EPISODE · Oct 7, 2020 · 13 MIN
Whale on a Train! (from "Thar She Blows Again")
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Between 1880 and 1882, a whale visited towns in the Midwest on the back of a train. Scholar Jamie Jones has traced the story of the show men who put the whale on display, and reconstructed its increasingly smelly journey across the US.
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