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Hello and welcome to how to take over the world.

This is Ben Wilson.

And this week I'm doing a mini episode.

I'm neck deep in research about the British Navy and the famous Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Episode one of that series will be coming next week.

But in the meantime, I just wanted to drop a brief mini episode on other

things that I'm researching. So in addition to reading all these biographies and all the research I do for

the main episodes, sometimes I wander down other rabbit holes. And so I thought I would share

some of the other things that I've been learning about and thinking about this week while we wait for

the main episode. So I got two things this week. One is something that I came across while doing background research on the British Navy

in order to get ready for this upcoming episode on Lord Nelson.

And I came across a character named Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

And as you're researching the British Navy,

you come across a lot of these figures, these classic Elizabethan English adventurers, the most famous one,

is Sir Francis Drake.

And this guy's kind of like that.

So he fights the French at La Havre.

He then fights the Irish.

He gets elected to Parliament.

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