Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grimm
Speaker 1: and Mild from Aaron Manky listener discretion advised. Quote in
Speaker 1: the entryway, the princess, a seventy two year old Texan
Speaker 1: with blonde hair, unwrinkled, porcelain skin and pearls dripping onto
Speaker 1: her black overcoat, noted that the crimson cloth baldachin hanging
Speaker 1: over pictures of her late husband was found only in
Speaker 1: homes that descended from popes end quote. This is one
Speaker 1: of the first sentences of a twenty twenty two New
Speaker 1: York Times article written by reporter Jason Horowitz. The subject
Speaker 1: Frinshipseriti Buon Campagne Ludovisi, widowed wife of Italian Prince Nicolo
Speaker 1: von Companie Davisi. She was formerly known as Rita Genrette
Speaker 1: and Rita Carpenter before that. Americans marrying into European aristocracy,
Speaker 1: even royalty, is of course statistically rare, but not without
Speaker 1: plenty of examples long before Megan Markele. Grace Kelly will
Speaker 1: pop into mind for some, and of course, there was
Speaker 1: the cultural wave of the American dollar princesses during the
Speaker 1: Gilded Age, the women whose marriages supplied struggling European houses
Speaker 1: with cash and new money, American families with fancy titles
Speaker 1: in return. Rita's story, however, is a little different than
Speaker 1: the one you might be imagining. Chances are you don't
Speaker 1: know many ranchers daughters turned political researchers turned congressional wives,
Speaker 1: turned playboy models turned authors, actors turned real estate agents
Speaker 1: turned princesses. Still, despite a life with that many twists,
Speaker 1: Rita claimed she had never seen anything like the inheritance
Speaker 1: battle that followed the death of her husband, which she
Speaker 1: was embroiled in for years, a battle that only ended
Speaker 1: this April. It's a scale of an inheritance battle that
Speaker 1: would make succession fans drool. But instead of Roman roy
Speaker 1: we have Roman princes, along with the Italian government and
Speaker 1: the ghosts of Caravaggio. Rita married her prince, but it
Speaker 1: turns out happily ever after. In the real world can
Speaker 1: involve a lot more bureaucracy than fairy tales might have
Speaker 1: prepared us for. I'm Danish Schwartz and this is noble blood.
Speaker 1: Born in nineteen forty nine in San Antonio and raised
Speaker 1: in Austin, Rita may not have been born a princess,
Speaker 1: but she was the closest thing America has to royalty.
Speaker 1: She was the daughter of a millionaire. Her father was c.
Speaker 1: Hunt Carpenter, the founder of the Shamrock Insurance Company in
Speaker 1: San Antonio, who came into major wealth after discovering natural
Speaker 1: gas on one of his ranches. Rita's mother, Riva Garlington,
Speaker 1: was described by Rita as a quote blue blood who
Speaker 1: was pleased with the eventual match between her daughter and
Speaker 1: a prince, as she felt that Rita had quote finally
Speaker 1: married someone like her. By this, Riba meant that her
Speaker 1: ancestors had settled in Virginia in the early sixteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: where they owned tobacco plantations. The aggressive gone with the
Speaker 1: Windian style of the names Sea Hunt Carpenter and Reba
Speaker 1: Garlington might have been a clue that this story would
Speaker 1: eventually have a plantation. Money cameo. In the early eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: the Garlington family relocated to Texas and established Garlington Ranch
Speaker 1: in Jasper. A nineteen fifty five Times Magazine National Affairs
Speaker 1: blurb about Texas under the Delightfully Southern Gothic headline The
Speaker 1: Deer Slayers describes the Garlingtons as quote a tough aloof
Speaker 1: plan of ranchers who have prospered as breeders of Brahmin
Speaker 1: cattle end quote. Growing up, Rito was a self described
Speaker 1: tom boy who spent her days climbing trees and reading.
Speaker 1: Her carefree nature shifted when she skipped two grades and
Speaker 1: was suddenly an eleven year old with thirteen year old peers.
