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575: No Such Thing As A Guinea Pig Saloon

2025-03-20 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. AlaskaOne-offUnited States

    It had a theater and a bowling alley and a library and a barbershop and a church and a rifle range. It was lovely. Then it was very quickly abandoned because it was damaged by this earthquake in 1964, the big Alaska…

    mentioned at 00:05:13 · See it on the map →

  2. Anton Anderson Memorial TunnelOne-offUnited States

    One of the most fascinating things about people living in this building is if they want to go to the major local town Anchorage, you can only get to it via this tunnel, the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel. It's four…

    mentioned at 00:07:03 · See it on the map →

  3. Prince William SoundOne-offUnited States

    Prince William Sound is the one thing you'll never hear Prince Harry say. So Prince William Sound is a very important piece of water — the reason the military base was put there is because it was the only non-freezing…

    mentioned at 00:10:16 · See it on the map →

  4. There's a historian called Vladimir Emelyanov at St. Petersburg University who studied these tablets. He found that there is a mention of celebrating the births of the ruler's children. When they celebrated the…

    mentioned at 00:17:00 · See it on the map →

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