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Hey, hey, hey, welcome to the past in the curious.

My name is Mick Sullivan, and this is my show.

And holy canoli, it's hot right now where I am, and it has been.

I usually turn my air conditioner off when I do recording, but I'm leaving it on, y'all, because it's hot.

So you might hear it in the background. Sorry about that, at least just over the intro but hey the two ladies in this episode they both found a way to beat the

heat now the way that they beat the heat was to climb mountains where it was freezing cold and not a lot

of oxygen and you know other other things that you deal with

at very high elevations. But hey, at least it was cool up there. Both of these women are

awesome. I think you're really going to enjoy this episode. Henri d'angeville is, uh,

it has to be one of the coolest people from history. Also, Julia Archibald Holmes.

What a cool person.

So, let's get started.

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