Badass History Podcast
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Michigan can be a strange place...
From the Archives: The remains of a mammoth butchered by humans were unearthed in Michigan. archaeology.org/issues/202-160…
Balto, the dog known for the serum run to Nome in 1925, only did the last stretch. Most of the run was completed by a dog named Togo. He never got the public glory like Balto even though he went through the most dangerous parts. #DidYouKnow #Badass #UnsungHero #History #Sleddogs
Whoah!
From the Archives: The remains of a mammoth butchered by humans were unearthed in Michigan. archaeology.org/issues/202-160…
NICE
The Berlin Wall was up for 28 years, 3 months, and 10 days and today it has been exactly 28 years, 3 months, and 10 days since it fell. #BerlinWall (Credit to @tillmans_art for the factoid)
241 years ago today, George Washington penned this historic letter initiating America's first spy network. bit.ly/2rhIABm #CulperSpyRing
Back in colonial days, Americans thought eating a tomato turned your blood into acid. Legend has it Thomas Jefferson was one of the first to contradict that “fact” by openly eating tomatoes in public and not dying. 🍅 #DidYouKnow #Badass #Tomatoes #FoundingFather
Crazy.
Red Army infantry in Finland spent today attacking with suicidal bravery. Finnish scouts report over 1000 Soviet dead in front of Summa village alone.
Would’ve been awesome to see them act in something together!
Red Army infantry in Finland spent today attacking with suicidal bravery. Finnish scouts report over 1000 Soviet dead in front of Summa village alone.
The top portions of two obelisks that would have stood at the entrance to the funerary temple of Queen Akhnespepy II, one of the most powerful female leaders of Egypt’s Old Kingdom, have been found at the Saqqara necropolis archaeology.org/issues/283-180…
While Red Army masses to attack Mannerheim Line on southern Karelian Isthmus, 1000s of Soviets still trapped further north in "mottis", pockets of Finnish encirclement, freezing & starving.
Bass Reeves, the first black deputy marshal in the Wild West, was credited with arresting more than 3,000 felons and shot 14 outlaws in self-defense. He was the closest thing to a real-life version of the Lone Ranger. #DidYouKnow #Badass #BlackHistoryMonth
Artificial intelligence takes a crack at decoding the mysterious Voynich manuscript. smithmag.co/mlJ1eZ
On #ThisDayinHistory in 1919, Jackie Robinson was born into a family of sharecroppers on a plantation in Cairo, Georgia. Twenty-eight years later, he cemented his place in history as the first African American to compete in Major League Baseball. Happy Birthday ⚾️ #⃣4⃣2⃣!
Without a doubt we will have an episode on the Winter War between Finland and Russia.
Finnish commander Mannerheim gives a rare interview to British visitor Sir Walter Citrine: "I didn't believe it when one division commander reported his men had killed 1000 Russians in 1 night; he replied I could come & count the captured rifles."
Today in 1862: USS Monitor, the first American ironclad warship, is launched. The Civil War Battle of the Ironclads: ow.ly/9YYO30eaz4i
Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler in his youth and only had one recorded defeat. #DidYouKnow #BadassFact
How President William McKinley's assassination led to the modern Secret Service. smithmag.co/GrlCbJ
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