High Tales of History

The comfiest spot in the smoke circle goes to you, Friend! Come on in!

Welcome to episode 8 in which we recorded about 45 minutes of material before realizing only one of us was plugged in and a certain stoner was just testing HER levels and not BOTH. Soooo....anyway...

But we made it. And we're so glad you're here. In this episode, Laurel covers the story of what she always called "Operation: Argo" but is actually called The Canadian Caper which took place while all eyes were on the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the U.S. Embassy in 1979/1980. Afterwards, KT takes us back to feudal Japan with a name that might be familiar in both pop culture and samurai history: Hattori Honzo, also known as Demon Honzo for his ability to stalk adversaries as persistently and stealthily as a demon (and his ruthless nature!)

Puff, Puff, Pass!

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The Socials:

Email -- [email protected]

Instagram -- @hightailinghistory

Facebook -- Hightailing Through History or with user name @hightailinghistory

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Mentioned in the Show:

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (or this link to Indiebound.org for additional independent bookstores!)

Beatrix aka The Bride Meets Hattori Honzo in Kill Bill Vol. 1

~~RIP Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba, who played Hattori Honzo in this scene. Chiba recently passed away due to complications with COVID-19 on August 19th, 2021~~

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Sources:

The Canadian Caper--

Affleck, Ben, director. Argo. Warner Home Video, 2013.

Foot, Richard, and Norman Hillmer. “Canadian Caper.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 29 Oct. 2020, www.britannica.com/event/Canadian-Caper.

History.com Editors. “Iran Hostage Crisis.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 1 June 2010, www.history.com/topics/middle-east/iran-hostage-crisis.

Mendez, Antonio J., and Matt Baglio. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most AUDACIOUS Rescue in History. Penguin Books, 2013.

Hattori Honzo--

“About Hattori HANZŌ: Samurai of the SENGOKU Era; Famous as Ninja Master (N/A - 1596) | Biography, Facts, Career, Wiki, Life.” Google, Google, www.google.com/amp/s/peoplepill.com/amp/people/hattori-hanzo.

Fossett, Wyatt, and Wyatt Fossett (7 Articles Published) . “20 Shocking Facts About Scorpion That Even Die-Hard Fans Don't Know.” TheGamer, 27 Jan. 2018, www.thegamer.com/scorpion-mortal-kombat-interesting-facts/.

“Hattori Hanzō.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Aug. 2021, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattori_Hanz%C5%8D.

Serena, Katie. “'Kill Bill's Hattori Hanzō Was a Real-Life Samurai Legend.” All That's Interesting, All That's Interesting, 3 Sept. 2019, allthatsinteresting.com/hattori-hanzo

Welcome back!

We're one episode away from TEN! As usual, we've got a spot saved for you, however, this time KT insists that it will be her lap...

We start with Laurel's story about Thocmetony, later named Sarah Winnemucca, who was a Northern Paiute educator, author and advocate for her people. She lived a hard life walking between two worlds with critics on both sides. After leaving Western America in the 1800s, KT takes us north to Canada and then to England during World War I where we learn the heartwarming story of the real Winnie the bear, who inspired A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh series! The nostalgia FLOWS!

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Picture Gallery of the Great Basin National Park

Statue of Lt. Colebourn and Winnie (Winnipeg)

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Whose Land Are You On? Learn about the importance of indigenous land acknowledgment at https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/

We would like to acknowledge the following Traditional Custodians of the land that we record in: Peoria, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Myaamia and the Ochethi Sakowin Nations and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

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Sources:

Thocmetony (Sarah Winnemucca)--

“Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 27 July 2016, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sarah-winnemucca-devoted-life-protecting-lives-native-americans-face-expanding-united-states-180959930/.

“Sarah Winnemucca, Whose Paiute Indian Name Is Thocmetony Or Shell Flower, Dies.” World History Project, worldhistoryproject.org/1891/10/14/sarah-winnemucca-whose-paiute-indian-name-is-thocmetony-or-shell-flower-dies.

Scandalous Women, by Elizabeth Kerry McMahon, Pelham McMahon, 2015, pp. 170–179.

Unknown, Unknown. “Menu.” Nevada Women's History Project, www.nevadawomen.org/research-center/biographies-alphabetical/sarah-winnemucca/.

Winnemucca, Sarah. My Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883.

Winnie the Pooh--

“The Real-Life Canadian Story of WINNIE-THE-POOH | Cbc Kids.” CBCnews, CBC/Radio Canada, www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/the-real-life-canadian-story-of-winnie-the-pooh.

“The True Story of the Real-Life Winnie-the-Pooh.” Google, Google, www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/the-true-story-of-the-real-life-winnie-the-pooh.

“Winnie-the-Pooh.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/topic/Winnie-the-Pooh-childrens-stories-by-Milne

Episode 29 Folks! It's here! In it, the sisters sync their mind powers and both do their story on a rebel woman with a legacy in education. KT starts things off with the story of Belle Baruch, daughter of financier Bernard Baruch, who conserved a vast stretch of the American east coast and lived as an openly gay woman in the early 20th century. Next, Laurel tells the tale of Fatima Al-Fihri, who built the world's longest running university in the year 859 CE! Welcome in the Smoke Circle!

