Shoeless children running around the land that would become Rollingwood and West Lake Hills. Bar fights ending in axe-chopped limbs. Illegal moonshine operations in caves.
It’s the stuff of legend. But are the legends true?
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Almost every night, a group of volunteers sets up a table of supplies. Their goal is to assist everyone who is being released; from bottled water to a ride home. But sometimes, it’s a challenge when people are released well after midnight.
On October 13, 1972, a fight transporting a Uruguayan rugby club crashed into the Andes Mountains.
For the following 72 days, survivors of the crash were stranded in the ice and snow, forced to survive in sub-zero temperatures, battling starvation and avalanches.
Desperate to escape the mountains, two of the crash survivors trekked across the harsh terrain for 10 days, eventually finding rescue for the remaining survivors.
Learn more about the survival of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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On February 22, 1946, George F. Kennan, a career diplomat working in the American embassy in Moscow, sent an 8,000-word cable to the State Department in Washington.In it, he explained why the Soviet Union behaved as it did, outlining its unique combination of a communist ideology and historical Russian paranoia and suspicion.
He also gave a prescription for how the United States should respond.
Although he couldn’t have known it at the time, that message became the foundation for American policy during the Cold War.
Learn more about the Long Telegram and how it influenced American foreign policy during the Cold War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Music
A couple by C. Diab: Tiny Umbrellas and Crypsis
The beginning of Cats Cradle (Iris) by Hannah Epperson
Dawning and Wind by Shida Shihabi
A couple from Ceeys: Neighbour II and Union
Notes
I really enjoyed reading both Lew Irwin's Deadly Times: the 1910 Bombing of the L.A. Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, and Bread and Hyacinths: the Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles, by Lionel Rolfe
As an, at this point, long-time Angeleno, I highly recommend visiting the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
For thousands of years, many theories have been put forward as to the cause of communicable diseases.
These theories ranged from the religious to the magical and sometimes quasiscientific, but what they all had in common was that there was no proof for anything.
Over the centuries, these theories became dogma and often prevented a better understanding of diseases. It wasn’t until the 19th century that we got a clear picture of what the cause actually was.
Learn more about the germ theory of disease and why it took so long to recognize on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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