Episode 28

Written By Aaron Mahnke

Recent News

  1. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/20/style/french-court-case-rare-gabonese-mask-scli-intl/index.html

  2. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/05/africa/gabon-demands-rare-african-mask-back-after-sale-intl/index.html

  3. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chinese-villagers-paint-1400-year-old-buddha-statues-rcna131416

  4. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202311/1301815.shtml

  5. https://www.cnn.com/travel/thailand-cat-rice-art-intl-hnk/index.html

  6. https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/news/asia/article/3245877/thai-farmer-uses-cat-art-turn-rice-fields-tourist-attraction

  7. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/world/nasa-space-laser-cat-video-scn/index.html

  8. https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1220539948/this-cat-video-is-out-of-this-world-and-nasa-used-a-laser-to-beam-it-to-earth

Old News

  1. “All About Bombillas.” Matero. https://yerbamatero.com/blogs/guides/yerba-mate-bombillas-straws. Accessed 11/9/2023.

  2. Armstrong, Leslie. “History of Straws 101: The Evolution of the Drinking Straws Through the Ages.” Hay Straws. https://www.haystraws.com/blogs/hay-straws/history-of-the-drinking-straw. Accessed 11/9/2023.

  3. Bellis, Mary. “Biography of Marvin Stone, Inventor of Drinking Straws.” AlthoughtCo. Updated 8/19/2019. https://www.althoughtco.com/history-of-drinking-straws-1992399. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  4. “Berkshire Town Sends Giant Cheese Ball to Washington.” Mass Moments. https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/berkshire-town-sends-giant-cheese-ball-to-washington.html. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  5. Boehm, J. “Mammoth Cheese.” The Jefferson Monticello. October 1997. https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/mammoth-cheese/#fn-2. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  6. Cavendish, Richard. “First Day of the London Tube.” History Today. Vol. 63, Issue 1. January 2013. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/first-day-london-tube. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  7. “Election of 1800.” The Jefferson Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/election-1800/. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  8. Gillan, Joanna. “Sumerians Used Straws to Drink Beer From Shared Vesels!” Ancient Origins. Updated 11/3/2023. https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/sumerian-beer-straws-0019741. Accessed 11/9/2023.

  9. “History.” Cheshire Proud. http://www.cheshireproud.com/history/. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  10. “History of Straws: From Invention to Regulation.” Footprint. 4/20/2022. https://blog.footprintus.com/en/sustainability/history-of-straws-from-invention-to-regulation#:~:text=1888%20Marvin%20Stone%2C%20an%20American,of%20paper%20around%20a%20pencil.. Accessed 11/9/2023.

  11. Ibanez, Alvaro. “How the London Underground was Built More than 150 Years Ago, and How it is Built Today.” Innovation. Ferrovial. 10/1/2018. https://blog.ferrovial.com/en/2018/10/london-underground-was-built/. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  12. Jenkinson, Clay. “President Jefferson and the Big Cheese.” Listening to America. 9/5/2023. https://ltamerica.org/president-jefferson-and-the-big-cheese/. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  13. Kennedy, Thomas. “Ode to the Mammoth Cheese.” 1/1/1802. Arts & Culture. Google.com. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/ode-to-the-mammoth-cheese-presented-to-thomas-jefferson-president-of-the-united-states-by-the-inhabitants-of-cheshire-massachusetts-january-1-1802-kennedy-thomas/jwHSeM317cpBEw?hl=en&ms=%7B%22x%22%3A0.5%2C%22y%22%3A0.416866028708134%2C%22z%22%3A9%2C%22size%22%3A%7B%22width%22%3A1.5043988269794721%2C%22height%22%3A0.833732057416268%7D%7D. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  14. “London’s First Underground Railway.” The History of London. https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/londons-first-underground-railway/. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  15. “￡137,000 in 1860 -> 2023 | UK Inflation Calculator.” Official Inflation Data, Alioth Finance. 10/30/2023. https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/1860?amount=137000. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  16. Metcalfe, Tom. “Ancient ‘Scepters’ Were Actually Straws for Communal Boozing, Researchers Say.” NBC News. 1/18/2022. Updated 1/19/2022. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/ancient-scepters-actually-straws-communal-boozing-researchers-say-rcna12545#. Accessed 11/9/2023.

