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206: War of the Roses: The Roots

Classical Stuff You Should Know

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Class of the Stuff You Should Know is a podcast that aims to bring the classical world to you in as painless away as possible. Today we get to talk about a famous instance in England when a fellow named Henry got a little too drunk on a fifth of vodka and he wandered home through someone else's garden, trampled all over their plants. So the next day that man who happened to be a Frenchman got some gasoline out of his car and poured it all over Henry V's garden and then lit it on fire,. Thus began the War of the Roses, which would continue a prank war between these two guys for a couple of years. Yeah. Can you imagine it's pretty tough that

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