February 15, 2015

Notes: Episode 18, The Space Race (Part 2)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 10:48 – Voshkhod 2 flew on March 18, 1965. 13:55 – I couldn’t confirm that any town had actually lost any of their planets – this may be apocryphal, or simply misremembered. There are numerous towns with scale models of the solar system, though, many of which […]

February 1, 2015

Notes: Episode 17, The Space Race (Part 1)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 4:48 – The Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle is the NASA capsule (contracted to Lockheed Martin) that is intended to replace the space shuttle, which has been grounded since 2011, leaving transport of astronauts to the ISS dependant on the Russian Soyuz Launch System. The first unmanned test […]

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January 15, 2015

Notes: Episode 16, The Fall of Constantinople (Part 2)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 2:31 – I’m cagey on timeline here because I couldn’t really remember the official founding date of Rome, which is a little embarrassing. The traditional date is 753 BCE for the founding of the kingdom of Rome, 509 BCE for the transition to the republic, and 27 […]

Notes: Episode 15, The Fall of Constantinople (Part 1)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 6:44 – At the founding of Constantinople, Mediolanum was the administrative capital of the Roman Empire and had been since 286. In 402, The western capital was moved to Ravenna. 12:08 – I downplay the sacking of Rome by the crusaders in 1205 a little bit, […]

Notes: Episode 14, Napoleon (Part 2)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 2:47 – The bicorne didn’t normally fold down – it’s just the practical root of the hat design. It was normally molded and then pinned to stay up. The most distinctive thing Napoleon did for the hat was to wear it so that the two points […]

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December 1, 2014

Notes: Episode 13, Napoleon (Part 1)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 7:51 – I can’t stress enough how poor an overview of the French Revolution is. There are a lot of resources out there which can give you an idea of what happened there, and I would strongly recommend you look for one of those, because after this […]

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November 15, 2014

Notes: Episode 12, The Gunpowder Plot (Part 2)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 7:26 – The Lord Salisbury referred to here was Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury. At this time, he was acting as Secretary of State to James. 23:13 – Holbeche House was owned by Stephen Lyttleton, who was sympathetic to the cause of the plotters. Oddly […]

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November 1, 2014

Notes: Episode 11, The Gunpowder Plot (Part 1)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 3:54 – Off to a wonderful start. The plot was slated to attack parliament in 1605, not 1604. 4:52 – Arthur Tudor, first son of Henry VII, was initially slated to be the next king until his death at the age of 15 from a mysterious disease […]

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October 15, 2014

Notes: Episode 10, The Witch Trials (Part 2)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 7:22 – I did mention this in the notes for part one, but not in the show, so I thought it worth mentioning again: the Waldensians weren’t eradicated during the 12th century purge. The way I spoke about them made it sound like there had been […]

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October 1, 2014

Notes: Episode 9, The Witch Trials (Part 1)

Notes

As with every show, I’ll list any corrections or clarifications here. If there’s anything I’ve overlooked, please contact me by email or in the comments and I’ll edit the notes to reflect the new information. 7:00 – I promised to iterate further on the connections between midwifery and the Sabbat and never really got around to it, even in part two. There were a number of things linking the two: midwifery was considered “hidden” knowledge as celibate male priests had no […]

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