Deep Dive: Occupation, Eliot, and Sloths: Philadelphia 1777, T.S. Eliot’s Landscapes, and a Slow-Moving Fact - September 26, 2025
Hosts Jessica Palmer and Sophia Reed explore the 1777 British occupation of Philadelphia and its effects on city life, take a literary turn into T.S. Eliot’s atmospheric work, and close with a repeatable fact about sloths and algae.
In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the British occupation of Philadelphia in 1777, the life and work of T.S. Eliot, and a curious natural fact about sloths.
- 📜 On this day in 1777 British troops marched into Philadelphia and occupied the Continental capital; Jessica and Sophia unpack how that dramatic shift altered civic life, displaced officials, transformed markets and routines, and left a lasting layer of meaning for travelers walking those charged streets today.
- 🎂 Today’s birthdays include T.S. Eliot (1888), Olivia Newton-John (1948), and George Gershwin (1898), with a focused look at Eliot: his atmosphere-rich poems like "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," his dramatic sensibilities, and how his formal experiments remapped modern literature.
- 💡 Fact of the day: Sloths move so slowly that algae grows on them — repeated as a memorable natural tidbit.
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- 📜 On this day in 1777 British troops marched into Philadelphia and occupied the Continental capital; Jessica and Sophia unpack how that dramatic shift altered civic life, displaced officials, transformed markets and routines, and left a lasting layer of meaning for travelers walking those charged streets today.
- 🎂 Today’s birthdays include T.S. Eliot (1888), Olivia Newton-John (1948), and George Gershwin (1898), with a focused look at Eliot: his atmosphere-rich poems like "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," his dramatic sensibilities, and how his formal experiments remapped modern literature.
- 💡 Fact of the day: Sloths move so slowly that algae grows on them — repeated as a memorable natural tidbit.
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