Wright Brothers and Sister and a Smithsonian Spat

The Past and The Curious: A History Podcast for Kids and Families

The Past and The Curious History Podcast for Kids

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Wright Brothers became the first to fly a controlled powered aircraft with a pilot onboard, but just a few days before, Smithsonian Secretary James Langley almost beat them. His failure didn't stop the Smithsonian from claiming the first flight. But Orville and Wilber weren't the only two who fought for their place in history. Their sister Katharine did too.

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0:00.0	Mixelabin of the Past and the Curious has a new book available.
0:03.4	That's me.
0:04.4	I see Lincoln's underpants as a book about famous people and their underwear.
0:09.0	16 chapters on 16 people and their undies and lots of other stuff too, like the underwear
0:13.9	hall of fame.
0:14.9	Lots of laughing, lots of learning.
0:17.4	It's available wherever you get your books.
0:19.1	And if you want to put the copy, please leave a review, be sure to request it at your
0:23.0	local library too.
0:24.0	That will help.
0:25.0	This is an Indie Effort.
0:26.8	I am Indie Operation.
0:28.8	Thank you.
0:30.0	Hey everybody, it's Mick from The Past and the Curious.
0:38.8	Happy Indie February, beginning of March whenever you're listening to this, which brings
0:43.6	me to some points of news.
0:46.0	March 3rd is The Meat Shower Day.
0:48.0	It's the anniversary.
0:49.0	I think it's the 147th anniversary of the Kentucky Meat Shower.
0:51.9	I will be doing a reading on YouTube live on our YouTube channel at 7pm on March 3rd.
0:58.8	That's Friday.
0:59.8	The Eastern Standard Time.
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