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Stuff You Missed in History Class

The Lions of Tsavo, Pt. 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In 1898, two male lions killed and ate dozens of people in Tsavo and shut down construction of the Uganda Railroad. Lt. Col. John H. Patterson, a civil engineer working on the project, made it his personal mission to stop the feline scourge.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com.

0:36.7

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

0:44.7

I'm Holly Fry.

0:45.7

I'm Tracy D. Wilson.

0:46.7

And today's topic is one of my kind of crazy excited about, because I love it.

0:50.7

Yes, and it's also one that people have asked us to talk about.

0:53.7

Yes, so it's like a double bonus at that point.

0:57.7

You may have heard some about this tale, but we're actually going to do two parts.

1:02.7

One is what actually happened when all of this was going on,

1:05.7

and then we're going to do a second part about modern science,

1:08.7

kind of analyzing this historical event.

1:11.7

And what we're talking about today, it's, there are two famous lions,

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