Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Cities often seem cramped and crowded, don't they?

People work and live in skyscrapers that soar over streets, clogged with taxis and pedestrians.

After all, in a city you can't build out, you build up.

When you think of narrow alleyways and densely packed streets, we often think of places like

New York City and Chicago.

But one location that isn't often talked about lies roughly 4,000 miles away across the

ocean.

And that place is Paris, France.

And back in 1919, one man did the impossible.

He landed a plane in the middle of the city of lights.

His name was Jewel's Vadrine, born in France in 1881.

Vadrine was a hoodlum who spent much of his youth getting in fights on the streets of

Paris.

But despite his heart and nature, he also grew up to become a skilled mechanic.

Vadrine eventually found his way to London when he was 29 to work under actor and aviator

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