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Inventions Episode 47: Velcro

Velcro - or, officially, the hook-and-loop fastener - is a useful little invention that we all still use today, and one that was popularised after helping us get to the Moon.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Update: On Recent Episodes Being Late and a Few Other Things Too

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  Episode 388: Beatrix Potter, the Enterprising Author

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  Inventions Episode 48: The Pill

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  QAH Episode 138: The Mad Trapper of Rat River

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  Episode 387: Nations Named After People

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  QAH Episode 137: W.G. Grace, the Great Cricketer

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  Episode 386: The History of the Ashes

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  Inventions Episode 45: The Ballpoint Pen

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  QAH Episode 136: The Petrov Affair

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  Episode 385: The 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis

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  QAH Episode 135: Robert Curthose, the Mutinous Elder Brother

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  Episode 384: History’s Problematic Princes

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  Inventions Episode 44: Penicillin

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  QAH Episode 134: The Venus de Milo

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  Episode 383: That Time the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre