Roller Coasters

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The French word for “roller coaster” is “montagnes russes” or “Russian mountains.” Since the origin of roller coasters, inventors have been improving the early designs that came from Russia to create astonishing amusement park thrill rides.

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0:00.0	I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar.
0:03.2	If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous.
0:05.2	Amber, get on with it.
0:06.2	Okay everybody, we have exciting news to share.
0:08.4	We're teaming up with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network to bring you our
0:11.8	brand new podcast called The Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber Show.
0:15.0	We did it.
0:16.0	We sold a bunch of books, we conquered late night and now we'll play fun quizzes and games
0:19.8	with friends and take you along for the ride.
0:22.4	Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money
0:26.1	Players Network on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:43.3	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Tracy V. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.
0:48.1	I've mentioned on the show recently that I've been trying to improve my French on Duolingo
0:54.2	and for some languages Duolingo has these stories where the characters have this conversation
1:01.1	in an at least hypothetically real world kind of scenario and there's this one where two
1:07.3	friends Lili and Zari are having they're having a conversation in line to ride a roller coaster
1:14.6	and every time Duolingo has shown me this story I have wound up mostly focused on the fact that
1:21.9	the French word for roller coaster is Montagne Rousse or Russian Mountains and so every time I'm like
1:30.7	what is the story there and that is how we got to this episode. So during this episode we're going
1:37.0	to be touching a little bit on amusement park history more generally because there becomes a point
1:44.0	where these two things are very tightly interconnected but one thing we're not really going to talk about
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