Episode 10 Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray.   EPISODE SOURCES Recent News “More than 100 people were stuck at Agatha Christie’s house for 7 hours,” devonlive.com, July 14, 2023, https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/live-greenway-house-agatha-christie-8601707 “Five record-breaking book facts for National Bookshop Day,” guinnessworldrecords.com, October 4, 2018, https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2018/10/5-page-turning-book-facts  “Kentucky man finds over 700 Civil War-era coins buried in his cornfield,” livescience.com, July 10, 2023, https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/kentucky-man-finds-over-700-civil-war-era-coins-buried-in-his-cornfield “Indian police retain carrier pigeons as backstop against disasters,” reuters.com, June 20, 2023, https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indian-police-retain-carrier-pigeons-backstop-against-disasters-2023-06-20/  Old News “America’s Favorite Pastime: Live Train Crashing,” ripleys.com, September 16, 2019, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/live-train-crashing/ “Crash at Crush killed 3 in 1896 Texas publicity stunt,” trains.com, September 10, 2021, https://www.trains.com/trn/railroads/history/crash-at-crush-killed-3-in-1896-texas-publicity-stunt/ “For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes,” atlasobscura.com, July 1, 2019, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecks  “The Bizarre Tale of the Tunnels, Trysts, and Taxa of a Smithsonian Entomologist,” smithsonianmag.com, May 13, 2016, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/bizarre-tale-tunnels-trysts-and-taxa-smithsonian-entomologist-180959089/  “Smithsonian Bug Expert by Day; Eccentric Tunnel Digger by Night,” architectofthecapital.org, November 30, 2016, https://architectofthecapital.org/posts/2016/11/6/dupont-circle-tunnel-digger  “The Man Who Sold The Eiffel Tower. Twice,” smithsonianmag.com, March 9, 2016, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/ “Smooth Operator: How Conman “Count” Victor Lustig Sold the Eiffel Tower — Twice,” mentalfloss.com, August 21, 2020, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12809/smooth-operator-how-victor-lustig-sold-eiffel-tower “The Con Artist Who Sold The Eiffel Tower Twice,” greekreporter.com, January 6, 2023, https://greekreporter.com/2023/01/06/con-artist-sold-eiffel-tower/ “The Scammer Who Sold the Eiffel Tower, Not Once but Twice,” historyofyesterday.com, September 8, 2022, https://historyofyesterday.com/the-scammer-who-sold-the-eiffel-tower-not-once-but-twice/ “The Straw Hat Riot of 1922: The Harsh Version of No White After Labor Day,” ripleys.com, September 10, 2018, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/straw-hat-riot/  “City Has Wild Night of Straw Hat Riots,” timesmachine.nytimes.com, September 16, 2022, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/09/16/99070942.pdf  “100 Years Ago Men and Boys Fought on the Streets of New York Over Wearing Straw Hats Past Summer,” nypl.com, September 23, 2022, https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/09/23/straw-hat-riots-nyc Our Big Story “Married to a Spook,” The Times, September 7, 1894, https://www.newspapers.com/image/543353387/?terms=%22Bangs%22 “Is Bride of a Spook,” The Inter Ocean, August 27, 1894, https://www.newspapers.com/image/33784803/?terms=%22bangs%20sisters%22%20&match=1 “Woman Married a Spirit,” The Boston Globe, August 26, 1894, https://www.newspapers.com/image/430680712/?terms=%22bangs%20sisters%22%20  “The Bangs Sisters’ Latest,” The Inter Ocean, September 3, 1894, https://www.newspapers.com/image/33784920/?terms=%22bangs%20sisters%22%20&match=1 

Episode 9 Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray.   