🌟Greens vs. Blues Byzantine Chariot Feud🌟
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Back in the days of the Roman republic, chariot races were a HUGE sport with each of the colored teams having a fanatical and passionate fan base!
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In the eastern portion, the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, two colors—the Greens and the Blues— nearly brought down the emperor when the two ✨deeply divided✨ sides decided to join forces for a common cause
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🍃 Find out all about the Greens and the Blues and make sure to like and follow for more History one hitters like this! Want longer stories? Check out Hightailing Through History on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Samsung, Google or wherever you get your favorite podcasts
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🍃 Today’s history one hitter was a two-parter on Instagram but it’s been combined here for a full video
Episode 42 is out!
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🧫 In this one, Laurel tells KT about the incredible story of Henrietta Lacks and her “immortal” cells, the invaluable legacy she has left behind and the injustice from her unknowing contribution that still is being played out to this day.
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🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts: Apple, Samsung, Google, Spotify or you can follow the link in our bio to take you directly to our episode player!
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Hello from London and the Bank of England 🏴
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I guess we’ll get it right at some point 🤷🏻♀️
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If you love listening to people who can’t figure out the word they mean, but otherwise do ok, give us a listen!
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In our latest episode, KT covers the story of Belle Baruch, conservationist and all-around rebel woman while Laurel takes the story of the life of Fatima al-Fihri, the founder of the world’s longest-running university!
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🎧 Listen on your favorite platform or follow the link in our bio to our episode player!
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Here’s is the follow-up story to the post on the last (documented) widow of a Civil War veteran, Helen Viola Jackson, who passed away at 101 years old in December of TWENTY-TWENTY!! 😳🤯
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💋👄 “do you like….cheeeese?”
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🌟Episode 19 is up now!🌟
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In this episode, the sisters cover the stories of the great legendary Viking warrior, Ragnar Lothbrok and a badass Jewish widow named Judith who took matters into her own hands when her people were threatened by a foreign Kingdom. Her story is often told during Hanukkah through oral tradition since it is nowhere to be found in Jewish holy scriptures. Find out why! The link in our bio takes you directly to our episodes page where you can listen FREE! 🤗
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Or, you can find us wherever you like to get your favorite podcasts!
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🌟On This Day In History!🌟
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The United States Marine Corps was founded in 1775!
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On November 10th, 1775, the Second Continental Congress passed resolution to raise 2 battalions of what were then called the Continental Marines.
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31 year old Philadelphian Samuel Nicholas was made captain.
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At the end of the Revolutionary war, the Continental Marines were disbanded. However, on July 11, 1798, Congress ordered another creation, this time naming it the United States Marine Corps (USMC). This is why you might often see people say that the “real”or “other” birthday is on July 11
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✨Happy Birthday Marine Corps!✨
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✨Baby’s First Reel✨😭
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For accuracy’s sake, the full expansion of the Mongol Empire did not happen under Genghis Khan’s leadership.
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But he did “pave the way” and “put his back into it” to unite most of Mainland Asia under one Great Kahn and allow for further expansion through his sons and grandsons.
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In episode 16 (OUT NOW!), KT tells us of the life of Genghis Khan and his huge impact for the Mongols in the 1200s
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Hop in the car and buckle up, we are going to Wisconsin to pay a visit to our local crypid, The Beast of Bray Road!
🌳Episode 14 is out! 🌳
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In this double listener request episode, KT dives into the history of Halloween and its traditions. Afterwards, Laurel takes us to 19th century America where a vampire scare pervaded rural New England for about 100 years!
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Happy Friday! The weekend is here, spend an hour with us! 🥃🍹🌳😶🌫️ 🫖 ☕️
In episode 10 released last week, KT recounts the story of Nakam, the Jewish Holocaust avengers who targeted former SS officers (…as well as ALL Germans regardless of whether or not they were former Nazis 😮)
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Laurel’s story stays in Germany and takes place in Berlin in the early 1960s after the construction of the Berlin Wall
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In this clip, Laurel recounts a daring rescue attempt of the 3 escape helpers who were JUUUST about to exit their tunnel on the East side and find out they are completely surrounded by Stasi (secret police) 😱
The U.S. government wouldn’t poison its own citizens right? 😳😬
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In episode 7, we’re talking about illicit liquids—quite by accident—and KT tells us about the time during prohibition that the government poisoned ingredients used in alcohol making with the aim of cutting the supply before it was consumed. They got there in time, I’m sure…right KT? The supply was cut in time right?! 😧
💦 This week, KT and Laurel ended up both covering different illicit liquids in history!
