Welcomed, Erin, monkeys, cabinet of curiosity is a production of I hurt radio and grim and mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable and of history. Has open book. All of these amazing tales are right there on display just waiting for us to explore, welcome to the cabinet of curiosities The make enough people mad and bell associate your name with whatever awful thing you did forever in the civil war and the abolition of slavery wiped out much of his tobacco business. Doktor samuel mud teamed up with John wilkes booth. It was doktor mud who fastened a splint around booths, broken leg and helped. Him

scape, although the same, did not originate with him. The doktor is often linked to the insult. Your name is mud. Charles cunningham was another man with an unfortunate name, and he had only himself the blame cunningham was a land agent, higher keen member of an estate who manage the landowners property by collecting rents and supervising maintenance. Cunningham worked for a man named John Creighton Third Earl errand. Lord and had come from a family dripping with aristocracy. He was also a member of the house of law. words as well as a knight of the order of Saint Patrick, but he would go on to be remembered, most The man who hired charles cunningham Cunningham was a well educated man who had joined the military when he was only sixteen is travels with the thirty ninth foot regiments took him from london to belfast and finally, to dublin around eighteen. Fifty. He married shortly after that and decided to say

in ireland permanently cunningham lived all over the country too, but he eventually found a more permanent home in county male. Lord errand owned a home there. He had hired cunningham to be his agent, which gave him oversight over fifteen hundred acres.

Cunningham was now in charge of farmers, servants and other household staff. The kind of power that he believed had been ordained by god and passed on to those who deserved it. That sort of classicism didn't sit well with the estates tenants. The farmers who resented the rules and regulations their new boss had put in place. They also hated the exorbitant rents that cunningham was tasked with collecting for the lord tenant. Farmers had almost no rights and, although they had least the land, the lands owner could vic them without notice. Even if the rent was currents and paid on time. The farmers had tried before to organise against landowners. They called for the three es: fair rent, fixity of tenure and free sale. In other words, they were tired of pain, a lot of money for no security. When a member of parliament named charles.

stewart parnell heard about their plight. He stepped in to help it wasn't just about helping the underdog, though he needed the farmers on his side to further his agenda for irish independence. Parnell in the newly formed land league went to work. He gave speeches and riled up crowds, laying the groundwork for an uprising that had been years in the making cunningham was set to collect the rents from the lord's tenants in september of eighteen. Eighty, their crops had not been as plentiful as in past years, so the lord gave them a ten per cent discount. As show of good faith, but it wasn't good enough. It was still too high, but farmers demanded at least twenty five percent off their rent, but Lord errand scoffed at them either his farmers would pay or they would be forced to leave Cunningham got to work, securing eviction, notices against eleven tenants who refused to pay after three notices had been delivered, though one tenant, nay, mrs Fitzmaurice turn them away. She waved a red flag,

outside her home to let everyone else know what was going on her neighbours joined her and started, throwing rocks and manure at the men until they left soon. I love cunningham servants. Quit no shops in the nearby town would serve him. He wasn't beaten or intimidated. His punishment was far worse. He was ignored ostracized by the community and he didn't exactly do himself any favours when his letter to the times was published in which he referred to his tenants as a howling mob soon september turn into october. and cunningham was in danger of losing a fortune and crops if they weren't harvested soon, since the farmers and labour, had all left and had threatened anyone who dared help him. The irish govern deployed a small army of fifty men to help pull the crops. The endeavour ended

costing Cunningham his job with the estate, as well as several thousand pounds. He left county mayo for dublin, where he stayed for a few days before heading to england. Now he would have stayed longer, but his hotel had received numerous letters from potential guests who swore they would never stay there. And if he was given a room a year later, a new law was introduced. Titled the land law act of eighteen, eighty one it stated that landlords could no longer evict tenants on a whim and established fixed terms of fifteen years for rent the people at one. As for cunningham, he slipped into the united states to visit some friends. the few he still had left who lived in Virginia. He had to use his middle name, however, as his last name had come to symbolise the treatment he endured back in ireland, not cunningham cunningham was his middle name.

