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No Such Thing As The Paula Radcliffe Of F1 Racing

2025-05-29 Β· 2 places on the map Β· episode transcript

  1. AetnaOne-offItaly

    Aetna is a really confusing place because it sounds like your child's drawing of a volcano, which is two slopes on either side, and a crater in the middle. Etna isn't really like that. There are dozens of craters.

    mentioned at 00:38:41 Β· See it on the map β†’

  2. CataniaOne-offItaly

    That explosion is also, as far as we can tell, the first historical recorded attempt to divert a lava stream as it's coming down. There was a town, Catania, and they dug trenches above the village in order to divert the…

    mentioned at 00:42:25 Β· See it on the map β†’

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