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Mooning Bats and the Peaceful Pause

By wthpod March 21, 2019
What The History Podcast
What The History Podcast
Mooning Bats and the Peaceful Pause
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In this episode Suzie goes on a lunar adventure and Trevor examines a treaty that was very long in the making.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE GREAT MOON HOAX

Breitman D 2016, ‘Today in science: Great Moon Hoax’ https://earthsky.org/human-world/great-moon-hoax-august-25-1835

History.com 2018, ‘The Great Moon Hoax’ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-moon-hoax

The Museum of Hoaxes 2015, ‘The Great Moon Hoax’ http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_great_moon_hoax

Wills M 2017, ‘How the Sun Conned the World With “The Great Moon Hoax”’ https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-sun-conned-the-world-with-the-moon-hoax/

Zielinski S 2015, ‘The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/great-moon-hoax-was-simply-sign-its-time-180955761/

ATHENS AND SPARTA PEACE TREATY

Peace between Athens and Sparta: an agreement signed only in 1996 – Random Times (4 Dec 2018)

Athens, Sparta sign peace pact – UPI (12 Mar 1996)

Sparta vs. Athens: The War that Lasted 2,500 Years – The Vintage News (29 Aug 2018)

Spartan Battles – Lengends and Chronicles

Peloponnesian War – history.com (29 Oct 2009)

Sparta Versus Athens – Warfare History Network (27 Oct 2018)

The Peloponnesian War – ancientgreece.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

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 – Man on the Moon – REM and Batman TV Show Theme

All music used under fair use provisions.

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