2019 August

History Byte: A Swearing Parrot Ruined Andrew Jackson’s Funeral

Posted in DefaultTag, History, Animals, Humor, American History, Andrew Jackson, Trail of Tears, Funerals, Politics on Aug 30th, 2019 Comments

Come and meet Poll, a presidential parrot so extra that his epic level of snark still lives on today.

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The Shuar of the Amazon and How to Make a Shrunken Head: Part 2

Posted in History, History Podcast, Storytelling, Culture, Society, Anthropology, Ethnography, Psychology, Social Science, Indigenous, Amazon Rainforest, Jivaro, Shuar, Shrunken Head, Warrior Culture, Psychedelics, War, Spain, Ecuador, Incas, Conquistadors on Aug 30th, 2019 Comments

Join us for Part 2 where we finish our exploration of the fierce, mysterious, and fascinating Shuar. This unconquerable tribe resisted conquest from both the Incan and Spanish empires, and was the only tribe in history to successfully revolt against the Spanish empire--and win. Find out who they were, who they are now, and buckle up for some truly epic Amazonian history.

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The Shuar of the Amazon and How to Make a Shrunken Head: Part 1

Posted in History, History Podcast, Storytelling, Culture, Society, Anthropology, Ethnography, Social Science, Indigenous, Amazon Rainforest, Jivaro, Shuar, Shrunken Head, Warrior Culture, Psychedelics, War, Spain, Ecuador, Incas, Conquistadors on Aug 30th, 2019 Comments

Hidden in the deepest interior of the Amazon lived the fierce, mysterious, and fascinating Shuar. This unconquerable tribe resisted conquest from both the Incan and Spanish empires, and was the only tribe in history to successfully revolt against the Spanish empire--and win. Come meet them in Part 1; hear their story and find out just what made them so epically unstoppable.