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Episode 151. Emileigh and Morgan detail the unbelievable story of how an argument over one 5 cent slice of watermelon started a riot and changed the politics in Panama for the following 100 years. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources

Episode 150. For hundreds of years, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were a mystery. The ability to read them had been lost to time, and scholars wondered if their secrets would ever be revealed. In 1799, a stone was recovered the town of el Rashid, also known as Rosetta. This stone had three styles of text carved into its face: hieroglyphs, Demotic, and ancient Greek. With time, consistency, and perseverance, the symbols were finally translated; Egyptology finally became an area of official study. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Translation of the Rosetta Stone” from The Nile, Notes for Travellers in Egypt by E.A. Walis Budge (1905). 9th Edition, London, Thos. Cook and Son. pp 199-211. https://sacred-texts.com/egy/trs/trs07.htm “Everything you ever wanted to know about the Rosetta Stone” (Jul 14 2017, updated Dec 18 2025) https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-rosetta-stone “What Is the Rosetta Stone?” by Elizabeth Nix (Apr 1 2015, updated Mar 2 2025) https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone “Two Hundred Years Ago, the Rosetta Stone Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Egypt” by Meilan Solly (Sept 27 2022) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rosetta-stone-hieroglyphs-champollion-decipherment-egypt-180980834/ “The Rosetta Stone” by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker https://smarthistory.org/the-rosetta-stone/ “The Rosetta Stone: Unlocking the Ancient Egyptian Language” by Roy Scalf https://arce.org/resource/rosetta-stone-unlocking-ancient-egyptian-language/ “Ptolemy V Epiphanes” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-V-Epiphanes “Thomas Young, The Last Man Who Knew Everything” https://steven-shepard.com/2025/01/22/thomas-young-the-last-man-who-knew-everything/ “Jean-François Champollion (1790-1832)” https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/champollion_jean.shtml “Egyptian Campaign” https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/egyptian-campaign Sound Credits: Paper handling.wav by sethlind -- https://freesound.org/s/265020/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Running_wood.wav by taure -- https://freesound.org/s/363470/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Run & Fall - Wooden surface by Vrymaa -- https://freesound.org/s/810885/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Music by Tomomi Kato from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/modern-classical-baroque-style-423524/

Episode 149. Emileigh and Morgan dive into the wonderful, wild, and dramatic world of Jacques Cousteau. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/jacques-cousteau--3 https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/jacques-cousteau https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-e0405c04-fab6-497c-9482-63d08deeb881?distributionPartner=google https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/cousteau-suit-names-son-3130709.php

Episode 148. Carter Woodson's passion was education and history, especially Black history. He made it his mission to document and educate others on Black history, and even dedicated an entire week to just the study of it; this would eventually go on to be Black History Month. Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss the man behind the month. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Carter G. Woodson” by biography.com editors (updated Feb 3 2025) https://www.biography.com/scholars-educators/carter-g-woodson “Carter G. Woodson” https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/legacy-of-leadership/carter-g-woodson/ “Carter G. Woodson” https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/carter-g-woodson “Carter G. Woodson: The Early Years, 1875 - 1903” by Burnis R. Morris https://asalh.org/about-us/carter-g-woodson-the-early-years-1875-1903/ “A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise” by Meilan Solly (Feb 10 2026) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/a-white-historian-claimed-that-black-people-had-no-history-this-trailblazing-scholar-dedicated-his-life-to-proving-otherwise-180988144/ “Carter G. Woodson - African American Trailblazers” by the Library of Va channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBEjJH1j5U&t=137s “10 Things about Dr. Carter G. Woodson - Father of Black History Month” by the Black Excellence Excellist channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2-qjMiTQqw Sound Credits: Music by SHIOU-SHIEN YEH from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/chamber-music-the-pupa-cello-and-violin-417376/

Episode 147. For this week's Black History Month episode, Emileigh and Morgan honor the amazing life of Harriet Tubman and the complexity of the Underground Railroad. Her good deeds weren't limited to the Underground Railroad and she spent her entire life helping those around her. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.history.com/articles/underground-railroad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXGK2wi5oM https://www.biography.com/activists/harriet-tubman-timeline-facts https://azpbs.org/2022/09/harriet-tubman-visions-of-freedom/