  17. “Mammoth Cheese Rolls From the Berkshires to the White House.” New England Historical Society. https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/mammoth-cheese-from-massachusetts/. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  18. “Opening of the Metropolitan Underground Railway.” The Essex County Standard, etc. 1/16/1863, p.3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/409391796/?terms=underground%20railway&match=1. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  19. “Public Transport in Victorian London–Underground.” London Transport Museum. https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/transport/public-transport-victorian-london-underground. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  20. “The First Subway, The Metropolitan Railway, Opens in London.” Jeremy Norman’s HistoryofInformation.com. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3867. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  21. “The Metropolitan Underground Railway.” Sheffield and Rotherham Independent. 1/13/1863. P. 5. https://www.newspapers.com/image/401596944/?terms=underground%20railway&match=1. Accessed 10/30/2023.

  22. “Thomas Jefferson.” The White House. https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/thomas-jefferson/#:~:text=The%20biography%20for%20President%20Jefferson,States%20(1801%E2%80%931809).. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  23. “Thomas Jefferson Biography.” The Jefferson Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/brief-biography-of-jefferson/. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  24. Thompson, Derek. “The Amazing History and the Strange Invention of the Bendy Straw.” The Atlantic. 11/22/2011. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/the-amazing-history-and-the-strange-invention-of-the-bendy-straw/248923/. Accessed 11/10/2023.

  25. Voi Editorial Team. “How the World Found Straws Through Marvin Stone’s Hands.” VOI. 1/3/2020. https://voi.id/en/memori/1411. Accessed 11/10/2023.

Our Big Story

  1. Cavendish, Richard. “Tom Thumb’s Wedding”. History Today 63, n. 2 (Feb 2013) https://www.historytoday.com/archive/tom-thumbs-wedding. Accessed 12/5/2023. 

  2. “General Tom Thumb & The ‘Fairy Wedding’”. Barnum Museum. 2/27/2018. https://barnum-museum.org/general-tom-thumb-fairy-wedding/. Accessed 12/4/2023. 

  3. “The Great Lilliputian Wedding”. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 2/10/1863. Page 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/50371276/?terms=%22lilliputian%20wedding%22&match=1. Accessed 12/5/2023. 

  4. Hartsell, Mark. “Tom Thumb’s Wedding Cake…Still and the Library, 159 Years Later.” Library of Congress Blogs. 8/16/2022. https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/08/tom-thumbs-wedding-cake-still-at-the-library-of-congress-159-years-later/. Accessed 12/5/2023. 

  5. “The Loving Lilliputians.” The New York Times. 2/11/2863. Page 8. https://www.newspapers.com/image/20545549/?terms=%22Tom%20Thumb%22&match=1. Accessed 12/5/2023. 

  6. McNamara, Robert. “Biography of General Tom Thumb, Sideshow Performer.” Althought Co. 7/2/2019. https://www.althoughtco.com/general-tom-thumb-1773621. Accessed 12/4/2023. 

  7. “Miss Lavinia Warren, The Miniature Lady.” Lamoille Newsdealer. 1/22/1863. Page 1. https://www.newspapers.com/image/403729239/?terms=%22Tom%20Thumb%22&match=1. Accessed 12/4/2023.

  8. Wadsworth, Kimberly. “Lavinia Warren: Half of the 19th Century’s Tiniest, Richest Power Couple.” Atlas Obscura. 6/30/2015. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lavinia-warren-half-of-the-19th-century-s-tiniest-richest-power-couple. Accessed 12/5/2023.

  9. A. H. Saxon, P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man (Columbia University Press, 1989), p. 437, https://www.google.com/books/edition/P_T_Barnum/HsEHOkSK8HAC?hl=en&gbpv=0. 

  10. Elizabeth Raum, The Big, Bold, Adventurous Life of Lavinia Warren (Chicago Review Press, 2018), p. 176. Kindle.

  11. Eric D. Lehman, Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of the American Celebrity (Wesleyan University Press, 2013), p. 267, Kindle.

  12. “General Tom Thumb,” Wikipedia, n.d., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tom_Thumb.

  13. Grace Greenwood, “Lincoln’s Reception to Tom Thumb -- His Favorite Books of Humor -- In His Coffin.”, 19 March 1895, from Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time, pp. 108-115. Here in the Drive.

  14. “Marriage A La Barnum,” Brooklyn Eagle, 26 January 1863; reprinted at the Lost Museum Archive, https://lostmuseum.cuny.edu/archive/marriage-a-la-barnum-brooklyn-eagle-january.

  15. Robert Wilson, Barnum: An American Life (Simon & Schuster, 2019), p. 372, Kindle.

  16. Tom Thumb, Sketch of the Life, Personal Appearance, Character and Manners of Charles S. Stratton, the Man in Miniature, Known as General Tom Thumb, and his wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton, including the History of their Courtship and Marriage (S. Booth, 1874), p. 46, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sketch_of_the_Life/XxJgAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. 

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