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The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Erie Canal and The Chicago River were two of the most impressive engineering feats in history. For the 200th Anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal we look at the opening celebration, along with a fun musical diversion or two. And how can you talk about moving water without talking about the efforts to change sanitation in Chicago? This included reversing the flow of the river that runs through the city!

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0:00.0	If you're a nurse or future nurse, you know how challenging and rewarding this career can be.
0:06.6	Hi there, I'm Nurse Mo, creator of the Straight A Nursing podcast.
0:10.6	I'd love for you to join me every Thursday as I teach nursing concepts and share tips to help you succeed in school and at the bedside.
0:19.3	Each episode breaks down often complex information
0:22.5	so it's easy to understand so you could feel more confident whether you're taking an exam or
0:28.1	taking care of patients. So subscribe to the Strading Nursing podcast and I'll see you on Thursday.
0:35.5	We've all been there. You're standing in a museum, staring at a painting, and all you can
0:40.0	think is, I don't get it. To me, knowing the story behind an artwork is a huge part of knowing
0:46.5	how to look at it. I'm Amanda, the host of the Art of History podcast, where we view history
0:52.1	through the lens of some really great works of art.
0:55.8	Each episode, we dive deep into the bigger picture behind some familiar and maybe not so
1:00.3	familiar pieces. Check out Art of History now wherever you get your podcasts.
1:06.7	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
1:12.4	Look out!
1:13.5	Here comes the 111 episode of The Past and the Curious.
1:18.6	Hi everyone, I'm Mick Sullivan.
1:20.5	This is the Past and the Curious, and I'm so glad you were joining me.
1:24.1	This episode is coming out at the very end of October 2025, which happens to be
1:30.3	the same week, 200 years prior, that the Erie Canal opened. It was a pivotal event in American
1:38.3	history, world history, engineering history, marriage of water history, all of those things. It's a really fun story.
1:46.0	And there's some aspects about it that I found fascinating,
1:49.0	including how they just communicated with cannons to let everybody know that it was open.
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