Alps
About Alps
The Alps are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately 1,200 km (750 mi) across several Alpine countries : Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Slovenia.
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There are towns in the Alps who are still burying soldiers from the First World War, thanks to glacial melt. Loads of soldiers were posted in the Alps during the First World War, and it was incredibly, obviously, very cold, extremely harsh conditions to live in, and they were fighting very fiercely over almost no territory, basically.
from No Such Thing As High-Fiving The Beatles, 2017-03-24 at 00:36:45 · read transcript
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Go hedgehogs. I like a good hedgehog fact. You can build up a resistance to arsenic if you try your hardest, which is good news. There were some peasants in the Styrian Alps several centuries ago who ate massive chunks of arsenic twice a week, and they claimed it improved the complexion. Not far off from the Warfists. Scientists said, no, that's ridiculous, arsenic's very poisonous. They're like, well, how come our skin is so good?
20: No Such Thing As A Dangerous Daffodil, 2014-08-01 · listen
The Bokhov in one of his books called Transparent Things. he writes, there's many a mile between condom in Gascoigne and Pussy in Savoy. Wise words. Dirty old man. Wow. I got into reading about the Alps and about Mont Blanc. Oh, yeah. Because this is all in the Montblanc area of France. Montblanc is a very interesting place. Though it's so interesting that in England, in 1852, there was a show on in London called the Ascent of Montblanc by a guy called Albert Smith, which was just a guy who'd climbed up Mont Blanc.
No Such Thing As A Fourteen Humped Camel, 2021-10-08 · listen
Bones of the food that people throw Yeah, and that is where the phrase throw me a bone comes from There was lots of reasons that people climb Mont Blanc This was from a book called Killing Dragons the conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming Um in 1818 there was a russian count called Matsefsky Who did it because he wanted to improve his poetry skills Hmm Yeah, do you think no, I don't know.
429: No Such Thing As Newsbite, 2022-06-02 · listen
Wow. Was this back when James was in charge of programming the theatres? There's a lot of reasons that people have climbed Mont Blanc in the past. This is from a book called Killing Dragons, The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming. In 1818, there was a Russian count called Mazewski, and he decided to climb to the top of Mont Blanc to improve his poetry skills. Oh. There's a guy called John Oljo who climbed to the top so he could see a better reflection of the mountain and the lake.
394: No Such Thing As A Fourteen Humped Camel, 2021-10-08 · listen
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