Eleventh Hour Episode

Veteran's Day Parade, 11/11/2016, New York City - Photo by Tim

We pulled our microphones together at the last minute to deliver this Veteran's Day episode of The Bar Stool Historian. 

Topics include:

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• Future generals MacArthur and Patton meet on a World War I battlefield.
• The truly nightmarish story of how hundreds of returning Civil War veterans perished in the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history.
• A tribute to Tim's Uncle Charlie.

Get your tissues for this one.

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World War I memorial at East 67th and 5th Ave, Manhattan - 11/11/2016 - Photo by John

Ep. #4: Blame-O-Meter

SCORING BLAME-WORTHINESS THROUGHOUT HISTORY

Wild accusations and historical libel get hurled around in this installment of Bar Stool Historian!  With the help of the Blame-O-Meter, an advanced piece of technology sent from the future, we assign blame through history.  In doing so we discover:

• How “history’s greatest monster” ruined sweaters
• Why no one can write a proper letter.
• Perfectionists are terrible.
• The dark secret of Ed’s ancestry!

...and much, much more!

STUFF TO GAPE AT

Click for more info and a better look at some of the historical characters covered in this episode.

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STUFF TO READ

• The Guardian (UK): "Robespierre was 'riddled with maladies' at time of his execution"
• Smithsonian Channel: "King Tut's Final Mystery"
• The Telegraph (UK): "Scientists recreate (less ugly) face of Dante"

STUFF TO DRINK

Ravaged by Vikings

Arrogant Bastard Ale