The Plaice to Know

Episode

373: No Such Thing As The Handshake Police

2021-05-14 Β· 5 places on the map Β· episode transcript

  1. BakuOne-offAzerbaijan

    The city had 120,000 people at the start of June, and by the end of June, there were only 20,000 people left in Baku. People had fled out of Baku, but it meant that they'd taken cholera with them on the trains and the…

    mentioned at 00:04:27 Β· See it on the map β†’

  2. Geological SocietyOne-offUnited Kingdom

    She wasn't allowed to be part of the Geological Society because they didn't allow women in those days.

    mentioned at 00:34:27 Β· See it on the map β†’

  3. ImperialOne-offUnited Kingdom

    There was the director of the Lyme Regis Museum called David Tucker. She was born in 1970, she'd be heading up the Paleontology Department at Imperial or Cambridge by now.

    mentioned at 00:34:59 Β· See it on the map β†’

  4. DenverOne-offUnited States

    They were going to move to Denver, Colorado, but then in 1992 there was a group called Colorado for Family Values that pushed an amendment which was described by the writers of Cheers as an egregious anti-gay amendment,…

    mentioned at 00:49:25 Β· See it on the map β†’

  5. Supreme CourtOne-offUnited States

    The US Supreme Court declared it was unconstitutional so it got kicked out anyway, but they lost all of this kind of investment and all of these shows and stuff just refused to go to Colorado.

    mentioned at 00:50:13 Β· See it on the map β†’

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