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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Behind the Scenes Minis: Mary and Marjorie

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Tracy shares the surprising benefit of not having access to a lot of specifics regarding the work of Mary Golda Ross. Holly talks about Marjorie Merriwether Post being a serial monogamist.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.4

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:16.0

Happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

0:18.5

And I'm Holly Fry.

0:19.9

We talked about Mary Golda Ross this week.

0:22.7

Yes. Pros and cons to knowing so little about the details of her work as a mathematician and aerospace engineer.

0:32.2

Cons? I felt like we were a little thin on details to include in the episode.

0:38.7

That's the tricky bit.

0:40.1

Pros, I did not have to figure out how to explain incredibly complex mathematics and engineering stuff.

0:49.1

Right? Those are always tricky as heck for me.

0:51.8

Yeah, there's, I did, I never took an engineering class,

0:55.9

aside from my arithmetic difficulties that we have talked about, once I got into mathematics

1:00.7

that was more about like geometry and interesting equations and stuff, I, I liked it a lot more

1:07.3

than I did when I was a kid. And I did pretty well in classes like astronomy and

1:12.6

physics and chemistry. But there's a ceiling. I get to a point where I'm like, I don't understand this

1:19.3

anymore. Yeah. I understood up until this moment. And now I have no idea what's happening.

1:25.3

It's challenging.

1:33.3

I can't remember if we talked about this when we talked about in the high episode. Holly, have you been to the Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.?

1:37.3

I feel embarrassed to tell you, I'm not sure.

1:40.3

Okay.

1:41.3

I mean, there's a lot of museums in Washington, D.C.

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