Episode 0045—No Cigar
Mar 18, 2020 • E45 • 00:54:39
In 1890, Buffalo Bill's Wild West show toured Europe and during a performance in Berlin, American exhibitionist sharpshooter Annie Oakley shot the ashes off the cigar held in the mouth of a volunteer from the audience--Kaiser Friedrich Willhelm II.
What if Oakley had missed and accidentally killed the young German ruler? How might the late 19th and early 20th century have taken a different turn?
Listener Chris Coppola joins the episode to discuss this topic that he suggested.
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Useful Web Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Oakley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance_Treaty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
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