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It's goodbye to the bonus episodes but we are going out with a bang! Here is episode 7 of Opportuna Obscura our bonus show! These are our bonus episodes where instead of following a topic we talk about where the internet has taken us the last few weeks. Fun fact, Opportuna means 'timely' in Latin.  Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Karen's Sources: https://apple.news/A_fcjxw3uQ2yJnHXPNEzB2Q https://apple.news/ApdDq47fESwKYSEpw1kKnYA https://www.britannica.com/topic/unidentified-flying-object Casey's Sources: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Barbie https://www.history.com/news/barbie-through-the-ages Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

We are back for the final 5 episodes of the show! (Warning!!! Our audio was kind of crap for this episode. We are really sorry about that and have fixed the issues) Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Karen's Sources: http://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk/an-essex-quakers-wife-the-indomitable-mary-farmer-her-daughters/ https://quaker.org/faith-and-practice/ https://www.renofriends.org/are-quakers-mennonites-or-amish/ https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/history-of-quakerism https://www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk https://www.quaker.org.uk/about-quakers/our-faith https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/alice-paul https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/lucretia-mott https://www.pym.org/famous-quaker-benjamin-banneker-an-astronomer-and-mathematician/ https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/english-civil-wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/margaret-fell/#LifeWork https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/8-badass-quaker-women https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/190/Nozizwe-Madlala-Routledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozizwe_Madlala-Routledge https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/8/The-Holy-Experiment-in-Pennsylvania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stansted_15 Casey's Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_de_Clisson https://guides.loc.gov/feminism-french-women-history/famous/Jeanne-de-Clisson https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=seigneury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Breton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Brittany  Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week we get a little too personal with our experiences with the ocean? There is also history and science too. :) Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Casey's Sources: https://www.britannica.com/story/just-how-many-oceans-are-there https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html https://www.rd.com/list/ocean-mysteries/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTPcq2HczVY https://bestlifeonline.com/crazy-ocean-facts/ https://www.britannica.com/science/ocean https://www.britannica.com/animal/megalodon https://a-z-animals.com/blog/the-legendary-black-demon-shark-of-mexico/ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/110818/prehistoric-megalodon-shark-still-exists-claim-conspiracy-theorists.html https://gizmodo.com/mystery-solved-heres-the-animal-that-ate-the-9-foot-gr-1587429691 Karen's Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_primacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Francis https://jokojokes.com/pope-jokes.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope https://www.britannica.com/topic/pope https://abcnews.go.com/International/pope-benedict-dogged-nazi-past-achievements-jewish-relations/story?id=18469350 Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week Karen talks about little green people (or possibly aliens?). Meanwhile, Casey takes us to the Bermuda Triangle to talk about two famous disappearances. Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Karen's Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-of-Newburgh#ref165242 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Oxford_%281142%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Latin https://www.britannica.com/event/Dark-Ages https://journals.umcs.pl/rh/article/download/7611/8307 https://www.ladyscience.com/diseases-of-virgins-and-spinsters-the-gynephobic-history-of-chlorosis-and-hysteria/no46 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochromic_anemia https://flemish.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2015/12/04/flemish-migration-to-scotland-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-periods/ Casey's Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/navigation https://www.ion.org/ https://www.britannica.com/technology/navigation-technology https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/bermuda-triangle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plalHGHwSj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBN6jvPmZGs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2hv9FROD14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19 https://www.nasflmuseum.com/flight-19.html https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/true-north-magnetic-north-whats-difference Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

It's a TRUE CRIME EPISODE!! This week we talk about murder. Casey talks about a serial killer who had his own house of horrors and Karen covers the murder of Marvin Gaye.  Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Casey's Sources: https://serialkillershop.com/blogs/true-crime/famous-serial-killers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/hh-holmes/ Karen's Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye https://web.archive.org/web/20090429075451/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/24161972/page/6 https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/marvin-gaye/marvin-gaye-death-father-explained/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye_discography https://www.smoothradio.com/artists/marvin-gaye/facts-wife-children-parents-death/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml93wcrmo1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYBpvfvHF2Q https://www.audacy.com/wwl/scoot-real-story-behind-the-tragic-killing-of-marvin-gaye https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2017/12/todays-blind-items-soul-of-death.html?m=1 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marvin-gaye-is-shot-and-killed-by-his-own-father https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/marvin-gaye-murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Marvin_Gaye What Was Going On: The Life and Times of Marvin Gaye By LifeCaps Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye by David Ritz Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

