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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello, and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Sarah Down and I'm Debla to Charker, Bording and Delin. Know,

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Speaker 1: we've really been on a roll of the past few

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Speaker 1: weeks discussing daring women in history. Well, it is March,

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Speaker 1: after all, it is March. It might be April by

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Speaker 1: the time it's comes out. But you know, we've been

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Speaker 1: keeping up the tradition of covering women's History Month with

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Speaker 1: Bell Starr, Bessie Coleman, the Brontes, who are daring in

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Speaker 1: their own way free to callo. But we haven't really

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Speaker 1: ventured into one of our favorite topics of discussion yet,

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Speaker 1: which is, of course exploration. We love to talk about explorers,

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Speaker 1: whether male or female, we do, and that's why today

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Speaker 1: we're going to cover polar explorer Louise arn Our Boyd,

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Speaker 1: who took adventurous trips to the North, made real scientific

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Speaker 1: and geographical contributions in the form of thousands of photos

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Speaker 1: and films, and performed under of her wartime work for

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Speaker 1: the US government. No less, Boyd commissioned and organized a

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Speaker 1: whopping seven Arctic expeditions. Was the first person to charter

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Speaker 1: a plane over the North Pole, and earned herself numerous

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Speaker 1: international honors and medals. But what's maybe most surprising about

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Speaker 1: Boyd is the very same reason that she was able

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Speaker 1: to become an explorer in the first place. She was

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Speaker 1: a San Francisco socialite and incredibly wealthy eRASS, and that

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Speaker 1: in the nineteen twenties and thirties than most women had.

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Speaker 1: She had the ability to go out and explore the

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Speaker 1: when she wasn't busy scaling glacier, she was patronizing the

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Speaker 1: symphony back at home, patronizing the ballet, hosting these grand

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Speaker 1: doing the sort of things that are maybe considered more

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Speaker 1: traditional for a socialite of her era. It's unlikely, however,

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Speaker 1: that Boyd would have had so much freedom and so

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna start off by telling you a little

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Speaker 1: bit about that. She was born September six, eighteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 1: Her father had made a fortune in the body gold mine,

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Speaker 1: Her mother was also a bodie heiress, and the couple

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Speaker 1: Louise grew up horseback riding with her two brothers. They

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Speaker 1: Only eight months after that, her sixteen year old brother

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Speaker 1: Louise was brought into her father's business to picking up skills,

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Speaker 1: She also got into photography and one of those European trips,

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Speaker 1: which was the hobby of her parents really supported. They

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Speaker 1: Soon she kind of lost that parental support though. In

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Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen, Boyd's mother died. When year later her father

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Speaker 1: president of the Boyd Investment Company. She was only thirty

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Speaker 1: According to Women in World History Encyclopedia, Boyd was honored

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Speaker 1: and she wrote in to say that she loves the podcast,

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Speaker 1: but yesterday was the online qualifying test to get a

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Speaker 1: test by catching up on Stufhi Misston History Class podcast.

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Speaker 1: I listened to the one about the Lone Ranger and

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Speaker 1: of the way through the Jeopardy test, there was a

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Speaker 1: Jeopardy test? I never would have known the answer to

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Speaker 1: that question if I hadn't just listened to your pie cast.

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Speaker 1: If I get on Jeopardy, I'll have you guys and

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Speaker 1: You're awesome podcast to thank for it. So cool, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know. I mean, Megan, maybe if maybe you could

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Speaker 1: get on Jeopardy, you can say hi to us but

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Speaker 1: love a shout out. Yeah, definitely, So thank you Megan

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Speaker 1: and um we do really like hearing about you know,

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Speaker 1: from you guys. We are at History Podcast at Discovery

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