Goff's 3 Minute Histories
By Isaac Goff
Goff's 3 Minute HistoriesOct 28, 2021
92 Operation Beluga
91 The Oval Office Coconut
Kennedy, Coconuts, and the Corps.
Sources:
https://www.jfklibrary.org/visit-museum/exhibits/past-exhibits/john-f-kennedy-in-wwii
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-pt-109
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-jfk-kept-coconut-shell-white-house-desk-180964263/
Music:
90 RMS Carmania
The ship that sunk itself.
Sources:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/rms-carmania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905)
Music:
89 The Fatal Flush of U-1206
The most embarrassing bathroom break of WWII.
Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/poop-sank-wwii-german-u-boat
Music:
88 Two Sleeps
87 The Broom Method
NASA: experts at space exploration, zero gravity, and broom combustion.
Sources:
https://www.nasa.gov/content/liquid-hydrogen-the-fuel-of-choice-for-space-exploration
Music:
86 Fruitcake
Hero or Zero? The Holiday Fruitcake.
Sources:
https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/
Music:
85 The Aswang (Halloween Extended Episode)
Things that go bump in the night....
Sources:
https://greydynamics.com/cia-vampires-us-meddling-in-the-philippines/
https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/cia-aswang-war-a00304-a2416-20191019-lfrm
Music: www.purple-planet.com
84 The Fall of Roxburgh
Moooooooo......Attack!!
Sources:
https://weavingthetapestry.tumblr.com/post/89195829575/1314-1-4-the-fall-of-roxburgh
83 Proud Prophet
82 Drive Thrus
81 The Soldier Bear
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Sources:
https://time.com/4731787/wojtek-the-bear-history/
Music:
Vivek Abhishek
80 Baby Mail
If it fits it ships....
Sources:
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/very-special-deliveries
https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-mail-1992142
https://www.redbookmag.com/life/g26258673/facts-about-the-postal-service/
Music:
www.purple-planet.com
79 The Churchill Club
When Hitler pushed into Denmark in 1940 he felt little resistance until a group of teenage boys refused to give in.
Sources: The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Peterson and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
Music: purple-planet.com
78 KMart
The end of an empire...
Sources:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-retail-giant-kmart-down-054545661.html
https://transformco.com/about/kmart/kmart-history
Music: purple-planet.com
77 The Green Jacket
A tradition unlike any other....The Masters.
Sources:
https://www.golfmonthly.com/tour/us-masters/masters-history-records/masters-green-jacket-126753
Music: purple-planet.com
76 Fortune Cookies
Fortune favors the listener.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/fortune-cookies-invented-chinese-japanese
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/chinese-exclusion-act-1882
Music: 'Awake' by @Sappheiros
75 Operation Acoustic Kitty
Secret Agent Cyborg Cats....what could go wrong?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-cias-most-highly-trained-spies-werent-even-human-20149/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
Music: www.purple-planet.com
74 Clue
Who? What? Where?
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/clue-game-origin-wwii
Music: www.purple-planet.com
73 Cocaine Hippos
There is only one place in the world that hippos can be found in the wild outside of Africa.....Pablo Escobar's house.
Sources:
https://insightcrime.org/colombia-organized-crime-news/pablo-escobar/
https://www.nathab.com/blog/six-surprising-facts-about-hippos-africa/
72 Sporks
From turtle spoon to Hollywood icon, the culinary journey of the spork.
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/magazine/who-made-that-spork.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/invented-spork1.htm
Music: www.purple-planet.com
71 The Great Emu War
Sources:
https://nomadsworld.com/great-emu-war/
Music: The Red Soil · Saira Ridley
70 Pheasant Island
France and Spain proving that you can share even 350 years later.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-42817859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Spanish_War_(1635%E2%80%931659)
Music: purple-planet.com
69 The Pepsi Navy
Pepsi would have decidedly won the Cola Wars of the 80s if the battle had gone to sea.
Sources:
Music: purple-planet.com
68 The Battle of Pelusium
Weaponizing cats to capture a kingdom.
Sources:
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/43/the-battle-of-pelusium-a-victory-decided-by-cats/
Music: https://bit.ly/3fgvmOB
67 Project X-Ray
Bats and Napalm....what could go wrong?
Sources:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/01/26/bat-bombs-wwiis-project-x-ray/
https://web.archive.org/web/20080531082803/http://www.afa.org/magazine/1990/1090bat.html
Music: www.purple-planet.com
66 The Wilhelm Scream
The most famous scream in cinema.
Sources:
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-the-wilhelm-scream-sound-effect/
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123785/
Music: purple-planet.com
65 Pack Horse Library Project
It's like the pony express, except the library version.
Sources:
Music: purple-planet.com
64 Vulgar Latin
Latin, the language to get famous after it died.
