William Shakespeare seems to have hated hedgehogs. We don’t quite know why, but it could have something to do with how the tiny animal is depicted by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. Special Thanks to Jamie Jeffers of The British History Podcast and Miles Stokes of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men for providing voicework for this episode.
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142 Icelandic Dracula
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140 The Adventures of Oliver Cromwell’s Severed Head
139 Rosenstrasse
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137 Isaac Newton and the Cat Door
136 Durer’s Rhinoceros
135 Pad Thai, Nationalism, and Mandatory Hats
134 The Imaginary Islands of Benjamin Morrell
133 Hachiko
132 Crystal King on Feast of Sorrow
131 Polyamory, Polygraphs, and Wonder Woman
130 Human Mail
129 Phantom Time, the Dumbest Conspiracy Theory Ever
128 Quest For Thundercows
127 Bummer and Lazarus, the San Francisco Superdogs
126 Jenni L. Walsh on Becoming Bonnie
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