Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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A half-blind Irish immigrant to the US freelance develops the first modern submarine with funds from the Fenian Brotherhood. This leads to a lot of arguments and a late-night submarine jacking.

SOURCES:

Davies, R. Nautilus: The Story of Man Under the Sea

Lyons, Chuck. The Holland Submarine. Military Heritage. August 2008. Vol 10, no. 1

Devoy Tells Story of First Submarine: Holland Warship Purchased for Clan-na-Gael, The Original Owners, by Harry Cunningham”, The Gaelic American, New York, 09 July 1927

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1935/august/fenian-ram

https://www.millrivertrail.com/learn/famous-stolen-submarine

https://web.archive.org/web/20121021174106/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_19/holland2.htm

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The Battle of Ramree Island has gone down in history for being known for one thing: a massive crocodile attack that apparently destroyed the Japanese as they attempted to retreat. But, what if we told you that that popular story was completely made up by one guy who wasn't even there at the time?

Sources:

Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War

McLynn, Frank. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45

Wright, B. S. (1962). Wildlife Sketches: Near and Far.

Wright, B. S. (1968). The Frogmen of Burma

Platt, Steven. Man eating by Estuarine Crocodiles: the Ramree Island massacre revisited

Lyons, Chuck. The Mystery at the Battle of Ramree Island. WWII History. Vol. 25. No. 1

Frazier, George. A Man's Worst Friend. The Boston Globe Archive. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/438950677/

https://the-avocado.org/2019/03/02/things-that-are-not-the-horrors-of-ramree-island/

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/crocodile-massacre-of-troops-debunked-as-wartime-myth-k6vxhdfsq

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Josh Boerman, of the Worst of All Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived, joins Joe in the studio to talk about the time that an absolute madman attempted to build the largest aircraft carrier in the world out of ice.

sources:

Perutz, M. F. "A Description of the Iceberg Aircraft Carrier and the Bearing of the Mechanical Properties of Frozen Wood Pulp upon Some Problems of Glacier Flow". The Journal of Glaciology.

Lutz, Stephen. Project Habakkuk’s Iceberg Aircraft Carrier. WWII History. Vol 10, No. 8

Hemming, Henry. Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy.

Gold, L W. The Canadian Habbakuk Project: a Project of the National Research Council of Canada. Cambridge, UK

Cross, L D. Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice.

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Tom and Joe are joined by Lucy Valentine of the podcasts Boonta Vista and Savant Garde to talk about...whatever FLCL is. Is it about growing up? Puberty? Changing oneself for the better? Trauma? We have no idea but man is it fun.