Episode 26

Written By Aaron Mahnke

Recent News

  1. “Police Cast a Dragnet for 10,000 Stolen Doughnuts,” nytimes.com, December 1, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/world/australia/krispy-kreme-doughnuts-stolen.html

  2. “An Entire Continent Went Missing — But Scientists Have Found It Again,” atlasobscura.com, November 2, 2023, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lost-land-argoland

  3. “City Council Candidate Loses By One Vote After Not Voting For Himself,” people.com, December 5, 2023, https://people.com/candidate-loses-election-by-one-vote-after-not-voting-for-himself-washington-rainier-8410770

  4. “Woman Enters MRI Machine With a Gun, Gets Shot in Butt,” gizmodo.com, December 6, 2023, https://gizmodo.com/mri-machine-accidents-gun-shot-woman-butt-1851077446

  5. “Woman Shot By Own Gun After Sneaking It Into MRI,” themessenger.com, November 27, 2023, https://themessenger.com/health/mri-gun-shot-self-inflicted-injury-prevention

Old News

  1. “A Torpedo Blows Them Up.” The Stark County Democrat, p. 8. January 20, 1881. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028490/1881-01-20/ed-1/seq-8/

  2. Backus, Paige Gibbons. “Changes in Medicine During the 19th Century.” American Battlefield Trust. October 28, 2020. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/changes-medicine-during-19th-century

  3. “Bathyscaphe Trieste.” Naval History and Heritage Command. June 27, 2023. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/exploration-and-innovation/bathyscaph-trieste.html

  4. “Body-Snatching in Indianapolis - Arrest of an Escaped Robber.” The Chicago Daily Tribune. Vol. 27, No. 105. December 4, 1873. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84031492/1873-12-04/ed-1/seq-1/

  5. “Bombs Guard Her Grave.” Topeka State Journal. May 15, 1899. P.6. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1899-05-15/ed-1/seq-6/

  6. Britannica. “Minas Gerais.” Britannica.com. Updated September 30, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/place/Minas-Gerais

  7. Brown, Sarah. “10 Cultural Facts About Minas Gerais, Brazil.” Culture Trip. February 3, 2021. https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/brazil/articles/10-cultural-facts-about-minas-gerais-brazil

  8. “CAPT Don Walsh, USN (Ret.).” National Maritime Historical Society. https://seahistory.org/award/capt-don-walsh-usn-ret/

  9. Carroll, Rory. “Drought Extinguishes Venezuela’s Lightning Phenomenon.” The Guardian. March 5, 2010. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/05/venezuela-lightning-el-nino

  10. “Catatumbo Lightning.” Skybrary. https://skybrary.aero/articles/catatumbo-lightning

  11. CEIC. “Population Census: Southeast: Minas Gerais.” CEICdata.com. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/brazil/population-census-by-state/population-census-southeast-minas-gerais

  12. Foer, Joshua. “An Everlasting Lightning Storm.” Slate.com. February 8, 2011. https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/an-everlasting-lightning-storm-that-rages-260-days-a-year-in-the-lawless-border-region-of-venezuela.html

  13. “Guajiros.” Countries and Their Cultures. Everyculture.com. https://www.everyculture.com/wc/Tajikistan-to-Zimbabwe/Guajiros.html#

  14. Hernandez, Rafael. “The Remote Lake Where Lightning Strikes 1.6 Million Times per Year.” BBC Reel. July 10, 2022. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjxxZrB85GCAxW2GlkFHRZlAvgQtwJ6BAgNEAI&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkfYllSZMxs&usg=AOvVaw0OBB1neXzvWvOYZw2JTOQt&opi=89978449

  15. “Jacques Piccard.” Linda Hall Library. July 28, 2016. https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/jacques-piccard/

  16. Kaiser, Anna Jean. “‘Raining Spiders’: Airborne Arachnids Appear Over South-east Brazil.” The Guardian. January 11, 2019. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/11/raining-spiders-brazil#:~:text=In%202013%2C%20the%20same%20phenomenon,raining%20spiders

  17. Killgrove, Kristina. “How Grave Robbers and Medical Students Helped Dehumanize 19th Century Blacks and the Poor.” Forbes. July 13, 2015. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/13/dissected-bodies-and-grave-robbing-evidence-of-unequal-treatment-of-19th-century-blacks-and-poor/?sh=f0eaa126d12b

  18. Kohlstedt, Kurt. “Grave Guns & Coffin Torpedoes: Vintage Defenses Aimed to Foil Grave Robbers.” 99PercentInvisible.org. August 21, 2017. https://99percentinvisible.org/article/grave-guns-coffin-torpedoes-vintage-defenses-aimed-foil-grave-robbers/

