Happy Friday! Happy Mostly Unsung Day!! Welcome back to another hilarious episode of historical biography madness. Join your podcast friends for more stories you've never heard before.This week Annie is in beautiful Yorkshire with a true English Eccentric. Causing a bit of a stir with his eccentric attire, outlandish mode of transport and his unusual pets. People may have laughed but he absolutely managed the last laugh with possibly the finest sounding funeral ever planned.Then Andrea is off to explore Kentucky in the United States where an equally eccentric man is looking for a new calling after leaving the armed forces. His inspiration coming from an unlikely combination of Saturn's rings and the migration patterns of animals.For this episode Andrea used these sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cleves_Symmes_Jr.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1873/04/the-symmes-theory-of-the-earth/631214/https://eu.cincinnati.com/story/news/2023/01/08/hollow-earth-theory-connection-hamilton-ohio-captain-john-cleves-symmes/69778206007/For this episode Annie used these sources:https://gizmodo.com/the-weirdest-animal-expert-who-ever-lived-5767995https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemmy_HirstWhere you can find us: https://www.instagram.com/mostlyunsung/ https://www.facebook.com/share/16J4vuMy1h/ https://bsky.app/profile/mostlyunsung.bsky.social [email protected] See you next Friday!

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