Speaker 1: I felt like an alien being, she reflected, remembering her
Speaker 1: attempts at wearing makeup as she realized everyone around her
Speaker 1: had grown up. She describes every day from seventh to
Speaker 1: ninth grade as hell, absolute hell, often eating lunch alone
Speaker 1: in the bathroom or sitting on her glasses so she
Speaker 1: could get sent home early. This summer before tenth grade
Speaker 1: was Rita's the summer I turned pretty puberty, turning her
Speaker 1: unrecognizable to her peers. She remembers one boy came up
Speaker 1: to me and said, Hi, do you want to go out?
Speaker 1: I'll never forget it. I said, no, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go out with you. You were so cruel to
Speaker 1: me when I was in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade.
Speaker 1: I cried every single night. Things would only get better
Speaker 1: for Rita Following those school years. In nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 1: Rita graduated cume loud from the University of Texas with
Speaker 1: honors and with a degree in history and a minor
Speaker 1: in political science. Do you think she listens to the show?
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, Rita married a US Army pilot
Speaker 1: named Edward Coleman, but the couple would split only a
Speaker 1: little over a year later. The same year she was married,
Speaker 1: she secured her first position out of school as director
Speaker 1: of research for the Texas Republican Party, and in nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five she was appointed opposition research director of the
Speaker 1: Republican National Party. Life in d C, however, ended up
Speaker 1: taking a different path than Rita could have imagined. This
Speaker 1: same day Rita interviewed for the job, she met John Jenrette,
Speaker 1: a first term Democratic congressman from South Carolina who was
Speaker 1: making a name for himself not for his politics, but
Speaker 1: for a very messy divorce in which his wife named
Speaker 1: twenty three quote correspondents, and he was reportedly surprised that
Speaker 1: she could name only twenty three. John asked Rita out
Speaker 1: that day, proposing he'd fly her to the Virgin Islands,
Speaker 1: where they'd sunbathe naked together. She turned him down smooth.
Speaker 1: He was not, she wrote years later, but she did
Speaker 1: accept to date. The next time they met, he showed
Speaker 1: her the glamorous side of DC, and though Rita had
Speaker 1: come from wealth, she considered the environment like nothing she
Speaker 1: had seen in Texas, and she was decidedly wooed. The
Speaker 1: two fell in love, moved in together, and when her
Speaker 1: boss at the RNC told her she either had to
Speaker 1: dump her Democratic boyfriend or quit her job, she quit.
Speaker 1: A year later, in nineteen seventy six, the couple were married.
Speaker 1: He was forty and she was twenty six. Things were
Speaker 1: okay at first, but a year in Rita realized she
Speaker 1: was in another unhappy marriage. John continued to build his
Speaker 1: repertoire of correspondents, apparently near constantly flirting or going much
Speaker 1: further with other women, and all of that was exacerbated
Speaker 1: by his serious drinking problem. However, Rita didn't love the
Speaker 1: idea of being twice divorced by twenty seven, and John
Speaker 1: and his team didn't love the optics of being a
Speaker 1: twice divorced congressman, so they tried to stay together. Rita
Speaker 1: was all so grappling with the career change from congressional
Speaker 1: researcher to congressional wife. Quite bluntly, I hated my life
Speaker 1: as congressional wife, she wrote in The Washington Post in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty I have played that game long enough. I'm
Speaker 1: fed up with people trying to paint me as a
Speaker 1: dumb blonde and a gold digger because I'm an attractive
Speaker 1: woman who happened to marry a congressman. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: having to smile and be polite while constituents and lobbyists
Speaker 1: elbow me out of the way so they can rub
Speaker 1: shoulders with my husband. I've had it with small town
Speaker 1: reporters who never bother to check the facts and then
Speaker 1: accuse me of being publicity hungry when I try to
Speaker 1: set the record straight, well, said Rita. At the time
Speaker 1: of writing that piece, Rita was no longer a congressional wife,
Speaker 1: not because the couple was divorced, but because John was
Speaker 1: no longer a congressman. He had been implicated in the
Speaker 1: FBI staying operation known as Abscam, where seven members of
Speaker 1: Congress were caught on tape accepting bribes from a fake
Speaker 1: Arabian company. Abscam aka arab Scam. I've got larceny in
Speaker 1: my blood, John was recorded saying I'd take it in
Speaker 1: a goddamn minute. You can say a lot about Rita
