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🗓️ 1 July 2024
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Let’s celebrate our 300th episode and 10 MILLION listens with a bit of fireworks! That sounds exciting, but it’s really just a sleepy catalog of firework displays in England up to the 19th century. Flaming dragon battles and “philosophical fireworks” are somewhat mentioned, so that’s fun.
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0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
0:08.0 | I hope tonight's selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep. |
0:18.4 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to some new members of our Patreon family. |
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1:25.0 | Now let's read and relax. |
1:30.0 | Find a comfortable spot. |
1:35.0 | Adjust your volume. |
1:39.0 | Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. And off we go. Tonight let's celebrate the 300th episode of this |
1:57.0 | podcast with a few fireworks and relax with more from pyrotechnics, the history and art of firework making. |
2:09.2 | By A St H Brock, A R I B A, with numerous colored and other illustrations. |
2:19.2 | First published in 1922 by Daniel O'Connor 90 Great Russell Street, W.C. 1, London. |
2:30.9 | Let's pick up right where we left off at Chapter 4. |
2:35.0 | Let's begin. |
2:39.0 | Chapter 4. |
2:40.0 | Pyrotechnie in Europe continued. |
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