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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Combing Through History

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

One of the most curious things about humans is the ways in which we communicate. Today we'll explore two stories in that theme.

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0:00.0

The 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, known as the gunfight at the OK Corral only lasted

0:06.0

30 seconds, but the market left on popular imagination has held on for nearly 150 years.

0:11.8

Why?

0:12.8

Because Americans have never stopped being fascinated with the Wild West.

0:16.0

Grim and Mile Presents will travel into the unknown, the misunderstood, and the forgotten

0:19.9

tales of America's Westward expansion.

0:22.3

Grim and Mile Presents The Wild West is available now.

0:25.1

Subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:30.1

Learn more over at grimandmild.com slash presents.

0:38.2

Welcome to Erin Mankies, Captain of Curiosity's, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and

0:43.0

Mile.

0:47.2

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:50.5

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:56.3

just waiting for us to explore.

0:59.6

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

1:11.0

Like a lot of people, I had fun dabbling with Pig Latin when I was a kid.

1:15.3

He was probably my first foray into speaking in code, and even though Pig Latin isn't exactly

1:20.6

the most secretive language out there, it is part of what made me interested in cryptography.

1:25.9

Now the word cryptography can be broken down into two parts, crypt, meaning hidden, and

1:30.8

graphy, meaning writing.

1:32.8

The practice of hiding messages by writing in code has been traced back all the way to

1:37.2

ancient Egypt, and cryptography has played a role in major events throughout history.

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