Speaker 1: and John, but they did not mince words when it
Speaker 1: came to public statements. They finally separated the following year,
Speaker 1: and Rita's next move would both put her on a
Speaker 1: national stage and define much of her public life to
Speaker 1: this day. In nineteen eighty one, she appeared in a
Speaker 1: Playboy spread, photographed with a feather boa a brandy snipper
Speaker 1: and that's about it. Why did she choose to do it? John,
Speaker 1: known serial cheater, had apparently told her no one wanted
Speaker 1: to see a thirty one year old woman with her
Speaker 1: clothes off. I just thought I'll show you, she reflected
Speaker 1: years later, also once admitting that the money was needed,
Speaker 1: with John about to be convicted, she was the sole
Speaker 1: breadwinner in the family. The photos were accompanied by an
Speaker 1: article she wrote entitled The Liberation of a Congressional Wife,
Speaker 1: in which she expressed many of these same feelings of
Speaker 1: isolation and diminishment that she would recount in the post piece,
Speaker 1: but with an additional Playboy twist. The article's bombshell came
Speaker 1: in the form of Rita writing that one night she
Speaker 1: and her husband made love on the marble steps that
Speaker 1: overlooked the monuments. She published a Tell All My Capital
Speaker 1: Secrets that same year, promising details of quote the Endless Parties,
Speaker 1: drop your clothes at the Door, Orgies, alcoholic bashes, the cocaine,
Speaker 1: the call girls and call boys from quote The Lady
Speaker 1: Who Blew the Lid off Washington. It was a best seller.
Speaker 1: Listeners of the podcast You're Wrong About will be familiar
Speaker 1: with the knowledge that the media in the eighties loved
Speaker 1: a few things. Women behaving quote badly, political scandals, and
Speaker 1: sex scandals, and Rita served up all three on a
Speaker 1: silver platter. A nineteen eighty six article referred to her
Speaker 1: public image as a racy curiosity, a one woman freak show.
Speaker 1: She did the talk show circuits and the big interviews,
Speaker 1: and defended her book's legitimacy. When a man like Daniel
Speaker 1: Ellsberg writes an expose, he's applauded. When a woman does it,
Speaker 1: suddenly it's a kiss and tell, she told The Washington
Speaker 1: Post in eighty one. When the interviewer countered with the
Speaker 1: reminder that Daniel Ellsberg did not pose for Playboy, nor
Speaker 1: did he reveal that he made love with his partner
Speaker 1: on the Capital Steps, she responded, quote, I don't see
Speaker 1: what taking off my clothes has to do with what
Speaker 1: I wrote. She openly declared herself a feminist in the
Speaker 1: same interview. The thing is, however, that Rita now claims
Speaker 1: that the story about the Capital Steps was never true.
Speaker 1: I think part of me said, Okay, this is the
Speaker 1: image you think of me now. I'm this sexy playboy
Speaker 1: fem fetale, and I'm here to take over and marry
Speaker 1: rich and famous men. That's what you think of me,
Speaker 1: so that I'll give you somehow, she said. She further
Speaker 1: clarified that what actually happened was a quote romantic moment,
Speaker 1: but not a salacious one, just some good, clean, above
Speaker 1: the waist kissing between two married people. Rita has never
Speaker 1: said she regrets Playboy, but in twenty eleven, she reflected
Speaker 1: on that time of her life, saying, quote, I'm a
Speaker 1: serious person and I read a lot. I have a
Speaker 1: one thirty nine IQ. So to have this other image,
Speaker 1: which was just like another person, was so traumatic for me.
Speaker 1: I was lost. She would post for Playboy one more
Speaker 1: time in nineteen eighty four, this time on the cover,
Speaker 1: but she also pivoted toward different career pursuits, first acting,
Speaker 1: appearing on Fantasy Island in nineteen eighty two and in
Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty four film called Zombie Island Massacre. Lots
Speaker 1: of island related projects on her resume. She then worked
Speaker 1: for some time as an on air journalist for Fox's
Speaker 1: Current Affair, described by the Times as quote the salacious
Speaker 1: television news weekly. Rita then pivoted in a a different
Speaker 1: direction real estate. Her biggest deal the sale of the
Speaker 1: General Motors building to none other than Donald Trump in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight. He will be the first of two
Speaker 1: huh inducing cameos in this story. Rita's real estate era
Speaker 1: also finally brings us to her meeting with one Prince
Speaker 1: Nicolo bon Campaigne Ludovisi. Rita and the Prince had mutual
Speaker 1: friends who connected them for work. In two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: They called me and said, we have this prince who
Speaker 1: would like to develop a hotel on his property. She recalled.
