Episode 6: Every Dam Has Its Þ
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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. 2
https://www.geoinstitute.org/news/johnstown-flood-1889-catastrophe-civil-engineering-part-1
The Forgotten Letters of the English Alphabet
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31904/12-letters-didnt-make-alphabet
Listener Tabs:
https://www.teachertube.com/videos/physical-science-for-children-all-about-forces-and-gravity-349164
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/larping-your-job
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