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8: History of Everything: The Tale of Timothy Dexter

History of Everything

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The Unusual Information Podcast

He had a fleet of ships. So worse comes to worst, he probably would have been able to sell one of his ships and recoup his losses and do more. And if you lose it and you have a huge amount of money riding on it, then you may not be able to then afford to purchase the goods that you're going to need for the next trip. These were just bad ventures that could have gone wrong, but they were not ruining. Do you know what Robert Louis Stevenson gave his birthday away? Was it there was a football team that played for six years before someone realized that the school never ever existed? Or that a dog in upstate New York was once placed on

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