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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all. Were rerunning two episodes today, which means that

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Speaker 1: you'll hear two hosts me and Tracy V. Wilson. Enjoy

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Speaker 1: the show. Welcome to this Day in History Class from

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Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com and from the desk of

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Speaker 1: Stuff You Missed in History Class. It's the show where

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Speaker 1: we explore the past one day at a time with

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Speaker 1: a quick look at what happened today in history. Hello,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and

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Speaker 1: it's November twelve. Bahoula, the founder of the High Faith,

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Speaker 1: was born on this day in eighteen seventeen. I've also

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Speaker 1: heard his name pronounced slightly differently among adherents. He was

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Speaker 1: born in Tehran, Iran, and from birth his name was

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Speaker 1: Misera Hussein Ali. He was born into a noble family

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Speaker 1: and he was known for his skill as a horseman

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Speaker 1: and a poet. He also was an excellent calligrapher. He

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Speaker 1: had very little formal education as we might think of it, though,

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Speaker 1: and that was really typical for a young man of

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Speaker 1: his station. At the same time, he was known to

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Speaker 1: be very bright and very intelligent and knowledgeable about all

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Speaker 1: kinds of subjects, including having an extensive knowledge of Islam.

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Speaker 1: He was also known for being very compassionate, especially when

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Speaker 1: it came to matters of injustice. He got married at

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Speaker 1: the age of eighteen, and he would take other wives

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Speaker 1: as well later on his life. He was expected to

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Speaker 1: be a civil servant like his father was, and after

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Speaker 1: his father's death, he was offered a position, but he

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Speaker 1: turned it down. He really thought there was too much

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Speaker 1: corruption and materialism in the civil service. He preferred to

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Speaker 1: try to make a modest living managing the property that

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Speaker 1: he had inherited when his father died, and he also

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Speaker 1: wanted to use what he did have to help other

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Speaker 1: people as much as he could. He became known as

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Speaker 1: the father of the poor by the time he was

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Speaker 1: in his early twenties. When he was twenty seven, he

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Speaker 1: learned of a young man who was known as the Bob,

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Speaker 1: which is Arabic for the gate or the gateway. People

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Speaker 1: believed that the Bob was a messing figure, a figure

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Speaker 1: who was anticipated among Sheia Muslims, and the Bob also

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Speaker 1: heard of Bahola and sent him a scroll. We don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what this scroll said, but whatever it did say,

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Speaker 1: it had a dramatic effect on him. He became one

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Speaker 1: of the Bob's followers, who called themselves Bobbies. In eighty eight, Bahala,

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Speaker 1: who hadn't yet taken this name, was arrested and punished

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Speaker 1: for following the Bob. Then the Bob was executed in

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Speaker 1: eighteen fifty for treason. A lot of his followers were

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Speaker 1: also killed at this time, and Bahoula became his successor.

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Speaker 1: The two of them had never met in person, but

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Speaker 1: had sent Bahola all of his papers. Two years later,

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Speaker 1: though Hola was falsely charged in a plot to kill

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Speaker 1: the Shah of Iran, and after that he was imprisoned

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Speaker 1: in Tehran in a place called the Black Pit. While

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Speaker 1: he was imprisoned, he had a divi in revelation that

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Speaker 1: he was the prophet that the Bob had been for telling.

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Speaker 1: After his imprisonment, Mahala was banished. It was the first

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Speaker 1: of a series of banishments. He started out, going to

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Speaker 1: his half brother. After about ten years in Baghdad, in

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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty three, Mahala publicly declared himself to be the

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Speaker 1: divinely chosen leader that the Bob had previously foretold was coming.

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Speaker 1: This his first public declaration of this. He was a

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Speaker 1: messenger from God and a manifestation of God, and this

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Speaker 1: led to sectarian violence. He was banished once again from

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Speaker 1: the Ottoman Empire and he was sent to acker and

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Speaker 1: he started expanding his teachings and those of the Bob

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Speaker 1: was gradually allowed more freedom and more people were allowed

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Speaker 1: to come into Acre and see him. A core part

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Speaker 1: of the High Faith is that God has revealed himself

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Speaker 1: to humanity throughout history through a series of messengers, and

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Speaker 1: each of these messengers has founded a religion. These messengers

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Speaker 1: include Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed so Bahala,

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Speaker 1: which means Glory of God in Arabic and is the

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Speaker 1: in these series of holy messengers that are central to

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Speaker 1: the behind faith. Bhola lived an acre for the rest

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Speaker 1: He died in two and his eldest son became his

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Speaker 1: successor in his work and his teachings. Thanks to eve's

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Speaker 1: Jeff Cote for her research work on today's podcast, and

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Speaker 1: thanks to Casey P. Graham and Chandler Maize for their

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Speaker 1: in tomorrow for one of history's many bloody days. Hello everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'm Eves and you're tuned into this Day in History Class,

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Speaker 1: a show where we traveled back in time one day

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Speaker 1: at a time. The day was November twelve, nineteen seventy,

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Speaker 1: The deadliest tropical cyclone on record made landfall on the

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Speaker 1: coast of what was then East Pakistan or modern day Bangladesh.

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Speaker 1: At least three hundred thousand people died in the Bola cyclone.

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Speaker 1: The remnants of tropical Storm Nora in the Pacific Ocean

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Speaker 1: contributed to the development of a tropical depression that formed

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Speaker 1: The Indian Meteorological Department or i m D tracked the

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Speaker 1: direct measurements of the intensity of the tropical system. The

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Speaker 1: storm drifted north for two days, then intensified rapidly. By

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Speaker 1: November eleven, it had become a well defined cyclone with

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Speaker 1: the sixth and strongest cyclonic storm of that year's North

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Speaker 1: Indian Ocean cyclone season. As the storm hit land, it

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Speaker 1: destroying hundreds of villages. The cyclone dissipated as it moved inland,

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Speaker 1: degrading to a cyclonic storm by the thirteenth, but the

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Speaker 1: combination of the storm surge and poor preparedness led to

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Speaker 1: the death of many people. The death toll of the

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Speaker 1: young children. The most severely affected area was Tasimuddon, where

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Speaker 1: the fishing industry in the region was destroyed. The damage

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Speaker 1: War broke out in March of nineteen seventy one, in

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Speaker 1: East Pakistan declared itself the independent Nation of Bangladesh. In

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Speaker 1: the years after the Bullis cyclone, a cyclone preparedness program

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Speaker 1: developed in Bangladesh that allowed for better disaster planning and

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Speaker 1: response in the region. I'm Eve Deafcote and hopefully you

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