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This week on Tales of History and Imagination, we travel from The White House to Coney Island’s Luna Park, from the jungles of Cameroon, to the Bosphorus Strait in the age of Justinian… to the battlefields of World War One - to tell five short tales of animals who also inhabit this world.
Sources this week include:
The Periplus of Hanno the Navigator
Fortean Times World’s Weirdest News Stories.
Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Book 7 of Procopius’ The History of the Wars
This excellent blog post on Porphyrius.
Stories to Wash Hands by, from Nate Di Meo’s The Memory Palace
Topsy the Elephant was a Victim of her Captors by Kat Eschner
And This Smithsonian write up on Cher Ami
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