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[[File:Podcast on old branch.jpg|thumb|200x200px|A podcast growing on an old branch]] | [[File:Podcast on old branch.jpg|thumb|200x200px|A podcast growing on an old branch]] | ||
A '''podcast''' is a kind of weird species of moss that grows on trees in the [[The Hymn of Forests Green|woods]] | A '''podcast''' is a kind of weird species of moss that sometimes grows on trees alongside [[lichen]] in the [[The Hymn of Forests Green|woods]]. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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=== Use by European royalty === | === Use by European royalty === | ||
Following the discovery of the New World and the increase of trade between Europe and the Americas, a kind of "craze" for the podcast's unusual properties took hold in the royal courts of Europe. Manuel [[I]] of Portugal developed a particular interest in the podcast, at one point leading him to purchase an entire ship's cargo's worth of it, the volume of which was so great that it [[Dave Matthews Band incident|crushed an entire gathering of onlookers]] as it was brought in to port. | Following the discovery of the New World and the increase of trade between [[Europe]] and the Americas, a kind of "craze" for the podcast's unusual properties took hold in the royal courts of Europe. Manuel [[I]] of Portugal developed a particular interest in the podcast, at one point leading him to purchase an entire ship's cargo's worth of it, the volume of which was so great that it [[Dave Matthews Band incident|crushed an entire gathering of onlookers]] as it was brought in to port. | ||