Fantastic Footnotes Podcast

A podcast digging up the weird, wild, and occasionally spooky stories you only find in the footnotes of history. fantasticfootnotes.substack.com

Fantastic Footnotes Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 23 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  The Greatest Women's Soccer Team You've Never Heard Of

  Jun 2, 202622 minS0

  <p>During WWI, as men left for the front, women stepped up to do all the things that needed to be done on the home front. They took care of the family, worked the farm, built the bombs, and some of them played soccer.</p><p>As men left to go fight the war, many women started working in factories. During breaks, they were encouraged to socialize and even play sports. One popular pastime was soccer. Many munitions factories had teams of women, “Munitionettes”, that would play pick up games at the factory on breaks against other teams of men and...

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  The Note Stack: 5.26.26

  May 26, 202641 minS0

  <p>Housekeeping</p><p>Thank you all so much! We are up to 1.28K downloads on the podcast so thanks to each and every one of you! Also, if you want to give us a little boost, we would love a review, rating, FB Share, restack, etc. Anything to help us get to the top of that algorithm! </p><p>Also, June is WORLD CUP MONTH! My son Ethan is going to be helping me host the next three episodes in June and we are going to talk all about soccer history. Don’t let that scare you off, I pr...

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  The Accident that Nearly Killed Mark Twain

  May 19, 202637 minS0

  <p>In today’s episode we talk about the explosion on board the Steamboat Pennsylvania and its connection to Mark Twain.</p><p>If you are a frequent listener you know I generally go into more detail here, but time got away from us here this week, so I will post a longer article about the Pennsylvania in the next few days. Check out that article because it will have the show notes and sources.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit fa...

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  The Other Brown v. the Other Board - An earlier fight for school desegregation

  May 14, 202618 minS0

  <p>The sleepy little suburb of Merriam, Kansas actually has quite a history. This little suburb of Kansas City has hosted two historic amusement parks (one was George Kessler’s first project), an early Quaker mission, was the site of a plane crash in WWII and a spur of the Santa Fe Trail in the 1800’s, and was on the leading edge in the fight for school desegregation.</p><p>In the early 1860s, David Gee Campbell settled in the area and named the town, now Merriam, Campbellton. Many Shawnee Indians were already settled in the same area, having been give...

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  From the Margins: Glowing Cats and the Atomic Priesthood

  May 12, 202621 minS0

  <p>While perusing my Facebook feed I came across a Bored Panda Article that asked an interesting question. “What are real life instances of still working booby traps that have been set off at historical sites that may have killed or seriously injured archeologists or their workers?” Well, of course, I’m invested now… what a great question!</p><p>I have a limited background in archeology so I didn’t think most of the answers would surprise me, but this one did. User GingerMcGinginII replied as such:</p><p>And that, friends, is where tonights podcast starts.</p><p>So it turn...

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