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September 28, 2022 8 mins

Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 188. This time we examine the year 1918 as the Liberty Loan Parade causes a major outbreak of the Spanish Flu in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…also Polio, and 1923 as Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin. 

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

https://www.aier.org/article/no-lockdowns-the-terrifying-polio-pandemic-of-1949-52/

https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/coronavirus/it%E2%80%99s-official-covid-now-deadlier-spanish-flu-sort-194160

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/liberty-loan-parade-in-1918-helped-spread-a-deadly-flu-that-left-nearly-13-000-dead-2105389

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/philadelphia-threw-wwi-parade-gave-thousands-onlookers-flu-180970372/

https://daily.jstor.org/the-1918-parade-that-spread-death-in-philadelphia/

https://fullfact.org/online/1918-philadelphia-parade-fact-checked/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/flu-epidemic-hits-philadelphia

https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/september28th.html

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Photo: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Liberty_Loans_Parade#/media/File:Philadelphia_Liberty_Loan's_Parade.jpg

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