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You're certainly familiar with the rabbit. You probably know about the mice. You might have even encountered a certain fishing gentleman frog.

But what about the mysteries of mushrooms, the salvation of sheep, and the niceties of the national trust? Stay tuned!

Let's talk about Beatrix Potter.

But first, let's drop her into history. In 1866, Jesse James held up his first bank in Liberty, Missouri.

Lucie B. Hobbs became the first US woman to earn her DDS degree.

Andrew Johnson, he was the US President between Abel Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

Vito, the civil rights bill, which was then overwritten by Congress and became the 14th Amendment.

Andrew Rankin patented the urinal. J. Osterholt patented the tin can with a key opener.

Buchkasti and Sullivan, H.G. Wells were all born. And on July 28, 1866, Helen Beatrix Potter entered this world.

Helen Beatrix Potter was born on July 28, 1866 in London at number two, Bolton Gardens.

She was the eldest of the two children of Rupert and Helen Leach Potter.

So both Papaa and Emma had inherited considerable fortunes from their parents in the cotton industry, printing on one side and mills on the other side.

They were part of this fortunate second generation of wealth who never had anything official to do.

Papaa was technically a barrister and a solicitor, but there's no evidence that he actually ever had a case at all.

There's the mark of a gentleman. In fact, Beatrix once told someone that one time he thought he had a case and he kind of got a little panic.

But it turned out to be a practical joke. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. I put lawyer in quotes. He had a practice, but he didn't practice.

I think it's interesting that both of them were the offspring of the pull themselves up by the bootstraps working class guy.

That's all their parents made their money, but in that one generation, they're so distanced from it. That's what money does.

That's what new money. Yes. We'll talk about that later.

Well, Grandpa Pa, bootstraps, Grandpa Pa, had become an MP, which is a member of Parliament for We American.

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