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

Let's talk about Marie Curie.

But first, let's drop her into history.

In 1895, the National Trust was founded in Britain.

Physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rudkin accidentally discovered X-rays.

Alfred Nobel's will established the Nobel Prize.

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake premiered.

volleyball was invented in Massachusetts.

Frederick Douglass died at the age of 77.

Catherine Lee Bates published America the Beautiful.

And on July 26th, 1895, Maria Slidovsky and Pierre Curie

brought together by literal magnetism were married.

And here's your 32nd summary with a certain amount of apology.

I was a little product of the Polish aristocracy because I was a girl I could not go to university.

My dreams and friends were realized.

And twice I won the Nobel Prize, Polonium and Radium and Radio Activity.

Maria Salomea Sklidovska was born on November 7th, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland.

To Vladislav Slidovsky and Bronislava Boguska Slidovska.

Oh, I should get points for this.

I'm sitting here, I'm like silently applauding you.

I wrote them phonetically.

That's fine. She cheated.

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