Welcome to the History Tricks, where Annie resambles to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show, it's Susan. Beckett couldn't make it today, so you just have me and the life of Louis Fuller.

And here's your 30 second summary.

She was born with an ordinary name into an ordinary family in an ordinary place,

but through her own grit, gumption, creativity, style, and her june s'écois, she spun through her life in the most extraordinary way.

The End.

Let's talk about Louis Fuller, but first let's drop her into history.

In 1862, in addition to a lot of activity surrounding the United States Civil War,

including Julia Howe publishing the Battle Him of the Republic as a poem in Atlantic Monthly,

Louis Pastore began testing a process to inhibit bacteria and wine and prevent it from becoming vinegar.

We now know this as pasteurization.

An aerosol dispenser was first patented, and the wooden bowling ball was invented for a sport that can be traced back to 5000 BC Egypt.

Otto von Bismarck was appointed Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Prussia by then King Wilhelm I,

and Vienna's first communal park, the Stadpach, opened.

Charles Datsen told a young family friend about the adventures of a character who shared her name, Alice.

Edith Worton, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Claude W.C., and William Sidney Porter,

who's best known by his pen name, Oh Henry, were all born. Samuel Colt and Henry David Therodide.

And in 1862, the curtain rose on the dramatic life of Lowie Fuller.

Marie Louise Fuller was born on January 15th, 1862, in Fuller's Burg, Illinois.

She was the second of three children born to Ruben and Delilah Eaton Fuller.

Both of Marie's parents' families stretched way back to the Revolutionary War in the United States.

Papa Ruben's family had settled in New York after that, but when Papa was just a lad,

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