Episode 146. Morgan and Emileigh dive into the life of one of America's most famous scientists, George Washington Carver. He is most well known for his work with peanuts, but he did much more for the benefit of southern farmers and people around the world. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “George Washington Carver” by History.com Editors (Oct 27 2009, updated Jan 23 2026) https://www.history.com/articles/george-washington-carver “George Washington Carver, The Black History Monthiest of Them All” by Gene Demby (Feb 11 2014) https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/02/11/275330069/george-washington-carver-the-black-history-monthiest-of-them-all “George Washington Carver” https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/george-washington-carver/ “George Washington Carver” https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/carver.html “George Washington Carver” https://historicmissourians.shsmo.org/george-washington-carver/ “Innovative Iowans: Etta Budd” (Feb 2023) https://history.iowa.gov/media/122/download?inline “A Brief History of Peanut Butter” by Kate Wheeling (Jan 2021) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-peanut-butter-180976525/ Sound Credits: Music by soundoffreedom from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-film-ambient-atmosphere-413097/

Episode 145. Emileigh and Morgan honor the life and Legacy of the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rosa-parks https://eji.org/news/history-racial-injustice-jim-crow-laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._D._Nixon https://www.history.com/articles/rosa-parks https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/rosa-parks https://blogs.loc.gov/families/2021/02/young-rosa-parks/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVybKqkPWuI

Episode 144. For thousands of years, the art of the visual medium has entertained audiences. But is sight and sound enough? What if you could smell the story, too? Hans Laube developed a system for incorporating smell into film in the 1930s, and worked to get his invention into theaters. Morgan and Emileigh explore the history of smell and other senses into film, and the highs and lows of each. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources Stupid History: A Collection of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Through the Ages by Leland Gregory, 2019. Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC. Kansas City. “Hollywood And Its Efforts to Introduce the Wacky World of Smell-O-Vision” by Gilles Messier (Apr 3 2023) https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2023/04/hollywood-and-its-efforts-to-introduce-the-wacky-world-of-smell-o-vision-2/ “The Idea of Smell-O-Vision Has Been Around for Over a Century. AI May Finally Make It Work” by Michael Wolf (Aug 20 2024) https://thespoon.tech/the-idea-of-smell-o-vision-has-been-around-for-over-a-century-ai-may-finally-make-it-work/ “Smell-O-Vision: The Curious Case of Cinema’s Forgotten Sense” by Kate Holtz (Aug 7 2025) https://www.massiveactionmedia.com/post/history-of-smell-o-vision “The Story of the Smell-O-Vision Wars” https://hyscent.com/the-story-of-the-smell-o-vision-wars/ https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/SPEC/belknap/exhibit2002/smell.htm “A Brief History about Hans Laube” by Carmen Laube (Jan 01 2016; updated Dec 21 2025) https://www.in70mm.com/presents/1960_smell_o_vision/library/hans_laube/index.htm “In Glorious Smell-O-Vision! scented documentary” https://scentedstorytelling.com/2020/10/01/in-glorious-smell-o-vision-the-true-story-of-the-godfather-of-scented-cinema/ “Smell-o-vision screens let you really smell the coffee” by Hal Hodson (Mar 26 2013) https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729105-900-smell-o-vision-screens-let-you-really-smell-the-coffee/ “Best ever April Fools’ pranks” (Mar 30 2007) https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/best-ever-april-fools-pranks-2mcmmb8hlwn “Smell O vision 2026” (Jan 3 2026) https://olorama.com/smell-o-vision/ Sound Credits: Music by Julius H. from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/marching-band-cheerful-march-happy-march-music-292405/

Episode 143. Emileigh and Morgan dive into the underbelly of London in the late 1800s to explore the world of the city's most notorious all woman gang. The Forty Elephants were terrorizing shop owners, the police, and the citizens with crimes and violence for decades. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a79K0MpXxFY https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/forty-elephants-south-londons-supreme-shoplifters/ https://sagasofshe.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/the-forty-elephants/#:~:text=She%20also%20created%20the%20Hoister's,a%20percentage%20of%20their%20takings. https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/forty-elephants-gang-who-real-mary-carr/ https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/40-elephants/28301/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_Elephants#Leadership

