The Catch-Up Episode

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.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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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/

 

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Photo: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topsy_elephant_electrocution_Luna_Park,_Coney_Island_January_1903.png