Mediterranean
About Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea situated between Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Europe, and on the south by North Africa. To its west it is connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Strait of Gibraltar that separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa by only 14 km (9 mi); additionally, it is connected to the Black Sea through the Bosporus strait that intersects Turkey in the northeast and the Red Sea via the Suez Canal in the southeast.
On the show — 40 mentions total
The first-ever funeral flowers were 13,000 years ago. Which I find fascinating. How do we know that? They found stone age graves. There's a Mediterranean culture called the Natufians. I'm sorry if I'm mispronouncing it. 20 Natufians listening. They built the first cemeteries. Before that there were only scattered bodies, which had been buried. They were the first people where we found 100 bodies in the same place.
from 48: No Such Thing As A Pokemon-Playing Goldfish, 2015-02-21 at 00:30:33 · read transcript
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They're just her allies. Oh, actually. This guy wrote a bunch of books promoting this idea, and he had a quote from Hitler on the fly leaf of one of his books in 1938, which was... Could not put it down. How are they going to drain the Mediterranean? Pull the plug? He was going to... It was going to take a long time. I think it was going to take 150 years.
163: No Such Thing As Too Fast For A Fish, 2017-05-05 · listen
Actually, people didn't really care about, like, Suntands today for ages and ages and ages, because basically having a suntan meant that you were poor and you worked outside, you were a labourer. So it was always thought that if you had light skin, it was better. Then Coco Chanel accidentally got tanned when she went on a Mediterranean cruise in 1923. Suddenly, everyone thought, this is the thing that we all need to have now.
211: No Such Thing As A Photograph Of A River, 2018-04-06 · listen
So it was always thought that if you had light skin, it was better. but then Coco Chanel accidentally got tanned when she went on a Mediterranean cruise in 1923 and suddenly everyone thought this is the thing that we all need to have now so it's quite a relatively new thing Yeah you know when sun tans got popular After the Coco Chanel incident Then obviously a lot.
No Such Thing As A Photograph Of A River, 2018-04-06 · listen
Actually, the first ever message in a bottle possibly might have been, for that reason, which was supposedly Greek philosopher Theo Frustus who wanted to prove that the Mediterranean was fed by the Atlantic and so he put bottles in the Atlantic and saw them go round the corner into the med and he could prove that again this is slightly not sure if this is true or not and did.
No Such Thing As Trousers For Spiders, 2018-09-21 · listen
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48: No Such Thing As A Pokemon-Playing Goldfish put 2 places on the map.
- National Museum of Computing · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 35.0000, 18.0000