Welcome to AirNenky'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.

They say the apple never falls far from the tree.

The implied meaning, I think, is that kids tend to echo their parents.

Maybe you hear your mother in the way you laugh, or perhaps you see your nose in the mirror

every morning and are instantly reminded of your grandfather and his siblings.

Work no further than Danny Harrison, son of Beetle, George Harrison, or Ken Griffey

Jr. and his father, both of whom were popular prominent major league baseball players.

And while Griffey Jr. son didn't follow his family into the same game, he ended up

playing in the NFL.

But the old adage isn't universally true.

In fact, some kids fall pretty far from the parental tree, and William was one of them.

It wasn't all his fault, though.

People are often a product of the times they live in, and William lived through some of

the most tumultuous in history, the sort of turmoil that gives birth to a brand new

sovereign nation, in fact.

His parents weren't married when he was born around 1730, and much of his time was spent

in the care of his mother.

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