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358: No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral
He helped plan the Erie Canal. He helped lay out the streets of Manhattan. Here's a real proper big deal in the early United States.
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Only one team managed to make a balloon which actually did float with this helium made out of lead. Unfortunately, due to the wind direction, it started floating towards Logan Airport and they had to ring up Logan…
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UNESCO says there are three million shipwrecks around the world, which is just remarkable. That's an estimate, it's not a tally, but there are just so many out there.
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Dolly Parton donated a million dollars to COVID-19 research, and she sent that to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The money went towards the Moderna vaccine, which has a nearly 95 percent efficacy rate.
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In Nashville, she would walk up and down hotel corridors looking for half-eaten trays of room service that people had left outside their rooms.
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