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The Bristol Princess

39 min · 13 de abr de 2026
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A girl showed up at a town near Bristol in 1817 wearing a turban, and everyone went nuts.  SOURCES: "The Caraboo Hoax," Margaret Russell John Matthew Gutch's narrative English Eccentrics, by Edith Sitwell "Devonshire Characters and Strange Events" "British Performances of Java," Matthew Isaac Cohen See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

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