Ep. 8 - The Empress of Floreana
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together. |
| 0:07.0 | Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit, and access |
| 0:11.5 | recent chrome tabs across both devices. |
| 0:14.0 | The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together. |
| 0:18.0 | Available on Sky Mobile. |
| 0:20.0 | Bluetooth and internet connection required. |
| 0:22.0 | You must be signed into the same Google |
| 0:23.2 | account on both your phone and Chromebook. |
| 0:27.0 | Situated in the Pacific Ocean, about a thousand kilometers west of continental Ecuador, are the Galapagos Islands, |
| 0:38.0 | an archipelago formed by volcanic activity that stretches across both sides of the equator. |
| 0:45.8 | The islands are famed for their endemic species, some of which, like the giant tortoise, |
| 0:50.4 | are native to the region, while others, like goats, cattle, and that most hardy ocean |
| 0:54.5 | traveler of them all, the rat, were brought there by passing sailors throughout the centuries. |
| 1:01.1 | Life in the Galapagos is so diverse that in 1835 Charles Darwin visited the islands during the second voyage in the HMS Beagle, |
| 1:07.0 | inspiring him to write his seminal work on the origin of species. |
| 1:16.6 | There is a legend that says the giant tortoises that live on the islands have the ability to stare into the souls of visitors and tell what motivates them, either approving of their |
| 1:21.2 | visit or marking them for death. |
| 1:25.0 | The first recorded visit to the island happened by accident in 1535, |
| 1:29.0 | when Freight Thomas de Barlanga, the Bishop of Panama, was blown off course on his way to Peru to arbitrate a dispute between Diego del Amargo and legendary explorer Francisco Pizarro. |
| 1:40.0 | Eventually, de Barlanga returned to his native Spain full of amazing tales of the islands and the wondrous creatures that inhabited them. |
| 1:48.0 | After that, word traveled fast and the explorers just kept on coming. |
| 1:54.0 | Pirates from the 17th and 18th centuries |
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