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The Marble Man – ep. 2 (part 2)
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Wherein we continue to trace the curious career and prehistory of a ‘petrified man’ dug out of a New South Wales marble quarry.
Further reading and links for this episode:
Bathurst Free Press & Mining Journal, 21 May 1889, p. 2, columns 4-5
Read the full article in situ and see what else was happening in district news that week.
from The Legend of the Petrified or Marble Man by Harry Stockdale, F. Cunninghame & Co., Sydney, 1889
Read the book online
The Cardiff Giant, on display at the Bastable in Syracuse, NY, circa 1869
(New York State Historical Association Library)
The petrified Finn McCool, the Causeway Giant
from The Strand Magazine (London), vol. X, July to December 1895, p. 646 (digitised by archive.org)
See that photo in situ, featured in the fascinating article, ‘The Lost Property Office’
And finally – click here to view images of Pompeii bodies, cast in plaster
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Wherein we continue to trace the curious career and prehistory of a ‘petrified man’ dug out of a New South Wales marble quarry.
Further reading and links for this episode:
Bathurst Free Press & Mining Journal, 21 May 1889, p. 2, columns 4-5
Read the full article in situ and see what else was happening in district news that week.
from The Legend of the Petrified or Marble Man by Harry Stockdale, F. Cunninghame & Co., Sydney, 1889
Read the book online
The Cardiff Giant, on display at the Bastable in Syracuse, NY, circa 1869
(New York State Historical Association Library)
The petrified Finn McCool, the Causeway Giant
from The Strand Magazine (London), vol. X, July to December 1895, p. 646 (digitised by archive.org)
See that photo in situ, featured in the fascinating article, ‘The Lost Property Office’
And finally – click here to view images of Pompeii bodies, cast in plaster
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Stephen Fry's 7 Deady Sins - I will take each one of the Seven Sins in turn, lay them out on the surgical table and poke, prod, pry and provoke in an attempt to try to anatomise and understand them; I hope and believe it will be, if nothing else, delicious fun and something of a change from the usual run of podcastery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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…
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Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
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