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The Life and Times of Frederick the Great Podcast helping Ukraine

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Mentioned in the Stories:

U of SC Baruch Institute Website

Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science at Clemson

Pictures of al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University

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The Socials!

Email -- [email protected]

Instagram -- @hightailinghistory

Facebook -- Hightailing Through History or @hightailinghistory

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Source Materials:

Belle Baruch--

“The Baroness of Hobcaw: Charleston Magazine.”

“Belle W. Baruch.” Wikipedia

“Belle Baruch: Champion of Hobcaw.” Making History Together

Fatima Al-Fihri--

Crowhurst, Anna-Marie. “The True Story of Fatima Al-Fihri, the Founder of the World's First Known University.” Stylist

Humairaa, and Rebecca Mortimer. “Fatima Al-Fihri: Founder of the World's First University.” Manchester University Press

Ilham, Talbi. “Fatima Al-Fihri: Founder of the World's Oldest University: DW, DW.COM

Oti, Iroegbu Chinaemerem. “Meet Fatima Al-Fihri: The Founder of the World's First Library.” Ventures Africa

“Wisstory: Fatima Al-Fihri, Founder of the World's Longest-Standing University.” Women in Science Portland

Hi there! We saved you a spot in the smoke circle! Puff, puff, pass y'all! Otherwise, KT has some "Cab Sav" for you if you're interested.

This week's episode covers a wide span of history starting with Laurel's story of more recent times about the Feather Heist of a scientifically and historically priceless collection of rare birds from the British Natural History Museum. It is WILD so buckle in for the ride. I mean, did you know there is basically a fly fishing underground?! What?

After our great heist adventure, KT takes us further back in the history books and tells us about the great Frederick Douglass, who inspired Black History Month. We also get to meet the amazing women in his life that helped him achieve all the great things he accomplished.

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This episode is a "remastering" and made for video version. Some editing has been done since its original release in July 2021. Apologies for some of the audio issues in this episode, it was from our very early recording days! :-) Thank you for your patience!

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The Socials:

Instagram-- @HighTalesofHistory

TikTok-- @HighTalesof HistoryPod

YouTube-- https://www.youtube.com/@hightalesofhistory

Patreon-- www.patreon.com/HighTalesofHistory

Email -- [email protected]

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Sources:

The Feather Heist--

Cole, Sean. “The Feather Heist.” This American Life, 10 May 2018, www.thisamericanlife.org/654/the-feather-heist.

Johnson, Kirk W. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. Penguin Books, 2019.

Frederick Douglass--

Cheeks, Vanessa, and Rebecca Rafferty. “The Great Women in Frederick Douglass's Life.” FREDERICK DOUGLASS'S ROCHESTER, Roccitynews, 21 Mar. 2018, rocdouglass.com/2018/03/20/the-great-women-in-frederick-douglasss-life/.

Trent, Noelle. “Frederick Douglass.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 5 Apr. 2021, www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass.

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Welcome to episode 42! Laurel kicks things off with a story about a Black woman named Henrietta Lacks, who passed away from an unbelievably aggressive form of cervical cancer. Her legacy runs deep and wide as the same cells that took her life help science and medicine in life-saving and astonishing ways to this day. Unfortunately, as much as we have all been impacted by her legacy, there has been a decades long injustice that still continues to this day. Next, KT gives a nod to the late Queen Elizabeth II with a story of the lineage and centuries long history of the British Royal Family. Her story also loosely connects with her other story "How the Kingdom of England Began" from episode 34.

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The Socials!

Instagram - @HightailingHistory

TikTok- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

Twitter - @HightailingPod

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Source Materials:

Henrietta-

Ahluwalia, Maninder. “Genetic Privacy: We Must Learn from the Story of Henrietta Lacks.” New Scientist, 1 Aug. 2020, www.newscientist.com/article/2250449-genetic-privacy-we-must-learn-from-the-story-of-henrietta-lacks/.

Butanis, Benjamin. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Johns Hopkins Medicine, 12 Apr. 2017, www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henriettalacks/immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks.html.

“Henrietta Lacks: Science Must Right a Historical Wrong.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 1 Sept. 2020, www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z.

Rutsch, Poncie. “Henrietta Lacks.” Babes of Science. 6 March 2017, https://babesofscience.libsyn.com/henrietta-lacks

Skloot, Rebecca. “Henrietta Lacks: How Her Cells Became One of the Most Important Medical Tools in History.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 22 Apr. 2017

White, Tracie, et al. “Listen to the Human Stories, the Henrietta Lacks Family Tells Scientists.” Scope, https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2018/04/24/listen-to-the-human-stories-the-henrietta-lacks-family-tells-scientists/

Zielinski, Sarah. “Henrietta Lacks' 'Immortal' Cells.” Smithsonian.com, Smithsonian Institution, 22 Jan. 2010, www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/henrietta-lacks-immortal-cells-6421299/.

Royal Fam-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1336340/Royal-family-facts-how-did-the-royal-family-start/amp

https://www.google.com/search?q=when+was+the+movie+braveheart+set

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a20736482/british-royal-family-tree/

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/