It’s the catch-up episode!!! Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to days 200-203. This time we examine the days December 21, 1988 as Pan Am Flight 103 Explodes over Scotland, December 28, 2014 as the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire, January 1, 1903 as Topsy the Elephant is electrocuted, and January 11, 1787 as William Herschel discovers Uranus’ moons Oberon and Titania. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://www.britannica.com/event/Pan-Am-flight-103 https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/remembering-pan-am-flight-103-30-years-later-121418 https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/europe/lockerbie-bombing-explainer-intl/index.html  https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/today-in-history-pan-am-flight-103-lockerbie https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Ropax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Norman_Atlantic https://maritimecyprus.com/2017/12/30/flashback-in-maritime-history-norman-atlantic-ferry-fire-on-28-dec-2014/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norman-atlantic-fire-4-more-maritime-officials-investigated-over-ferry-fire-1.2888243 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/01/the-deadly-fire-aboard-the-ferry-norman-atlantic/100882/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/topsy-the-elephant https://www.grunge.com/770226/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-the-elephant/ https://medium.com/the-curiosity/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-an-executed-circus-elephant-83d36deee99c https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/topsy-elephant-was-victim-her-captors-not-really-thomas-edison-180961611/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant) https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/oberon-midsummer-nights-dream/ https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/titania-midsummer-nights-dream/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/oberon/in-depth/ https://www.celebrateandlearn.com/?p=1851 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01352-uranus-largest-moon-oberon https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/oberon-uranus-moon/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01978-uranus-moon-titania https://space-facts.com/moons/titania/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/titania/in-depth/ https://www.universetoday.com/56048/titania/    - Photo:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topsy_elephant_electrocution_Luna_Park,_Coney_Island_January_1903.png

Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 988 or 1-800-273-8255 Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) Veterans Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, Press 1   Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 198/199. This time we examine the days December 7th, and December 14-and the years 1946 as the Winecoff Hotel Fire starts and 2012 as there is a school shooting at Sandy Hook.. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winecoff_Hotel_fire https://library.massasoit.edu/americanfires/winecoff https://www.firehouse.com/home/news/10568390/the-winecoff-fire-our-nations-deadliest-hotel-fire https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/atlanta-winecoff-hotel-fire-75-years-later-still-deadliest-us-hotel-blaze-in-history http://southernghoststories.com/georgia-ghost-stories-the-winecoff-hotel https://time.com/5168272/how-many-school-shootings/ https://news.yahoo.com/got-grow-little-brothers-never-231138580.html?guccounter=1 https://news.yahoo.com/got-grow-little-brothers-never-231138580.html?guccounter=1 https://www.britannica.com/event/Sandy-Hook-Elementary-School-shooting https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gunman-kills-students-and-adults-at-newtown-connecticut-elementary-school  - Photo:  By Eoghanacht - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3122935

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 197. This time we examine the year 1936 as London's Crystal Palace Burns Down.. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Knowhere https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/london-fire-brigade-history-and-stories/fires-and-incidents-that-changed-history/the-crystal-palace-fire/ https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/fire-destroys-crystal-palace https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/737044/Crystal-Palace-fire-1936 https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/the-crystal-palace-was-constructed-of-iron-and-glass-so-how-and-why-did-it-burn-down/ https://londonist.com/2015/11/crystalpalace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Crystal_Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton https://www.britannica.com/topic/Crystal-Palace-building-London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Fountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace  - Photo:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Exhibition#/media/File:Crystal_Palace_-_Queen_Victoria_opens_the_Great_Exhibition.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 196. This time we examine the years 1936 as Robert Johnson begins his recording sessions in San Antonio, and 1942 as Poon Lim begins his 133 days lost at sea. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2016/11/18/today-in-music-history-robert-johnsons-first-recording-session https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson-American-musician https://www.biography.com/musician/robert-johnson https://www.inaraft.com/blog/a-remarkable-story-of-survival-at-sea-poon-lim/ https://www.historydefined.net/poon-lim/ https://www.ststworld.com/poon-lim/ https://www.grunge.com/587076/the-unbelievable-story-behind-a-man-who-was-lost-at-sea-for-133-days/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Doctor_Who  - Photo:  By Copyright © 1989 Delta Haze Corporation.[2]The photograph was taken in 1936 by the Hooks Brothers Photographers studio, owned by Henry and Robert Hooks, located on Beale Street in Memphis.[3] In 1974, Johnson's half-sister Carrie Thompson entered a copyright transfer agreement with Stephen LaVere in which she represented herself as Johnson's sole and closest heir.[4] She agreed to transfer to LaVere "[a]ll of her right, title and interests, including all common law and statutory copyrights, in and to ... a photograph of Robert L. Johnson taken by Hooks Brothers Photography in Memphis, Tennessee, and showing Johnson in a sitting position with a guitar running diagonally across his body ..."[5]The photo was first published in 1989 in the journal 78 Quarterly (Vol. 1, No. 4) with LaVere's permission.[6] It was most notably featured as the cover artwork for the 1990 release of The Complete Recordings, distributed by Columbia Records under license from LaVere.[7] In a series of subsequent court decisions, the Mississippi court system identified Claud Johnson of Crystal Springs, Mississippi as Robert Johnson's sole heir and determined that he was entitled to royalties from LaVere's 1974 contract. Claud Johnson died on June 30, 2015;[8] upon his death, the interest passed to his heirs, including Michael Johnson.[9], Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12948079

