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Part Two: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the Empire Nov 26, 2025

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Margaret continues her talk with Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle.

Sources:

https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html

https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4

https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre

https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/

https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain_catholic_rather/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160223035154/http://www.moravian.org.uk/index.php/the-moravian-church/moravian-history

https://www.nrafamily.org/content/throwback-thursday-nonhelema-s-tale/

https://www.nationsandcannons.com/blog/nonhelema-chieftess-warrior-and-advocate-for-neutrality-in-the-revolutionary-war

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/metis

https://web.archive.org/web/20240624093053/https://lssse.indiana.edu/blog/guest-post-native-american-exclusion-as-a-form-of-paper-genocide/

https://frontierpartisans.com/281/the-shawnee-resistance/

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/pontiacs-rebellion/

https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/battle-of-bush-run-history/

https://battlefieldtravels.com/battle-of-bushy-run/

https://archive.wvculture.org/hiStory/journal_wvh/wvh56-5.html

https://www.midstory.org/over-240-years-later-an-ohio-community-remembers-its-founding-massacre/

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/60205/60154

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Part One: Nonhelema: The Six Foot Six Warrior Woman of the Shawnee Who Fought the Empire Nov 24, 2025

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Margaret talks to Jamie Loftus about Shawnee resistance to the American colonialism and a woman who led them in battle

Sources:

https://colonialquills.blogspot.com/2017/07/revolutionary-mothers-nonhelema-of.html

https://kentucky-museum.org/nonhelema-hokolesqua/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-44554-4

https://sundownohio.substack.com/p/the-gnadenhutten-massacre

https://newreligiousmovements.org/b/bohemian-adamites/

https://www.reformedhistory.com/Content/Confessions/ArticlesOfPrague

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/mar/22/naked-truth-about-seventies-streaking-craze

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/iph4ag/why_did_the_czech_lands_remain_catholic_rather/

https://web.archive.org/web/20160223035154/http://www.moravian.org.uk/index.php/the-moravian-church/moravian-history

https://www.nrafamily.org/content/throwback-thursday-nonhelema-s-tale/

https://www.nationsandcannons.com/blog/nonhelema-chieftess-warrior-and-advocate-for-neutrality-in-the-revolutionary-war

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/metis

https://web.archive.org/web/20240624093053/https://lssse.indiana.edu/blog/guest-post-native-american-exclusion-as-a-form-of-paper-genocide/

https://frontierpartisans.com/281/the-shawnee-resistance/

https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/pontiacs-rebellion/

https://bushyrunbattlefield.com/battle-of-bush-run-history/

https://battlefieldtravels.com/battle-of-bushy-run/

https://archive.wvculture.org/hiStory/journal_wvh/wvh56-5.html

https://www.midstory.org/over-240-years-later-an-ohio-community-remembers-its-founding-massacre/

https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/60205/60154

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CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Four Nov 23, 2025

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More mighty beasts assail our brave antiheroes!

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Part Two: Arminius and the Battle of Teutoburg Forest: How the Barbarians Broke the Roman Legions Nov 19, 2025

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Margaret continues her talk with Hazel about how the Romans were stopped from conquering Germania and how a bunch of terrible people are excited about it.

Sources:

https://www.thecollector.com/teutonic-meaning/

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?c=y&page=3

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-excavation-will-examine-germanys-legendary-founding-battle-180964235/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sculpted-horse-head-complicates-legendary-roman-conquest-german-barbarians-180970077/

https://archaeology.org/issues/online/collection/germany-roman-town-waldgirmes/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110714211343/http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/509454.html

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/havoc-in-the-teutoburger-forest/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140428164647/http://www.livius.org/q/quinctilius/varus.htmlhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3567880

https://the-past.com/feature/arminius-hitlers-barbarian-hero/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_2#88

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Part One: Arminius and the Battle of Teutoburg Forest: How the Barbarians Broke the Roman Legions Nov 17, 2025

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Margaret talks with Hazel about how the Romans were stopped from conquering Germania and how a bunch of terrible people are excited about it.

Sources:

https://www.thecollector.com/teutonic-meaning/

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?c=y&page=3

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-excavation-will-examine-germanys-legendary-founding-battle-180964235/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sculpted-horse-head-complicates-legendary-roman-conquest-german-barbarians-180970077/

https://archaeology.org/issues/online/collection/germany-roman-town-waldgirmes/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110714211343/http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/509454.html

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/havoc-in-the-teutoburger-forest/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140428164647/http://www.livius.org/q/quinctilius/varus.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567880

https://the-past.com/feature/arminius-hitlers-barbarian-hero/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_2#88

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CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Three Nov 16, 2025

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All is not well in Bogbottom...

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Part Two: Boudica: The Warrior Queen Who Burned Roman London to the Ground Nov 12, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Io about the Iceni revolt of 61 AD that almost drove Rome out of Britain.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4434717

https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A31804/attachment/ATT-0/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120612044230/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba83/feat3.shtml

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D32

https://historyandarchaeologyonline.com/the-evidence-for-the-historical-boudica%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/

https://vridar.org/2018/05/07/doing-history-how-do-we-know-queen-boadicea-boudicca-existed/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25471937

http://simoneparrish.com/2016/07/how-i-woad-using-woad-for-body-painting/

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Part One: Boudica: The Warrior Queen Who Burned Roman London to the Ground Nov 10, 2025

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Margaret talks with Io about the Iceni revolt of 61 AD that almost drove Rome out of Britain.

Sources:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4434717

https://ul.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3A31804/attachment/ATT-0/

https://web.archive.org/web/20120612044230/http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba83/feat3.shtml

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html#2

https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0078%3Abook%3D14%3Achapter%3D32

https://historyandarchaeologyonline.com/the-evidence-for-the-historical-boudica%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc/

https://vridar.org/2018/05/07/doing-history-how-do-we-know-queen-boadicea-boudicca-existed/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25471937

http://simoneparrish.com/2016/07/how-i-woad-using-woad-for-body-painting/

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CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Two Nov 09, 2025

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Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?

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Part Two: The Gallae: Trans Priestess of Ancient Rome Nov 05, 2025

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Margaret continues her talk with to Gabriel Dunn about the gender deviants of the ancient world and how basically nothing ever changes.

Sources:

https://arkeonews.net/getting-to-know-matar-kubilea/

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/56909/what-is-the-difference-between-galli-and-metragyrtai

http://www.thehypertexts.com/Epigram%20History%20and%20Examples.htm

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boadicea/

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/539632/d6348aa09f4510eb5704b6da501f9e7d.pdf

https://www.oldest.org/culture/civilizations/

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

https://www.apsu.edu/philomathes/MattinglyPhilomathesONLINE2023.pdf

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