Some disasters reverberate throughout history. Santorini wasn't always a ring of islands... there was a time it was the beautiful peak of a mountain island called Thera. The archeological site at Akrotiri is our main portal into what exactly happened to the Minoan civilization on Crete and Thera... but the effects of Thera's eruption were felt thousands of kilometers away, and may have even shaped the course of history. The Exodus, the parting of the red (reed?) sea, ancient Egyptian plagues, and the lost city of Atlantis.
Leigh's song pick:: Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub) by Painkiller
https://open.spotify.com/track/15N3c26rKcFMMaJWFWHwdR
Peter's song pick:: Pompeii by ES Posthumus
https://open.spotify.com/track/0OQqwcp91YgRBpjtyCWdEQ
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Episode 42.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Pono Player
Episode 42: The Laki Eruption
Episode 41.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Third Wave Experiment
Episode 41: [Album Autopsy] Lulu
Episode 40.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Station Nightclub Fire
Episode 40: [Ruinous Rewind] Plague of Athens
Episode 39.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Norwegian Black Metal
Episode 39: The Peshtigo Firestorm
Episode 38.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] The Witchcraft Trial of Sarah Good
Episode 38: Darby Crash
Episode 37.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] Jim Shooter's New Universe
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Episode 36.5: [Tragedy Tuesday] British Airtours Flight 28M
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