The story of Madam CJ Walker is a true rags-to-riches tale. Sarah Breedlove was born on a cotton plantation just after slavery was abolished in the south. After being orphaned at a young age, she struggled until she finally had an idea - create her own brand of hair care products for black women. Sarah Breedlove became Madam CJ Walker, who had a brand that would last decades, and arguably make her America's first female millionaire. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Madam C.J. Walker” by A’Lelia Bundles https://www.britannica.com/money/Madam-C-J-Walker “Madam C.J. Walker” https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/madam-c-j-walker/ “Self Made: What Happened to Madam C.J. Walker’s Hair-Care Empire?” by Yohana Desta (Mar 23 2020) https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/self-made-madam-cj-walker-company-true-story “How Madam C.J. Walker Invented Her Hair Care Products” by Sara Kettler (Jan 19 2021) https://www.biography.com/inventors/madam-cj-walker-invent-hair-care-products “The Sharecopper’s Daughter Who Made Black Women Proud of Their Hair” by Hunter Oatman-Stanford (Aug 31 2015) https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/madam-walker/ “Madam C.J. Walker” https://indianahistory.org/education/education-resources/educator-resources/famous-hoosiers/madam-c-j-walker/ “Madam C.J. Walker” (Jan 23 2024) https://www.biography.com/business-leaders/madam-cj-walker “Madam Walker, the First Black American Woman to Be a Self-Made Millionaire” by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/madam-walker-the-first-black-american-woman-to-be-a-self-made-millionaire/ “Madam C.J. Walker” by Debra Michals (2015) https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/madam-cj-walker “Madam C.J. Walker, the first U.S. self-made female millionaire, gets her own Barbie” by Wynne Davis (Aug 27 2022) https://www.npr.org/2022/08/27/1119699259/madam-c-j-walker-barbie "Netflix's ‘Self Made’ suffers from self-inflicted wounds” by A’Lelia Bundles (May 12 2020) https://andscape.com/features/netflixs-self-made-suffers-from-self-inflicted-wounds/ “Netflix’s Self Made Makes a Mess Out of Madam C.J. Walker’s Extraordinary Life” by Judy Berman (Mar 18 2020) https://time.com/5805147/self-made-review-madam-cj-walker/ Sound Credits: Music by music_for_video from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/comedy-%d1%81omedy-21407/ Knock 7x.aif by lth_stp -- https://freesound.org/s/120491/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0

Emileigh and Morgan take a look at the Nuremberg Trials that held many of the upper Nazi officials accountable for their crimes against humanity. Disclaimer: mentions of suicide and other potentially triggering subjects such as genocide and concentration camps. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/film-at-the-nuremberg-trial https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/how-were-the-crimes-defined https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-doctors-trial-the-medical-case-of-the-subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings#:~:text=Case%20%231%2C%20The%20Medical%20Case,12%2C%20The%20High%20Command%20Case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-2-the-milch-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-3-the-justice-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-4-the-pohl-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-5-the-flick-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-6-the-ig-farben-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-7-the-hostage-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-8-the-rusha-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-9-the-einsatzgruppen-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-10-the-krupp-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-11-the-ministries-case https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/subsequent-nuremberg-proceedings-case-12-the-high-command-case https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/nuremberg-trials https://aboutholocaust.org/en/facts/what-happened-to-the-senior-nazi-leadership-after-the-end-of-world-war-ii https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1942-1945/international-military-tribunal https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/project-paperclip-and-american-rocketry-after-world-war-ii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEX7jV2cx8 https://academic.oup.com/yale-scholarship-online/book/45090

For over 100 years, people have tried to accomplish the ultimate feat; climbing to the peak of Mount Everest. The first two people to do it successfully were humble men with a passion for climbing. Tenzing Norgay was a Tibetan yak herder-turned-mountain climber extraordinaire. Edmund Hillary was a beekeeper from New Zealand who began climbing mountains at an early age. The two of them would go on to make history in the British Everest Expedition of 1953 on May 29th. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Learn About the First Men to Climb Mount Everest” by Jennifer Rosenberg (May 11 2025) https://www.thoughtco.com/the-first-to-climb-mount-everest-1779350 “Everest 1953: First Footsteps - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay” by David Roberts (April 2003; updated May 4 2021) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/sir-edmund-hillary-tenzing-norgay-1953 “A History of Everest | What It Took to Reach the Roof of the World” by Steven Agar (May 29 2024) https://snowbrains.com/history-climbing-everest-highest-place-earth/#google_vignette “Edmund Hillary” by Britannica Editors (Oct 16 2025) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edmund-Hillary “‘This was a mountain that he had to climb’: How HIllary and Tenzing survived the ‘death zone’ to conquer Everest” by Myles Burke (May 26 2025) https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250522-the-first-men-to-conquer-everests-death-zone “Edmund Hillary Biography” https://www.notablebiographies.com/He-Ho/Hillary-Edmund.html “Edmund Hillary” https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/edmund-hillary “The Gentleman From Everest” https://tenzingsherpafoundation.com/about-tenzing/ “Tenzing Norgay” (Oct 16 2025) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tenzing-Norgay “Tenzing Norgay: the Mountaineer Who Refused to Be Categorized” by Imogen Lepere (Jul 17 2023) https://daily.jstor.org/tenzing-norgay-the-mountaineer-who-refused-to-be-categorized/ “Tenzing Norgay - Biography” https://biographyonline.net/adventurers/tenzing-norgay.html “Tenzing Norgay - The first sherpa to climb Mt. Everest” by Malika Tamang (Jan 18 2024) https://getlostforever.com/tenzing-norgay/ “Tenzing Norgay Sherpa: Biography and Facts” by Graham Hoyland (Jan 4 2022) https://mounteverest.info/tenzing-norgay-sherpa-bio-facts/ https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28432/wedding-day Sound Credits: Music track: Wings of Freedom by Alegend https://freetouse.com/music/alegend/wings-of-freedom Source: https://freetouse.com/music Free To Use Music for Videos Howling Wind by Kostas17 -- https://freesound.org/s/543449/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

