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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. One 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 V. Wilson and it's September twenty three. Victoria Woodhall

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Speaker 1: was born on this day in eighteen thirty eight. She

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Speaker 1: United States, fifty years before the ratification of the Nineteenth

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Speaker 1: Amendment gave women the rights to vote nationwide. She was

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Speaker 1: from Ohio. Named Victoria Klaughlin after Queen Victoria. Her family

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Speaker 1: also called her Little Queen because she was very proud

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Speaker 1: and she had an uncanny ability to concentrate. Her family

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Speaker 1: background was also a little odd. Her father, Buckclaughlin, had

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Speaker 1: a whole range of jobs and schemes to try to

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Speaker 1: make money. He decided to take advantage of the growing

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Speaker 1: interest in spiritualism and to set Victoria and her sister

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Speaker 1: Tennessee up as mediums to have them travel around as

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Speaker 1: a sort of spiritualist medicine show. They had a varied

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Speaker 1: and checkered career as spiritualists and mediums. Victoria got married

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Speaker 1: in the middle of all this, and that's where she

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Speaker 1: got the last name wood Hall. She eventually, though, divorced

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Speaker 1: which was highly scandalous. In eighteen sixty eight, a purported

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Speaker 1: vision led Woodhull and her family to move to New

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Speaker 1: York City, where she and her sister continued to work

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Speaker 1: as clairvoyance. One of their clients was Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 1: who gave them investment advice, which worked out very well

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Speaker 1: for them. Later on, he financially backed the two sisters

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Speaker 1: opening up their own brokerage for which made them the

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Speaker 1: first women's stockbrokers on Wall Street. This made her a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. Wool was finally able to do something

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Speaker 1: she had wanted to do for a long time, which

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Speaker 1: was to focus on social reform. It's really hard as

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Speaker 1: a woman to be a social reformer, unless you also

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Speaker 1: had money to support your work. In April of eighteen seventy,

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Speaker 1: York Herald, including one where she announced her candidacy for

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Speaker 1: the presidency. It was expected that Republican President Ulysses S.

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Speaker 1: Grant was going to run for re election. She knew

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Speaker 1: she was not at all likely to earn the Democrats nomination,

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Speaker 1: so to run for president, she would need to nominate

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Speaker 1: so she bought a newspaper. The newspaper obviously endorsed her candidacy.

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Speaker 1: She also moved to Washington, d C. And started working

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Speaker 1: as a lobbyist, and she befriended Congressman Benjamin Butler. Together

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Speaker 1: the two of them worked out this argument that there

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Speaker 1: didn't need to be a constitutional amendment giving women there

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Speaker 1: vote under the fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments. She was allowed

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Speaker 1: to deliver that argument before Congress on January eleventh, eighteen

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Speaker 1: seventy one, making her the first woman to do so.

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Speaker 1: Although suffragists were very interested in wood Hall, and she

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Speaker 1: suffrage wasn't really her key political issue. She was a

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Speaker 1: lot more focused on education reform and assistance for the poor,

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Speaker 1: and reforms of marriage laws so that men and women

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Speaker 1: were equal partners, something that was described at the time

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Speaker 1: as free love that is not at all the free

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Speaker 1: love of the hippies. She gave a speech about this

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Speaker 1: free love idea on November twenty, eighteen seventy one, and

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Speaker 1: this absolutely tanked her candidacy. It was viewed as too

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Speaker 1: the suffragists cut ties with her. Only the most radical

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Speaker 1: also nominating Frederick Douglas as vice president, although he declined

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Speaker 1: that nomination. At this point, though, things were really falling

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Speaker 1: apart for Victoria. Would haul all the controversy, lost her

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Speaker 1: she lost all of her money. Then she tried to

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Speaker 1: get them anything positive Victoria and Tennessee wand up being

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Speaker 1: on election day they were in jail. That's a pretty

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Speaker 1: candidacy even really counts. The Constitution requires presidents to be

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Speaker 1: at least thirty five years of age, and Woodhull turned

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Speaker 1: seventy five on September twenty, eight, seventy three, which was

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Speaker 1: nearly ten months after the election and six months after

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Speaker 1: Inauguration Day of eighteen seventy three. You can learn more

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Speaker 1: The day was September eight nine. Yamauchi founded Nintendokopi and

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Speaker 1: Kyoto Japan to manufacture hanafuda or Japanese playing cards. Now

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Speaker 1: known as Nintendo. The company is a major international player

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Speaker 1: in the video game industry. Hanafuda is a Japanese word

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Speaker 1: that means flower cards. A deck of Hanafuda contains forty

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Speaker 1: eight cards, including twelve suits with four cards each. Each

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Speaker 1: suit is named after a month, and each month is

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Speaker 1: associated with a flower that is illustrated on the cards

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Speaker 1: in its suit. Hanafuda games developed in Japan after Western

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Speaker 1: style playing cards made their way to the country with Europeans.

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Speaker 1: The Yakuza often used hanafuda in their illegal gambling parlors.

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Speaker 1: Fusa was an artist an entrepreneur who lived in Kyoto

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Speaker 1: with his family for a while. In Japan, many card

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Speaker 1: restrictions and hanafuda games were allowed. So Fusa decided to

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Speaker 1: create Hanafuda cards from crushed mulberry tree bark and paint

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Speaker 1: images on them. He opened his own Hanafa dot card

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Speaker 1: shop and called it Nintendo Kopai. Hanafa had not been

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Speaker 1: a huge hit before this point, but suss handicrafted cards

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Speaker 1: and eventually he began mass producing han Off Dot cards

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Speaker 1: and making Western style cards. Nintendo became a hugely successful

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Speaker 1: adopted son in lass at Kio Yamauchi, took over as

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Speaker 1: president of the company. Two decades later, Petoshi Yamochi took

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Speaker 1: changed to Nintendo Playing Card Company Limited. Nintendo became successful

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Speaker 1: at mass producing plastic playing cards in Japan, and by

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, Nintendo began branching out into other industries

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Speaker 1: like taxi services, hotel chains, and food companies. It also

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Speaker 1: a hit. In nineteen seventy, Nintendo began selling the beam Gun,

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Speaker 1: a solar powered light gun. Realizing it's success with electronic

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Speaker 1: toys and the decline of playing cards sales, nintendell began

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Speaker 1: producing home and arcade video games. Engineer and product developer

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Speaker 1: gunpa Yo Koi, as well as video game designer SiO Miyamoto,

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Speaker 1: played major roles in the company's success, with video games

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Speaker 1: such as Donkey Kong and Jumpman better known as Mario.

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Speaker 1: At that point, Nintendo continued to make waves in video gaming,

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Speaker 1: Nintendoll entertainment system was released as the Family Computer or

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Speaker 1: Famicom in Japan in nineteen three, before it was launched

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Speaker 1: in North America two years later. The Game Boy was

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Speaker 1: introduced in Japan in nineteen eighty nine. Nintendo still makes

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Speaker 1: playing cards, but it's better known for the strides it

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Speaker 1: has made in the video game industry. I'm each step

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