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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 Katie Lambert and I'm Sarah Dowdy. Much of history

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Speaker 1: has been written about beautiful women like Nefertiti, who we

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Speaker 1: talked about recently. They captivate the imagination of the public,

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Speaker 1: both of course in their own time and now we

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Speaker 1: still talk about Cleopatra, and sometimes they're famed more for

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Speaker 1: their effect on powerful men than their own accomplishments. Depends

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Speaker 1: on the woman. But our subject for today is Lily Langtree,

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Speaker 1: who was known as the most beautiful woman in the

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Speaker 1: world in her own time. And Lily has a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a vaudeville past. And we were talking earlier

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Speaker 1: about how interesting it was when we put out a

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Speaker 1: call for favorite vaudevillians how many people suggested it girls,

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Speaker 1: And I mean they dominated this suggestions definitely in on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and Facebook and emails we received, and it's just interesting.

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Speaker 1: It's they're not necessarily the biggest celebrities of the time later,

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Speaker 1: but they're with fascinate people are still captivated by them exactly.

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Speaker 1: Whistler called her the loveliest thing that ever was, and

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Speaker 1: she was also Oscar Wilde's good friend, the Prince of

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Speaker 1: and the thing that made Sarah laugh earlier, a model

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Speaker 1: in a soap ad which was possibly the first celebrity

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Speaker 1: endorsement ever. And she was scandalous and glamorous too, And

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Speaker 1: that's what makes an it girl an it girl, I think,

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Speaker 1: George Bernard Shaw wrote of her, I resent Mrs Langtry.

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Speaker 1: She has no right to be intelligent, daring and independent

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Speaker 1: as well as lovely. It is a frightening combination of attributes.

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Speaker 1: And to give you an idea of just how people

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Speaker 1: worshiped her, We're going to start off with an odd story,

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Speaker 1: that of Judge roy Bean. So picture the wild West.

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Speaker 1: We've got sage brush, we have dust, and we have

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Speaker 1: a saloon in the middle of nowhere at Texas. It's

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Speaker 1: named the Jersey Lily, and there's a picture of our

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Speaker 1: named Judge roy Bean, who's a pretty interesting guy in

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Speaker 1: his own right. He's supposedly he find a corpse, which

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Speaker 1: Bean loved Lily Langtry and you got to remember, she's

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Speaker 1: their town someday, which is named Langtry and Um. Eventually

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Speaker 1: The bear was having none of it. For the record,

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Speaker 1: is of course a study in contrasts. We have our

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Speaker 1: you have to wonder who was the woman who won

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Speaker 1: beginning with her early life. So she was born in

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Speaker 1: she goes through several other titles, but that's what we're

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Speaker 1: father was an Anglican clergyman, but maybe not the best.

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Speaker 1: One could be a little um like Lucrezia Borgia's father

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Speaker 1: in terms of his profession. Yes, he enjoyed his affairs

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Speaker 1: they weren't very well off, so perhaps she was looking

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Speaker 1: and his fancy yacht. And he was very flashy, which

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Speaker 1: But he's also an alcoholic or her her quick husband

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Speaker 1: and um it said that they may have never consummated

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Speaker 1: and Malay paint did her with a lily, and there

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Speaker 1: you're interested in Oscar Wilde. Yeah, we're considering doing a

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Speaker 1: you think. But although they had a fake romance, wild

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Speaker 1: and lang Tree did not have a fake friendship. But

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Speaker 1: walk around the streets holding a lily in her honor

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