ARSON AT THE WHITE HOUSE !!!

In 1814, the White House was set on fire.   It would have burned to the ground.

Except for an incredible miracle.

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Hear about the exciting future of this podcast!

Told entirely in Whisper, by Kit Caren.

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HISTORICAL REFERENCES:

Smith, Page, The Shaping of America (book, 1980), pp. 628-40.

Ambrose, Kevin; Weiss, Andrew & Henry, Dan, Washington Weather (book, 2002).

Zielinski, Sarah, The Tornado That Saved Washington, Smithsonian (August 2010).

Ubbelohde, Carl, War of 1812, Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (webpage).

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CLOSING THOUGHTS:

Source: Lermontov, Mikhail, A Hero of Our Time (1840), Penguin (reprint, 2009), p. 120.

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