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Joe Bath hosts Science: A Peculiar History, a history show with 16 episodes published.
The Monkey Trial continues - featuring dramatic speeches from Bryan and Malone, a less dramatic speech from William Jennings Bryan Jr., and a poetry competition in a London newspaper.
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John Thomas Scopes, a schoolteacher from Dayton, Tennessee, goes on trial, accused of illegally teaching his students the Theory of Evolution. With the eyes of the nation and even the world turned to Dayton, Tennessee, n
Show notesWith the ACLU planning to challenge the Butler Act in court, the Dayton businessman George Rappleyea sees an opportunity to put his town in the spotlight.
Show notesIn the summer 1925, the run-down Appalachian town of Dayton, Tennessee, played host to one of the most famous trials in history, pitting the former Secretary of State and 3-time presidential candidate William Jennings Br
Show notesWhere did Akbar the Great get the idea for the experiment from? Given that he didn't have access to Herodotus, this episode looks at precedents in Ancient Indian and Medieval Islamic thought, before moving on to how ques
Show notesThe Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great's conquests led to him ruling most of the Indian Subcontinent - and he became obsessed with learning everything he could about the various religions practiced in his Empire. But amid hi
Show notesJames IV's language deprivation experiment supposedly had the result that the children in question spoke Hebrew. In an effort to explain why someone at the time might have found this plausible, this episode looks at seve
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In 1493, on the uninhabited island of Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, King James IV of Scotland conducted a linguistic experiment like that conducted by Psamtik and Frederick II (at least, so the 16th-century historian
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The Holy Roman Emperor and amateur ornithologist Frederick II was alleged by the chronicler Salimbene di Adam to have conducted (among other sadistic experiments), a linguistic experiment similar to that of Psamtik. A lo
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The Greek historian Herodotus describes how the Egyptian Pharaoh Psamtik I conducted a strange and cruel investigation into the origins of language. The first in a four-part miniseries on allegations of language deprivat
Show notesMore on the media coverage of the Mary Toft Incident, as well as John Maubray, known as "the sooterkin doctor", and the strange Dutch creatures that gave him his nickname. We also find out what happened to Mary Toft and
Show notesAfter the Mary Toft Rabbit Hoax is exposed, the doctors involved become the subject of relentless mockery from the media. Features me singing. Twice. This episode includes quite a lot of quotes from primary sources that
Show notesA crowd gathers in a boarding-house in the West End of London, waiting for Mary Toft to produce another rabbit. The second episode in a 4-part miniseries on Mary Toft. This episode contains graphic anatomical detail, and
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A woman from Godalming seemingly exhibits a surprising physiological anomaly, prompting investigations from several of Georgian Britain's leading physicians. This episode contains graphic anatomical detail, and quotes fr
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Arguments over the result of the wager between John Hampden and Alfred Russel Wallace descend into a campaign of lawsuits and hate mail. The 3rd episode of a miniseries on the Victorian Flat-Earthers. Music: The Hebrides
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Two flat earthers inspired by Samuel Rowbotham enter into a bizarre wager with an eminent naturalist. The second episode in a miniseries on the Victorian flat-earthers. Music: The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26 by Feli
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At a socialist commune in East Anglia, Samuel Rowbotham takes advantage of the fenland landscape to develop an outlandish cosmological theory. The first in a miniseries on the Victorian Flat Earthers. Music: The Hebrides
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Science: A Peculiar History is hosted by Joe Bath. The show is categorised under history (science) and has published 16 episodes.
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