History Obscura
By Mandy Gardner
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What went bump in the night long ago? Explore all the creepy, lost and just plain weird corners of history with Mandy Gardner and her coven of cats. This is one history podcast with bite! From ghost stories of the ancient Greeks to reincarnation stories from WWII veterans, History Obscura delivers.
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Dr. Ambroise Pare & the Boiling Oil Gunshot Treatment
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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Rogozov's Self-Appendectomy in Antarctica
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Aug 24, 2026 |
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Blowing Up the Welland Canal for the Irish Free State
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Aug 16, 2026 |
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New York's First Cat Doctor (A Tribute to Sweetpea Mama Kitty)
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Aug 03, 2026 |
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Amelia Earhart's Lost Broadcast
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Jul 27, 2026 |
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Legends of the Catacombs of Paris
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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Teaser - Cinch Academy Plug
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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A New Year's Story by Lucy Maud Montgomery... and an Important Introduction by Mandy
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Merry Christmas & Congratulations on the New Pajamas
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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The Nazi Hero of USA's Space Program: Wernher von Braun
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Edinburgh's Witch Hunter King & the Nor' Loch
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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The Transmigration of the Soul
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Herman Mudgett's Chicago Murder Castle
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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The Sea-Cook: Treasure Island, Chapter VII
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Mrs. Bartlett's Chloroform
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May 29, 2024 |
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PT Barnum: The Great Showman's Favourite Human Exhibits
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May 26, 2024 |
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Agatha Christie's Biggest Mystery
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May 20, 2024 |
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The Atrocity Beneath the Wolf's Lair
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May 15, 2024 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twenty-Six (END)
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May 08, 2024 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twenty-Five
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May 04, 2024 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twenty-Four
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May 01, 2024 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twenty-Three
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twenty-Two
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twenty-One
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Treasure Island: Chapter Six
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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William Mumler's Spirit Photographs
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Henry Wyatt's Hero: Caterer Cat
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Whatever Became of the Protectorate's Head?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Machines in the Sky? Heavenly Trumpeting Around the World
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Mutant Human Genes & the Choice Cocktail of the British Raj
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Treasure Island: Chapter Three
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Talking to Martians
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Hume & the Disease of the Learned
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Sekhmet, Blood Goddess of Egypt
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Mission to Mars--But Not the Buzz Aldrin Version
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode: Canadian WWI Soldier Saved by Dead Brother
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Minnie Dean: The Baby Farmer of New Zealand
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Treasure Island: Chapter Two
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Life Magazine’s ”Dawn of Religion”
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Hallowe’en Special Story! The Monkey’s Paw: Parts Two & Three
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Halloween Special Story! The Monkey’s Paw: Part One
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Nightmare Before Halloween? It’s the Month of Hungry Ghosts
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Prophecies for the World of 1980!
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Treasure Island
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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The Medieval Nun Who Scribbled her Name in the Gospel
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The Mayan Caste War
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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The Sweating Sickness of the English Renaissance
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Satan: Christianity’s Tulpa?
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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The Great Fire of London
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Plural Worlds: Alien Theory through the Ages
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Lief Erickson’s Viking Saga
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Hitobashira: Japan’s Human Pillars
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Dickens & Hans Christian Andersen: The Bad Houseguest
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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DNA & Migration to the Americas--Plus a Bonus/Bogus? Welsh Tale
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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A True(ish) Viking Tale
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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A Brief & Pungent History of Cadaveric Dissection
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Mysterious Airships from the Turn of the 20th Century
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Humboldt’s Parrot: The Echoes of a Lost South American Language
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May 22, 2023 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Seventeen
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May 14, 2023 |
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The Phantom Time Hypothesis
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May 07, 2023 |
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Third Man Syndrome with Shackleton, Lindburgh & Others
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The Exhumation of the Head of King Charles I & Other British Monarchs
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Stories from Aboriginal Australia
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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The King of England’s Catatonic Schizophrenia
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Patreon special: The Alchemist
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Danish Coprolite & The Joy of Cooking Medieval Europe
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Secrets of the Cave-Dwellers
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Sneak Preview: Mission to Mars, Chapter One
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Sixteen
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Shipwreck: On This Day in 1874
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: The Body Snatcher
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Fifteen--in Which the Sea-King is Divorced
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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King Charles III: Finances & Ancient Namesakes
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Near Death Experiences of the Past, with Plato & Bosch
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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The Canadian Settler Housewife
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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A Viking Tale, Chapter Fourteen
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Thirteen
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Twelve. A True(ish) Viking Tale
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Stories of London
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Jul 09, 2022 |
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Out of Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum, at Last!
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Bartolomeo de las Casa Vs. Columbus: Devastation in the Americas
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Three More Chapters in the NYC Asylum!