It's Episode 6 of Opportuna Obscura our bonus show! These are our bonus episodes where instead of following a topic we talk about where the internet has taken us the last few weeks. This episode Karen is out but we have a guest star! Fun fact, Opportuna means 'timely' in Latin.    Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Casey's Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtY-90kcQNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3iXS8sm7Q4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lanier https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/lake-lanier https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/31/us/lake-lanier-urban-legends-trnd/index.html https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/badge-bar/questions-linger-drowning-death-man-lake-lanier-margaritaville/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifMKfBO_R6s Rachel's Sources: https://www.thrillist.com/news/new-york/cape-may-ghost-train-tracks-jersey-shore https://www.nj.com/news/2018/03/last_chance_to_walk_njs_creepy_ghost_tracks_before_they_return_to_their_sandy_grave.html https://www.nj.com/cape-may-county/2018/01/with_freezing_temps_in_cape_may_it_has_let_some_wa.html https://www.app.com/story/news/weird/weird-nj/2017/04/09/weird-nj-ghostly-train-tracks-cape-may-beach/100148076/ https://georgiawildlife.com/sites/default/files/wrd/pdf/fact-sheets/2016_alligator.pdf Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week we talk drastically different journeys as Karen talks about her favorite thing, the bible. Meanwhile, Casey takes us deep into the wilderness to tell a story about surviving against all odds.  Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Karen's Sources: https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/journey https://todayscatholic.org/the-new-translation-of-the-holy-mass-12/ https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026%3A17-30&version=NIV BBC- Richard Hammond & the Holy Grail Holy Grail UNEARTHED in Jerusalem | Buried: Knights Templar and the Holy Grail (S1, E1) | History, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMJY4kmVKgY&t=2469s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_of_Corbenic https://kingarthursknights.com/knights-of-the-round-table/sir-galahad/ https://historyten.com/scythians/12-arthurian-knights-round-table-found-holy-grail/ https://danbrown.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Magdalene https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-holy-chalice-of-valencia/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Chalice#Valencia_Chalice https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/holy-chalice-of-valencia BBC - Richard Hammond and the Holy Grail Casey's Sources: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ada-blackjack-arctic-survivor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Blackjack https://www.history.com/news/ada-blackjack-inuit-wrangel-island Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week the spooky continues as Casey covers contacting murder victims. Meanwhile, Karen goes into the evolution of period products. Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Casey's Sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/top-popular-inventors-1992000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr https://www.biographyonline.net/scientists/inventors.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-08/ouija-board-juror-misbehaviour-murder-trials/9734868 https://hauntedwalk.com/news/the-strange-history-of-the-ouija-board/ Karen's Sources: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/g19991273/period-products-through-the-years/ https://keeleydeangelo.com/from-rags-to-resilience-mary-kenner-us-patent-2881761a/ https://www.si.edu/spotlight/health-hygiene-and-beauty/feminine-hygiene-products  https://www.npr.org/2021/12/02/1056830306/free-tampons-public-schools  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-period-comes-to-an-end-100-years-of-menstruation-products/2016/04/25/1afe3898-057e-11e6-bdcb-0133da18418d_story.html https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/07/12/lawmakers-tackle-period-poverty-with-tax-cuts-school-supplies https://policylab.chop.edu/blog/period-poverty-public-health-crisis-we-dont-talk-about  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/well/sustainable-period-products.html  https://historyofyesterday.com/mary-kenner-the-inventor-of-sanitary-belts-3fa94eb31d15  https://blackdoctor.org/mary-beatrice-davidson-kenner-the-forgotten-inventor-who-changed-womens-health-forever/  Additional sources on our Instagram!  Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week we go spooky again as we talk haunted kitchens and an Inn that maybe should never have been built at all.  Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Karen's Sources: https://www.newspapers.com/image/394744491/?terms=william%20h%20mumler&match=1 Reichenbach, Karl. Physico-Physiological Researches on the Dynamides or Imponderables (Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallisation, and Chemical Attraction) in Their Relation to the Vital Force. Taylor, Walton, & Maberly, 1850 https://quotefancy.com/quote/1253701/Shirley-Jackson-Certainly-there-are-spots-which-inevitably-attach-to-themselves-an https://library.umbc.edu/speccoll/findingaids/coll023.php https://hyperallergic.com/96583/the-man-who-tried-to-photograph-thoughts/ https://cdm16629.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/Eisenbud https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9lmez_Faces https://medium.com/our-weird-wonderful-world/the-people-in-the-floor-ccc588d24826 https://youtu.be/-4pLHWC26fc The Faces of Belmez (Creepy and Unexplainable) Mitchell, Edgar D., et al. Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science: Understanding the Nature and Power of Consciousness. Cosimo, 2011, Scribd, www.scribd.com/read/308700917/Psychic-Photography-and-Thoughtography#. Casey's Sources: https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/ancient-ram-inns-haunted-history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Ram_Inn https://ancientraminn.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJVvdQdkfE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7M4jZDQDHE https://www.livescience.com/41349-ley-lines.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/incubus https://www.haunted-britain.com/ancient-ram-inn.htm Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week we talk Toilet Gods (no we are not kidding), sacrifices, and the origin of the word thug. Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Casey's Sources: https://listverse.com/2017/02/09/10-weirdly-specific-gods-your-mythology-class-left-out/ https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/in-japan-the-reign-of-the-toilet-god/article61790623.ece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_god https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapu_(Polynesian_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterquilinus https://martinifisher.com/2020/07/31/the-ancient-magic-of-hygiene/ Karen's Sources:  Cartwright, Mark. “Kali.” World History Encyclopedia, World History Encyclopedia, 28 Mar. 2022, www.worldhistory.org/Kali/ Ganesan, V. B. “The Lore of Thuggee and How the British Ended Its Reign.” Return to Frontpage, The Hindu, 22 Sept. 2014, www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/the-lore-of-thuggee-and-how-the-british-ended-its-reign/article6435967.ece Geller. “Kali - Hindu Goddess of Time, Power and Destruction.” Mythology.net, 30 Dec. 2016, mythology.net/hindu/hindu-gods/kali “History's Most Blood Thirsty Cult.” SwordAndScale, www.swordandscale.com/historys-most-blood-thirsty-cult “Kali.” Brooklyn Museum: Kali, www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/kali “Kali.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/topic/Kali McDougall, Dan. “Indian Cult Kills Children for Goddess.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 5 Mar. 2006, www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/05/india.theobserver Perry, Alex. “Killing for 'Mother' Kali.” Time, Time Inc., 22 July 2002, content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,322673,00.html “Thug.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/topic/thug  Viswanathan, Rashmi. “Crime, Thuggee.” Academia.edu, 4 Nov. 2017, www.academia.edu/35054425/Crime_Thuggee Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

