The United Fruit Company has directly shaped the course of history in every country in Middle America. All for bananas.THIS ONE IS FOR BEAUhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/help-beaus-family-be-by-his-sideSources:Chapman, Peter. Bananas. Canongate Books, 15 Dec. 2022.“Jorge Ubico | President of Guatemala | Britannica.” Www.britannica.com, www.britannica.com/biography/Jorge-Ubico.McCann, Thomas P. An American Company. 1976.“United Fruit Company | American Company.” Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/United-Fruit-Company.Vaughan, Don. “Banana Massacre | Colombia, Strike, Description, & Facts | Britannica.” Www.britannica.com, 29 Nov. 2023, www.britannica.com/event/Banana-Massacre.
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Pythagoras
The murderous triangular cult may have indeed existed - join us for the Greek mathematician and cult leader, Pythagoras!Donate to help Beau:https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-beaus-family-be-by-his-side/cl/s?utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_content=amp13_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link&lang=en_US&attribution_id=sl%3A07ce25ad-6a08-4f51-b9ec-bcc66220ed63&ts=1756705571Sources:Laertius Diogenes, and Pamela Mensch. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.Pythagoras, et al. The Golden Verses of Pythagoras and Other Pythagorean Fragments. Santa Fe, Nm, Sun Pub. Co, 1996.
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Nancy Wake Part 3
Nancy parachutes into France and becomes an integral part of the French resistance. To make a vast understatement, her adventures in effort to put an end to the Nazi occupation of France were numerous and harrowing - using all of her faculties, and highly trained skills (and her ample amount of luck) from making and using bombs, right down to her bare hands. Join us for the thrilling conclusion of Nancy Wake AKA Hélène AKA Madame Andrea AKA The White Mouse!Sources:Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.
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Nancy Wake Part 2
Nancy becomes notorious for her courier work and staging prison breaks that she earns herself the code name, The White Mouse, from the Gestapo who were on to her. Join us for Nancy’s harrowing escape over the Pyrenees - not that she was done with the fight - in part 2!Sources:Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.
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Nancy Wake Part 1
Nancy Wake was a kiwi who grew up in Australia and became one of the great heroes of the French Resistance during WWII. She became so notorious in fact, that the gestapo code named her “The White Mouse”. Join us for part 1!Sources:Fitzsimons, Peter. Nancy Wake : A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine 1912-2011. Sydney, Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.Wake, Nancy. The White Mouse. Sydney, Pan Macmillan Australia, 1985.
Meet Chris, Madi, Zach, and Jerry. They are the History Boiz. They’re going to tell you about historical figures and events and make you laugh at the same time. Drink a cheap beer, and get some history up in you. Like the founding fathers intended.