Episode Sources Recent News “A Wisconsin man has won the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest,” NPR, July 24, 2023, https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189719385/a-wisconsin-man-has-won-the-ernest-hemingway-look-alike-contest “Bell tolls for Wisconsin man who wins Hemingway look-alike contest,” AP, July 23, 2023, https://apnews.com/article/hemingway-lookalike-key-west-3c2a00b465339ae5f88cc5d8e4848af4 “Giant 'doomsday fish' has close encounter with divers off Taiwan,” Yahoo!life, July 18, 2023, https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/giant-doomsday-fish-close-encounter-081056514.html “A giant oarfish: the mirrored harbinger of earthquakes,” Guardian, August 7, 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/a-giant-oarfish-the-mirrored-harbinger-of-earthquakes “Nearly 20 Years Later, Message In A Bottle From Nantucket Found In West Indies,” Nantucket Current, July 17, 2023, https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/nearly-20-years-later-message-in-a-bottle-from-nantucket-found-in-west-indies “Nantucket fisherman's message in a bottle found nearly 20 years later in West Indies,” WCVB5, July 19, 2023, https://www.wcvb.com/article/message-in-a-bottle-nantucket-fisherman-michigan-intern-west-indies-cassidy-beach-pennel-ames/44589861  Old News “Alive From the Dead, Almost.” North Star. 11/6/1848. https://www.newspapers.com/image/518664256/?terms=Phineas%20Gage&match=1 Bedford, Dorvall. “The Little-Known Story of the First Washington Monument.” Smithsonian Magazine. 12/14/2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-little-known-story-of-the-first-washington-monument-180981268/ Cherry, MSEd, Kendra. “Phineas Gage: His Accident and Impact on Psychology.” Very Well Mind. Updated 11/29/2022. https://www.verywellmind.com/phineas-gage-2795244 History.com Editors. “Prohibition.” HISTORY. A&E Television Networks.  10/29/2009. Updated 4/24/2023. https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition Mejia, Paula. “Why the U.S. Navy Once Had a Concrete Ice Cream Barge.” Atlas Obscura. 7/5/2018. ​​https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-did-navy-sailors-eat O’Brien. “That Time the Navy Spent a Million Dollars on an Ice Cream Barge.” Observation Post. Military Times. 7/21/2021. https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2021/07/21/that-time-the-navy-spent-a-million-dollars-on-an-ice-cream-barge/ O’Driscoll, Kieran and Leach, John Paul. “ “No Longer Gage”: An Iron Bar Through the Head.” British Medical Journal. 12/19/1998. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114479/ Scharf, John Thomas. “History of Western Maryland.” Allegany County: Genealogical Publishing Com., 2003. https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Western_Maryland/ntVpHBIz0hAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22washington%20monument%20near%20boonsboro%22 Sparks, Taylor. “Sailors Scream For Ice Cream!” U.S. Naval Institute. August 2022. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/sailors-scream-ice-cream Talmon, Noelle. “Wartime Ice Cream: The Secret Weapon to Boosting Morale.” Ripley’s Believe It or Not! 11/2/2021. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/wartime-ice-cream-the-secret-weapon-to-boosting-morale/ “The Phineas Gage Story.” Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. The University of Akron. https://www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot Twomey, Steve. “Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient.” Smithsonian Magazine. January 2010. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/ US Naval Institute Staff. “A Hundred Years Dry: The U.S. Navy’s End of Alcohol at Sea.” US Naval Institute. 7/1/2014. https://news.usni.org/2014/07/01/hundred-years-dry-u-s-navys-end-alcohol-sea “Washington Monument.” National Park Service. Updated 12/22/2022. https://www.nps.gov/wamo/learn/historyculture/index.htm “Washington Monument State Park.” Maryland.gov. https://dnr.maryland.gov/publiclands/Pages/western/Washington/History-Washington.aspx Our Big Story Katz, Brigit. “How a Spy Known as the ‘Limping Lady’ Helped the Allies Win WWII.” Smithsonian Magazine. 4/8/2019. Updated 4/9/2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-spy-known-limping-lady-helped-allies-win-wwii-180971889/ Lineberry, Cate. “Wanted: The Limping Lady: The Intriguing and Unexpected True Story of America’s Most Heroic—and Most Dangerous—Female Spy” Smithsonian Magazine. 2/1/2007. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/wanted-the-limping-lady-146541513/  “Not Bad for a Girl from Baltimore: The Story of Virginia Hall.” U.S. Embassy in Estonia. https://ee.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/207/Not-Bad-for-a-Girl-from-Baltimore.pdf Prank, Amanda. “Biography of Virginia Hall, WWII’s Most Wanted Spy.” Thought Co. 6/19/2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/virginia-hall-4690641  Purnell, Sonia. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II. New York: Penguin, 2019. Kindle Edition.  Truman, Harry S. “Citation for Distinguished Service Cross.” National Archives. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/595152?q=%22virginia+hall%22 “Virginia Hall.” Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshallfame/html/hall.html “Virginia Hall: The Courage and Daring of ‘The Limping Lady.’” Central Intelligence Agency. 6/29/2017. https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/virginia-hall-the-courage-and-daring-of-the-limping-lady/

