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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: The Oxford Electric Bell Has Been Ringing For Over 175 Years
Description: We’re ringing in the new year (as well as marking National Ring a Bell Day) with the story of a bell that’s been ringing year in and year out for almost two centuries. Plus: a new year’s tradition on US Navy ships is to write up the first deck watch of a new year in verse.
This Battery Has Lasted 175 Years and No One Knows How (VICE)
Midwatch In Verse (Weird Universe)
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