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Once Upon a True Time
by Michael Whitworth
Once Upon a True Time brings American and world history to life for kids and families, with each episode telling a gripping true story and ending with a lesson worth carrying into everyday life. start2finish.substack.com
Episodes
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S1E4: The Dog Nobody Remembers
In January 1925, a deadly disease was spreading among the children of Nome, Alaska, and the medicine that could stop it was far away. Flying in the dead of an Alaskan winter was judged too risky, so about twenty mushers and more than 150 sled dogs carried it by relay across 674 miles of frozen...
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S1E3: Twelve Seconds
Wilbur and Orville Wright were two bicycle mechanics from Ohio with no college degrees and not much money. The famous scientist Samuel Langley had government funding and a big reputation, and his flying machine crashed into a river twice. The Wrights failed too: their gliders crashed, their…
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S1E2: The Girl Who Found a Sea Dragon
Mary Anning grew up poor on the English coast, hunting for "curiosities" in crumbling cliffs to help feed her family. After her brother found a strange skull, twelve-year-old Mary found the rest of the skeleton, a creature no scientist had ever seen. She became one of the greatest fossil hunters…
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S1E1: Stuck in the Ice
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to become the first person to walk across Antarctica. Instead, his ship, the Endurance, was trapped and crushed by sea ice, leaving twenty-eight men stranded at the bottom of the world. What followed was one of the greatest survival stories ever told: months on...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Once Upon a True Time brings American and world history to life for kids and families, with each episode telling a gripping true story and ending with a lesson worth carrying into everyday life.
start2finish.substack.com
HOSTED BY
Michael Whitworth
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