High Tales of History

We've got a megasode for episode 10 with some big, roller coaster stories for you and guess what? They are both in the same country and nearly the same time as well! First KT covers the vigilante story of a group of Holocaust survivors called Nakam, who exacted revenge against the Nazis and their helpers after WWII. Next, Laurel has quite the long, cinematic story of the first major escape from East Berlin with Tunnel 29. As of the release of this episode, the Tunnel 29 escape happened this past week (September 14th) 59 years ago in history! Well.....We were going to wait until episode 50 to get KT high but turns out Laurel accidentally got her contact high...oops. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Mentioned in the Episode: Inglourious Basterds Movie Tunnel 29 podcast from Helena Merriman Tunnel 29 Book *~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Sources: Nakam-- Heller, Aron. “Jewish Avengers Unapologetic for Targeting Nazis after WWII.” AP NEWS, Associated Press, 31 Aug. 2016, apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1. “The Jewish AVENGERS Who Survived the Death Camps and Tracked down Their Tormentors.” Google, Google, www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war. “Joseph Harmatz, Part of JEWISH 'Avengers', Dead at 91.” Google, Google, www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-obit-jewish-avenger-joseph-harmatz-20160926-story.html%3foutputType=amp. “Member of a Jewish Holocaust 'REVENGE Squad' Tells Story.” The World from PRX, www.pri.org/stories/2013-05-03/member-jewish-holocaust-revenge-squad-tells-story Tunnel 29-- Berlin.de Editors. “The Construction of the Berlin Wall.” Link Führt Zur Startseite Von Berlin.de, 16 July 2021, www.berlin.de/mauer/en/history/construction-of-the-berlin-wall/. Merriman, Helena. “Intrigue, Tunnel 29.” BBC Radio 4, BBC, 2019, www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009jkb. Merriman, Helena. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape beneath the Berlin Wall. Public Affairs, 2021.

Welcome to Episode 18!

In this week's episode, KT kicks it off with a story about Tecumseh, who was a Chief for the Shawnee tribe that fought against white expansion onto Indigenous lands in what is present day United States. A fierce warrior with both weapon and word, Tecumseh was celebrated as a leader who was able to bring tribes together for a common goal. Afterwards, Laurel has a story for all the horse girls (and other horse lovers) out there! During World War II, the Nazis had hoarded all the most precious horses from around Europe, chiefly the Lippizaner breed from Austria, in a breeding experiment to try to create the perfect horse. As the Third Reich crumbled and Soviet forces moved in, the horses were in danger of being killed and eaten. In an effort to save these horses, both Germans and Americans had to team up to save them in what was known as Operation Cowboy. *~*~*~*~*~*~ Mentioned in the Stories: The Spanish Riding School in Vienna Valegro's Farewell Dressage Performance *~*~*~*~*~*~ The Socials! Email -- [email protected] Instagram -- @hightailinghistory Facebook -- Hightailing Through History or with user name @hightailinghistory *~*~*~*~*~*~ Source Materials: Tecumseh-- “The Earthquake America Forgot.” Google Books, Google, https://books.google.com/books?id=v-bfoPtOnW4C&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=how%2Bto%2Bpronounce%2Bpuckeshinwa&source=bl&ots=vmW08ikKiX&sig=ACfU3U2Pbo_1nd45mH5-e6zrMWi3kbUI_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiaoPXH4J30AhUPCZ0JHWXeCcgQ6AF6BAgjEAI#v=onepage&q=how%20to%20pronounce%20puckeshinwa&f=false. History.com Editors. “Tecumseh.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/tecumseh. “Tecumseh.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Nov. 2021, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh Operation Cowboy-- Davis, Susan. “Operation Cowboy in 1945 a Group of U.S. Soldiers Liberated 375 Lipizzans from Nazi Captivity - Sports Illustrated Vault.” SI.com, Sports Illustrated Vault | SI.com, 16 Oct. 1995, https://vault.si.com/vault/1995/10/16/operation-cowboy-in-1945-a-group- of-us-soldiers-liberated-375-lipizzans-from-nazi-captivity. Jensen, Karen. “How General Patton and Some Unlikely Allies Saved the Prized Lipizzaner Stallions.” HistoryNet, HistoryNet, Nov. 2009, https://www.historynet.com/patton-rescues-the-lipizzaner-stallions.htm. Letts, Elizabeth. The Perfect Horse: The Daring Mission to Rescue Priceless Stallions from the Nazis. ReadHowYouWant, 2017.