Sources:
https://www.thoughtco.com/why-late-latin-was-called-vulgar-119475
https://allthatsinteresting.com/height-roman-empire-map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
egreatcoursesdaily.com/language-evolution-one-language-became-five-languages/
https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/2015/02/11/whats-in-a-name/
Music: www.purple-planet.com
63 The Worst Sandwich in NYC
Everyone has an opinion on who has the best sandwich they've ever eaten, but hands down the worst had to be the Raines Sandwich, check out why.......
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/raines-sandwich
Music: www.purple-planet.com
62 The Loyal Wives of Weinsberg
Talk about carrying a marriage on your back....
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Weinsberg
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-wise-wives-of-weinsberg-cce96e3a1d79
https://www.technewsiit.com/hidden-history-loyal-wives-weinsberg
Music: www.purple-planet.com
61 A Spoonful Of Sugar
Mary Poppins and the Polio Vaccine.
Sources:
https://sangamoncountyhistory.org/wp/?p=12744
https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/polio-20th-century-epidemic
Music: www.purple-planet.com
60 The Christmas Pickle
Who needs to put out milk and cookies when you can play hide and seek with the Christmas Pickle.
Sources:
https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/christmaspickle.shtml
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mysterious-christmas-pickle-tradition-hiding-german
Music: www.purple-planet.com
59 SPAM
Cold or hot....SPAM hits the spot.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/food/how-spam-went-canned-necessity-american-icon-180963916/
https://www.eater.com/2014/7/9/6191681/a-brief-history-of-spam-an-american-meat-icon
58 Liberty or Death: George Washington and the Smallpox Vaccine
In 1775, as the American Colonies began their revolt against the British Crown, General Washington's biggest battle would be against disease not redcoats.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war
https://www.history.com/news/the-rise-and-fall-of-smallpox?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-history
Music: www.purple-planet.com
57 War Is For The Birds
56 Cannibal Island
Communism. Chaos. Cannibals
This episode does have some explicit descriptions of cannibalism and may not be suited for all listeners.
Sources:
Music: purple-planet.com
55 Jack O'Lanterns
The Legend of Stingy Jack. Apologies for the nasal factor on this one. Happy Halloween!!
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/history-of-the-jack-o-lantern-irish-origins
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12865/whats-origin-jack-o-lanterns
54 The Map That Saved London
John Snow (not that John Snow) and the cholera map that saved London and changed the way we view pandemics forever.
Sources:
https://www.ranker.com/list/john-snow-cholera-map/genevieve-carlton
https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-history#cholera
53 America's 24 Hour President
Ever want to be President for a day? This guy was.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/the-24-hour-president
Music: purple-planet.com
52 Super Soaker
How a rocket scientist invented a squirt gun that is out of this world.
Sources:
https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/super-soaker
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/28991/wet-and-wild-history-super-soaker
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-super-soaker-180972428/
51 Pop Tarts
Everything you never knew about your favorite toaster accessory.
Sources:
https://www.mashed.com/117295/untold-truth-pop-tarts/
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/pop-tarts-brief-history
https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/nation/6-skills-you-should-master-this-summer
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/best-selling-poptarts-flavors_n_5836520
Music: purple-planet.com
50 Vandalia
All you need to know about West Virginia 1.0.
Sources:
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/857
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/vandalia.html
49 The Statue of Liberty
The wait is over! We're back! And I got the missus to join me on this one for some voice work!
Everything you needed to know about the Lady of the Harbor.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21932675
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus
https://www.history.com/topics/landmarks/statue-of-liberty
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51521/10-statue-of-liberty-facts
Music: purple-planet.com
48 The 1918 Spanish Flu
We've been here before, we will be here again. Let's check out our response last time. Stay safe team.
Sources:
https://www.livescience.com/spanish-flu.html
https://allthatsinteresting.com/1918-flu-pandemic
https://tedium.co/2017/10/16/american-samoa-spanish-flu/
Music: purple-planet.com
47 The Great White Fleet
That one time President Teddy Roosevelt flexed on the world with the U.S. Navy.
Sources:
46 Iowa Caucuses
Election 2020. Whats up with Iowa? All you need to know about the Iowa Caucuses featuring guest Jenn McCallister.
Sources:
45 The Singularity: Rise of the Machines
What if the machines will not only one day take over, but have already begun their revolution? Check it out....
Sources:
https://futurism.com/singularity-explain-it-to-me-like-im-5-years-old
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Technological_singularity_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatality)
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
44. Birthdays
Birthdays are about more than cake and ice cream. Check out the history of birthdays now.
Sources:
https://www.pumpitupparty.com/blog/how-did-the-tradition-of-birthdays-begin/
Music: https://www.purple-planet.com
And my 2nd period World History Class
43 The Pledge of Allegiance
We discussed it every day in school but learned nothing about it. Take a few minutes to hear about the pledge of allegiance.
Sources:
https://www.ushistory.org/DOCUMENTS/pledge.htm