30 min listen
008-Owney the Mail Dog, Candy Bombers, and Bertrand Russell
FromFutility Closet
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
May 5, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In 1888 a mixed-breed terrier appointed himself mascot of America's railway postal service, accompanying mailbags throughout the U.S. and eventually traveling around the world. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll recount Owney's postal adventures and the wave of human affection that followed him.We'll also look at an Air Force pilot who dropped candy on parachutes to besieged German children in 1948, learn the link between drug lord Pablo Escobar and feral hippos in Colombia, and present the next Futility Closet Challenge.
Released:
May 5, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
025-An Australian Enigma: A well-dressed corpse appeared on a South Australian beach in 1948 -- and has been baffling investigators for 66 years. by Futility Closet