Episode
29: No Such Thing As Terrestrial Sweetcorn
I found records from West Virginia Asylum from between 1864 and 1889 and Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital, just two sources that I found which give lists of reasons for admission. One of them is novel reading. Other…
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Records from West Virginia Asylum from between 1864 and 1889 give lists of reasons for admission. One of them is novel reading. Other reasons for admission into the West Virginia Asylum in that time period include…
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Salman Rushdie wrote a theme tune titled 'The Best Things Begin With B' for the Burnley Building Society. He wrote the lyrics to it: 'You can dream a little, you can dream a lot, but the best dreams of all are the ones…
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There was a gang of counterfeiters that tried to con the Bank of England a few years ago out of 28 billion pounds. The audacious plot was foiled by the fact that the 1000 pound banknotes had not been legal tender for…
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