Queries and Theories Episode 7: Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 2 Queries and Theories

Welcome to Queries and Theories! In this episode, Ivy and Ron continue their series on Avatar: The Last Airbender with Book 2, Earth!

This episode includes big drills, short kings, gulags and maybe a couple plot holes?



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Gildanbass (Gilang Soeprapto)

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TheBettingBug (Aubrie Warner)

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Episode Notes:

Ron’s Notes:

Tunnel boring machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_boring_machine

How TBMs work https://www.boringcompany.com/prufrock

Slurry TBM : https://marquette.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Fact-Sheet-How-a-tunnel-boring-machine-works-04.08.2020.pdf

Great Wall of China materials: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/geology/grocha/monument/great.html

Tunneling shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnelling_shield#History

Martina facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_(tunnel_boring_machine)

Explanation of the anatomy of a TBM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSwbzvtXON8&ab_channel=KarimGaber’



Ivy’s Notes:

Coup of Ba Sing Se Avatar Fandom Site: https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Coup_of_Ba_Sing_Se

Xiran Jay Zhao’s video on Cultural Inspirations in ATLA Book 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6SNxykp2MA&t=2463s

Laogai Museum Research Page: https://laogairesearch.org/museum/what-is-laogai/

Laogai Prison System: https://laogairesearch.org/laogai-system/

Business Human Rights on 83 Brands identified using forced labor of Xinjiang camp: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/china-83-major-brands-implicated-in-report-on-forced-labour-of-ethnic-minorities-from-xinjiang-assigned-to-factories-across-provinces-includes-company-responses/

Dept of Labor report on Uyghur Muslims detained in Forced Labor Camps: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-situation-in-xinjiang

King Emmanuel III of Italy and Benito Mussolini: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/fascist-king-victor-emmanuel-iii-italy

ATLA Fandom Page info on Dai Li: https://avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Dai_Li