Episode 8 Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray. ———————— EPISODE SOURCES Recent News 1. Amy, Jeff. “The Big Peanut Once Again Reigns at the Roadside in Georgia, after Hurricane Felled Earlier Goober.” AP News, 25 July 2023, apnews.com/article/big-peanut-georgia-2e4223a96d328d9d8eb9f2fe0c69b1e1#:~:text=Georgia’s%20Big%20Peanut%20is%20back,of%20sheet%20metal%2C%20not%20fiberglass 2. Chappell, Bill. “An 11-Year-Old Boy Caught a Fish with ‘human-like Teeth’ in an Oklahoma Pond.” NPR, 19 July 2023, www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188377962/pacu-fish-piranha-human-teeth-boy-oklahoma 3. Hooper, Ben. “Look: National Weather Service Bakes Cookies in Hot Car in Texas.” UPI, 20 July 2023, www.upi.com/Odd_News/2023/07/20/National-Weather-Service-heat-wave-cookies-baked-hot-car/3291689865403/ 4. “ Is It Possible to Fry an Egg on the Sidewalk If It’s Hot Enough?” The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/physics/item/is-it-possible-to-fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk-if-its-hot-enough Old News Aggie Horticulture. “The Tomato Had to go Abroad to Make Good.” Texas AgriLife Extension Service. Texas A&M System. https://aggie-hort.tamu.edu/archives/parsons/publications/vegetabletravelers/tomato.html Atimian. “Bimini Road.” Atlas Obscura. 7/19/2016. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bimini-road Barnett, Engrid. “America’s Alleged Trial Against Tomatoes, Not Witches, in Salem.” Ripley’s Believe it or Not! 3/2/2022. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/americas-alleged-trial-against-tomatoes-not-witches-in-salem/ Biakolo, Kovie. “A Brief History of the TV Dinner.” Smithsonian Magazine. November 2020. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-tv-dinner-180976039/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20most%20widely,in%20ten%20refrigerated%20railroad%20cars. Bite Sized Britain. “The First Submarine—Rowed Along the Thames in 1624!” https://www.bitesizedbritain.co.uk/the-first-submarine11/ Cocking, Susan. “Divers Seeking Atlantis in Bahamas.” The Bahamas Weekly. Miami Herald. 12/24/2009. http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish/international/Divers_seeking_Atlantis_in_Bahamas8991.shtml Elvery, Martin. “The Incredible First Ever Submarine that was Launched on the River Thames.” MyLondon. 3/31/2022. https://www.mylondon.news/news/nostalgia/incredible-first-ever-submarine-launched-23558006 Fuller, John. “Sept. 10 1953: Swanson Sells First TV Dinner.” How Stuff Works. https://people.howstuffworks.com/swanson-dinner.htm Hirsch, Michele Lent. “Step Inside a Famous Submarine.” Smithsonian Magazine. 5/26/2015. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/Step-inside-a-famous-submarine-180955042/ History.com Editors. “Atlantis.” HISTORY. A&E Television Networks. 10/7/2010. https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/atlantis Mappen, Marc. “Jerseyana.” The New York Times. 9/12/1993. https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/12/nyregion/jerseyana.html Randle, Aaron. “Who Invented the TV Dinner?” HISTORY. A&E Television Networks. 2/24/2021. https://www.history.com/news/tv-dinner-history-inventor Sabrina. “Is the Lost City of Atlantis Revealing Itself Off the Coast of the Bahamas?” Cool Stuff Strange Things. Ripley’s. 8/31/2018. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/bimini-road/ Smith, K. Annabelle. “Why the Tomato was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years.” Smithsonian Magazine. 6/18/2013. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/ Tietz, Tabea. “Cornelis Drebbel and the First Navigatable Submarine.” SciHi Blog. 11/7/2022. http://scihi.org/cornelis-drebbel-submarine/ Our Big Story Altherr, Stacey. “Former Clown Peggy Williams Looks Back on Her Decade in the Ringling Bros. Circus”. Sarasota Magazine. 