Episode 42

Written By Aaron Mahnke

Recent News

  1. https://apnews.com/article/cambodia-truck-horns-music-hun-manet-e3eba65be026e470a4c2aecd76b302ae

  2. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2024/03/19/bees-Natchez-Mississippi/7301710865405/

  3. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/world/europe/paris-waiters-race.html

Old News

  1. Blackledge, Steve. “The American Bumblebee Needs Endangered Species Protection.” Environment America. Updated 4/12/2023. https://environmentamerica.org/articles/the-american-bumblebee-needs-endangered-species-protection/#:~:text=Why%20is%20the%20American%20bumblebee,habitat%20loss%20and%20climate%20change.. Accessed 1/26/2024.

  2. Carlton, Genevieve. “The Story of the Apocalyptic Frenzy Inspired by the Arrival of Halley’s Comet in 1910.” All That’s Interesting. 8/23/2021. https://allthatsinteresting.com/halleys-comet-1910. Accessed 1/25/2024.

  3. Clark, Ryan. “10 Doomsday Scenarios that Never Happened.” Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 7/22/2020. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/doomsday-scenarios/. Accessed 1/26/2024.

  4. Clark, Stuart. “Apocalypse Postponed: How Earth Survived Halley’s Comet in 1910.” The Guardian. 12/20/2012. https://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/2012/dec/20/apocalypse-postponed-halley-comet. Accessed 1/25/2024.

  5. Howell, Elizabeth. “Halley’s Comet: Facts About History’s Most Famous Comet.” Space.com. 1/13/2022. https://www.space.com/19878-halleys-comet.html. Accessed 1/25/2024.

  6. Kibler, Tara. “8 Forgotten Stories From American History.” HeinOnline Blog. 6/4/2021. https://home.heinonline.org/blog/2021/06/8-forgotten-stories-from-american-history/. Accessed 1/26/2024.

  7. Locker, Melissa. “The Story Behind the Lost Southern State of Franklin.” Southern Living. Updated 2/14/2023. https://www.southernliving.com/culture/state-of-franklin. Accessed 1/26/2024. 

  8. “North America with the Boundaries of the Thirteen United States, as Settled by the Treaty of 1783.” North Carolina MAPS. https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ncmaps/id/66. Accessed 1/26/2024.

  9. Sottile, Zoe. “California Bees Can Legally Be Fish and Have the Same Protections, a Court Has Ruled.” CNN. Updated 6/6/2022. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/us/california-bees-fish-court-ruling-scn-trnd/index.html. Accessed 1/26/2024.

  10. “Threatened and Endangered Species.” CESA. California Department of Fish and Wildlife. https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/CESA#:~:text=The%20California%20Endangered%20Species%20Act%20(CESA)(opens%20in%20new,1984%20and%20amended%20in%201997.. Accessed 1/26/2024.

  11. “Will Coming Comet Collide with Earth.” Hopkinsville Kentuckian. 6/6/1907, p.3. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069395/1907-06-06/ed-1/seq-3/. Accessed 1/25/2024.

Our Big Story

  1. “The Maypole of Merry Mount,” American Heritage, 1986, https://www.americanheritage.com/maypole-merry-mount

  2. “New English Canaan,” World History Encyclopedia, December 11, 2020, https://www.worldhistory.org/New_English_Canaan/

  3. “THE MAYPOLE THAT INFURIATED THE PURITANS,” New England Historical Society, https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/maypole-infuriated-puritans/

  4. “What Was the First Banned Book in History?,” MentalFloss, October 2, 2023, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/650466/first-banned-book

  5. “Thomas Morton,” World History Encyclopedia, December 10, 2020, https://www.worldhistory.org/Thomas_Morton/

  6. “Author Introduction-Thomas Morton (1579-1647),” American Literatures Prior to 1865, https://umsystem.pressbooks.pub/alpt1865/chapter/author-introduction-thomas-morton/

  7. “How America’s First Banned Book Survived and Became an Anti-Authoritarian Icon,” Smithsonian Magazine, October 2, 2023, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-americas-first-banned-book-survived-and-became-an-anti-authoritarian-icon-180982971/

  8. “America’s First Banned Book Really Ticked Off the Plymouth Puritans,” Atlas Obscura, November 1, 2019, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/americas-first-banned-book

  9. “America’s First Banned Book and the Battle for the Soul of the Country,” San Diego Free Press, September 22, 2014, https://sandiegofreepress.org/2014/09/americas-first-banned-book-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-country/

  10. “A Brief History of the Maypole Dance.” Learn Religions, June 25, 2019, https://www.learnreligions.com/history-of-the-maypole-2561629

  11. “People and Ideas: Early American Groups,” PBS, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/godinamerica-early-american-groups/

  12. “Massachusetts,” History.com, December 13, 2022, https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/massachusetts#massachusetts-early-colonial-history

  13. “WAY MORE THAN THE SCARLET LETTER: PURITAN PUNISHMENTS,” New England Historical Society, https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/way-more-than-the-scarlet-letter-puritan-punishments/#:~:text=Puritan%20law%20recognized%20the%20principle,jeopardy%20and%20compulsory%20self%2Dincrimination.

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