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🍁 In Laurel’s story about Canada’s maple syrup “cartel,” we find out just HOW lucrative that delicious, sticky liquid is and how that brought about the greatest heist in Canada’s history…millions of dollars in stolen maple syrup.
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Come for the stories, stay for hearing me struggle with idioms… 🙄
🌟This Day In History!🌟
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The U.S. passed the 19th Amendment, affirming women the right to vote.
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Suffragettes Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) stand with their “Votes for Women” sign in 1908 (photographer unknown via Wikicommons, public domain)
🏹 🐴 The expansion of the Mongol Empire
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For those wanting a visual reference to go along with Khutulun’s tale in episode 6, this gif shows the expansion of the Mongol empire under her great-great-grandfather Genghis Khan.
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At the time of her birth, that is when the map is fully red, showing the HUGE expansion that had happened under Genghis Khan, making the Mongolian Empire at this time the largest contiguous (all together without break) empire in history
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The colorful map shows the time during the story while she was fighting in the 30 year Kaidu-Kublai with her father Kaidu Kahn. The different colors show the division between the Kahns, with Kaidu and Khutulun fighting in the purple region.
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🎥 via Wikipedia: June 2006, modified October 2006
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Source: Image: Mongol_Empire_map.gif (alternative colours)
Based on the freely licenced Image:Genghis khan empire at his death.png using information from maps of the Mongol Empire in atlases and on the web such as [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Made in Photoshop and Painter.
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Author User:Astrokey44, modified by Sting
Episode 5 is now available and we think that an espresso martini is a perfect cocktail companion!
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During The 1904 Olympics marathon, a cocktail of egg whites and strychnine (rat poison!) was used as a stimulant for enhanced athletic performance
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This espresso martini gets its foamy top from the egg white but will give you a pep without the rat poison!
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🍸 Ingredients: ▢ 2 ounces vodka
▢ 1/2 ounce Kahlúa or other coffee liqueur ▢ 1 ounce espresso freshly brewed and COOLED (or cold brew concentrate) ▢ 1/2 ounce simple syrup ▢ Garnish: coffee beans ▢ Optional but really cool: 1/2 pasteurized egg white
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🍸 Method: ▢ First off, determine if you have an espresso machine to make this with. No machine? No problem! Make sure you have cold brew coffee concentrate (it’s stronger!) and 1/2 egg white. The egg white will produce the wonderfully foamy top to the martini and it won’t change the taste at all. Also, if you choose to garnish with coffee beans, you’ll need the foam to float them! ▢ Espresso Machine Version: combine all liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake HARD for 10 seconds, then pour directly into a cocktail glass. (Scrape out foam inside if necessary.) Garnish wtih 3 coffee beans and serve immediately
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▢ Egg White/Non-Machine Version: Combine all liquid ingredients including the egg white into a cocktail shaker WITHOUT ice (this is called a dry shake and it’s important for foam!). Shake HARD for 10 seconds. Add ice and shake for another 5-8 seconds (your hand should get cold). Pour directly into a martini glass, garnish with coffee beans and serve immediately
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Makes 1 drink. Double all ingredients, except for ice, to make 2
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📸: Kike Salazar N via unsplash.com
🇫🇷 🐰 In episode 3, KT tells us about the hilarity that ensues when Napoleon is attacked by a horde of hungry bunnies!
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Maybe fruity tropical drinks aren’t your thing, how about one of Laurel’s favorite go-to cocktails, the French 75?
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Though technically the French 75 is a World War I inspired drink named after the 75mm field gun the French used during the war, perhaps we should call this one 75 French Bunnies? 🤷🏻♀️
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🍾Be careful though! This bubbly and deliciously tart cocktail is stronger than it seems and will knock you on your own cottontail if you’re not careful!
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Ingredients: 1 ounce gin, 1/2 ounce lemon juice, 1/2 ounce simple syrup, 3 ounces champagne or other sparkling wine
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Method: add the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup to a shaker filled with ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a champagne flute. Top up the glass with champagne (may be more or less than 3 ounces). Garnish with a twist of lemon or tiny wedge
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Trailer for our new history podcast! Episode 1 comes out tomorrow!! 🤩
🤩Hightailing Through History’s trailer came out today!
😶🌫️Come join our smoke circle! First episode is this Friday, July 16th!
