Episode 101: The Great Stink of London

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Videos and podcasts:

• The Great Stink documentary
• History and Sewage: The Great Stink of 1858
• Sawbones: Cholera

Articles and books:

• Re-Smelling London’s Great Stink Of 1858
• The big stench that saved London
• The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis, by Stephen Halliday

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Episode 100: The attack on Nakatomi Plaza

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Happy 100th episode!

All information from this episode came from a little documentary called “Die Hard” and from the Die Hard Wiki, which it turns out exists.

Episode 99: United Airlines Flight 629

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Video:

• A Crime to Remember: Time Bomb (Episode four of season one)
• Setting off thirteen sticks of dynamite

Articles and books:

• Justice Story: Son plants bomb in mom’s suitcase, killing her and 43 others during flight
• FBI: Jack Gilbert Graham
• Denver Post: Victims en route to various locations
• Weld’s deadliest day: Nov. 1, 1955 Bomb blasted airliner from sky, killed 44 near Mead
• Civil Aeronautics Board: Accident Investigation Report
• Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629

Episode 98: The Hajj pilgrimage of 2015

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Videos:

• Original footage of the crushing disaster as it happened and in the aftermath
• Mecca Live Crane Crash Accident in Masjid Al Haram: Live Raw Video as it Happened
• Crane Falls in Makkah Haram (TW for graphic content)

Articles and books:

• How One of the Deadliest Hajj Accidents Unfolded
• The 10-Minute Mecca Stampede Which Made History
• The Hajj crush: ‘It was the closest thing to hell on earth’
• A step-by-step guide to Hajj (Al Jazeera)

Episode 97: The MGM Grand Fire

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Videos:

• Survivors: MGM Grand Casino Fire
• Disaster Chronicles: MGM Grand Fire Las Vegas 1980

Articles and books:

• Clark County Fire Department: MGM Hotel Fire – Nov. 21, 1980 (includes fire report)
• 37 Years Ago: Could MGM Grand fires teach a history lesson?
• Hotel Impossible’s Anthony Melchiorri Revisits the MGM Grand Fire of Nov. 21, 1980
• Killer says deadly Hilton blaze in 1981 ‘wasn’t meant to hurt anybody’

Episode 96: The Janauba tragedy

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Videos:

• • Creche Em Janaúba Momentos Difíceis
  • Família das vítimas contam como receberam notícia sobre o massacre de Janaúba

Articles and books:

• Security guard kills six children in nursery school arson attack in Brazil
• Six children dead after Brazilian nursery school guard sets them on fire
• Michel Temer honours heroine of Janaúba with National Order of Merit
• Distúrbio psiquiátrico e obsessão: saiba quem era o vigia que matou crianças em Janaúba
• Teacher dies after 2 months in hospital, and fire in MG daycare reaches 13 deaths
• New building of Innocent People’s Daycare opens in Janaúba
• Vigia who burned day care in MG did not follow psychiatric treatment, says expert…

Episode 95: The Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse

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Videos:

• Archived WTVT coverage: Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy
• Suicide and the dark side of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge
• Sunshine Skyway Bridge – The Story

Articles and books:

• The Sunshine Skyway Bridge plunged into Tampa Bay 38 years ago
• 38 years later: Looking back on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge tragedy
• It’s been 38 years since collapse of Sunshine Skyway. Recording of mayday call shows day’s horror.
• Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down, by Bill DeYoung