Episode 23

Written By Aaron Mahnke

Recent News

  1. “Video shows forklift suspending car 20 feet in air to stop theft suspect at Ohio car lot,” USA Today, November 6, 2023, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/06/forklift-suspends-ohio-car-thief-suspect/71475839007/

  2. “Only Ten Babe Ruth Rookie Baseball Cards Survive. Now, One Is Going Up for Auction,” Smithsonian Magazine, November 13, 2023, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-babe-ruth-rookie-baseball-card-is-going-up-for-auction-180983252/

  3. “Cursed no more: This team ended the Colonel Sanders hex,” MLB, November 5, 2023, https://www.mlb.com/news/the-japanese-team-cursed-by-colonel-sanders

  4. “Castle emerges from sand dunes at park in NC’s Outer Banks. How did it get there?,” The News Observer, November 16, 2023, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article281901363.html

  5. “Ohio car theft suspect foiled by quick-thinking forklift operator who holds him 20 feet in the air,” New York Post, November 6, 2023, https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/news/ohio-car-theft-suspect-foiled-by-quick-thinking-forklift-operator-who-holds-him-20-feet-in-the-air/

Old News

  1. “Adam Zdanowicz.” EBC Poland. European Business Club Poland Association. https://ekb.org.pl/en/konkursy/nagrody-europejskiego-klubu-biznesu/awards-of-the-european-business-club-poland-2016/adam-zdanowicz/. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  2. “Adam Zdanowicz.” Podlaskie. Visit.Podlaskie.eu. https://visit.podlaskie.eu/en/ludzie/adam-zdanowicz/. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  3. “Bridge Completed Without Russian Help.” Johnson City Press. 12/31/1979. https://www.newspapers.com/image/590407375/?terms=Vulcan%2C%20WV&match=1. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  4. C., Tori. “How “Kentucky for Christmas” Began in Japan.” Global.KFC.com. 12/5/2020. https://global.kfc.com/stories/how-kentucky-for-christmas-began-in-japan/. Accessed 10/4/2023.

  5. Campbell, Kunle. “Kentucky Fried Chicken for Christmas? Why You’ll eat KFC in Japan.” Big Commerce. https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/kfc-christmas-japan/. Accessed 10/4/2023.

  6. “Christmas in Japan.” Whychristmas.com. https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/japan. Accessed 10/4/2023.

  7. Clauson-Wicker, Su. “Curios: The Bridge the Soviets Nearly Built on the West Virginia-Kentucky Border.” Blue Ridge Country. 1/13/2023. https://blueridgecountry.com/newsstand/magazine/curios-the-bridge-the-soviets-nearly-built/. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  8. “Do Japanese Celebrate Christmas?” Japan Consulting Office. https://www.japanconsultingoffice.com/do-japanese-celebrate-christmas/#:~:text=Christmas%20time%20in%20Japan,Japanese%20are%20Shintoists%20and%20Buddhists.. Accessed 10/4/2023.

  9. Dowel, Stuart. “Bialystok Bike Builder Dressed as Santa Breaks World Record for Riding Tallest Cycle.” The First News. 12/22/2020. https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/bialystok-bike-builder-dressed-as-santa-breaks-world-record-for-riding-tallest-cycle-18605. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  10. “‘Foreign Aid’ Makes Strange…” Star-Phoenix. 12/19/1977. https://www.newspapers.com/image/510126786/?terms=Iona%20Andronov&match=1. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  11. “He Toasts Soviets for Bridge.” The Herald-Sun. 7/5/1980. https://www.newspapers.com/image/787752598/?terms=Iona%20Andronov&match=1. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  12. “How a Small Town in West Virginia Used Cold War Hysteria to get a Desperately Needed Bridge.” That’s Interesting. Original.Newsbreak.com. 7/12/2023. https://original.newsbreak.com/@that-s-interesting-1727790/3086814416880-how-a-small-town-in-west-virginia-used-cold-war-hysteria-to-get-a-desperately-needed-bridge. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  13. Perry, Huey. “They’ll Cut Off Your Project:” A Mingo County Chronicle. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972. Digital.  https://archive.org/details/theyllcutoffyour0000huey/page/n7/mode/2up.

  14. Scroope, Chara. “Religion.” Japanese Culture. Cultural Atlas. 2021. https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/japanese-culture/japanese-culture-religion. Accessed 10/4/2023.

  15. “Tallest Rideable Bicycle.” Guinness World Records. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/tallest-rideable-bicycle. Accessed 10/5/2023.

  16. Tawfick, Eve. “Kentucky Fried Christmas! While you Tuck into Turkey, KFCs across Japan will be Packed with Diners who have Ordered

  17. WEEKS in Advance.” DailyMail.com. 12/25/2022. Updated 12/25/2022. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11537059/Why-KFC-popular-Christmas-dinner-Japan.html#:~:text=The%20'Kentucky%20for%20Christmas'%20slogan,KFC%20fried%20chicken%20for%20Christmas. Accessed 10/4/2023.

  18. “What’s Christmas Like in Japan? 6 Unique Ways Japanese Celebrate the Holidays!” Live Japan. 12/12/2019. Updated 12/11/2020. https://livejapan.com/en/article-a0000770/. Accessed 10/4/2023.

Our Big Story

  1. Bocco, Diana. “The Incredible Story of the Students Who Stole the Stone of Destiny”. Ripley’s Believe It or Not!. 6/14/2023. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/stole-stone-of-destiny/. Accessed 10/2/2023. 

  2. Brocklehurst, Steven. “The Students Who Stole the Stone of Destiny”. BBC. 3/24/2023. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63130942. Accessed 10/2/2023. 

  3. Drake, Samantha. “7 Facts About the Stone of Scone.” Mental Floss. 4/28/2023. Updated 4/28/2023. https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/stone-of-scone-facts. Accessed 

  4. Johnson, Ben. “The Stone of Destiny”. Historic UK. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Stone-of-Destiny/. Accessed 10/2/2023. 

  5. “Lawyer Who Removed Stone of Destiny Dies Aged 97.” BBC News. 10/4/2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-63132771. Accessed 10/3/2023. 

  6. Mackay, Alexander. “Editor, Sir”. The Tribune. 12/27/1950. Letter to the Editor. Page 7. https://www.newspapers.com/image/809599233/?terms=%22stone%20of%20destiny%22&match=1. Accessed 10/3/2023. 

  7. “No Trace of Missing Stone of Destiny.” The Guardian. 12/27/1950. https://www.theguardian.com/century/1950-1959/Story/0,,105149,00.html. Accessed 10/3/2023. 

  8. Nowakowski, Teresa. “Researchers Find Hidden Markings on the Stone of Destiny, Sacred Slab Used in British Coronations.” Smithsonian Magazine. 4/15/2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-find-hidden-markings-on-coronation-stone-of-destiny-180982044/. Accessed 10/3/2023. 

  9. O’Connell, Ronan. “The Stone of Destiny Has a Mysterious Past Beyond British Coronations.” National Geographic. 5/1/2023. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/stone-of-scone-british-coronation?loggedin=true&rnd=1696281525218. Accessed 10/3/2023. 

  10. “The Stone of Destiny.” British Geological Survey (BGS). 3/5/2023. https://www.bgs.ac.uk/news/the-stone-of-destiny/. Accessed 10/2/2023. 

  11. “Stone of Scone”. Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stone-of-Scone. Accessed 10/2/2023.

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