Emileigh and Morgan go through the eras of Christmas movies and discuss how they reflect the mindset and environment of their times. Plus some healthy discussion on ehat is and isn't a Christmas movie. It's a hill we will Die Hard on, if you will. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc3ei1tseeM https://www.rent-a-christmas.com/blog/article/santa-claus-1898-first-christmas-movie https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/12/the-saturday-evening-post-history-minute-the-first-christmas-movies/ https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2021/12/21/christmas-films-parti/ https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2021/12/23/christmas-films-partii/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidalm/2018/12/07/how-scrooged-epitomized-the-80s-for-better-and-for-worse/ https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2021/12/24/christmas-films-part-iii/

It was a peaceful day for the citizens of Cisco, Texas, a few days before Christmas in 1927. Suddenly, four men, one dressed as Santa Claus, draw their weapons in the First National Bank of Cisco and demand money. What follows is a series of hijinks and tragedies that will forever mark this small town. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources Santa Claus Bank Robbery: A True Crime Saga in Texas by Tui Snider (2019) “The Cisco Santa Robbery” https://member.texasbankers.com/Magazine/magazine/Vault/22-01-The-Cisco-Santa-Robbery.aspx “The Infamous Santa Claus Bank Robbery of 1927” by Walter F. Pilcher https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/santa-claus-bank-robbery Sound Credits Music by music_for_video from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/christmas-deck-the-halls-christmas-piano-background-music-12202/ Music by Luis Humanoide from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/modern-country-western-theme-162884/ woman screaming of fear .wav by The_Sound_Side -- https://freesound.org/s/319258/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 market people bells NL 01 160319_00.wav by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/537846/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Gunshot_01.sse.wav by snapssound -- https://freesound.org/s/536630/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Layered Gunshot 9.wav by Xenonn -- https://freesound.org/s/128301/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 R22-10-Constant Explosions Battle Scene.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/479570/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 G29-54-Men Yell Riot.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/438414/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 Sota, rintama, tulitaistelu / War, gunfight, shooting at a front, various guns, handguns, weapons banging, mix by YleArkisto -- https://freesound.org/s/320133/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Emileigh and Morgan discover the life of the last great astronomer before the invention of the telescope. And the planets might be the most boring thing about his life! Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources: https://www.space.com/19623-tycho-brahe-biography.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paa5GLCR280 Tycho Brahe Youtube https://smarthistory.org/written-in-the-stars-astronomy-and-astrology-in-medieval-manuscripts/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe

