Holy fuck. Connaly is the guy that got shot along with JFK in Dallas.

Some Dale Gribble ass Klansman there, but somehow more of a fuckup. As to be expected with the KKK.

Bunkers! Fraud! A guy robbing a bank with a rocket launcher! 

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Sources:
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.htm
https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-albania-became-a-pyramid-scheme/
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/albania/articles/the-pyramid-crisis-in-albania/
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm

Episode 148 - The Time a Pyramid Scheme Caused a Civil War

The non exhaustive story of how the corporate world supported the Nazis as they committed the worst crimes in human history.

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https://timeline.com/fanta-coca-cola-nazi-845ee7e513af
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta-in-nazi-germany-2019-11
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany
Edwin Black. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/6/

Episode 150 - This Genocide is Brought to You by Fanta

A new challenger for the worst commander of all time has entered the arena. 

** corrections**

Gavrilo Princeps is mistakenly called a "Bosnian" during the episode. What we went to say was "Bosnian Serb" and our brain melted mid sentence. 

sources for both episodes:
A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire
Collision Course: Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf, Serbia, and the Politics of Preventive War
https://www.historynet.com/carpathian-catastrophe.htm
http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2019/11/forgotten-campaign-carpathian-winter.html

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Episode 152 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 1: Load Bearing Franz

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Sources:
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/messerschmitt-me-163b-1a-komet/nasm_A19530072000

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-super-scary-legend-nazi-germanys-me-163-rocket-fighters-18494

https://books.google.com/books?id=xiADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA124&dq=popular+science+%22A+two-room+wing%22&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q&f=true

"Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet". Wings of the Luftwaffe

Volmar, Joe (1999). I Learned to Fly for Hitler

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2020/10/the-german-rocket-fighter-that-dissolved-its-pilots-alive/

Episode 169 - The Nazi Rocket Plane That Melted its Pilots

Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire.

Sources for all 3 episodes: 
Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century
The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html
https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090

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Episode 174 - The Spanish American War Part 1: Maybe Don't Remember the Maine

Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. 

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Sources:
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/
https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm
Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail

Folks, it's bad.

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Sources:
 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html
https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29
https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/

Episode 126 - The Horrible Death of President James Garfield

One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud. 

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Sources:
https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html
http://csws.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2000-White-Bill-Transcript.pdf

Episode 127 - The Battle of Athens

A group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history.

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Sources:
Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/

Episode 139 - Operation Red Dog

Rwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War.

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Sources:
https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/
https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html

Episode 140 - Operation Kitona

One the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office. 

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Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured
htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig
https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm

Episode 141 - The Last Stand of the Danzig Mailmen

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