The Year Was

The Catch-Up Episode

It’s the catch-up episode!!!
Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to days 200-203. This time we examine the days December 21, 1988 as Pan Am Flight 103 Explodes over Scotland, December 28, 2014 as the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire, January 1, 1903 as Topsy the Elephant is electrocuted, and January 11, 1787 as William Herschel discovers Uranus’ moons Oberon and Titania.
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Pan-Am-flight-103
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/remembering-pan-am-flight-103-30-years-later-121418
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/europe/lockerbie-bombing-explainer-intl/index.html 
https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/today-in-history-pan-am-flight-103-lockerbie
https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Ropax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Norman_Atlantic
https://maritimecyprus.com/2017/12/30/flashback-in-maritime-history-norman-atlantic-ferry-fire-on-28-dec-2014/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norman-atlantic-fire-4-more-maritime-officials-investigated-over-ferry-fire-1.2888243
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/01/the-deadly-fire-aboard-the-ferry-norman-atlantic/100882/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/topsy-the-elephant
https://www.grunge.com/770226/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-the-elephant/
https://medium.com/the-curiosity/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-an-executed-circus-elephant-83d36deee99c
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/topsy-elephant-was-victim-her-captors-not-really-thomas-edison-180961611/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/oberon-midsummer-nights-dream/
https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/titania-midsummer-nights-dream/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/oberon/in-depth/
https://www.celebrateandlearn.com/?p=1851
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01352-uranus-largest-moon-oberon
https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/oberon-uranus-moon/
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01978-uranus-moon-titania
https://space-facts.com/moons/titania/
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/titania/in-depth/
https://www.universetoday.com/56048/titania/
 
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Photo: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topsy_elephant_electrocution_Luna_Park,_Coney_Island_January_1903.png

December 7th & 14th...The Winecoff Fire and Sandy Hook

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Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 198/199. This time we examine the days December 7th, and December 14-and the years 1946 as the Winecoff Hotel Fire starts and 2012 as there is a school shooting at Sandy Hook..
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winecoff_Hotel_fire
https://library.massasoit.edu/americanfires/winecoff
https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10568390/the-winecoff-fire-our-nations-deadliest-hotel-fire
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-winecoff-hotel-fire-75-years-later-still-deadliest-us-hotel-blaze-in-history
http://southernghoststories.com/georgia-ghost-stories-the-winecoff-hotel
https://time.com/5168272/how-many-school-shootings/
https://news.yahoo.com/got-grow-little-brothers-never-231138580.html?guccounter=1
https://news.yahoo.com/got-grow-little-brothers-never-231138580.html?guccounter=1
https://www.britannica.com/event/Sandy-Hook-Elementary-School-shooting
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gunman-kills-students-and-adults-at-newtown-connecticut-elementary-school
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Photo: 
By Eoghanacht - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3122935

November 30th...The Death of the Crystal Palace

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 197. This time we examine the year 1936 as London's Crystal Palace Burns Down..
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Knowhere
https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/london-fire-brigade-history-and-stories/fires-and-incidents-that-changed-history/the-crystal-palace-fire/
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/fire-destroys-crystal-palace
https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/737044/Crystal-Palace-fire-1936
https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-crystal-palace-was-constructed-of-iron-and-glass-so-how-and-why-did-it-burn-down/
https://londonist.com/2015/11/crystalpalace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Crystal_Palace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Crystal-Palace-building-London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Fountain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace
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Photo: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition#/media/File:Crystal_Palace_-_Queen_Victoria_opens_the_Great_Exhibition.jpg

November 23rd...Robert Johnson and Poon Lim

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 196. This time we examine the years 1936 as Robert Johnson begins his recording sessions in San Antonio, and 1942 as Poon Lim begins his 133 days lost at sea.
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson
https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2016/11/18/today-in-music-history-robert-johnsons-first-recording-session
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson-American-musician
https://www.biography.com/musician/robert-johnson
https://www.inaraft.com/blog/a-remarkable-story-of-survival-at-sea-poon-lim/
https://www.historydefined.net/poon-lim/
https://www.ststworld.com/poon-lim/
https://www.grunge.com/587076/the-unbelievable-story-behind-a-man-who-was-lost-at-sea-for-133-days/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Doctor_Who
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Photo: 
By Copyright © 1989 Delta Haze Corporation.[2]The photograph was taken in 1936 by the Hooks Brothers Photographers studio, owned by Henry and Robert Hooks, located on Beale Street in Memphis.[3] In 1974, Johnson's half-sister Carrie Thompson entered a copyright transfer agreement with Stephen LaVere in which she represented herself as Johnson's sole and closest heir.[4] She agreed to transfer to LaVere "[a]ll of her right, title and interests, including all common law and statutory copyrights, in and to ... a photograph of Robert L. Johnson taken by Hooks Brothers Photography in Memphis, Tennessee, and showing Johnson in a sitting position with a guitar running diagonally across his body ..."[5]The photo was first published in 1989 in the journal 78 Quarterly (Vol. 1, No. 4) with LaVere's permission.[6] It was most notably featured as the cover artwork for the 1990 release of The Complete Recordings, distributed by Columbia Records under license from LaVere.[7] In a series of subsequent court decisions, the Mississippi court system identified Claud Johnson of Crystal Springs, Mississippi as Robert Johnson's sole heir and determined that he was entitled to royalties from LaVere's 1974 contract. Claud Johnson died on June 30, 2015;[8] upon his death, the interest passed to his heirs, including Michael Johnson.[9], Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12948079

