34: Icelandic Dracula and The Guano Islands Act

Update: 2024-09-11

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This week we learn how Iceland got the wrong translation of Dracula and how America's thirst for guano led the government to enact an insane law in 1856. A listener email gives us the sweats.

Episode Tabs:

The Literary Mystery of the Icelandic Dracula by Valur Grettison

https://grapevine.is/mag/2022/05/09/the-literary-mystery-of-the-icelandic-dracula/

How Fertilizer Madness Sparked a Turd War and Turned Guano Into Gold

https://www.thedailyscoop.com/news/retail-business/how-fertilizer-madness-sparked-turd-war-and-turned-guano-gold

Listener Tabs:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/lindsay-hoyle-clement-attlee-house-of-commons-bengal-commons-b2580463.html

https://www.vox.com/even-better/24156471/whole-body-deodorants-lume-axe-sweat

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34: Icelandic Dracula and The Guano Islands Act