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July 1, 2024 44 mins

Let’s celebrate our 300th episode and 10 MILLION listens with a bit of fireworks! That sounds exciting, but it’s really just a sleepy catalog of firework displays in England up to the 19th century. Flaming dragon battles and “philosophical fireworks” are somewhat mentioned, so that’s fun.

 

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Read “Pyrotechnics” at Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64922

 

Music: "Peace,” by Lee Rosevere, licensed under CC BY, https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com

 

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