This Week In History 8-23 to 8-29
Aug 24, 2020•41 min
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Episode description
Award-winning young adult author Chad Alan Gibbs joins the show to discuss this week in history!
Check out Chad’s work at www.chadalangibbs.com
8/23-8/29
Topics covered: The Human Fish / Stockholm Syndrome and Patty Hearst / William Wallace and Braveheart / RCA Indian Head Test Pattern / Old Wives Tales / Louis XVI / Pete Rose / Mount Vesuvius Pompeii Eruption and the Masturbating Man / Ray Caldwell / Alfred Eisenstaedt / Steve Guttenberg / Moonlight Graham and Field of Dreams / The Wizard of Oz and the Munchkins / The Berlin Wall / Friedrich Nietzsche / Women’s Suffrage and the 19th Amendment / Invention of the Hot Air Balloon / Ted Knight / President Lyndon Baines Johnson / Anglo Zanzibar War / Brannock Device / Worcestershire Sauce / Charlie McCarthy / Charles Spooner and Spoonerisms / US Bureau of Engraving and Printing
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