Episode
592: No Such Thing As A Cat In A Muumuu
Berwick-upon-Tweed has changed hands 13 times over the last thousand years. In 1174 Scotland gave it to England because William I had been captured and that was part of the ransom: we want Berwick-upon-Tweed. Then 20…
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Edward I, the really interesting thing about him is the siege of Stirling Castle when he got this enormous trebuchet built. A trebuchet is like a catapult and it was called the War Wolf. It was 90 meters tall. It took…
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It was Stirling Bridge in fact sadly. When you're killed in a fight but you still did alright, that's de moray.
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He had tried to interfere with the Church of Scotland and he'd tried to impose his own prayer books on the Kirk in 1637. This went down phenomenally badly. It led to a thing called the Bishop's Wars.
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He began his nudism when he was 25. He worked as a live model at the University of Wisconsin. He didn't want tan lines. He thought it was unfair on the people drawing him that they had to draw in the tan lines.
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