Here’s a special holiday minisode for all my listeners. It’s the true story of the remarkable event that occurred on Christmas 1914, along the western front of World War I.
 
Notes:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-of-the-wwi-christmas-truce-11972213/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zxsfyrd
 
Music:
Dexter Britain, The Tea Party
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party
Alex Mason & the Minor Emotion, Only, Hope, I Will Not Return
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion/
Naoya Sakamata, Comeback
https://soundcloud.com/naoya-sakamata

Throughout history, there have been a number of shadowy groups dedicated to the art of deception and murder. Today, we have a name for these people. We call them assassins. Hear the true story of the history of such groups, including the bizarre true story of the Indian death cult that may have been responsible for as many as two million deaths.

 

Notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thug_Behram

Holy Terror: The Rise of the Order of Assassins

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/12/where-did-the-word-assassin-come-from/

http://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/thuggees-cult-assassins-india-002145

10 Deadliest Assassin Organizations In History

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/11/18/245953619/what-a-thugs-life-looked-like-in-nineteenth-century-india

The Thugs of India

 

Music:

Dexter Britain, The Tea Party

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Dexter_Britain/Creative_Commons_Volume_2/The_Tea_Party

Kai Engel, Take a Look Around You, Realness, Changing Reality

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Myuu, What Could Have Been, Scent of Night, Take a Look Around You, The End is Always near, Facing Darkness, Tender Remains