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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the

stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History

Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual

stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Everyone, welcome to today's episode. This episode is a little bit different than some

of the others because instead of focusing all my attention on one topic, I'm going to do

a round-robin episode where I focus on three different questions and instead of going

on for 40 minutes or an hour, I'm going to focus about 10 or 15 minutes. These questions

come from the Nolens Rangers, the members of the History Unplugged Podcast. I want to

focus more time on listener questions, but when I do an entire episode on one question,

it's harder to get through it as fast as I like and my backlog grows too large. This

is a way to cut through it a lot faster. Let me know what you think in the Facebook group

if you like this type of format and if so, and I could do more of them. The three questions

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