Ruth Harkness and the First Panda in the U.S.

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 24.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In the 1930s a New York socialite had a dream. She wanted to be the first person to capture a panda from Asia and return to the western world with it. Her quest had a significant impact on the way the Western world viewed wild animals. Read the show notes

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseStopWorks.com.
0:35.7	Hello and welcome to the podcasters.
0:43.7	I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:46.7	And this is actually a topic that I have had on my wish list,
0:50.7	almost at the beginning of when we came on.
0:52.7	You keep doing those.
0:53.7	I know I've said I've been in the last couple of weeks
0:55.7	that I have been trying to go back to some of those original ones.
0:58.7	I was really excited about and work them in.
1:00.7	But this is one that I really wrestled with because the material is a little bit emotionally difficult for me,
1:08.7	for sort of silly, crazy, animal-80 reasons.
1:11.7	It's the story of one of those odd ambitions that only the privileged are really afforded.
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