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

Hello, it's Susan. Here in the United States, it's Thanksgiving Week.

And back in, I thought that this was the perfect time to revisit our friend, Pocahontas.

Because this Thanksgiving is so unusual, it's sheltered and small and different and we're all

trying our best to make it special.

Maybe sitting with your family and listening to the story of Pocahontas might become a new tradition for you.

Whatever you're doing this year, happy Thanksgiving to our American friends and to all of our friends on the other side of the mic across the globe.

Please stay healthy and safe.

A quick note due to a cascading series of technical difficulties.

Susan has disappeared from the first section.

We'll rejoin her again in section two.

Before the beginning, it is only me and now on with the show.

And here is your 30-second summary.

Once there was a story about an 11-year-old girl who saved the life of an explorer from her father's wrath.

She did save the lives of his people, but not the way you've been told.

The End.

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

In 1607, Galileo invented an early version of the thermometer called the thermoscope, and he was deep into his studies of motion.

Shakespeare's new plays, King Lear and Macbeth, were both being performed, except during the months between July and November when the plague closed all the theaters.

China was in the Ming Dynasty.

Philip III was king of Spain in Portugal.

Vesili IV was Zara of Russia.

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