Robert Burns Night, Fake Shakespeare, Astronomer David Rittenhouse - The Year Is 1796

Recorded on the day of Burns night so by the time of this release it's already out of date, this is a very fun and silly visit to 1796, when the as forementioned celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns died but nobody can work out why the particular date of Burns Night was specifically chosen, the only performance of the forged Shakespeare play Vortigern and Rowena takes place, written by forger William Henry Ireland, known as Samuel to his dad, a mob of peasants overtakes the covent of Saint Peter, and astronomer and American inventor David Rittenhouse dies.

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