What The History Podcast

Cup Chaos and Pigeon Power

In this episode Suzie gets sporty about the World Cup and Trevor discovers the surprising place pigeon’s hold in history.

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Sources:

THE 1938 WORLD CUP

ESPN n.d. ‘World Cup History 1938’ http://www.espn.co.uk/football/news/story/_/id/1834540/1938

FIFA 1996, ‘A problematic prelude to the 1938 World Cup’ and ‘1938 FIFA World Cup, France https://www.fifa.com/news/y=1996/m=4/news=problematic-prelude-the-1938-world-cup-71450.html and https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/france1938/awards/index.html
History.com 2009, ‘1938 Hitler announces an Anschluss with Austria’ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hitler-announces-an-anschluss-with-austria
Holocaust Enclyclopedia n.d., ‘The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936’ https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680

PROJECT PIGEON

B.F. Skinner – Biography.com

The Pigeon-Guided Missiles And Bat Bombs Of World War II – Gizmodo Australia

B.F. Skinner’s Pigeon-Guided Rocket – Smithsonian.com

Pigeon-guided missiles – Military History Monthly

Hacking When It Counts: Pigeon-Guided Missiles – Hack A Day

Strange: In WWII Pigeons Were Trained To Guide Missiles – War History Online

That Time the U.S. Coast Guard Had a Pigeon-Powered Sensor – War Is Boring

Pigeons can help with searches at sea – Ocean Watch

Coast Guard clips wings of pigeon project – UPI.com

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Doing The Pigeon – Sesame Street

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