In 1978, the headlines were filled with the news about the Lufthansa cargo bay robbery at JFK International Airport. The culprits? A group of guys tied to the New York mafia families. Join Morgan and Emileigh as they talk about the execution of the biggest airport robbery in US soil, and some unfortunate folks afterwards. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “James Burke” https://www.alcatrazeast.com/crime-library/organized-crime/james-burke/ “Henry Hill” (updated Jun 24 2020) https://www.biography.com/crime/henry-hill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas “Lufthansa heist” by Pat Bauer (Oct 18 2025) https://www.britannica.com/event/Lufthansa-heist “The Lufthansa Heist” episode, History’s Greatest Heists with Pierce Brosnan. Aired Feb 28 2023 on The History Channel “How the 1978 Lufthansa Heist Let to a Trail of Dead Bodies” by Iván Román (Jan 20 2023, updated May 28 2025) https://www.history.com/articles/1978-lufthansa-heist-jfk-henry-hill-goodfellas “Lufthansa Heist Murders: How Paranoia and Greed Led to the Deaths of 6 Mobsters and Associates” by Adam Janos (Dec 10 2018; updated Aug 21 2025) https://www.aetv.com/articles/lufthansa-heist-murders-mafia-mobsters “The Lufthansa Heist: The Mafia’s Greatest Robbery” by Lawrence Lease (Mar 9 2023) https://discover.hubpages.com/politics/The-Lufthansa-Heist-The-American-Mafias-Greatest-Heist “The Massive Real-Life Heist that Inspired ‘Goodfellas’” by Sammy Tran (May 5 https://www.factinate.com/things/biggest-cash-heist-history “The Lufthansa Mafia Heist Trial” https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/lufthansa-mafia-heist-trial Sound Credits: Shaken, Not Stirred - GLBML: Music by Geoffrey Burch from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/sneaky-shaken-not-stirred-glbml-22220/

Emileigh and Morgan look into how one of the most famous shipwrecks on Lake Superior went down. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2f0tZBSByI https://ssedmundfitzgerald.org/fitz-timeline https://upsupply.co/journal/the-wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald

Marie Antoinette married into the French royal family when she was 15 years old. Unfortunately, from the beginning she faced prejudice from the royal court and distrust from the common people. Marie would eventually become the scapegoat for the worsening economy in France, even after she and her family met their tragic end during the French Revolution. Join Morgan and Emileigh as they discuss the truth behind her life, both the good and the bad, and how this queen of France would live on in infamy. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Marie Antoinette” https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/marie-antoinette “Marie Antoinette” by biography.com editors & Barbara Maranzani (Jul 11 2023) https://www.biography.com/royalty/marie-antoinette “Marie Antoinette”, published by the Château de Versailles https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/marie-antoinette#a-queen-at-the-court “Marie Antoinette: From Queen to Guillotine” by the Real Royalty channel on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1pnLRAe0E “Marie-Antoinette” by history.com editors (Nov 9 2009, updated May 28 2025) https://www.history.com/articles/marie-antoinette Sound Credits: [Re-Creation] Hells Bells, Tolling, 12 O Clock, Processed by NoahBangs -- https://freesound.org/s/706896/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 To_Be_Booed2_ses1.wav by freesound -- https://freesound.org/s/25270/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 G52-05-Ox Cart.wav by craigsmith -- https://freesound.org/s/437078/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 fly 4 horse steps_03.wav by gastonsaenz -- https://freesound.org/s/362958/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Few people are as memorable as the amazing Julia Child. She started her life with no real plan and in her 50s became the first Television Chef. Emileigh and Morgan explore how her life and shows continue to inspire our country to make good food and have fun doing it. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/julia-child https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B7DHD2MB/ref=atv_sr_fle_c_srfd6f9a_5_1_3?sr=1-3&pageTypeIdSource=ASIN&pageTypeId=B0B7DF8GGW&qid=1762873149762 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cushing_Child

For 13 terrifying days in 1962, the world was on the precipice of nuclear war. The United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union were in a standoff regarding missiles stationed on the island, only 90 miles from US soil. Listen to find out how President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev negotiated for the continuance of humanity. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Cold War” (Oct 27 2025) https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War “Nikita Khrushchev” (Jun 11 2020) https://www.biography.com/political-figures/nikita-khrushchev “The Bay of Pigs Invasion” (Apr 18 2016) https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion/ “Cuban Missile Crisis” by History.com editors (updated May 28 2025) https://www.history.com/articles/cuban-missile-crisis “Cuban Missile Crisis” https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis “The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962”, U.S. Office of the Historian https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/cuban-missile-crisis “The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962” https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zyt42p3/revision/5 “Cuban missile crisis: 13 stormy days in Oct 1962 when US, USSR came to brink of nuclear conflict” by Ankita Thakur (Oct 18 2025) https://theprint.in/world/cuban-missile-crisis-13-stormy-days-in-oct-1962-when-us-ussr-came-to-brink-of-nuclear-conflict/2766198/ Sound Credits: John F. Kennedy Speech, October 22, 1962, published on 1962-10-22 00:00:00. Uploaded on 2004-05-19 17:12:28 by mdg https://archive.org/details/jfks19621022 Breaking news intro music by humanoide9000 -- https://freesound.org/s/760770/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Laugh Group of Children.wav by FunWithSound -- https://freesound.org/s/416703/ -- License: Creative Commons 0