Speaker 1: I said, oh, for heaven's sake, everyone in New York
Speaker 1: calls themselves count or prince or whatever they're not. Despite
Speaker 1: the prince already being married to his second wife, he
Speaker 1: claimed their meeting was quote probably written in the stars.
Speaker 1: He described their first encounter to the New Yorker in
Speaker 1: the couple's joint twenty eleven profile. I said, in the
Speaker 1: clumsiest way one can even imagine, Well, you are not ugly.
Speaker 1: She's beautiful, of course, but she's as beautiful inside. She's
Speaker 1: candid like a child, but trud like a fox. The
Speaker 1: Prince invited Rita to his property in Rome, which she
Speaker 1: agreed to, likely in part because of her degree, which
Speaker 1: was studying Italian history. There they fell in love and
Speaker 1: married in two thousand and nine. This is probably a
Speaker 1: good time to figure out exactly who the bon Campanie
Speaker 1: Ludoviss are, so let's run through a few names and dates.
Speaker 1: They were, of course, not always the bon Campania Ludiviss,
Speaker 1: but once the bon Campanies and the Ludoviss, two powerful
Speaker 1: noble families with papal titles. The Ludovss are known as
Speaker 1: an ancient noble family originating from Bologna, while the bon
Speaker 1: Campanies settled there in the fourteen hundreds, likely coming from Umbria.
Speaker 1: A bon Campani was Pope Gregory the thirteenth, while a
Speaker 1: Ludovisi was Pope Gregory the fifteenth. In sixteen thirty four,
Speaker 1: the Ludovisis acquired the principality of Piombino in Tuscany, and
Speaker 1: after the sixteen eighty one marriage between Gregorio il bon
Speaker 1: Campagni and Ipolita Ludovisi, the families merged in seventeen oh eight,
Speaker 1: ruling together as the bon Campania Ludovisis, which was a
Speaker 1: strategic move to keep the Ludovisi name in power after
Speaker 1: the princess had no sons. No one has actually ruled
Speaker 1: Piombino since eighteen oh one, but the title of prince
Speaker 1: is still held by sons of the family. The Ludovisi
Speaker 1: family had acquired the property that would be called the
Speaker 1: Casino de ville on Compi Ludovisi in sixteen twenty one,
Speaker 1: which is the villa that will focus on today. The
Speaker 1: property was originally established by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who,
Speaker 1: beyond his religious duties, was in intellectual and a connoisseur
Speaker 1: of the arts. He's best known today for his early
Speaker 1: patronage of Caravaggio as well as Galileo. The Cardinal's support
Speaker 1: resulted in the villa becoming home to the only painting
Speaker 1: Caravaggio did on a ceiling fifteen ninety sevens Jupiter, Neptune
Speaker 1: and Pluto, its symbolism reflecting the cardinal's interest in alchemy.
Speaker 1: The writer Henry James once stayed at the villa, writing
Speaker 1: in eighteen eighty three, certainly there is nothing better in Rome,
Speaker 1: and perhaps nothing so beautiful inside. There is everything dark,
Speaker 1: avenues shaped for centuries with scissors, valleys, clearings, groves. The
Speaker 1: same year that James visited the Bon Campagne, lu Navisi
Speaker 1: princes sold and divided much of the property they kept
Speaker 1: in the family, the former hunting lodge known today as
Speaker 1: Villa Aurora, where one can find the Caravaggio, along with
Speaker 1: works from Gercino, Pameranchino, and Michelangelo, among others. Quote from
Speaker 1: my perspective, the whole history of the West is in
Speaker 1: that building. T. Cory Brennan, professor at the American Academy
Speaker 1: in Rome, told the New Yorker this is the home
Speaker 1: Rita would come to live in with her husband, and
Speaker 1: the home she would dedicate herself to restoring and archiving.
