Sierra Ferrell in session @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Sunday 10:00 BBC Radio 6 Music Cerys presents your Sunday sonic and cultural adventure, with multi Grammy award winning American singer Sierra Ferrell in session and @foxtosser.bsky.social on music curiosities. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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The "Great Sea of the West", taking up half of the USA. A giant imaginary northern feature drawn on maps like Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes(1750) by de l’Isle and Buache. It was based on the dodgy account of Juan de Fuca, a Greek sailor who probably never actually existed.

Marchesa Luisa Casati in 1922, muse of artists like Man Ray. To make an impression at a party she commissioned a plug-in dress with hundreds of tiny electric bulbs, that short-circuited and gave her such a shock that the blast caused her to somersault backwards