Episode 58: Were the Amazons Real?
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Episode 57: History’s Greatest Escape
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Episode 55: Great Arabic Libraries
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Episode 56: What’s the History of Timbuktu?
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Episode 54: What’s the History of Malta?
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Episodes 51, 52, 53: Ra Ra Rasputin
Rasputin’s alleged dick (NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK)
Majestic x Boney M Rasputin music video, featuring Bimini Bon Boulash
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Episode 50: The History of Clothing That Was Forbidden (and underwear)
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Episode 49: The History of Birth Control
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Episode 48: History’s Greatest Poisonings
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Episode 47: The History of Pets
Erika Fudge. Pets. 2008.
Katherine C. Greer. Pets in America: A History.
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Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul, James A. Serpell. Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets. 2000.
Amy Nelson ‘Bringing the Beast Back In: The Rehabilitation of Pet Keeping in Soviet Russia
Companion Animals’ in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures. 2016.
The Domestication of Cats: The History of the Only Domesticated Felidae Species and Their Relationship with Humans. 2020.
Gavin Ehringer. Leaving the wild: the unnatural history of dogs, cats, cows, and horses. 2017.
Donald Engels. Classical Cats: The Rise and FAll of the Sacred Cat. 2001.
Maria Garb. Egyptian cats, Anatolian cats and Vikings: Separating evidence from fiction about the cat domestication. https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/
Carlos A. Driscoll, David W. Macdonald, and Stephen J. O'Brien. From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_1/9971#sec-3
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Carolin Johansson. The Origin of the Egyptian Domestic Cat. Uppsala Univerity. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:560231/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Heidi G. Parker, Dayna L. Dreger, Maud Rimbault, Brian W. Davis, Alexandra B. Mullen, Gretchen Carpintero-Ramirez, Elaine A. Ostrander. Genomic Analyses Reveal the Influence of Geographic Origin, Migration, and Hybridization on Modern Dog Breed Development. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(17)30456-4