Decade Dames

The year is 1768! Philip Astley brings the first circus to town, the Anglo-Irish novelist Maria Edgeworth is born, Jean-Paul Marat learns why it's not a good idea to take meetings while in the bathtub, and Steller's Sea Cow just...just be nice to animals, y'all. ******* Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license. http://www.circopedia.org/Philip_Astley [http://www.circopedia.org/Philip_Astley] https://www.britannica.com/art/circus-theatrical-entertainment/Philip-Astley-and-the-first-circuses [https://www.britannica.com/art/circus-theatrical-entertainment/Philip-Astley-and-the-first-circuses] http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-origin/philip-astley/ [http://www.historyofcircus.com/circus-origin/philip-astley/] https://www.philipastley.org.uk/ [https://www.philipastley.org.uk/] https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-philip-astley-the-father-of-the-modern-british-circus/ [https://www.historyhit.com/who-was-philip-astley-the-father-of-the-modern-british-circus/] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Marat [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Marat] https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/charlotte-corday [https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/charlotte-corday] https://www.historyhit.com/the-angel-of-assassination-who-was-charlotte-corday/ [https://www.historyhit.com/the-angel-of-assassination-who-was-charlotte-corday/] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Edgeworth [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Edgeworth] https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/maria-edgeworth-was-a-great-literary-celeb-why-has-she-been-forgotten-1.3760188 [https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/maria-edgeworth-was-a-great-literary-celeb-why-has-she-been-forgotten-1.3760188] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.13370 [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.13370]  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/naturalist-georg-wilhelm-steller [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/naturalist-georg-wilhelm-steller]  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/pleistoseacow/522831/ [https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/pleistoseacow/522831/] https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1036/report.pdf [https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1036/report.pdf] https://www.ashoka.edu.in/static/doc_uploads/file_1615554314.pdf#page=31 [https://www.ashoka.edu.in/static/doc_uploads/file_1615554314.pdf#page=31]

The year is 1767! The Beast of Gévaudan rampages bucolic France, the Devonshire Colic sweeps through (you guessed it) Devonshire, Maria Josepha faces her worst fear, and the Timuca people encounter the devastating and abusive European colonizers. ******* Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820/ [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820/] https://www.thecollector.com/beast-of-gevaudan/ [https://www.thecollector.com/beast-of-gevaudan/] https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/maria-theresia-of-austria/year-maria-theresa-tragic-death-maria-josepha/ [https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/maria-theresia-of-austria/year-maria-theresa-tragic-death-maria-josepha/] https://creativehistorian.co.uk/blog/read_196169/almost-queens-maria-josepha-of-austria.html [https://creativehistorian.co.uk/blog/read_196169/almost-queens-maria-josepha-of-austria.html] http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/minimed/DevonShireColicBaker.pdf [http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/minimed/DevonShireColicBaker.pdf] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791112310020 [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791112310020]  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1037515/?page=4 [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1037515/?page=4] The Devonshire Colic, H.A. Waldron [http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/minimed/DevonShireColicBaker.pdf]

The year is 1766! Henry Cavendish declares what hydrogen is, James Christie makes a living selling household goods while the French Revolution rages, speech gets a little bit more free in Sweden, and James Quinn breaks the number one rule of the theater...maybe.    ******* Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Freedom-of-the-Press-Act-of-1766 [https://www.britannica.com/topic/Freedom-of-the-Press-Act-of-1766] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-III [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustav-III] https://www.artprice.com/artmarketinsight/mr-christie-before-christies-his-early-days [https://www.artprice.com/artmarketinsight/mr-christie-before-christies-his-early-days] https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/james-christie-eloquent-auctioneer [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/james-christie-eloquent-auctioneer] https://www.christies.com/about-us/welcome-to-christies [https://www.christies.com/about-us/welcome-to-christies] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Christie_(auctioneer) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Christie_(auctioneer)]  https://www.aviationfile.com/jacques-charles-who-invented-the-hydrogen-balloon/ [https://www.aviationfile.com/jacques-charles-who-invented-the-hydrogen-balloon/]  When Were the Elements Discovered? (Timeline) (thoughtco.com) [https://www.thoughtco.com/element-discovery-timeline-606607] Single-Displacement Reaction Definition and Examples (thoughtco.com) [https://www.thoughtco.com/definition-of-single-displacement-reaction-605662] https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/studies/7/3/index.html [https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/studies/7/3/index.html] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-19-02-0152 [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-19-02-0152]  https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/studies/7/3/index.html [https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/studies/7/3/index.html]  https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Cavendish-Henry.html [https://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Cavendish-Henry.html]  Hydrogen | History, Uses, Facts, Physical & Chemical Characteristics (periodic-table.com) [https://periodic-table.com/hydrogen/] Henry Cavendish and The Revolutionary Discovery of Hydrogen (interestingengineering.com) [https://interestingengineering.com/henry-cavendish-and-the-revolutionary-discovery-of-hydrogen]

