Six Impossible Episodes: More Listener Requests

Six Impossible Episodes: More Listener Requests

Today’s six impossible episode subjects are all by listener request! Topics include the Iron Mountain baby, Leslie’s Retreat, Lady Hao, Ella Williams, and more. And these are examples of how short tales can sometimes have intense details.

Research:

  • “Tale of The Iron Mountain Baby.” Reprinted from the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway ALL ABOARD Vol.16. https://washington.mogenweb.org/imbaby.html
  • Dotson, Avery M. Pennsboro News, Pennsboro, West Virginia, August 21, 1980. https://washington.mogenweb.org/imbaby.html
  • Nickell, Frank. “Almost Yesterday: The Iron Mountain Baby.” KRCU. 4/6/2021. https://www.krcu.org/2021-04-06/almost-yesterday-the-iron-mountain-baby
  • Max Hunter Folk Song Collection. “Iron Mountain Baby.” Cat. #1483 (MFH #296) - As sung by Laura Arthur, Springfield, Missouri on November 2, 1972. Missouri State. https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1483
  • Historic Ipswich. “Leslie’s Retreat, or how the Revolutionary War almost began in Salem, February 26, 1775.” 2/13/2019. https://historicipswich.org/2019/02/13/leslies-retreat-or-how-the-revolutionary-war-almost-began-in-salem/
  • Endicott, Charles Moses. “Account of Leslie's retreat at the North Bridge in Salem, on Sunday Feb'y 26, 1775.” 1856. https://archive.org/details/accountofleslies00endi/
  • Hoffer, Peter Charles. "Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775." Historical Journal of Massachusetts, vol. 44, no. 2, summer 2016, pp. 176+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A514101835/AONE?u=mlin_oweb&sid=googleScholar&xid=2a54e380. Accessed 11 Nov. 2022.
  • American History Central Staff. “Leslie's Retreat, the Salem Gunpowder Raid and Resistance.” American History Central. March 25, 2022. https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/leslies-retreat-and-the-salem-gunpowder-raid-resistance/
  • Chaffin, Cortney E. “War and Sacrifice: The Tomb of Fu Hao.” Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/imperial-china/shang-dynasty/a/war-and-sacrifice-the-tomb-of-fu-hao
  • Su, Minjie. “Queen, Priestess, General: The Legendary Life of Fu Hao.” Medievalists.net. 12/2018. https://www.medievalists.net/2018/12/queen-priestess-general-the-legendary-life-of-fu-hao/
  • Michigan Shaolin Wugong Temple. “Fu Hao – Earliest Known Woman Warrior in the World.” http://shaolintemplemi.org/fu-hao-earliest-known-woman-warrior-in-the-world.html
  • Elhassan, Khalid. “This Aristocratic Family Turned on its Abusive Patriarch.” History Collection. 11/14/2018. https://historycollection.com/this-aristocratic-family-turned-on-its-abusive-patriarch/
  • Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Beatrice Cenci". Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Sep. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beatrice-Cenci-Italian-noble. Accessed 14 November 2022.
  • Barberini Gallery. “Portrait of Beatrice Cenci.” https://www.barberinicorsini.org/en/opera/portrait-of-beatrice-cenci/
  • Gustin, Melissa L. “‘Corps a corps’: Martyrs, Models, and Myths in Harriet Hosmer's Beatrice Cenci.” Art History. Volume44, Issue4. September 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8365.12589
  • Nicholl, Charles. “Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci.” London Review of Books. 7/2/1998.
  • Leavitt, Dylan Hayley. “The Portrait of Beatrice Cenci.” PBS. 8/8/2016. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/stories/articles/2016/8/8/reni-portrait-beatrice-cenci-story
  • Hampton, Jada. “Ella Williams AKA Abomah the Giantess.” Uncle Junior Project. https://www.unclejrproject.com/ella-williams
  • Devon and Exeter Daily Gazette. “Two Stars.” 14 May 1914. Page 4. https://www.newspapers.com/image/791454377/
  • Sumter Daily Item. “Giant Negress In Columbia.” 4/20/1915. https://www.newspapers.com/image/668656281/
  • "Zinaida Serebriakova." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 2021. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631011104/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=5ed92220. Accessed 14 Nov. 2022.
  • Ermakova, Elizaveta. “Zinaida Serebriakova, First Famous Female Russian Artist.” Daily Art. 10/12/2021. https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/zinaida-serebriakova-russian-artist/
  • Weaver, Katheryn. “Zinaida Serebriakova: An Undersung Painter of the Revolutionary Era.” Museum Studies Abroad. 7/18/2017. https://museumstudiesabroad.org/zinaida-serebriakova/

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