The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As A Triangular Rectangle

2020-09-04 Β· 4 places on the map Β· episode transcript

  1. DurhamOne-offUnited Kingdom

    There was this ox which had been bred by a man called Charles Colling of Kettin Hall in Durham. It was known as the Ketton Ox at first, and it was renamed, so it became the Durham Ox.

    mentioned at 00:32:55 Β· See it on the map β†’

  2. MaineOne-offUnited States

    They were named after the two largest items in Maine at the time. They were supposedly β€” I can't find anything to contradict this β€” the biggest and tallest oxen, respectively, that the world has ever seen.

    mentioned at 00:41:34 Β· See it on the map β†’

  3. Madison SquareOne-offUnited States

    They were the biggest and tallest oxen, respectively, that the world has ever seen. Mount Katardin weighed two and a half tons. They were tall, they were wide, and they were celebrities, and they went around, and they…

    mentioned at 00:41:34 Β· See it on the map β†’

  4. Madison Square GardenOne-offUnited States

    It turns out that Madison Square Garden has been rebuilt a few times. Emmeline Pankhurst actually played the second iteration of the Madison Square Garden, which had a capacity of 8,000 people. She still was kind of…

    mentioned at 00:41:55 Β· See it on the map β†’

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