The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As A Fourteen Humped Camel

2021-10-08 · 3 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. North YemenOne-offYemen

    Norman Lewis thinks that he was probably the third or fourth English person ever to go to North Yemen. Britain had a colonial territory called Aden, which was owned from 1839 until about 1960 something.

    mentioned at 00:22:42 · See it on the map →

  2. Very, very difficult. Yeah, it's a town. There's a town called Pussy and their town has a canyon. in it, Pussy Canyon. It's named after a Roman person, we think, called Pusius. Who lived inside a cat when he was spying.…

    mentioned at 00:33:13 · See it on the map →

  3. Mont BlancOne-offFrance

    In 1852, there was a show on in London called the Ascent of Mont Blanc by a guy called Albert Smith, which was just a guy who'd climbed up Mont Blanc. That was it, but the show ran for six years on Piccadilly.

    mentioned at 00:34:32 · See it on the map →

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