Welcome to Episode 68! We are joined by returning guest Aaron Odom, host of Euripides Eumenides: a Theater History Pod! We have such a great time in the Smoke Circle together (as we always do!) talking about the tangled web of royal family members during the course of WWI--and tangled it is! Next, the sisters tag team a brief history of the jester around the world. From Native American tribes to its ancient history in China, the jester was used for entertainment but also as an unofficial advisor and symbol for the commoner in the monarch's court.

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Check out Euripides Eumenides!

Podcast

Instagram-- @Euripides, Eumenides

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Mentioned In the Stories:

Episode 41 with Aaron talking about Entertainment in Ancient Rome and Wrestling as Theater and Sport

Picture of Queen Victoria's Family Tree (just the portion relevant to episode)

Tsar Nicholas II and King George V together

Visuals from Met Museum of Jester stick

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The Socials!

Instagram⁠ - @HightailingHistory

TikTok⁠- @HightailingHistoryPod

Facebook⁠ -Hightailing Through History or @HightailingHistory

⁠Twitter⁠ - @HightailingPod

YouTube- Hightailing Through History

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Source Materials:

History of the Jester--

Fools and Jesters at the English Court by John Southworth

www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2019/1/13/medieval-jesters-and-their-parallels-in-modern-america#:~:text=Jesters%20are%20comparable%20to%20today's,Jester%20of%20the%20feudalistic%20courts

https://allthatsinteresting.com/triboulet

https://thecurator.org/2021/02/02/the-jester-shakespeares-jesters/

https://www.jesterplanet.com/jester/around-the-world/

https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/640914.html

https://www.samwoolfe.com/2022/12/ancient-origins-jester.html

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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/

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

Surprise! Welcome to our first ever Half Baked Episode, our version of a minisode! We wanted to get some extra history in this week because not only is it Black History Month, but the day of this episode's release, February 11th, is Women and Girls in Science Day. In this episode, Laurel talks about Katherine Johnson, who was one of the first Black women to work at NASA. She worked there for 33 years as a mathematician and was a master of very complex calculations that directly allowed for manned spacecrafts, the lunar landing and for the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew. Join Laurel in the smoke circle as we learn about the amazing Katherine Johnson!

What does "STEM" mean? STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It's a section of education and industry of which women only make up roughly 28%. It's far less when you get into individual fields, such as computer science in which women are only 19% of the workforce (source: American Association of University Women.) Jobs in these fields are some of the fastest growing and highest paid.

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The Socials!

Email -- [email protected]

Instagram -- @hightailinghistory

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

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Resources to help support women and girls in STEM--

https://www.teachthought.com/technology/40-important-stem-resources-for-women/

https://edventures.com/blogs/stempower/10-resources-to-help-you-empower-girls-in-stem

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Source Materials--

Fox, Margalit. “Katherine Johnson Dies at 101; Mathematician Broke Barriers at NASA.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/katherine-johnson-dead.html.

Gates, Henry Louis, and Robert F Smith. “Black History In Two Minutes ‘Katherine Johnson.’” Season 3, episode 31, 27 Mar. 2020.

Episode for the podcast, Black History In Two Minutes (or so) originally was released on March 27, 2020.

JOHNSON, KATHERINE. REACHING FOR THE MOON: the Autobiography of Nasa Mathematician Katherine Johnson. ATHENEUM CHILDREN'S Books, 2020.

Lewis, Russell. “Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician And An Inspiration For 'Hidden Figures,' Dies.” NPR, NPR, 24 Feb. 2020, www.npr.org/2020/02/24/517784975/katherine-johnson-nasa-mathematician-and-an-inspiration-for-hidden-figures-dies.

Stauss, Joanna. “Katherine Johnson: Pioneering NASA Mathematician.” Space.com, Space, 27 Feb. 2020, www.space.com/katherine-johnson.html.

Wild, Flint. “Who Was Katherine Johnson?” NASA, NASA, 30 Dec. 2016, www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-k4.

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