Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Pettenkofer and Poison Mar 27, 2020

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Holly and Tracy discuss the advance casualness of recording entirely from home, as well as Max von Pettenkofer's psyche, and the fairly recent rise of the poison control hotline.

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Poison Control: A History Mar 25, 2020

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How did the U.S. get to the point of having this one resource, specifically for poisoning, that’s so reliable and available that it gets printed on the labels of consumer products?

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Max von Pettenkofer’s Anticontagionism Mar 23, 2020

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Pettenkofer's ideas about how cholera spread weren’t exactly right, but they still had really beneficial impacts on the way we live.

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SYMHC Classics: Tagore, Erstwhile Knight Mar 21, 2020

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In this 2010 episode, previous hosts Sarah and Deblina trace the life of Tagore through his childhood to knighthood and beyond.

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Behind the Scenes Minis: Shortest War and Lady Baseball Mar 20, 2020

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Holly and Tracy talk about aspects of Zanzibari culture that Holly had not considered prior to this week's episode, and Tracy's rewatch of "A League of Their Own."

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Offbeat History: The Crash at Crush and Other Train Wreck Spectacles Mar 19, 2020

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In fall 2017, we talked about a strange cultural phenomenon. For a brief window from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, people in the United States were watching train wrecks for fun.

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Offbeat History: Marchesa Luisa Casati Mar 19, 2020

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In 2017 we covered the offbeat life of Marchesa Luisa Casati. While many have admired heiress Casati over the years for her life led entirely based on her aesthetics, she was also entirely self-serving.

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Offbeat History: Lisztomania Mar 19, 2020

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In 2015, we talked about Franz Liszt, who was a pianist, a composer and a conductor, and basically the first rock star who drove fans into fits of swooning and screaming. Some fans even stole the detritus of his life (unfinished coffee, broken piano strings) to carry with them.

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Offbeat History: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 2 Mar 19, 2020

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The second part of this offbeat revisit! As the New York Sun's series of astonishing moon discoveries concluded, most people recognized that it was a hoax. But what made people buy into the tall tale in the first place?

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Offbeat History: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, Part 1 Mar 19, 2020

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This offbeat 2015 episode covers a series of 1835 news articles about some utterly mind-blowing discoveries made by Sir John Herschel about the lunar surface. The serial had everything: moon poppies, goat-like unicorns, lunar beavers and even bat people.

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