Combing Through History

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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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.
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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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