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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts.

It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here.

Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.

Where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

On June 29th, 1919, one day after the Treaty of Versailles brought about the end of World War I.

Nearly 70 cyclists embarked on the 13th Tour de France.

From Paris, the war-wary men rode down the western coast on a race that would trace the country's border through seaside towns and mountains to the ghostly western front.

Traversing a cratered post-war landscape that looked like the surface of the moon after an asteroid strike where

there were parkmarked craters and really no vegetation or life to be found.

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