The year is 1765! Prokop Diviš, who is not Ben Franklin in disguise, also invents the lightning rod. Mary Bryant escapes Britain's penal colony. Claire Lacombe fights for women's rights. Abigail Adams Smith fights breast cancer.   ******* Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license.   https://parcoursrevolution.paris.fr/en/points-of-interest/105-claire-lacombe-a-republican-militant [https://parcoursrevolution.paris.fr/en/points-of-interest/105-claire-lacombe-a-republican-militant]   Society of Revolutionary Republican Women (Société des républicaines révolutionnaires) (1793) | Towards Emancipation? [https://hist259.web.unc.edu/societyrepublicanwomen/]   Society of Revolutionary Republican Women - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Revolutionary_Republican_Women]   Claire Lacombe - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Lacombe]   Regulations of the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women (9 July 1793) · LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION [https://revolution.chnm.org/d/481]   Women in the French Revolution: From the Salons to the Streets | 4 Corners of the World: International Collections and Studies at the Library of Congress [https://blogs.loc.gov/international-collections/2020/07/women-in-the-french-revolution-from-the-salons-to-the-streets/]   https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/10/abigail-adams-smith.html [https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2011/10/abigail-adams-smith.html]   https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/adams-children/ [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/adams-children/]   https://librarycompany.org/women/republicancourt/smith_abigail.htm [https://librarycompany.org/women/republicancourt/smith_abigail.htm]   https://www.news-medical.net/health/History-of-Breast-Cancer.aspx [https://www.news-medical.net/health/History-of-Breast-Cancer.aspx]   https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bryant-mary-1765 [https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/bryant-mary-1765] https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bryant-mary-1843 [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bryant-mary-1843] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/348160?journalCode=isis [https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/348160?journalCode=isis]  https://www.famousscientists.org/prokop-divis/ [https://www.famousscientists.org/prokop-divis/] https://cbm-technology.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HISTORY-OF-LIGHTNING-PROTECTION-IN-POLAND.pdf [https://cbm-technology.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/HISTORY-OF-LIGHTNING-PROTECTION-IN-POLAND.pdf]

The year is 1764! St. Louis is settled by Europeans. Ivan the 6th of Russia is treated terribly. Madame Élisabeth of France was killed for being a sister; and Sophie Marie Louise de Grouchy, the French Philosopher, was born! ******* Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia. Used with purchased license. http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/madame-elisabeth-of-france/ [http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/madame-elisabeth-of-france/] https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/madame-elisabeth [https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/great-characters/madame-elisabeth] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Élisabeth_of_France  [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lisabeth_of_France] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/white-settlers-buried-truth-about-midwests-mysterious-mound-cities-180968246/ [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/white-settlers-buried-truth-about-midwests-mysterious-mound-cities-180968246/] https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-11-08/was-st-louis-actually-founded-by-pierre-laclede-and-auguste-chouteau-in-1764 [https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2016-11-08/was-st-louis-actually-founded-by-pierre-laclede-and-auguste-chouteau-in-1764] https://www.lacledeslanding.com/discover/history/the-founding-of-st-louis/ [https://www.lacledeslanding.com/discover/history/the-founding-of-st-louis/] Common Fields: An Environmental History of St. Louis by Andrew Hurley St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865 by Charles Van Ravenswaay The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: A History of Colonial St. Louis by Patricia Cleary https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/condorcet-sophie-marie-louise-marquise-de-1764-1822 [https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/condorcet-sophie-marie-louise-marquise-de-1764-1822]