7/29/2021. https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2021/07/peggy-williams-clown “Clown College: The Halls of Mirth”. Inc. 2/1/1983. https://www.inc.com/magazine/19830201/4780.html DiCesare, Frank. “Sarasota County and the American Clown: A 100-Year Relationship.” Visit Sarasota. https://www.visitsarasota.com/article/sarasota-county-and-american-clown-100-year-relationship “Feld Family Buys Ringling Bros.” The New York Times. 3/19/1982. Page 4. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/19/business/feld-family-buys-ringling-bros.html. Heidtman, Joel. “A Typical Day”. https://joelheidtman.tripod.com/id88.htm. “Irvin Feld.” Feld Entertainment. https://www.feldentertainment.com/company/leadership/irvin-feld/ Knight, Jerry. “Family Regains Ringling Bros.” The Washington Post. 3/19/1982. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1982/03/19/family-regains-ringling-bros/f61ec91c-8698-483a-a72b-03072e8adc74/  Raymond, Tom. “Peggy Williams, Circus Clown.” Famous Clowns. 3/31/2013. https://famousclowns.org/famous-clowns/peggy-williams-circus-clown/ Weil, Martin. “American Impresario Irvin Feld Dies.” The Washington Post. 9/7/1984. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/09/07/american-impresario-irvin-feld-dies/5fd4a47a-1141-4fe9-935d-44f3908b6ef7/    

Episode 7 Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray. ———————— EPISODE SOURCES Recent News “Woman Hit by a Meteorite While Having a Coffee With a Friend,” newsweek.com, July 14, 2023, https://www.newsweek.com/woman-hit-meteorite-france-1813076 “Rabbits have overrun a suburban Florida community. Volunteers hop to the rescue,” npr.org, July 23, 2023, https://www.npr.org/2023/07/23/1189630073/florida-rabbit-rescue-suburb “Police Set Up Cameras at Vegas Home After Family Reports Alien Sighting,” ripleys.com, June 23, 2023, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/alien-sighting/ Old News “King Jan III Sobieski and the Battle of Vienna that Saved Christian Europe,” britishpoles.uk, Date Unknown, https://www.britishpoles.uk/king-jan-iii-sobieski-and-the-battle-of-vienna-that-saved-christian-europe/ “What is the history of the croissant?,” lespetitsbasics.com, February 23, 2023, https://www.lespetitsbasics.com/blogs/la-pause-cafe-2/what-is-the-history-of-the-croissant “The formidable story behind the French croissant,” frenchmoments.eu, Date Unknown, https://frenchmoments.eu/the-formidable-story-behind-the-french-croissant/ “Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon Jump Site,” atlasobscura.com, October 27, 2021, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/evel-knievel-snake-river-canyon-jump-site “The Man: Life of Evel Knievel,” evelknievel.com, Date Unknown, https://evelknievel.com/pages/the-man “Back Road Exploration: Evel Knievel Snake River Canyon Jump,” advrider.com, November 2, 2022, https://www.advrider.com/evel-knievel-snake-river-canyon-jump/ “Sir Cecil Chubb and the Greatest Impulse Purchase in History,” historicmysteries.com, February 24, 2023, https://www.historicmysteries.com/cecil-chubb/ “The Man Who Bought Stonehenge,” history.com, September 21, 2015 (Updated May 23, 2023), https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-bought-stonehenge# “Stonehenge,” history.com, June 1, 2010 (Updated June 5, 2023), https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/stonehenge “Visit a Beard That Killed Its Owner,” atlasobscura.com, January 26, 2018, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/beard-braunau-steininger-hans “Killed By His Beard: Hans Steininger,” kingsmenpremium.com, Date Unknown, https://kingsmenpremium.com/blogs/beards-in-history/killed-by-his-beard-hans-steininger Our Big Story “The Morro Castle Disaster,” mashable.com, Date Unknown, https://mashable.com/feature/morro-castle-disaster “In the Flames of Madness - The SS Morro Castle,” theshipyardblog.com, November 9, 2020, https://www.theshipyardblog.com/in-the-flames-of-madness-the-ss-morro-castle/ “The Mystery of the SS Morro Castle, Shipwrecked on the Jersey Shore,” ripleys.com, June 10, 2019, https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/ss-morro-castle-shipwreck/ “The 80-year mystery: The Morro Castle disaster,” app.com, September 6, 2014, https://www.app.com/story/news/local/monmouth-county/2014/09/05/morro-castle-years/15138797/ Mappen, Marc. “The Morro Castle Mystery” in There’s More to New Jersey than the Sopranos. Pp. 153-156. Rutgers University Press, 2009. Thomas, Gordon, and Witts, Max Morgan. Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle. New York: Open Road, 2014.    

