Episode 39

Recent News

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/massachusetts-library-fines-cat-picture.html

2. https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/02/23/worcester-library-cat-pictures

3. https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/middleeast/worlds-oldest-bread-discovered-turkey-intl-scli-scn/index.html

4. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-penguin-antarctica-gentoo-leucism/

5. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/03/14/Antarctic-Heritage-Trust-penguin-post-office/9701710437931/ 

Old News

1. Carter, Elliot. “A Nazi U-Boat Sank When its Captain Flushed the Toilet.” The National Interest. 11/13/2020. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/nazi-u-boat-sank-when-its-captain-flushed-toilet-172509. 

2. Gormley, Jesse. “The Lincolns Brought Spiritualism and Seances to the White House.” Ripley’s Believe It or Not!  1/26/2021. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/spiritualism-in-the-white-house/. Accessed 1/2/2024.

3. Horowitz, Mitch. “Mary Todd Lincoln, Spiritualist.” Medium. 7/16/2018. https://medium.com/s/radical-spirits/mary-todd-lincoln-spiritualist-914078802371. Accessed 1/2/2024.

4. Jett, Philip. “Spiritualists in Lincoln’s White House.” The History Reader. https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/spiritualists-lincolns-white-house/. Accessed 1/2/2024.

5. Kaku, Michio. “Albert Einstein.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. Updated 12/24/2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Albert-Einstein. Accessed 12/28/2023.

6. Kommel, Alexandra. “Seances in the Red Room.” The White House Historical Association. 4/24/2019. https://www.whitehousehistory.org/seances-in-the-red-room. Accessed 1/2/2024. 

7. Kurzak, Karl Heinz. “German U-Boat Construction.”  Proceedings. April 1955. Vol. 81/4/626. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1955/april/german-u-boat-construction. Accessed 12/28/2023.

8. “The Lincoln Family.” National Park Service. https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/the-lincoln-family.htm. Accessed 1/2/2024.

9. Lovejoy, Bess. “Einstein’s Brain Heist.” Slate. 4/17/2015. https://slate.com/technology/2015/04/einsteins-brain-theft-why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-famous-dead-bodies.html. Accessed 12/28/2023.

10. Margaritoff, Marco. “Inside the Bizarre Story of Albert Einstein’s Brain—After it was Stolen from his Body.” All That’s Interesting. Updated 8/25/2023. https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-einstein-brain. Accessed 12/28/2023.

11. Markel, Howard. “The Strange Story of Einstein’s Brain.” PBS News Hour. 4/19/2023. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/the-strange-story-of-einsteins-brain#:~:text=While%20most%20of%20Einstein%27s%20body,Einstein%2C%20Albert%27s%20eldest%20son.). Accessed 12/28/2023.

12. Melton, J. Gordon. “Spiritualism.” Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/spiritualism-religion. Accessed 1/2/2024.

13. The Newsroom. “The Nazi U-boat Sunk by a Toilet Malfunction.” The Scotsman. Updated 3/1/2017. https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/the-nazi-u-boat-sunk-by-a-toilet-malfunction-1455820. Accessed 12/28/2023.

14. Ossea, Ken Jr. “The Turd Reich: The Toilet Malfunction that Sank a German U-Boat.” Mental Floss. 6/7/2022. https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/poop-sank-wwii-german-u-boat. Accessed 12/28/2023.

15. “Type VIIC.” U-Boat Types. Uboat.net. https://uboat.net/types/viic.htm. Accessed 12/28/2023.

Our Big Story

1. David, Sigal Ben. “The Biggest Heist in Israeli History: The Rare Clocks Robbery Mystery.” The Jerusalem Post. 8/19/2022. https://www.jpost.com/must/article-715006. Accessed 12/29/2023.

2. The Great Clock Robbery. The Museum for Islamic Art. https://www.islamicart.co.il/english/template/default.aspx?PageId=110. Accessed 12/29/2023.

3. Our Story. The Museum for Islamic Art. https://www.islamicart.co.il/english/template/default.aspx?PageId=21. Accessed 12/29/2023.

4. Reiss, Fern. “The Time Thief Who Stole 106 Rare Clocks in a Daring Heist.” Smithsonian Magazine. 4/14/2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-time-thief-who-stole-106-rare-clocks-in-a-daring-heist-180981979/. Accessed 12/29/2023.