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005-Mailing People, Alien Shorthand, and Benjamin Franklin
FromFutility Closet
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Apr 14, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Henry Brown found a unique way to escape slavery: He mailed himself to Pennsylvania. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll accompany Brown on his perilous 1849 journey from Richmond to Philadelphia, follow a 5-year-old Idaho girl who was mailed to her grandparents in 1914, and delve deeper into a mysterious lion sighting in Illinois in 1917.We'll also decode a 200-year-old message enciphered by Benjamin Franklin, examine an engraved ball reputed to have fallen out of the Georgia sky in 1887, and present the next Futility Closet Challenge.
Released:
Apr 14, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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