Episode 90: The sinking of the Vasa

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Videos:

• Wasa 1628, part one (This is in Swedish without subtitles, so keep that in mind.”
• Brain from the Vasa wreck

Articles and books:

• Why The Vasa Sank: 10 Lessons Learned
• The Vasa Museum website
• New Clues Emerge in Centuries-Old Swedish Shipwreck
• Why The Swedish Vasa Ship Sank
• The Bizarre Story of ‘Vasa,’ the Ship That Keeps On Giving
• Shipwreck: A History of Disasters at Sea, by Sam Willis

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Episode 89: The story of Ada Blackjack

 

Before I get distracted by the puppy again …

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Videos:

• Stories at the Cemetery – Ada Blackjack

Articles and books:

• Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition
• Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic, by Jennifer Niven
• The Inuit Woman Who Survived the Arctic Alone

Episode 88: The 2013 Moore tornado

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Videos:

• Dateline In An Instant: Tragedy in Tornado Alley
• The first 10 minutes of the Moore EF5 Tornado (5/20/2013)
• Tornado Alley – Real Time Tornado: Moore, Oklahoma
• Barbara Garcia finds her lost dog during CBS News interview

Articles and books:

• Moore, Oklahoma, looks back on tornado that killed 24 one year ago
• National Weather Service: The Tornado Outbreak of May 20, 2013
• Moore, OK, Tornado Facts and Information
• Plaza Tower Victims – Photo Gallery
• Moore district settles with families of kids killed in tornado
• The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado, by Holly Bailey

Episode 87: The Leopard of Rudraprayag

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Videos:

• Exact spot where Man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag was killed
• Film footage shot in 1935 by Jim Corbett of wild tigers
• Under Wild Skies, a documentary about returning Jim Corbett’s gun to his home in India.

Articles and books:

• The Legend of the Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
• The man-eater and the last of the great white hunters
• The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, by Jim Corbett

Episode 86: The Iroquois theater fire

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Videos:

• Wrath of God: Panic! Deadly Inferno (This episode also covers the Cocoanut Grove fire and the Happy Land Social Club fire.)

Articles and books:

• Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903, by Nat Brandt
• Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 , by Anthony Hatch
• Chicagology.com: Iroquois Theatre Fire
• The Iroquois Theater Disaster Killed Hundreds and Changed Fire Safety Forever
• Iroquois Theater fire homepage

Episode 85: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

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Videos:

• Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as performed on Microsoft Flight Simulator
• MH17 Crash: What Really Happened To Malaysia Airlines Flight? | Special Report

Articles and books:

• If my flight to Malaysia disappears, this is what it looks like
• Dutch Safety Board report
• Malaysian Jet Over Ukraine Was Downed by ‘High-Energy Objects,’ Dutch Investigators Say
• ‘I’m Nearby The Place Where The Bodies Started Falling’: Chilling Transcript Of Militants Realizing They Shot Down An Airliner With Nearly 300 People Aboard
• Crash claims top AIDS researchers heading to Melbourne
• U.S. Sees Evidence of Russian Links to Jet’s Downing
• Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: No forensic investigators, co-ordination or body bags as Ukraine locals are left to scour gruesome
• Obama calls for Russian ‘pivot’ on Ukraine as MH17 investigation begins
• Malaysia Airlines’s tweet announcing Flight 17 had gone missing
• This Grieving Father Of MH17 Victims Said Trump “Kissed The Arse” Of Putin

Episode 84: The Guadalajara explosions

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Videos:

• Seconds from Disaster: Inferno in Guadalajara

Articles and books:

• History.com: Sewers explode in Guadalajara
• Washington Post: EXPLOSIONS KILL 184 IN GUADALAJARA
• Ministy in charge of the environment: Explosions of hydrocarbons in an urban sewerage network
• NYT: At Least 200 Dead as Blasts Rock A Mexican City
• Mexico Reels from Explosion