan and Wall, Mike. “Laika the Space Dog: First Living Creature in Orbit.” Space.com. 1/14/2022. https://www.space.com/laika-space-dog. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Bly, Nellie. “Around the World In Seventy-Two Days.” New York City: The Pictorial Weeklies Company, 1890. Digital. https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/world/world.html. Accessed 9/18/2023.
Eschner, Kat. “Students Allied Themselves With Robin Hood During This Anti-McCarthyism Movement.” Smithsonian Magazine. 11/13/2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/students-allied-themselves-robin-hood-during-1950s-anti-mccarthyism-movement-180967156/. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Fessenden, Maris. “Nellie Bly’s Record-Breaking Trip Around the World was, to her Surprise, A Race.” Smithsonian Magazine. 1/25/2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nellie-blys-record-breaking-trip-around-world-was-to-her-surprise-race-180957910/. Accessed 9/18/2023.
Garcia, Mark. “60 Years Ago: The First Animal in Orbit.” NASA. 11/6/2017. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/60-years-ago-the-first-animal-in-orbit. Accessed 9/15/2023.
George, Alice. “The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip Into Orbit.” Smithsonian Magazine. 4/11/2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sad-story-laika-space-dog-and-her-one-way-trip-orbit-1-180968728/. Accessed 9/15/2023.
History.com Editors. “Indiana Textbook Commission Member Charges That Robin Hood is Communist.” HISTORY. A&E Television Networks. 11/13/2009. Updated 11/11/2020. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/indiana-textbook-commission-member-charges-that-robin-hood-is-communistic. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Hobson, Laura. “The Row Over Robin Hood.” The Hanford Sentinel. 11/25/1953. https://www.newspapers.com/image/559291233/?terms=Mrs.%20Thomas%20J.%20White&match=1. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Kysia, Alison. “Nov. 13, 1953: Call to Ban Robin Hood in Indiana Schools.” Zinn Education Project. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/call-to-ban-robin-hood-indiana-schools/#:~:text=Thomas%20J.,to%20give%20to%20the%20poor.. Accessed 9/15/2023.
“Life Story: Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly (1864-1922).” Women & the American Story. NYHistory.org. https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/modern-womanhood/nellie-bly/. Accessed 9/18/2023.
“More Red Propaganda?” Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 11/20/1953. https://www.newspapers.com/image/637133019/?terms=Indiana%20Textbook%20commission&match=1. Accessed 9/15/2023.
“Nellie Bly: Around the World.” Heinz History Center. https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/learn/women-forging-the-way/nellie-bly-around-the-world/. Accessed 9/18/2023.
“Nellie Bly Arrives Safely at Jersey City at 3,51 P.M.” The Evening World. 1/25/1890. https://www.newspapers.com/image/88392493/?terms=Nellie%20Bly&match=1. Accessed 9/19/2023.
“Nellie Bly Extra.” The Evening World. 1/25/1890. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1890-01-25/ed-4/seq-1/. Accessed 9/18/2023.
“Nothing Official to Prove Belief.” The Item. 11/11/1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/669123310/?terms=Laika&match=1. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Paranick, Amber. ““Behind Asylum Bars:” Nellie Bly Reporting from Blackwell’s Island.” Library of Congress Blogs. Library of Congress. 11/8/2022. https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/. Accessed 9/18/2023.
“Report Dog in Sputnik II Poisoned.” Newsday (Suffolk Edition). 11/11/1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/717499116/?terms=Laika&match=1. Accessed 9/15/2023.
“Robin Hood a Red (Richmond Times-Dispatch).” Lexington Herald-Leader. 12/24/1953. https://www.newspapers.com/image/684041905/?terms=Indiana%20Textbook%20commission&match=1. Accessed 9/15/2023.
“Soviet Says Mission of Sputnik II Ended.” Press of Atlantic City. 11/11/1957. https://www.newspapers.com/image/920210043/?terms=Laika&match=1. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Wellerstein, Alex. “Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero.” The New Yorker. 11/3/2017. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/remembering-laika-space-dog-and-soviet-hero. Accessed 9/15/2023.
Our Big Story
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Howard Carter." Encyclopedia Britannica, August 25, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Carter. Accessed 9/19/2023.
“King Tut”. National Geographic. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/king-tut/. Accessed 9/19/23.
Marchant, Jo. “How Howard Carter Discovered King Tut’s Golden Tomb.” Smithsonian Magazine. 11/3/2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-howard-carter-discovered-king-tuts-golden-tomb-180981052/. Accessed 9/18/2023.
Marchant, Jo. “The Mummy’s Curse.” Aeon. 10/25/2013. https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-the-mummy-s-curse-refuse-to-die. Accessed 9/19/2023.
Scriber, Brad. “10 Things to Know About the Discovery of King Tut’s Tomb.” National Geographic. 10/21/2022. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/10-things-to-know-about-the-discovery-of-king-tuts-tomb?loggedin=true&rnd=1695184042535. Accessed 9/19/2023.
Shaer, Matthew. “The Controversial Afterlife of King Tut.” Smithsonian Magazine. December 2014. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/controversial-afterlife-king-tut-180953400/. Accessed 9/19/2023.