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	Podcast:		Ridiculous History
	Episode:		The Darién Gap, or: the Real Reason Scotland Lost Its Independence
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:39:27
	Publish Date:		2025-03-18 13:49:54
	Description:		Scotland is a fascinating place, with its own rich culture, cuisine and history. Today, it's part of the United Kingdom -- but this wasn't always the case. Join Ben, Noel and Max as they dive into Scotland's wildly ambitious plan to build a colonial trade empire straddling the Pacific and the Atlantic. At enormous expense, Scotland gambled everything on taming the Darién Gap... and lost. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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