To be faire even modern planes use some amunt of glue in their construction. Not woodglue luckily but still enough to make you uncomfrtable when you remember it while in the air

The Lockheed F-104 Lawndart...err...Starfighter.

the Empire of Japan built the largest battleship the world had ever seen and then decided to use it in the dumbest way possible. 

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Sources:
Russel Spurr. A Glorious Way to Die

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/last-nf.html

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yamato-was-hell-sink%E2%80%94and-it-went-out-bang-nuclear-blast-192257

Episode 237 - The Dumb Life and Dumber Death of the Battleship Yamato

The horrible conclusion to King Philip’s War

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Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin
James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England
Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War

Episode 240 - King Philip's War Part 3: The Hungry March

Tom O'Mahony (@gotitatguineys)Host of the Beneath The Skin Podcast takes Joe on a trip through The Troubles of Northern Ireland. 

Part 1/4

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Episode 243 - The Troubles Part 1

Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles.  In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more! 

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Episode 244 - The Troubles Part 2

Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth.

Correction:

The Gloster Meteor was a jet that also saw limited action in WWll

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Sources:
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.html
http://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.html
https://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of-world-war-ii
https://www.hotcars.com/the-me-262-the-fighter-that-could-have-changed-world-war-2/
Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes.

Episode 247 - The Wooden Nazi Jet Made for Kids

Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men. 

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sources:
https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witches
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots

Episode 248 - The Night Witches of WWII

Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic. 

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114

https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=en

https://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.html

https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7

CORRECTION:
Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles Taylor, but not Charles Taylor himself.

Episode 249 - How the US Almost Annexed the Dominican Republic

The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3

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Episode 251 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 2: A Wild T Rex Appears

The conclusion to the Battle of Tannenberg series

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Episode 252 - The Battle of Tannenberg Part 3: The Not So Battle of Tannenberg

Joe, Tom, and Nate talk about the time that Crusaders forgot that humans need water to live. 

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Sources:
Nicholson, R. L.  Joscelyn III and the Fall of the Crusader States

Phillips, Jonathan (2002), The Crusades 1095–1187

Lacey, James. Crushed at the Horns of Hattin

Episode 253: The Battle of Hattin

A sex worker turned pirate queen builds a more powerful navy than the entire navy of China.

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Murray, Dian H. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ching-shih-chinese-female-pirate

Episode 254 - Zheng Yi Sao, The Pirate Queen of China

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