Listen "6: Johnstown Flood pt 2 and The Letter Thorn Þ"
Episode Synopsis
This week Kaveh concludes the Katamari style horrors of the Johnstown flood and Hannah shares how the Europeans had their own American Idol but for letters of the alphabet instead of singers. A listener email reveals if a childhood memory was in fact cake, and how it exploded.Correction: the Phoenician alphabet comes after the Proto-Sinaitic script and before the Greek alphabet Episode Tabs:The Johnstown Flood pt. 2https://www.geoinstitute.org/news/johnstown-flood-1889-catastrophe-civil-engineering-part-1The Forgotten Letters of the English Alphabethttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-alphabetListener Tabs:https://www.teachertube.com/videos/physical-science-for-children-all-about-forces-and-gravity-349164https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-jobEmail your closed tab submissions to: [email protected] the conversation by joining us on Discord! https://discord.gg/8px5RJHk7aSUPPORT THE SHOW and 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula by going to https://nebula.tv/500opentabsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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