November 16th... Pizarro and Atahualpa

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 195. This time we examine the year 1532 as Francisco Pizarro traps the Incan ruler Atahualpa, and massacres 5,000 Incan soldiers.
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Pizarro
https://www.worldhistory.org/Inca_Civilization/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa
https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Francisco_Pizarro/
https://www.pdjnews.com/lifestyle/francisco-pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa
https://www.calendarz.com/on-this-day/november/16/francisco-pizarro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despoilers_of_the_Golden_Empire
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Photo: 
By Anonymous - Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany / Art Resource, NY, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73333774

November 9th...Kristallnacht

Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
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Trans Lifeline
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Veterans Crisis Line
1-800-273-8255, Press 1
 
Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 194. This time we examine the year 1938 as the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass starts the Holocaust.
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/2022/november-9-in-pop-culture-history/
https://www.britannica.com/event/Kristallnacht
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-vom-Rath
https://www.history.com/news/kristallnacht-started-when-this-diplomat-was-murdered-in-cold-blood
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/18/herschel-grynszpan-photo-mystery-jewish-assassin-kristallnacht-pogrom
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUGaQUDTQ8
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Photo: 
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-083-42 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5418870

November 2...The Final Flight of the Spruce Goose

 
Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 193. This time we examine the year 1947 as the H-4 Hercules, the “Spruce Goose”, makes its first and final flight. 
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-J-Kaiser
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes/Later-years
https://allthatsinteresting.com/spruce-goose
https://naturespackaging.org/innovations-in-wood-the-story-of-the-spruce-goose/
https://simpleflying.com/spruce-goose/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
https://www.thetravel.com/spruce-goose-airplane-what-is-it/
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spruce-goose-flies
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-spruce-goose-mcminnville-oregon
https://nci.edu/2021/09/06/the-history-of-the-spruce-goose/
https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/exhibit/the-spruce-goose/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Corporation
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Photo: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules#/media/File:H-4_Hercules_2.jpg

October 26th...Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 192. This time we examine the year 1881 as the Earp family with Doc Holliday confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. 
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://www.onthisday.com/people/william-t-anderson
https://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1492/october_26_1492_33026.html
https://www.facebook.com/whumradio/posts/on-this-date-in-1492-lead-pencils-first-used-lead-pencils-do-not-actually-contai/10151983382144548/
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-lead-pencil-in-1492?share=1
https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-gunfight-at-ok-corral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shootout-at-the-ok-corral
https://www.grunge.com/169885/the-messed-up-truth-of-the-gunfight-at-the-o-k-corral/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise_County_Cowboys
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/clanton-gang/
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/virgil-earp/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wyatt-Earp
https://www.grunge.com/269125/the-truth-about-the-forgotten-earp-brother-warren/
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/virgil-earp-43514.php
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/morgan-earp-35219.php
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Doc-Holliday
https://www.ok-corral.com/pages/history.shtml
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Photo: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral#/media/File:VirgilEarp.jpg

October 19th...Michael Myers

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 191. This time we examine the year 1957 as the killer Michael Myers is born. 
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Myers
https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Myers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Halloween)
https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Laurie_Strode
https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/2022/october-19-in-pop-culture-history/
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Photo: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MichaelMyers2018.jpg -photo by Ryan Green

October 12th...Oktoberfest

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 190. This time we examine the year 1810 as the first Oktoberfest is held. 
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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band
https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/
https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz
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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 
Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ
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Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/governor-general
https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/king-ludwig-i-of-bavaria/
https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/therese-of-saxe-hildburghausen-queen-of-bavaria/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oktoberfest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest
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Photo: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_I_of_Bavaria#/media/File:Joseph_Karl_Stieler_-_King_Ludwig_I_in_his_Coronation_Robes_-_WGA21796.jpg