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 195. This time we examine the year 1532 as Francisco Pizarro traps the Incan ruler Atahualpa, and massacres 5,000 Incan soldiers. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Pizarro https://www.worldhistory.org/Inca_Civilization/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa https://www.worldhistory.org/timeline/Francisco_Pizarro/ https://www.pdjnews.com/lifestyle/francisco-pizarro-traps-incan-emperor-atahualpa https://www.calendarz.com/on-this-day/november/16/francisco-pizarro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Despoilers_of_the_Golden_Empire  - Photo:  By Anonymous - Berlin/Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany / Art Resource, NY, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=73333774

Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 988 or 1-800-273-8255 Trans Lifeline 1-877-565-8860 (for the transgender community) TrevorLifeline 1-866-488-7386 (for LGBTQ youth) Veterans Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255, Press 1   Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 194. This time we examine the year 1938 as the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass starts the Holocaust. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/2022/november-9-in-pop-culture-history/ https://www.britannica.com/event/Kristallnacht https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernst-vom-Rath https://www.history.com/news/kristallnacht-started-when-this-diplomat-was-murdered-in-cold-blood https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/18/herschel-grynszpan-photo-mystery-jewish-assassin-kristallnacht-pogrom https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fUGaQUDTQ8  - Photo:  By Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1970-083-42 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5418870

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 193. This time we examine the year 1947 as the H-4 Hercules, the “Spruce Goose”, makes its first and final flight.  - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-J-Kaiser https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes/Later-years https://allthatsinteresting.com/spruce-goose https://naturespackaging.org/innovations-in-wood-the-story-of-the-spruce-goose/ https://simpleflying.com/spruce-goose/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules https://www.thetravel.com/spruce-goose-airplane-what-is-it/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/spruce-goose-flies https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-spruce-goose-mcminnville-oregon https://nci.edu/2021/09/06/the-history-of-the-spruce-goose/ https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/exhibit/the-spruce-goose/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Corporation  - Photo:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules#/media/File:H-4_Hercules_2.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 192. This time we examine the year 1881 as the Earp family with Doc Holliday confront the Clanton and McLaury brothers for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.  - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://www.onthisday.com/people/william-t-anderson https://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1492/october_26_1492_33026.html https://www.facebook.com/whumradio/posts/on-this-date-in-1492-lead-pencils-first-used-lead-pencils-do-not-actually-contai/10151983382144548/ https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-lead-pencil-in-1492?share=1 https://www.onthisday.com/articles/the-gunfight-at-ok-corral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shootout-at-the-ok-corral https://www.grunge.com/169885/the-messed-up-truth-of-the-gunfight-at-the-o-k-corral/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise_County_Cowboys https://www.legendsofamerica.com/clanton-gang/ https://www.legendsofamerica.com/virgil-earp/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wyatt-Earp https://www.grunge.com/269125/the-truth-about-the-forgotten-earp-brother-warren/ https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/virgil-earp-43514.php https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/morgan-earp-35219.php https://www.britannica.com/biography/Doc-Holliday https://www.ok-corral.com/pages/history.shtml  - Photo:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral#/media/File:VirgilEarp.jpg

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 191. This time we examine the year 1957 as the killer Michael Myers is born.  - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Myers https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Myers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Halloween) https://halloweenmovie.fandom.com/wiki/Laurie_Strode https://popculturemadness.com/PCM/2022/october-19-in-pop-culture-history/  - Photo:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MichaelMyers2018.jpg -photo by Ryan Green

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 190. This time we examine the year 1810 as the first Oktoberfest is held.  - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz  -  iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084  Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://www.britannica.com/topic/governor-general https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/king-ludwig-i-of-bavaria/ https://www.unofficialroyalty.com/therese-of-saxe-hildburghausen-queen-of-bavaria/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oktoberfest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktoberfest  - Photo:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_I_of_Bavaria#/media/File:Joseph_Karl_Stieler_-_King_Ludwig_I_in_his_Coronation_Robes_-_WGA21796.jpg