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Episode 133.1 - "They Have In Their Hands The Keys To All Christendom": The Battle of Lepanto, Part I
Beyond the Breakers - April 27, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis is part 1 of 2 in our discussion of the naval battle at Lepanto in 1571. Before we can get to Lepanto itself, there's a good bit of background to set up first. Sources: Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancioğlu. “The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century.” How the West ...
**unlocked** Episode 103.5 - "Stall-fed with ease and gluttony" (Spanish Armada Bonus)
Beyond the Breakers - April 26, 2024 22:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis episode was released as a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode in May 2023 as the conclusion to our Spanish Armada series - now it's been unlocked for everyone in anticipation of our next main episode when we'll be returning to the 16th century and maybe even revisiting some old friends. Sourc...
Laws in old Oregon were rough, not always ready
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“From 1861 to 1876, every man committed to the Oregon State Penitentiary for ‘life’ either escaped or was pardoned,” writes historian and newspaper columnist Erik Bromberg, quoting from the U.S. Federal Writers Project’s “Oregon Oddities” article of 1939-1941. “Some who escaped were recaptured an...
Deadly weather usually catches Oregon by surprise
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsCyclones, tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and volcanoes — the Beaver State is not immune to any of these things, but they're rare enough that no one is expecting them when they appear. (Statewide) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1210b-deadly-weather-usually-catches-oreg...
The short, tragic story of P-town’s municipal whale
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“Ethelbert” the orca somehow ended up stranded miles from the ocean in the Columbia Slough, much to the delight of most Portland residents. But it wasn't long before the city's would-be Nimrods came out and spoiled everything. (Columbia Slough, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see...
CAGcast #792: Falling for Fallout All Over Again
CAGcast - April 24, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe gang talks Fallout TV show, Fallout 4 updates, new releases, the latest news, and so much more!
Bootlegger ‘lobster trap’ a huge but costly success
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsNo one in Tillamook County even suspected the “Lee Film Company” was a front for government Prohibition enforcement until the trap was sprung ... but it has to have been the most expensive law enforcement operation in the county's history. (Tillamook County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see htt...
Solid Stream, Brother (Ep. 116)
The Shipwreck Show - April 23, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHe'll never find out who it was. Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://twi...
Red Raider Baseball with Coach Tadlock 04-22-24
Texas Tech Athletics Podcast - April 23, 2024 00:09 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRed Raider Baseball with Coach Tadlock 04-22-24 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Portland mining engineer who invented fracking (WPA oral-history interview with William Hampton)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 22, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Walker Winslow's oral history interview with William Huntley Hampton, a son of Brigham Young although not a Mormon, who was probably Oregon's second most famous mining engineer around the turn of the Twentieth Century (behind Herbert Hoover). He invented the process of hydraulic fracki...
Brothel owner Carrie Carrie’s sidekicks proved bad at corpse disposal (Part 2 of 2)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsOn the morning of Nov. 25, 1881, two men were walking to work along the North End waterfront when they saw something incongruous in the river, just off the foot of Everett Street ... a pair of feet, sticking straight up into the air. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1990s) (For text and pictures, see...
Bordello madam Carrie Bradley was a real-life Brigid O’Shaughnessy (Part 1 of 2 parts)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life. And arguably, the closest Oregon has ever come to a real-life femme fatale worthy of Hammett’s pen was in early 1880s Portland, in what today is known as the Tenderloin — in the person of a gorgeous, hard-eyed...
Scholarly Albany flyer was the real father of Oregon aviation
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 17, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIn a race with Portland neophile Henry Wemme to be the first owner of an airplane in Oregon, Cornell-educated John Burkhart was two weeks too late; but unlike Wemme, he designed, built and flew his own machine. (Albany, Linn County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/14...
Was Bridge of the Gods real? Almost certainly yes
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 16, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe geographical evidence isn't there; but every nearby Indian community has legends about the river tunneling underground for miles, and roughly similar accounts of the tunnel's collapse. What are the odds? (Near The Dalles, Wasco County; circa 1450 A.D.) (For text and pictures, see https://offb...