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Surgery: A Brief History of Healing
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May 28, 2022 |
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Joanna Southcott’s Box of Prophecy
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May 21, 2022 |
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10 Days in a Mad House, Chapter 11
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May 14, 2022 |
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Egos & Gods of Ancient Egyptian Texts
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May 07, 2022 |
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An Historical Tour down the Uncanny Valley
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May 02, 2022 |
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Commited to 19th-century New York Insane Asylum, Nellie Bly’s True Story
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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The UFOs of 1967; Over Land & In Sea
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Witches in the News, Through the Centuries & in the Ducking Pond
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Victorian Doctors & the Handwashing Scandal
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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A Victorian Seance with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Harry Houdini
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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We Faked the Haunting at Borley Rectory
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Jack the Ripper...Revisited with DNA
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Kaspar Hauser & Crime Against the Soul
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Home is a House that Loves You...Happy Christmas, Glorious Solstice & Merry Festivus
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Dec 25, 2021 |
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All Souls Day & an Ancient Ghost Story
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Moskvin’s Russian Dolls
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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In Death & Mourning
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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Ghosts from Victorian Broadsheets
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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The First Lady’s Trip to Venus
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Dipped in Honey & Buried Alive?
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Aug 28, 2021 |
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The Sleeping Prophet
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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Sixth Man to Walk on the Moon
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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The Real Sweeney Todd: Human, a la Mode
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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A Story of Aboriginal Australia....and then, the Gold Rush
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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The Peppermint Humbugs
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Six
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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Leeuwenhoek’s Animalcules
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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A Science Palace & Bizarre Death
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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The Tudors: Part Three
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Farewell, Good Cat
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May 29, 2021 |
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The Tudors: Part Two
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May 16, 2021 |
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The Tudors: Part One
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May 11, 2021 |
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Lucy’s Bones
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May 11, 2021 |
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Cotard’s Delusion
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May 11, 2021 |
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Prince Philip the Greek
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Rather Damning Speech from the Gallows
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Short Stint in a Dutch War Camp
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May 11, 2021 |
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Franken-Tito’s Nightly Story Club
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May 11, 2021 |
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Comet, Planet or King George III?
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May 11, 2021 |
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Queen Hangbe & the Amazons of Black Sparta
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May 11, 2021 |
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Ten Days in a Mad House: Part Five
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May 11, 2021 |
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The First Spacewalk & Cyanide Pill
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Swedish Witch & Devil’s Island
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May 11, 2021 |
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Ten Days in a Mad House: Part Four
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May 11, 2021 |
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942
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May 11, 2021 |
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Ten Days in a Mad House: Part Three
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May 11, 2021 |
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Ten Days in a Mad House: Part Two
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May 11, 2021 |
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Ten Days in a Mad House: Part One
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Christmas Carol, Stave Five: The End of It
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Christmas Carol, Stave Four: The Last of the Spirits
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Christmas Carol, Stave Three: The Second of the Three Spirits
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Christmas Carol, Stave Two: The First of the Three Spirits
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Christmas Carol, Stave One: Marley’s Ghost
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May 11, 2021 |
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“The Body Snatcher,” a Halloween tale by Robert Louis Stevenson
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May 11, 2021 |
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Bone China
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May 11, 2021 |
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Scotland Yard Hunts a Killer
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Green Children
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May 11, 2021 |
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Literature & Antique Scabs
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May 11, 2021 |
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Galileo & the Roof of Hell
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Year the Pope Said the World Would End...in 1000
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Franklin Expedition
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May 11, 2021 |
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A Ghost Story from Normandy
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May 11, 2021 |
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Nicola Tesla’s Martians
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May 11, 2021 |
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Serial Killers or Angel Makers?
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Four
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May 11, 2021 |
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The Summer of Saucers
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May 11, 2021 |
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Renaissance England’s Most Learned Woman, Bathsua Makin
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Gone With the Wind Death & Controversy
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Nazism & the Mengele Twins
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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His Majesty, the Thief of Cairo
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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The Emperor’s Elixir
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Hatshepsut, Pharaoh Queen of Egypt
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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The Utmost Island, Chapter Three
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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A Mary Called Typhoid
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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A Victorian Retelling of the Antonines of Rome
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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Pliny & the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Special Reading: Chapter 2 of ”The Utmost Island”
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Special Reading: Chapter 1, ”The Utmost Island”
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Job Application Letter
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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John Schmidt: The Bluebeard Killer
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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A Story of England and the Black Death
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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The Spanish Flu; ”All Under Control”
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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The Rapa Nui of Easter Island
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Special Episode-Chapter Reading of ”Letters to Earth”
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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A Brief History of Dictatorship
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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A Pope’s Corpse Goes on Trial
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May 30, 2020 |
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Jack the Ripper: Upon Closer Inspection
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May 26, 2020 |
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Vasco da Gama in Africa, 1497
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May 23, 2020 |
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Astronaut Gordon Cooper on UFOs
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May 19, 2020 |
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Friedrich Jurgenson Discovers EVP (electronic voice phenomenon)
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May 16, 2020 |
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A German Among New World Cannibals
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May 12, 2020 |
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Columbus’ Description of His Voyage to the ”Indies”
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May 09, 2020 |
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The Blood Countess of Transylvania
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May 05, 2020 |
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Ancient Aliens
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May 02, 2020 |
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The Great Filth of Industrial Britain
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Suicide Note from the Heaven’s Gate Cult
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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Zhang Liuquan, the 1,000-year-old Living Buddha
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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The Wedding of Marie Antoinette
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Mysteries of the Arnolfini Portrait
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Apr 18, 2020 |
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Pythagoras & the Semicircle Cult
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Radio Recordings of the Lost Cosmonauts
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Giordano Bruno: A Forgotten Martyr of the Scientific Revolution
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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A Scottish Tea Smuggler Who Changed the World
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Spring-heel’d Jack: A Victorian Monster
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Dec 28, 2019 |