Hanover
About Hanover
Hanover is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its population of 535,932 (2021) makes it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest in northern Germany after Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen. Hanover's urban area comprises the towns of Garbsen, Langenhagen and Laatzen and has a population of about 791,000 (2018). The Hanover Region has some 1.16 million inhabitants (2019) and is the largest in the Hanover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg Metropolitan Region, the 17th biggest metropolitan area by GDP in the European Union.
On the show — 6 mentions total
She's an amazing person. She basically was in Hanover, and then the French Army came in and they kind of took over Hanover. Then William Herschel left there and came to the UK, he became an organist, and then she came over and he started giving her singing lessons.
from 400: No Such Thing As A Pope In A Helicopter, 2021-11-19 at 00:13:10 · read transcript
Other times Hanover came up
So Virginia, they suggested a couple of times in different years, bills, to honor the Eastern Box Turtle. I just really like this. I think this is from the Wikipedia about them. In 2009, Delegate Frank Hargrove of Hanover asked why Virginia would make an official emblem of an animal that retreats into its shell when frightened and dies by the thousands crawling across roads. I just think that's such a mean thing. Yeah.
No Such Thing As Jack Can't Reacher, 2025-10-02 · listen
Every time a new Royal boat is launched, then we smash a champagne bottle, or a woman customer already smashes a champagne bottle into it. I didn't realise the first instance in this was in the 18th century, and the person who first smashed a champagne bottle onto a ship's hull was the princess of Hanover. She, according to reports of the time, threw the bottle at it.
120: No Such Thing As HMS Kevin, 2016-07-01 · listen
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