The Fallout Episode (Ep. 115)
The Shipwreck Show - April 16, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWar never changes. Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://twitter.com/GoodK...
The maddest man in old Portland (WPA oral-history interview)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 15, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsYoung Charley Imus was the son of the local undertaker, and he and a school friend were tasked with watching over a corpse while an Irish wake was going on, as the wind howled in the shingles on a stormy, spooky night. Imagine the boys' consternation when the 'corpse' ... woke up. Apparently the ...
Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three
Disaster Area - April 14, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsIt's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell sm...
Cressman was Oregon’s real-life Indiana Jones
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIN THE SUMMER of 1981 a little action-adventure movie titled Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, and fans have been speculating ever since on who the character of Indiana Jones might be based on. The most popular speculation — Vanity Fair magazine goes so far as to opine that he is “almost certain...
Episode 132 - True North II
Beyond the Breakers - April 12, 2024 09:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratings[notes to come] Support the Show.
A long-gone gold town’s short but colorful past
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 11, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThis was the town where the Eastern Oregon Gold Rush of '61 got started, and it was a wild and lawless place; town ordinances did prohibit stabbing or shooting people “in public places,” but otherwise the town was mostly wide open. (Auburn, Baker County; 1860s, 1880s) (For text and pictures, see ...
CAGcast #791: Won’t Someone Save the Learning?
CAGcast - April 11, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe gang would rather be watching Fallout, but rally to talk about outrageous DLC prices, the Kids Online Safety Act, and oh so much more!
Ep 268 - The Great Locomotive Chase Pt 2
Ohio Mysteries - April 11, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 268 ratingsIn 1862, 23 Ohio soldiers, led by a Kentucky union spy, stole deep into the south with the intent of stealing a train and using it to destroy telegraph lines, railroad tracks and bridges and cripple the south. They ultimately got caught and nearly half of them hanged, but the survivors were given...
Ship owner’s offer of bonus led directly to shipwreck
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 10, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsOn the bright side, though, the owner of the Desdemona did get to go down in history — or, rather, geography — after the deadly sandbar that took his ship was dubbed Desdemona Sands. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1410c.309.desdem...
How an old banana peel changed Oregon history
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 09, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsUp-and-coming Democrat Oswald West had been sent to Portland on a last-ditch attempt to talk Harry Lane into running for governor. But Lane said no; so West decided to give it a go himself. (Salem, Marion County; 1910) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1907b.os-west-banana-pee...
Garrick and Ernell's Magic The Gathering Problem (Ep. 114)
The Shipwreck Show - April 09, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsF**K YOU MIKE SAWYER Tier 1 Question 00:34:44 - "What card battle games do you like most?" - ShaneIsClassy Tier 2 Question 01:00:24 - "Best tv show theme songs?!" - Garrick??? Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https:/...
Red Raider Baseball with Coach Tadlock 04-08-24
Texas Tech Athletics Podcast - April 09, 2024 00:50 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRed Raider Baseball with Coach Tadlock 04-08-24 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Recollections of an 1880s Astoria salmon fisherman (WPA oral-history interview)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 08, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsFans of shanghaiing-era waterfront culture will not want to miss this WPA oral history, collected in 1938. Retired fisherman Charles deLashmutt recalls stories of gillnet salmon fishermen 'corking' each other, brawling in bars, and buying hooch from the 'whiskey scows' that anchored 30 feet off t...
Ep 268 - The Great Locomotive Chase Pt 1
Ohio Mysteries - April 08, 2024 00:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 268 ratingsIn 1862, 23 Ohio soldiers, led by a Kentucky union spy, stole deep into the south with the intent of stealing a train and using it to destroy telegraph lines, railroad tracks and bridges and cripple the south. They ultimately got caught and nearly half of them hanged, but the survivors were given...
Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two
Disaster Area - April 07, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsIt's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell sm...
Battleship USS Oregon was lost in Pearl Harbor attack — sort of
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 05, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsTIME NEVER WAS on the U.S.S. Oregon’s side. She was launched in 1896, in the middle of a remarkable period of torrid innovation and development in the history of warships, a time when ship designs were only good for about ten years before something better came along. (Portland, Multnomah County; ...
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