Speaker 1: In that same article, Rita gave a tour to the
Speaker 1: writer and guests. This is my husband's coat of arms,
Speaker 1: our coat of arms now, she explained. She showed them
Speaker 1: the statue of pan by Michelangelo in the garden trough
Speaker 1: near the front gate that dated back to Hadrian, the
Speaker 1: Roman Emperor's time. She pointed out the tunnel in the
Speaker 1: kitchen that she believed used to connect the villa to
Speaker 1: the medi Chi palace. She put on a pair of
Speaker 1: white gloves and read to the guests the letters from
Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette and King Louis the fifteenth she and her
Speaker 1: husband found in a storage room. She never said, let
Speaker 1: them eat cake, Rida told the guests as she showed
Speaker 1: off the queen's signature. She got a bad rep again. Princess,
Speaker 1: I feel like she would enjoy this show. Arriving at
Speaker 1: the Caravaggio, a guest remarked that it was quite obscene
Speaker 1: in your faced sexuality, Rita replied something she had been
Speaker 1: familiar with his penis and everything else. He was courageous.
Speaker 1: You were talking about post Reformation when they were still
Speaker 1: burning people at the stake end quote. Years after this art,
Speaker 1: she would claim she spotted the ghost of Caravaggio quote
Speaker 1: in a loincloth like Tarzan, hunting the grounds and if
Speaker 1: you're thinking, Dana, tell me more. I am so sorry
Speaker 1: to report that that is the extent of the story
Speaker 1: that we get. Rita and Niccolo's renovation project was both
Speaker 1: costly and slow, partly thanks to the villa's designation as
Speaker 1: a national monument, meaning the government had to be consulted
Speaker 1: on many tasks. Water damage, disease, trees, the kind of
Speaker 1: things that have been known to bankrupt noble families in
Speaker 1: charge of massive estates. The family had apparently neglected the
Speaker 1: villa for many years, and when Niccolo inherited it after
Speaker 1: his father's death, it was abandoned, with birds flying through it.
Speaker 1: We gave up everything, Rita said. I didn't go out
Speaker 1: shopping and buy burke and bags and shoes in the
Speaker 1: latest fashion or anything else at all. And Rita began
Speaker 1: to give tours to support the renovation costs. The princess
Speaker 1: wanted the villa to once again become a haven for
Speaker 1: artists and intellectuals, as it had been in the days
Speaker 1: of Carnal del Monte. She hosted a dinner for and
Speaker 1: here is your second huh, Cameo Woody Allen, of all
Speaker 1: people who she once auditioned for, and Annie Leibovitz attended
Speaker 1: one of her tours. Rita also found a team of scholars,
Speaker 1: with whom she worked on archiving the one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand pages of historical documents found in home storage,
Speaker 1: including the letters from Marie Antoinette. Rita and the Prince
Speaker 1: did not have children together, but Niccolo had three sons
Speaker 1: from his previous marriages. When they were small, you would
Speaker 1: have eaten them up, he said in The New Yorker.
Speaker 1: When they grow up a sort of regret that you didn't.
Speaker 1: Perhaps Caravaggio should have chosen for his painting the myth
Speaker 1: of Saturn devouring his son. Niccolo's children were not eaten,
Speaker 1: and so the sons would become important players in our story.
Speaker 1: In twenty eighteen, Prince Niccolo died at seventy seven years old,
Speaker 1: setting off an inheritance battle between Rita and the Prince's
Speaker 1: children from his earlier marriage over the state of the villa.
Speaker 1: In the legal nitty gritty, Niccolo's will gave his wife
Speaker 1: the right to stay in the property for the rest
Speaker 1: of her life, and if sold, the proceeds were to
Speaker 1: be split between Rita and his sons. The dispute was
Speaker 1: best summed up in an article from Tadler explaining quote,
Speaker 1: Rita claimed that Prince Niccolo's will gives her the right
Speaker 1: to stay in the mansion for the rest of her life. However,
Speaker 1: his three sons dispute this, arguing that their grandfather, print Gregorio,
Speaker 1: had intended for them to one day inherit the historic
Speaker 1: building and that their father had mismanaged his fortune end quote.