  19. “Lake Maracaibo.” WorldAtlas. https://www.worldatlas.com/lakes/lake-maracaibo.html

  20. Luna, Mar Z. “12 Enchanting Facts About Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.” Homeschool Spanish Academy. August 15, 2021. https://www.spanish.academy/blog/12-enchanting-facts-about-lake-maracaibo-in-venezuela/

  21. “Medical Education.” Encyclopedia.com. Updated May 29, 2018. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/medical-education

  22. Meier, Allison C. “Grave Robbing, Black Cemeteries, and the American Medical School.” JSTOR Daily. August 24, 2018. https://daily.jstor.org/grave-robbing-black-cemeteries-and-the-american-medical-school/

  23. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. “Monthly Global Climate Report for Annual 2019.” Published online January 2020. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/201913#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20World%20Meteorological,C%20(86.0%C2%B0F)

  24. Nuwer, Rachel. “It’s Raining Spiders in Brazil.” Smithsonian Magazine. February 18, 2013. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/its-raining-spiders-in-brazil-19885877/

  25. Oskin, Becky. “Mariana Trench: The Deepest Depths.” LiveScience.com.  May 16, 2022. https://www.livescience.com/23387-mariana-trench.html

  26. “Parawixia Bistriata.” Academic Accelerator. https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/parawixia-bistriata

  27. Patowary, Kaushik. “Cemetery Guns and Coffin Torpedoes.” Amusing Planet. February 16, 2019. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/02/cemetery-guns-and-coffin-torpedoes.html

  28. Pietila, Antero. “In Need of Cadavers, 19th-Century Medical Students Raided Baltimore’s Graves.” Smithsonian Magazine. October 25, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-need-cadavers-19th-century-medical-students-raided-baltimores-graves-180970629/#:~:text=So%20medical%20schools%20needing%20dissection,a%20misdemeanor%2C%20was%20seldom%20prosecuted

  29. Polmar, Norman and Mathers, Lee J. “The First Deepest Dive.” U.S. Naval Institute. Proceedings, January 2020, Vol. 146/1/1,403. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/january/first-deepest-dive

  30. “Scientists Make Record Seven-Mile Descent in Pacific.” The Sydney Morning Herald. January 25, 1960, pg. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/123403816/?terms=Bathyscaphe%20Trieste&match=1

  31. Statehood Media. “Seven Miles Under the Sea: The Story of Don Walsh and One of America’s Greatest Marine Adventures.” 1859 Oregon’s Magazine. March/April 2020. https://issuu.com/kevinmax1/docs/1859_marchapril2020/s/10228949

  32. Tiven, Lucy. “Victorian ‘Coffin Torpedoes’ Blasted Would-Be Body Snatchers.” Atlas Obscura. April 3, 2017. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffin-torpedos

  33. Tristan, David. “On This Date: the Deepest Dive.” ABC27.com. January 24, 2023. https://www.abc27.com/digital-originals/on-this-date-the-deepest-dive/

Our Big Story

  1. Atwal, Sanj. “How Vesna Vulović Survived the Highest Fall Ever With No Parachute.” Guinness World Records. April 7, 2022. https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/how-vesna-vulovic-survived-the-highest-fall-ever-with-no-parachute-697786

  2. Bednarek, Janet. “A Brief History of Airplane Hijackings, From the Cold War to D.B. Cooper.” Smithsonian Magazine. July 18, 2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-airplane-hijackings-db-cooper-netflix-180980408/

  3. Bednarek, Janet. “An Entire Generation of Americans Has No Idea How Easy Air Travel Used to Be.” The Conversation. September 2, 2021. https://theconversation.com/an-entire-generation-of-americans-has-no-idea-how-easy-air-travel-used-to-be-166082

  4. Chahal, Gurbir. “Interview: Vesna Vulović—How to Survive a Bombing at 33,000 Feet.” Aviation Security International (April 2002). https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.avsec.com/2002/04/01/interview-vesna-vulovic-how-to-survive-a-bombing-at-33000-feet/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1702258419898186&usg=AOvVaw2EDkmNEsMyyBQ-durHKga6

  5. Connolly, Kate. “Woman Who Fell to Earth: Was Air Crash Survivor’s Record Just Propaganda?” The Guardian. January 13, 2009. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jan/13/flight-attendant-record-fall-hoax

  6. Hughes, Roland. “TWA85: ‘The World’s Longest and Most Spectacular Hijacking.’” BBC. October 26, 2019. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48069272&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1702258518960239&usg=AOvVaw2hAAiAXB6fQdtJvIL45Sox

  7. Sandomir, Richard. “Vesna Vulović, Flight Attendant Who Survived Jetliner Blast, Dies at 66.” New York Times. December 28, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/world/europe/vesna-vulovic-died-flight-attendant-in-plunge.html

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