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🗓️ 15 July 2014
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Agatha Christie once said that she wanted to be remembered as, “a good writer of detective and thriller stories.” We say she needs to be remembered for a whole lot more: daughter, wife, mother, pharmacist, playwright and adventurer only begin the list.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the History Trix, where any resemblance to a poor ringled history lesson is purely coincidental. |
0:07.0 | This show is dedicated to Marine Johnson, author of 13 Little Boo On The Loops and other stories and one of the voices of Generation X. |
0:18.0 | My people, XO, XO. |
0:21.0 | And here's your 47.5-second summary! |
0:26.0 | One little girl sat reading in a tree, then went to France and married Christy. |
0:31.0 | Two became three and then became four. |
0:34.0 | She pulled a disappearing act and showed her man the door. |
0:37.0 | Five books later Mrs. Christy was a writer. |
0:40.0 | She met an archaeologist who spent his life beside her. |
0:43.0 | Six romance novels whose author is a mystery. |
0:46.0 | Seven is too hard to rhyme, so let's move on to history! |
0:50.0 | Eight actors in the mouse trap which smashed up every record. |
0:54.0 | Two two got wind of it and soon Dave Christie's record... |
0:58.0 | Day did. |
1:00.0 | And then nine, ten, big fat hen, la la la, and then the renun. |
1:05.0 | Behead. |
1:07.0 | Let's talk about Agatha Christie. |
1:10.0 | But first let's drop her into history. |
1:12.0 | In 1890 the first US college level dairy school opened in Wisconsin. |
1:18.0 | W.B. Purvis patented the fountain pen. |
1:21.0 | Nelly Blyde, the filious fog's time around the world. |
1:25.0 | Ellis Island is designated and opens as an immigration station. |
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