Bubonic Brissie and Tragic Inspiration

In our 50th episode Suzie finds a famous disease in an unexpected place and Trevor looks at a terrible tragedy from the past that inspired something great.  What the history?

Content warning: Murder (11:57 - 12:40) and suicide (12:59 - 13:11)

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND

Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention 2018, ‘History of the Plague’ https://www.cdc.gov/plague/history/index.html

Crockford T
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Dawson C
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Encyclopaedia
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Fraser Coast
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History.com
2019, ‘6 Devastating Plagues’                       https://www.history.com/news/6-devastating-plagues

Queensland
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Rockhampton
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plague in Hawthorne Street, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Queensland, 1900‘                                                            
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CAROLYN WASILEWSKI

Death of Suspect Complicates Probe In Murder of Girl, 14 - The Dispatch Nov 12 1954 (Google News)

Baltimore Police Hunt Girl's Slayer - Reading Eagle Nov 10 1954 (Google News)

Drape Grilled in Murder - The Baltimore Sun Nov 28 1954 (newspapers.com)

Slaying of student remains mystery; Homicide: In 1954, Carolyn Wasilewski stepped out in curlers to meet a girlfriend. She never came back. - The Baltimore Sun Mar 18 2000

Backstory: Cry-Baby and John Waters' Journey to Broadway - Broadway Buzz Apr 3 2008

Unsolved murder of 14-year-old girl remains a mystery after more than 60 years - Life! Death! Prizes! Jun 14 2017

Ten Off-Screen, Off-the-Wall Facts about John Waters - New Orleans Museum of Art Aug 1 2017

Cry-Baby (1990) - imdb.com

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History Never Repeats - Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating - Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees - Cold Chisel (1984)

You're History - Shakespeare's Sister (1989)

Centuries - Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out - Fifty Years - Uncanny X-Men

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