We have a very special guest this week: BFF of the podcast, librarian Melanie Terrill! Though children have known Alice in Wonderland for generations, not many know the story of the man behind the novel or the girl who may have inspired it. Bonus: it's also about math!

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• Lewis Carroll Biography by Sarah Lewis
• In the shadow of the dream child by Sarah Leach
• http://joyofmuseums.com/
• https://www.npr.org/2010/03/13/124632317/the-mad-hatters-secret-ingredient-math
• https://www.npr.org/2010/02/28/124132534/years-beyond-the-rabbit-hole-alice-looks-back
• https://carroll-myth.wild-reality.net/

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If “He Had It Coming” is your favorite song from Chicago, then boy, do we have an episode for you! This week, Sarah shares the eerily similar stories of Giulia Tofana and Baba Anujka, two legendary serial killers separated by centuries who nevertheless shared a goal: killing other women’s abusive husbands.

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• https://mikedashhistory.com/2015/04/06/aqua-tofana-slow-poisoning-and-husband-killing-in-17th-century-italy/
• https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/giulia-tofana-the-italian-serial-poisoner-who-became-a-legend
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHAv3Clhrhg
• https://www.historydefined.net/baba-anujka/

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The Monty Hall Problem is one of the most famous puzzle in probability. But what is less famous is the woman who made it famous on the pages of Parade Magazine.

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• https://www.straightdope.com/21342062/on-let-s-make-a-deal-you-pick-door-1-monty-opens-door-2-no-prize-do-you-stay-with-door-1-or-switch-t
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOQowCeAnRs
• https://teachingmathsscholars.org/newsandevents/themontyhallproblem
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/marilyn-vos-savant

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There have been many times throughout history where crime does in fact pay. Claude Duval saw such an opportunity while serving in the court of King Charles II and, oh boy, did he ever run with it! This week, Sarah tells the story of a gentleman robber who charmed his way onto the very first most wanted list in Restoration England - and into the hearts of the ladies.

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• https://dirtysexyhistory.com/2016/08/21/the-life-and-death-of-claude-duval/
• https://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng31.htm
• https://www.blackheathandgreenwich.com/post/blackheath-claude-duval

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In Episode 69, we dive into the most ambitious experiment of Dr. John Lilly into the communication between humans and dolphins, which was mired by drug abuse, cosmic divinations, sexual scandal but all funded by the US government. But please, your kids can sit this one out.

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Happy Halloween! Sarah aims to scare your socks off this week with a few true tales of terror including the Enfield Monster, the grim magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and an exorcism gone wrong.

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• https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a39179/five-real-life-horror-stories/
• https://www.newspapers.com/article/mt-vernon-register-news/7318965/
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/hotel-del-salto
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/family-exorcism-demon-kenny-ife-enfield-north-london-a8775321.html
• https://medium.com/horrifix/this-familys-dream-home-quickly-turned-into-a-nightmare-e6ae0c4614d5
• https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2106887&itype=CMSID

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Today we explore the complicated legacy of a man whose inventions fed the world and caused a horrific genocide.

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• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvknN89JoWo&t=316s
• https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-the-monster-who-fed-the-world-ec19a9834f74
• https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/immerwahr-clara

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An alleged witch who became a ghost who was involved with an occultist who was hand-picked to replace the devil himself: true stories don’t get more Halloweeny than that of Dublin’s Darkey Kelly.

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• https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/darkey-kelly-brothel-keeper-of-dublin/
• https://archive.org/details/diaboliadapoemd00combgoog/page/n18/mode/2up
• https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/a-widows-memory-episode-65/id1516362673?i=1000540665709
• https://dublin.ie/live/stories/the-hell-fire-club/

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Today we talk about inventions that kill and their well-meaning inventors. Including Franz Reichelt, Alfred Nobel and Thomas Midgley Jr.

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• https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-11416654
• https://www.invent.org/inductees/dean-kamen
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-tailor-eiffel-paris-france-parachute
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Nobel
• https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-will/
• https://interestingengineering.com/culture/thomas-midgley-jr-the-man-who-harmed-the-world-the-most
• https://pic.plover.com/Nevin/Nevin2007.pdf

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This week, Sarah brings a hearty dose of death positivity into October with the help of some actual newspaper articles from the Victorian era. From real life ghost stories to one widow’s zany worst day ever, this episode truly has it all.

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• http://thebabydied.blogspot.com/
• "The Victorian Book of the Dead" by Chris Woodyard

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