Episode 59 - History Happy Hour, February 2023

It’s the end of February 2023 and we’ve handpicked a few of our favorite history stories from this month. Today, we’ll be talking about: The Death of Solomon Perel, who as a young Jewish boy during World War II joined the Hitler Youth to avoid being killed by the Nazis The discovery of encrypted letters written by Mary Queen of Scots while she was in prison A new study that examined Impressionist paintings and found they may have depicted air pollution The discovery of a pendant belonging to the first wife of King Henry VIII As well as a number of monumental historic anniversaries including the 110th birthday of Rosa Parks and the 100th anniversary of the opening of King Tut’s Tomb. And we'll also discuss some incredible stories from Black history that we published in February, including Solomon Northrup and the 54th Massachusetts regiment https://allthatsinteresting.com/today-in-history/february-26 credits: https://allthatsinteresting.com/podcast-credits Please fill out our listener survey to give us some feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave History Uncovered is part of the Airwave Media network: www.airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices