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EPISODE · Apr 11, 2024 · 26 MIN

Episode 52: The Cannon Shot Rule: How Maritime Law Conquered the Sky

from Tracing The Path: The Connected 20th Century · host Dan R. Morris - 20th Century Historian

Did you know the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the Chinese Spy Balloon and the International Space Station all have one thing in common?  A law written in Roman Times.  Let us tell you about NASA and Captain Skip Strong, the Stamp Act, H.G. Wells,  Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Antarctica and the 1967 Space Treaty. 

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