Show notes
The year is 1768! Philip Astley brings the first circus to town, the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth is born, Jean-Paul Marat learns why it's not a good idea to take meetings while in the bathtub, and Steller's Sea Cow just...just be nice to animals, y'all.
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Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license.
http://www.circopedia.org/Philip_Astley
http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-origin/philip-astley/
https://www.philipastley.org.uk/
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.13370
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/pleistoseacow/522831/
https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1036/report.pdf
https://www.ashoka.edu.in/static/doc_uploads/file_1615554314.pdf#page=31
