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welcomed airmen keys cabinet of curiosity is a production of i hurt radio and grim and mild our world is full of the unexplainable
history is an open book all of these
his amazing tales right there on display just wait
and for us to explore welcome to the cabinet
of curiosities
we have all of
thing at one point it could have been our car keys
or the remote to the television maybe it was an airing or a little bit of money left over from party in the night before the often times the
course of action is to retrace our steps and hope that we see
bull upon the missing item along the way but every
once in a while something disappears completely and i can't be found new bet
how hard you look and that is worth
saint victorious comes in members of the house
fourth the ducks church who have lost something of importance may prey to saint penurious who will help them located little is known about phineas including the time in which he lived his name was discovered in fish
in hundred a d by hungary soldiers who found the ruins of an old church on the island of roads after they
conquered the area their leader ordered the men to rebuild the war torn walls of the city several church icons or religious artworks were discovered on the floor including an icon of saint finesse amazingly it still looked as fresh as the day it was painted and around the icon were twelve illustrated tablets blows depicting for norris his life
several were violent in tone including one where he was being whipped by soldiers in pelted with stones but no matter how much torture he was put through it seems that finery came out victorious with the last
in showing him standing among the flames his hands raised in prayer
some time later three young deacons from crete were taken captive
be haggard arena and brought to roads
begins had gone to kiss her to be ordained but now found themselves sold into slavery they had been
separated with each priest held captive by a different master but they all knew of finery us each priest
paid to him day and night to be released in research
to those prayers venereal appeared before their captors in order that the priests be freed from their homes or their mass
there would be punished
but his wishes were ignored and those masters tortured the priests even further so safe
yes did the job himself he broke the priest free
their shackles and told them
esters one last time to let them go where they would witness the
or of god well then
ex day everyone living in the homes were the priests were being held woke up paralyzed blind and an immense pain with no other
of course they asked the priests what they needed to do to be healed and the priest told them that they would
before them saint victorious made one last plea to the cap
here's to let the priests go or they would now
recover by now they had finally seeing the light the master
immediately released all three priests and eventually regained their site and their health and the priests
went back to their home on crete a copy of
i kind of saint venereal packed with them every year
her following their return they held a feast
saint venereal in his honor now fear
his name means to reveal and today he is prayed to whenever something is lost be it a wallet a house key or a set of priests and to help the discovery process along people would often bake a special cake named after the saints called a fan or a pizza sam
that the cake is made in honour of his mother who is said to be cruel toward him she
forever be a lost soul that he was never able to save the cake is spice
made with eggs or dairy so it's considered weaken or lynton though rest
he's very it's often prepared with olive oil orange juice cinnamon and clubs the number of ingredients is also important that person baker
it will usually mix in seven or nine components because
numbers are important to the greek orthodox church
it said that one desperate woman promised sing for nurses thirteen cakes if he
help her find her lost dog when the pooch eventually did turn up the woman baked all thirteen cakes just as promised
her time a mother baked the cake on behalf of each of her for children to help them find their future
spouses this belief in
entropy that is real because those who begged swear it works
to say the wrong
at the end of the day though one lesson is clear belief is
a curious thing whether you're lost or found
hmm
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and at most folks can agree on is that benjamin franklin had a brilliant mind he was an essential figure in the foundation of our country a driving force behind the american enlightenment and a leading scientist of his day he was also
oh eccentric might be the best way to phrase it we are to begin the paper on
thirteen seems like a good place to start his essay fart proudly
written in seventeen eighty one when he was ambassador to france there were
also his infamous airbags during which he said
naked in front of open windows to ward off sickness and we previously
heard here about the ten bodies in the basement of his london home that were discussed
but until nineteen ninety eight o end here
the fur hat popular among the french elite during his time their french
and even begin dawning large wigs they called coffee or other franklin oh and frankly
is also one of the world's first storm chasers the key
and the kites might be one of benjamin franklin most famous moments everyone has heard of its although we're not totally sure how the experiment actually went down allegedly on june tenth of seventeen fifty two benjamin franklin took a kite out into a storm to see if the metal key attached to the string withdraw the lightning one lucky strike later and eureka of course historic
don't actually know the date and it's very
likely lightning actually struck the key because if it had the great benjamin franklin might not have lived
tell the tale will we can assume that the key picture
a charge from the storm and the shock franklin got from touching it help
firm that lightning was a form of electricity that could be harnessed
what many don't realize though is that the key and the kite
were part of a series of tests that frankly was conducting the electrical question
had been floating around in his mind since at least seventeen forty five and he was
was concerned with what the power of electricity could be used for everything we take
granted today from light to heat and more
a ahead of him
the possibilities were just to tempting i'm not
if any of our listeners work or have worked in the emergency room but i'm sure they could confirm for me that during the holidays the e r is extra crowded with the fourth of july it's usually fireworks mishaps for christmas its problems with decorations herbs slipping on ice and without giving of course its cooking the turkey everyone's
is to have a different opinion of the best way to do it some like two barbecue it some grid
some roasted in the oven and i'm sure we ve all seen the videos of folks trying to fry it in their driveways with mixed success
and did you know that benjamin franklin was extremely fond of turkey's he firmly believe that they should be america's national bird and even got into a fight with john adams and thomas jefferson over the subject adams
all for the eagle and jefferson was for the dove i'm sure you can
guess who one that round and here's the crazy part franklin
lee that his beloved electricity was in fact the best way to cook a turkey in a seven
keen forty nine letter to his friend peter collinson in london franklin explained that he was going to kill and cook a turkey for their dinner solely using electricity because it would make the meat uncommon
the tender franklin
is to light in jars for this experiment these devices store static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of the glass jar and franklin was very
confidence in his hypothesis but when he touched the jars to the turkey to start cooking it so
thing else happened instead franklin
got a jolt from the experiment
strong one if the spectators are to be believed it was bad enough
he shook violently and got knocked out when his friends
did manage to revive him he d
remember what had happened he was soon
four days and experienced intermittent numbness but luck
none of the after effects were permanent based on
another letter written to a friend franklin large
well seems embarrassed about his mishap when he wrote to his brother he gave permission for him to share the story with a fellow scientist
begged them both to keep quiet about it franklin now
we tried to repeat his experiment again and whenever he may note of his calamitous dinner party the moral of the story always boiled down to another time honoured nugget of wisdom don't try this at home
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