No charles, real last name would go down in history as the term for the process of ostracizing bad businesses, charles cunningham boycott. to become an expert in once field takes Serious devotion, hundreds or even thousands of ours must be spent practicing and perfecting attorney. Judith Coggan studied harp

juilliard school in new york city and experience. She documented in her nineteen eighty seven book, nothing, but the best in the book coggan discuss the long hours spent by students practising their art until late into the night. There was no time more tolerance for goofy nava juilliard, but the dedication paid off in the end, robin williams, yo yo MA am meanest. Samoan are just some of the schools famous former students who went on to great success later in life, jean baptiste Lily, also dedicated his life to his passion, music and in a way it was this passion that would inevitably kill him. Molly was born in florence, ITALY in sixteen thirty two, while the rest of his family didn't show much interest in music. He devoted a love for it with the help of a franciscan friar who taught him how to

Guitar from their lully went on a study, the violin, which enabled him to entertain crowds on the street during marty growl. When he was only fourteen years old, they would play his violin and dance while dressed up as a harlequin. A french aristocrat named roger de la reine, was taken with lilies street performances. He offered to bring him back to france to work with his niece on her italian. It was a wise decision for lily who found himself studying with the popular composers of the day, who spent time with the Young woman's home lully quickly made a name for himself among the french elites to his knees. Gullibility and dancing had earned him the nickname, baptists and great street artist after a delay niece was exiled in sixteen fifty two lully also left. He continued to study music and perform eventually becoming a composer himself. A young lui, the fourteenth had performed

him in a production of the ballet roy I'll, do the neue after which he hired him. As his royal composer lully demonstrated such musical akim in that he was made these superintendent of royal music once lui took over the government. He was taken with writing new pieces, such as instrumental vocal arrangements and operate to be performed for the court by royal musicians and dancers. Molly was prolific during the years that he wrote for king louis. He was also quite animated. Musical performance is were different in the seventeenth century than they are today conductors, didn't often use small baton to direct the tempo of their arrangements. Instead, they wielded giant staffs that they would slam into the floor. Making loud sounds to mark the speeds the musicians had to follow. Sixteen eighty seven was a difficult year for the royal family. Louie had lost his affection for lully due to the composers, sexual orientation which went against the kings beliefs,

still lully held him in high regard, so in louie underwent surgery for an infection. The composer celebrated his recovery with the performance of to day em. I him based on the apostles creed, composers, such as mozart, in view if they had done their own renditions, but only lollies ended with a bang. He conducted with gusto bringing his staff down hard on the floor beneath him, a rang out among the royal courts like thunder now. I think we can all agree that music is special. It can consume us. Unlike anything else, it is all income seen our other senses take a back seat as we listen to the melodies that churn our emotions inside us. Perhaps that's what happened to lully? You got lost in his music as he banged his staff pointed and down onto the floor, but instead of striking the floor, the sharp staff pierced something

is old foot in the heat of the moment, consumed by the music, he had accidentally impaled himself with his conducting staff before long and abscess formed, which turn de gangrene lully was given one of two options he could either have. Has egg amputated to save his life or he could let the illness take him lully refused the amputation telling doctors that he would rather die than give up what he called his dancing leg. Two months later, he got his wish. The gangrene spread throughout the rest of his body into his brain eventually killing him is death. Wasn't in vain, though, as the incident help spawned the search for alternatives to the heavy and now deadly conducting

F, small sticks sheets of paper rolled into thin tubes and even bare hands were used in lieu of the instrument that had killed. Jean Baptiste lully belize death might have been tragic, but one thing is clear: at least he died doing what he loved. I hope you enjoy. Today's guided tour of the cabinet curiosities subscribe for free on apple podcast or learn more about the show by visiting curiosities, podcast dont come the show, was cream by me erin monkey in partnership with how stuff works I make another award winning show called lore witches upon cast book series and Television show and you can learn all about it over at the world of lore. Dont come until next time. Stay curious,.