Speaker 1: On a personal level, the brothers argued that Rita was
Speaker 1: a gold digger who did not have their father's longevity
Speaker 1: at heart. Rita, in turn, pointed to the brother's respective
Speaker 1: legal troubles. Rita and the family weren't able to reach
Speaker 1: any form of agreement, so a judge ordered in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two that the villa was simply to be sold
Speaker 1: the asking price upon auction four hundred and seventy one
Speaker 1: million euros or five hundred and thirty three million dollars,
Speaker 1: the number of bidders zero. The professor at the University
Speaker 1: of Rome, who was tasked with establishing the monetary value
Speaker 1: of the villa, regarded that it was priceless from a
Speaker 1: cul ural standpoint, but imagined an estimated ten million euros
Speaker 1: would be required for necessary restoration work, not many people
Speaker 1: would be up to that task. For the duration of
Speaker 1: the legal battle, Rita was allowed to live in the
Speaker 1: villa's third floor apartment, which her stepson, Prince Bonte referred
Speaker 1: to disparagingly as the peasant quarters. Rita lived with her
Speaker 1: four Bishon Frize dogs, George Washington, Joya Millard, and Henry James.
Speaker 1: After the once visitor. Rita also lived with her Ukrainian
Speaker 1: maid and her maid's daughter and grandchildren, who fled Key
Speaker 1: of last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However,
Speaker 1: all of that ended this January, when a judge ruled
Speaker 1: that Rita was to be evicted on the ground that
Speaker 1: she had not been properly maintaining the building after the
Speaker 1: collapse of a wall led to the posure of an
Speaker 1: adjacent street. She was additionally accused of organizing unauthorized tours.
Speaker 1: In April, Rita and her Bechanfrezes were escorted out of
Speaker 1: the villa as the eviction was finalized and a locksmith
Speaker 1: changed the locks on the front door. Prince Bonte waited
Speaker 1: outside to want quote being liberated from that woman. Princess
Speaker 1: is not her title, he shouted, because she is American.
Speaker 1: She cannot do whatever she wants, he told reporters who
Speaker 1: had gathered. He later told The New York Post, this
Speaker 1: is our country. We have our police, we have our judges,
Speaker 1: and you need to respect our countries. Otherwise you can
Speaker 1: go back to where the hell Texas or the place
Speaker 1: she's from. The Post takes this time to note that
Speaker 1: Prince Bonte is wanted in the US for his conviction
Speaker 1: in a domestic assault case against his American wife in Newport,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island. His brother Francesco was jailed in the early
Speaker 1: nineties for a scheme to counterfeit two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: thousand credit cards, and in twenty seventeen he served an
Speaker 1: additional jail term in Austria for tax evasion. But what
Speaker 1: did Rita have to say? As another era in her
Speaker 1: very full life of twists and turns came to a
Speaker 1: close quote. I feel like I'm in a surreal movie
Speaker 1: like Sarcha's No Exit, She told reporters on the street.
Speaker 1: I see no logic in this. I was a good
Speaker 1: custodian for the villa. I love Italy and I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry to have such a brutal ending to what has
Speaker 1: been a labor of love for twenty years. That labor
Speaker 1: of love is apparently culminating in a book about the villa,
Speaker 1: which she told those reporters she would release later this year.
Speaker 1: It's dedicated to my husband, Niccolo, she said, before getting
Speaker 1: in a taxi with her dogs, waving out the window
Speaker 1: to reporters and speeding away. That's the story of the
Speaker 1: stranded Princess Rita bon companie Ludovisi. But keep listening after
Speaker 1: a brief sponsor break to hear a little bit more
Speaker 1: about Rita's work and how you can find it for yourself.
Speaker 1: Rita's work in the villa not only included archiving the
Speaker 1: documents that she and her husband found, but digitizing them
Speaker 1: as well. The extensive collection, the Archivo Digital Buoncampi Ludovisi
Speaker 1: is classified as a collaboration between T. Corey Brennan, the
Speaker 1: professor mentioned earlier, The Prince and the Princehipessa. It's full
Speaker 1: of posts documenting the family history from the tenth century
Speaker 1: to the present. And if you're a history nerd, which
Speaker 1: I imagine if you're here you might be, it's something
Speaker 1: you might want to check out for free online. Noble
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