Narrated and executive produced by Aaron Mahnke, with Robin Miniter as Senior Producer, research and writing help from the Grim & Mild team, and audio production from Otis Gray. ———————— EPISODE SOURCES Recent News “Mexico: Mayor Marries Alligator-like Reptile Who He Calls ‘Princess Girl.’” Sky News, 2 July 2023, news.sky.com/story/mexico-mayor-marries-alligator-like-reptile-who-he-calls-princess-girl-12913277. “Mexico Mayor Marries Alligator-like Reptile, Who He Calls ‘Princess Girl’, for Good Luck.” IndiaTimes, 3 July 2023, www.indiatimes.com/trending/jugaad/mexican-mayor-marries-a-crocodile-to-bring-good-fortune-607929.html. “Mystery Cylinder on Western Australia Beach Could Be Space Junk, Authorities Say.” CNN, 18 July 2023, amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/18/australia/mystery-cylinder-found-western-australia-intl-hnk/index.html. “Singer Divorces ‘devilishly Handsome’ Ghost of a Victorian Soldier after Less than a Year.” Sky News, 17 July 2023, news.sky.com/story/singer-divorces-devilishly-handsome-ghost-of-a-victorian-soldier-after-less-than-a-year-12922465. Old News Adrian. “Ray Caldwell Was an Electrifying Pitcher.” Ripley’s Believe it or Not! 5/25/2016. https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/ray-caldwell/. Accessed 7/13/2023. American Chemical Society International Historic Chemical Landmarks. Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley. https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/josephpriestleyoxygen.html. Accessed 7/13/2023. Baseball Reference. “Philadelphia Athletics vs Cleveland Indians Box Score: August 24, 1919.” https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CLE/CLE191908240.shtml. Accessed 7/13/2023. Bell-Young, Lucy. “This Day in Chemistry: Joseph Priestley.” ReAgent. 8/1/2018. https://www.reagent.co.uk/blog/joseph-priestley/. Accessed 7/13/2023. “Caldwell Victor in Cleveland Debut.” New York Herald. 8/25/1919. https://www.newspapers.com/image/466225676/?terms=thunderbolt%20puts%20ray%20caldwell%20down&match=1. Accessed 7/13/2023. Eschner, Kat. “Why Peter the Great Established a Beard Tax.” Smithsonian Magazine. 9/5/2017. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-tsar-peter-great-established-beard-tax-180964693/. Accessed 7/13/2023. Gillan, Joanna. “Peter the Great Ordered a Beard Tax to Discourage Russian Facial Hair!” Ancient Origins. 6/8/2022. https://www.ancient-origins.net/weird-facts/beard-tax-0016868. Accessed 7/13/2023. Osborne, Chad. “August 24. 1919: Ray Caldwell Struck by Lightning, Sparks Indians to Win.” Society for American Baseball Research. https://sabr.org/gamesproj/game/august-24-1919-ray-caldwell-struck-by-lightning-sparks-indians-to-win/. Accessed 7/13/2023. Trubin, Julian. “The Discovery of Oxygen.” Juliantrubin.com. Last updated 2/2018. https://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/oxygenexperiments.html. Accessed 7/13/2023. National Museum of Roller Skating. “Statement of James Leonard Plimpton.” https://www.rollerskatingmuseum.org/the-father-of-modern-roller-skating. Accessed 7/5/2023. Rodriguez, Joey. “The Modern Roller Skate, and Men Fighting for Women’s Suffrage-Introduced at the Same East Village Locale.” Village Preservation Blog. Villagepreservation.org. 8/26/2020. https://www.villagepreservation.org/2020/08/26/the-modern-roller-skate-and-men-fighting-for-womens-suffrage-introduced-at-the-same-east-village-locale/. Accessed 7/5/2023. Sk8.Berlin. “150 Years of Rink Skating in the US.” 8/11/2016. https://roller.sk8.berlin/150-years-of-rink-skating-in-the-us/. Accessed 7/5/2023 Our Big Story Abbot, Karen. “The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever”. Smithsonian Magazine. 8/7/2012. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/. Accessed 7/19/23. Andrews, Evan. “8 Unusual Facts About the 1904 St. Louis Olympics.” History. 8/29/2014. Updated 7/12/2021. https://www.history.com/news/8-unusual-facts-about-the-1904-st-louis-olympics. Accessed 7/20/2021.  History.com Editors. “First Modern Olympic Games”. History. 11/24/2009. Updated 4/5/2021. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-modern-olympic-games/. Accessed 7/19/2023.  “The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games: The Games”. Penn Museum. https://www.penn.museum/sites/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml. Accessed 7/19/2023.  “St. Louis Marathon: The Strangest Race in Olympic History.” Olympicss. 6/27/2023. https://olympics.com/en/news/st-louis-marathon-the-strangest-race-in-olympic-history. Accessed 7/20/2023.