Horrifying monsters, dangerous gods and heroes, and incredible underrepresented women.

From the truth about Medusa, she never actually heard anyone, to the horrors of Theseus.

He was basically a serial predator.

I am Liv Albert, and let's talk about Midsphabie is the Greek and Roman mythology podcast

here with all the dirty details and then some.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Tracy V. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.

You may remember back at the start of February, there were a bunch of headlines in the United

States, I don't know about elsewhere, definitely in the United States.

About a Chinese spy balloon traveling over North America, which was then shot down off

the coast of South Carolina on February 4th.

And then after that, the US military started adjusting its radar operations to look for

other similar floating objects, and then they shot down some other stuff that may or may

not have also been balloons.

As all of this was happening, a whole lot of newspapers and other media were publishing

a lot about these balloons or possible balloons and also stories about the balloon bombs

that Japan used to target North America during World War II.

And that is something we have gotten listener requests to talk about on the show before.

These were not the only balloons that were in use during the war though, and they weren't

the first time that balloons were used for military purposes.

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