This week we talk all things $$$. F is for Fortunes covers treasure hunts, sketch inheritances, and what exactly a Fortune 500 company is.  Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod    Karen's Sources: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-titled-person https://honey.nine.com.au/royals/duchess-of-alba-fascinating-royal/f9efa173-017f-4434-88c9-9d3a5bd10913 https://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/25140/duchess-of-alba-passes-away https://www.lasduenas.es/history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garc%C3%ADa_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo_y_Osorio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fadrique_%C3%81lvarez_de_Toledo,_4th_Duke_of_Alba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palacio_de_las_Due%C3%B1as https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/spains-duchess-of-alba-leaves-5-billion-fortune-to-her-children-and-nothing-to-husband-alfonso-diez/news-story/3d8a768ed03a2fbf6ed313de85e6760b http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2088129,00.html https://www.esmadrid.com/en/tourist-information/liria-palace https://www.reuters.com/article/us-auction-alba/spains-wealthy-house-of-alba-to-sell-furniture-idINBRE9200FZ20130301 Additional sources on our Instagram! Casey's Sources: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/forrest-fenn-treasure-jack-stuef/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3344366/fenn-and-the-gallery/ http://fennclues.com/the-poem.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecos_National_Historical_Park Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/ 

Episode 5 of Opportuna Obscura our bonus show! These are our bonus episodes where instead of following a topic we talk about where the internet has taken us the last few weeks. Fun fact, Opportuna means 'timely' in Latin.   Artwork: Jovana Stekovic Logo:  nydaaa Music: Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod     Karen's Sources: https://www.sciencealert.com/these-water-beetles-can-houdini-their-way-out-of-a-frog-butt-after-being-swallowed Casey's Sources: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/01/ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-russia/ https://www.aviationnepal.com/antonov-225-mriya-the-successful-soviet-cargo-plane-with-five-facts/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-largest-aircraft-antonov-an-225-destroyed-in-ukraine-180979654/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sggQqdvqHs Home Base Groove by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source:  http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100563 Artist:  http://incompetech.com/