20: 🏴‍☠️ Talk like a pirate monk necromancer!

09/18/20 • 26 min

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Every 19 September is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and we thought we’d celebrate with some pirate tales, history and facts. We aren’t just looking at the golden age of piracy though - we take our time machine to see how Julius Caesar handles being captured by pirates and tell the tale of the Eustace Black Monk. He was a medieval pirate, monk and necromancer who spread fear through the English channel fighting for both England and France. Anton uncovers various pirate facts and rights some wrongs in how we view them and teaches me some pirate lingo! So let’s hoist our sails and journey together once more.

Show notes: https://curiosityofpod.com/episodes/talk-like-a-necromancer-pirate-monk

Show notes: https://curiosityofpod.com/episodes/talk-like-a-necromancer-pirate-monk

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19: 👵 The oldest woman in the world and frozen dogs

This episode we travel far back in time to look at some frozen dogs found in the Siberian tundra. These amazingly preserved animals are helping scientists understand the evolution and domestication of modern-day canines - could they be ancestors of the first Russian space dogs?

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Show notes: https://curiosityofpod.com/episodes/pigments-that-poison-and-a-colourful-history