135: The Illegitimate Son-of-a-Smith
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Denied his father's true last name for most of his life, James reclaimed it--in a monumental way.
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| 0:00.0 | So, will it be skiing? |
| 0:03.0 | Or Christmas markets on a city break? |
| 0:06.0 | Skiing? Or a city break? |
| 0:09.0 | Some problems are good problems to have. |
| 0:12.0 | Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way |
| 0:17.0 | and package holidays from £159 per person. |
| 0:21.0 | Get the king at EasyJet.com. |
| 0:24.0 | Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights, |
| 0:28.0 | restrictions and season C's apply. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:32.0 | The One That Scientists Would Never Forget |
| 0:37.0 | Long before James wrote his final paper, |
| 0:40.0 | the one that scientists would never forget, |
| 0:43.0 | he was busy writing papers that no one would ever remember. |
| 0:47.0 | Papers like, on a substance from an elm tree called Ullman, |
| 0:51.0 | a few facts relative to the coloring matters of some vegetables, |
| 0:56.0 | on the discovery of acids in mineral substances, |
| 0:59.0 | and the timeless on a saline substance from Mount Vesuvius. |
| 1:05.0 | Though the topics varied wildly, |
| 1:07.0 | his many unvarnished titles had one thing in common. |
| 1:11.0 | They all reflected the author's long-held belief |
| 1:14.0 | that all things should be described as simply and accurately as possible. |
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