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The Catch-Up Episode
Episode 201
Saturday, 14 January, 2023

It’s the catch-up episode!!! Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to days 200-203. This time we examine the days December 21, 1988 as Pan Am Flight 103 Explodes over Scotland, December 28, 2014 as the MS Norman Atlantic catches fire, January 1, 1903 as Topsy the Elephant is electrocuted, and January 11, 1787 as William Herschel discovers Uranus’ moons Oberon and Titania. - Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/ https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ - Sources: https://www.britannica.com/event/Pan-Am-flight-103 https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/remembering-pan-am-flight-103-30-years-later-121418 https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/europe/lockerbie-bombing-explainer-intl/index.html https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/today-in-history-pan-am-flight-103-lockerbie https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Ropax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Norman_Atlantic https://maritimecyprus.com/2017/12/30/flashback-in-maritime-history-norman-atlantic-ferry-fire-on-28-dec-2014/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norman-atlantic-fire-4-more-maritime-officials-investigated-over-ferry-fire-1.2888243 https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/01/the-deadly-fire-aboard-the-ferry-norman-atlantic/100882/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/topsy-the-elephant https://www.grunge.com/770226/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-the-elephant/ https://medium.com/the-curiosity/the-tragic-story-of-topsy-an-executed-circus-elephant-83d36deee99c https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/topsy-elephant-was-victim-her-captors-not-really-thomas-edison-180961611/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant) https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/oberon-midsummer-nights-dream/ https://nosweatshakespeare.com/characters/titania-midsummer-nights-dream/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/oberon/in-depth/ https://www.celebrateandlearn.com/?p=1851 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01352-uranus-largest-moon-oberon https://sos.noaa.gov/catalog/datasets/oberon-uranus-moon/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia01978-uranus-moon-titania https://space-facts.com/moons/titania/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/titania/in-depth/ https://www.universetoday.com/56048/titania/ - Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topsy_elephant_electrocution_Luna_Park,_Coney_Island_January_1903.png