Episode

83: No Such Thing As A Flying Sniffer Dog

2015-10-16 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

1. BakersfieldOne-offUnited States

   There's a guy called Mr. Slivers, and he was arrested, and they interviewed him afterwards. He said, I was just bored, and I decided I wanted to be a cat burglar.

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2. NinevehOne-offIraq

   Sinakarib is most famous for moving his capital city to Nineveh, and he had a really amazing capital city with gardens. They think it might have been the hanging gardens of Babylon.

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3. Hanging Gardens of BabylonOne-offIraq

   A lot of historians now think that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were his gardens, and he irrigated the mountains all around, so he built this incredible canal that stretched 50 kilometres up into the mountains, and…

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4. University of Western AustraliaOne-offAustralia

   The scientist who found this out is called Boris Baer. He's from the University of Western Australia and he was asked whether this might happen in humans, whether human women could do such a thing, and he said that he…

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