Terrible evening of posting on my part, my sincere apologies to all involved

It's meant as a threat

Henry Knox makes his appearance, glad we're getting some Big Boy representation

The casualty rate is how the doc worded it. If we're talking raw numbers it was basically the aftermath of a disappointing Bruins loss

Throwing my hands up and cheering when Nathaniel Philbrick appears onscreen

Love that they got Giamatti to voice Adams again

"The Bunker Hill was the most costly day of combat for the British military until the Somme"

Happy Homerday!

can't blame anyone for assuming though, because it does very much sound like the kind of thing Edison would do

set up a giant electrode plate in the middle of Coney Island and advertised the fact they were going to murder an elephant. the film of the incident is from an Edison Company camera crew, but Edison is technically innocent for this one

weirdly enough that was over a decade after all this. a circus elephant trampled her trainer because elephant training back then was basically all horrific abuse, and the circus decided she was too dangerous to keep. then they realized they could make a spectacle out of it, so they

This being America, we don't go back to the drawing board or just get rid of the death penalty. No, that's for weenies. Instead, New York and a conga line of other states find a sort of mostly reliable method through sheer trial and error, because there's no law stronger than the sunk cost fallacy

after murdering cats, dogs, horses, and most perverse of all, an orangutan, New York adopted the electric chair as it's method of execution in 1890. the result of this flurry of Yankee ingenuity, money, and get-up-and-go is essentially a more complicated version of burning at the stake

Edison himself didn't like the death penalty, but he did like being an asshole and messing with his competitors, so he became a major backer of New York's death-by-electricity experiment. This involved using his lab to shock an upsetting variety of animals to prove the tech, because, again, asshole

Alternating current is better than DC in pretty much every way, but it's also way more powerful. Edison realizes that if he can't win on the merits, he *can* make people think of death whenever the think of AC power. Naturally, he sees this newfangled death machine as a godsend

being a dentist, he figures that if chairs are good enough for doing 19th century dentistry to people, they must be good enough for killing people. into the middle of this comes Thomas Edison, looking for a way to discredit Westinghouse & Tesla's new AC power, competition to his DC

the invention of the electric chair is one of the most American (derogatory) moments in our history. New York wants to get rid of hanging so a dentist, inspired by watching a drunk Frank Grimes himself to death, petitions the government to replace it with electricity