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Gaps In Knowledge

Gaps In Knowledge

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Rhys the Geographer knows nothing about History. Will the Historian knows nothing about Geography. Join us on our quest to fill each other's gaps in knowledge! Have a question you want answered? Send us a message here - https://anchor.fm/gapsinknowledge/messageGaps In Knowledge
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  • S3E2 - A little magic chess machine
    Oct 1 2023

    Today Rhys get all atmospherically gassy, parks in a solar powered car park and goes to Mecca to see how it is. Will chucks up the vomitorium, plays magic mechanical chess then runs naked in The Games.


    Rhys talks about:

    The most abundant Green House Gas

    Solar Panel being build on Car Parks / Parking Lots

    The Masjid al-haram, Mecca - Reviews


    Will talks about:


    Vomitoriums

    Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk

    The Ancient Olympic Games


    Time Stamps


    1:58 - Most Abundant Greenhouse Gas

    11:40 - Vomitorium

    19:40 - Solar Panel Parking Lots

    33:57 - Magical Chess Machine

    57:51 - Mecca's Google Reviews

    1:08:48 - The Ancient Games

    1:20:43 - Outro

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • S3E1 - Ropey Rasputin
    Sep 19 2023

    Today Rhys gets all docky, shippy and ropey while Will goes Raving with Rasputin, fleeing the French Revolution, and getting spooky in the States with the Winchester mystery house!


    Rhys talks about:

    Oklahoma - The Tulsa Port of Catoosa

    Malcolm McClean and Containerisation

    The Chatham Dockyard Ropery


    Will talks about:


    Rasputin

    Louis XVI attempt to flee France

    The Winchester Mystery House

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • S2E7 - The Glastonbury Chronicles
    Jun 25 2023

    Today Rhys sorts out the relationship between Greenland and Denmark, Look at the phosphate mining in Nauru and the dives into the unfathomable depth of the Mariana Trench. Will goes all normal for the first King of England, parties hard in Glastonbury then sorts out his solstice stones in Stonehenge.


    Rhys Links:

    • "Epistemic geographies of climate change" by Martin Mahony and Mike Hulme.
    • "Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region" by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad.
    • Greenland unveils draft constitution in push for complete independence from Danish control
    • Mining, land restoration and sustainable development in isolated islands: An industrial ecology perspective on extractive transitions on Nauru
    • Phosphate Mining on Nauru
    • The Story of Nauru: The "Country that Ate itself"
    • Mariana Trench

    Will's Links:


    • Alfred The Great
    • Glastonbury
    • Stonehenge

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    1 hr and 17 mins
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