Ep 48: The Cat Who Adopted An LA School

10/24/21 • 27 min

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Today, there is a sign that says no pets allowed on the fence surrounding Elysian Heights Elementary - but the very foundation of this school's culture is built on the spirit of a cat named Room 8 who went to school every single day for 16 years. Let's learn about the most famous cat in the US that you likely never heard of because the Internet didn't exist in the 50s.
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Resources for today's episode:
https://www.thegreatcat.org/room-8/

https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-room-8-mascot-at-elysian-heights-elementary-school-20181127-htmlstory.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/room-8-the-cat-mural

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2008/04/02/classy-cat/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7374255/room-eight

https://www.imdb.com/

Erik Friedl, Los Angeles-based photographer who took the photos described in the episode. You can see some of Erik's work on YouTube.

And on the humble potato:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-peel-away-potatos-dna-secrets-bmc09hd5hqb

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine

https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/chromosome-number-not-correlated-complexity

Melissa McCue-McGrath

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https://www.latimes.com/visuals/photography/la-me-fw-archives-room-8-mascot-at-elysian-heights-elementary-school-20181127-htmlstory.html

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/room-8-the-cat-mural

https://www.dailybreeze.com/2008/04/02/classy-cat/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7374255/room-eight

https://www.imdb.com/

Erik Friedl, Los Angeles-based photographer who took the photos described in the episode. You can see some of Erik's work on YouTube.

And on the humble potato:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-peel-away-potatos-dna-secrets-bmc09hd5hqb

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine

https://genetics.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/chromosome-number-not-correlated-complexity

Melissa McCue-McGrath

Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/BewilderBeastsPod)

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Ep 47: The Sheep in The Clouds

In 1783 a duck, a rooster and a sheep named Montauciel were heading straight for the sky. How does their unlikely story change lead to three Billionaires ending up in space over 200 years later?
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https://storytellershat.com/2016/08/30/montauctiel-the-flying-sheep/

https://time.com/3583782/hot-air-balloon-history/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hot-air-balloon-rooster-sheep-duck-first

Science Comics ROCKETS : Defying Gravity by Anne Drozd and Jerzy Drozd

Stuff You Missed In History Class

https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1780-1789/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Montgolfier-brothers

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/joseph-michel-and-jacques-etienne-montgolfier
The Measure Of Things

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Next Episode

Ep 49: Revenge of the Shaggy Pants

Today Melissa takes a series of shallow dives into more royalty who were killed by hubris which changed the world forever, and has some fun with the worst nicknames in royal history. Let's go!
Resources for today's episode include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_of_France_(11O16%E2%80%931131)
https://allthatsinteresting.com/royal-titles-nicknames

https://www.britannica.com/list/7-monarchs-with-unfortunate-nicknames

http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/royal-deaths-from-horse-accidents/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Went_Hensley

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58623/60-historys-strangest-royal-epithets

A List of Loius’s https://www.neworleansbar.org/uploads/files/6_3_19%20A%20List%20of%20Louies%20Part%201%20Article.pdf
https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-who-died-of-animal-attack/reference

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/normans/1066_01.shtml

https://bewilderbeastspod.podcastpage.io/episode/ep-28-the-flying-turtle-who-killed-a-guy
Links as always are in the description of today's episode

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