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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, it's Eves checking in here to let you

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Speaker 1: know that you're going to be hearing two different events

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Speaker 1: in history in this episode, one from me and one

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Speaker 1: from Tracy v. Wilson. They're both good, if I do

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Speaker 1: say so myself. On with the show. Welcome to this

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Speaker 1: Day in History Class from how Stuff Works dot com

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Speaker 1: and from the desk of Stuff You Missed in History Class.

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Speaker 1: It's the show where we explore the past one day

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Speaker 1: at a time with a quick look at what happened

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Speaker 1: today in history. Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Tracy Vie Wilson and it's November. Queen Elizabeth the First

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Speaker 1: delivered her Golden Speech on this day in six one.

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Speaker 1: The speech was before members of the House of Commons

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Speaker 1: and it was expected to be about economic issues. In particular,

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Speaker 1: they were expecting her to talk about monopolies. Monopolies were

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Speaker 1: a contentious issue, and the Queen had previously pledged to

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Speaker 1: subject all monopolies to quote the trial and true touchstone

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Speaker 1: of the law, but then shouldn't actually carry through on

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Speaker 1: that pledge. So monopolies were widely attacked in the House

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Speaker 1: of Commons because they drove up prices, they bestowed an

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Speaker 1: unfair advantage on the people who had the monopolies. No

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Speaker 1: one else was allowed to take part in that area

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Speaker 1: of business. So this led to some contentious arguing on

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Speaker 1: the subject until the Queen finally agreed to abolish some

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Speaker 1: of the monopolies that she had been granted and to

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Speaker 1: do what she had said exposed others to trial under

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Speaker 1: common law. So the speech on November was expected to

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Speaker 1: stick to this topic of monopolies. It was delivered in

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Speaker 1: the Council Chamber at Whitehall, and it did start out

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Speaker 1: this way. She started with an acknowledgment that quote, we

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Speaker 1: perceive your coming is to present thanks to us. That's

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Speaker 1: thanks for dealing with this issue of monopolies. And it

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Speaker 1: went on to say quote of myself, I must say this,

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Speaker 1: I never was any greedy scray, being a grasper, nor

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Speaker 1: a strict fast holding prince, nor yet a waster. My

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Speaker 1: heart was never set upon any worldly goods, but only

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Speaker 1: for my subjects good. What you do bestow on me

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Speaker 1: I will not hoard up, but receive it to bestow

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Speaker 1: on you again. Yea mine own properties, I account yours

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Speaker 1: to be expended for your good, and your eyes shall

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Speaker 1: see the bestowing of it for your welfare. She went

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Speaker 1: on to thank the Speaker and the Lower House because

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Speaker 1: she said that without them she might have made the

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Speaker 1: wrong decision just because she didn't have the correct information,

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Speaker 1: so she was thanking them for raising her attention to

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Speaker 1: this issue. She said that she had made these grants

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Speaker 1: through a focus on the greater good, and that they

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be allowed to stand if, instead of working towards

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Speaker 1: the greater good, they were instead causing a grievance or oppression.

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Speaker 1: But then her focus shifted a bit. She started talking

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Speaker 1: more about how she saw herself as a monarch and

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Speaker 1: what she felt for her kingdom and her subjects. She said,

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Speaker 1: quote the zeal of which affection tending to ease my

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Speaker 1: people and knit their hearts unto us, I embrace with

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Speaker 1: a princely care, far above all earthly treasures. I esteem

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Speaker 1: my people's love more than which I desire not to merit.

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Speaker 1: And God that gave me here to sit and placed

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Speaker 1: me over you knows that I never respected myself, but

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Speaker 1: as your good was concerned in me. Yet what dangers,

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Speaker 1: what practices, and what perils I have passed? Some if

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Speaker 1: not all, of you know? But none of these things

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Speaker 1: do move me, or ever made me fear. But it

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Speaker 1: is God that hath delivered me. And she ended this

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Speaker 1: speech by really acknowledging that she was getting very close

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Speaker 1: to the end of her reign. She was sixty eight

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Speaker 1: years old at this point, and she said, quote, for

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Speaker 1: it is not my desire to live or rain longer

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Speaker 1: than my life, and rain shall be for your good.

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Speaker 1: And though you have had and may have many mightier

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Speaker 1: and wiser princes sitting in this seat, yet you never had,

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Speaker 1: nor shall have, any that will love you better. Thus,

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Speaker 1: Mr Speaker, I commend me to your loyal loves and

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Speaker 1: yours to my best care and your further counsels. And

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Speaker 1: I pray you, Mr Controller, and Mr Secretary, and you

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Speaker 1: of my counsel, that before these gentlemen depart to their countries,

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Speaker 1: you bring them all to kiss my hand. It was

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Speaker 1: reported that many in the room were deeply moved by

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Speaker 1: this speech, some of them moved to tears. It was

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Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth the first last speech to Parliament, and she

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Speaker 1: also reprinted several times throughout the sixteen hundreds under the

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Speaker 1: reign of subsequent monarchs, and it really became part of

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Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth. The first legacy really emblematic of her relationship

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Speaker 1: dispute over monopolies as an expression of how much she

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Speaker 1: to Eve's Jeff Cope for her research work on Today's podcast,

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Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Eve's Welcome to this day and History Class,

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Speaker 1: a show that will convince you that history can be

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Speaker 1: fascinating even when you expect it not to be. The

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Speaker 1: day was November nineteen fifty four. The Silicago Media Right,

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Speaker 1: also known as the Hodges Media Right, crashed into the

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Speaker 1: home of Aunt Elizabeth Fowler Hodges and hit her That day,

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Speaker 1: people in eastern Alabama reported seeing a fireball and a

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Speaker 1: seeing the meteor Usually meteor rites crashed into an ocean

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Speaker 1: or into a remote area on Earth, but this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: Hodges was taking a nap on her couch in her Silicaga,

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Speaker 1: and the dispute was settled out of court. Hodge's husband,

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Speaker 1: McKinney found a piece of the media righte. That fragment

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Speaker 1: have been struck by a meteorite. The Silicaga media right

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Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa, where Hodges donated it after the monetary offers

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