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History For Sleep delivers slow, calm, and slightly unsettling historical storytelling that makes dozing off educationally depressing.
Brought to you by the Drowsy Historian, each episode is 1–2 hours of immersive bedtime history with just enough absurd detail to keep you listening — until you aren’t.
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Prostitute in Renaissance Amsterdam
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Alcoholic
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Cowboy with Tuberculosis
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Last a Day as a Roman Plebeian
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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The ENTIRE Dark History of Opium
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Depression Era Boxer
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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The STRANGE History of Halloween: From Ghosts to Candy Corn
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a WWII B-17 Tail Gunner
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The ENTIRE History of Ancient Rome
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Living in a Medieval Castle
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a 1970s Quaalude Addict
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The Strange, Brutal Myths of the Greek Gods
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Going to Woodstock 1969
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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What Daily Life Was REALLY Like in Ancient Egypt
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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The Horrifying Life of a Medieval Barber-Surgeon
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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The Dark Origins of the Werewolf Myth
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of an Appalachian Moonshiner
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Did Medieval Warriors Get PTSD?
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Viking Berserker
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a 90s Grunge Rocker
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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How did Renaissance People Get High?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Coal Miner with Black Lung
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Tiger Tank Commander on the Eastern Front
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Squire
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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How Colonial Families Survived BRUTAL Winters
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Heroin Addict After WWI
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The Entire History of Ireland
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Soviet Conscript at Stalingrad
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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How Victorians Got High: Opium Dens, Cocaine & More
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Medieval Exorcism
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a WWI Gas Attack
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Why Being a Civil War Soldier Was a Living Hell
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Child Emperor in the Forbidden City
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Sumo Wrestler in Edo Japan
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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How Did Medieval People Flirt?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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The 12 WORST Times to Be a Man in History
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Polio Patient in an Iron Lung
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Why You'd Regret Being a Wild West Outlaw
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Laudanum Addict in Georgian London
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Plague Doctor in Renaissance Prague
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Why Being a Medieval Monster Hunter Was a Death Sentence
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Competing in the Ancient Greek Olympics
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Flamethrower Operator in WWII | History For Sleep
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Getting Pregnant in Victorian England | History For Sleep
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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What Sex was Really Like in Feudal Japan | History For Sleep
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Aug 29, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Becoming a Courtesan in Renaissance Venice | History For Sleep
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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How Did Medieval People Deal With Toothaches? | History For Sleep
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Cave Woman
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Be a Kamikaze Pilot in WWII?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Victorian Invalid
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Maid in Marie Antoinette’s Court
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Smallpox Victim
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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How Did Medieval People Get High?
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Visiting a Roman Bathhouse
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Nazi Soldier on Meth
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of an Opium Addict in 1897 Seattle
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Redcoat in the American Revolution
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Male Concubine in Imperial China
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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The MISERABLE Life of a Medieval Court Jester
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of the Fishermen Caught in a U.S. Nuclear Test
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why Being a Gentleman in the 18th Century Was a Slow, Expensive Death
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Renaissance Executioner
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Medieval Street Urchin
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive Crossing the Bering Strait in the Ice Age
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWI Tunnel Digger
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Stay In a Victorian Workhouse
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Attend the First Thanksgiving
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Constable in Tudor England
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Why It Sucked to Be a Medieval Serf
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Be a Female Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt?
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Soviet Sniper in WWII
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Be the Last Samurai?
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Servant in Colonial Singapore
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of an Incan Llama Herder
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Gravedigger During the Black Death
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Persian Soldier under Xerxes
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWII Truck Driver
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a Chinese Railroad Worker in the Wild West
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Woman in Feudal Japan
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Attending a Tudor Banquet
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Scottish Mercenary in the Hundred Years’ War
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Be Homeless in Ancient Greece
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a 1960s Soviet Cosmonaut
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Cholera Victim
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Be a Child Laborer in Industrial Britain
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of Charles II of Spain (The Last Habsburg Disaster)
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Woman Warrior in Feudal Japan
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Roman Legionnaire in the Teutoburg Forest
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a WWII Comfort Woman
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Night with the Bloody Benders
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Bedlam Royal Hospital
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Being Henry VIII’s Physician
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Noble During Vlad the Impaler's Reign
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Roman Peasant During the Fall of Rome
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Flight 571 Disaster
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Locust Swarm of 1875
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Loyalist in the American Revolution
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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The Horrifying Fate of the Man in the Iron Mask
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Trying Street Food in 14th-Century Delhi
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Pyramid of Giza
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive Inside a WWII Tank
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Cowboy on a Cattle Drive
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Female Pirate
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Christian Missionary in Feudal Japan
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Life of a Medieval Irish Bard
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Vestal Virgin in Ancient Rome
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a CIA Mind Control Test Subject (MK-Ultra)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Why Being a Victorian Chimney Sweep Was a Death Sentence
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a British Opium Factory in Colonial India
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Truth About the Marian Persecutions
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Woman Captured by Genghis Khan
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Slave
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Survivor in Hiroshima
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Spanish Flu Victim (1918)
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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You’re a Comanche Warrior When the World Still Fears You
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Tasmanian Islander During British Colonization
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Plague Outbreak at the Tudor Court
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Winter of 536 AD (Worst Year in History)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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You Wouldn’t Survive the Bronze Age Collapse
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the D-Day Landing
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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You’re Trapped on the Roof During the LA Riots (And No One’s Coming to Help)
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Congolese Rubber Worker Under King Leopold
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Continental Soldier
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of WWI's Canary Girls
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Lobotomy Patient in the 1940s
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Delicate Brutality of Chinese Foot Binding
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The DISGUSTING Life of a Rat-Catcher in Georgian London
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Geisha in Edo Japan
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Torture Chamber
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Horrifying Fate of a Child Sacrificed to Baal
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to be Trapped in Jonestown
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Panama Canal
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Why Being a Harlot in 1890s New Orleans Was a Death Sentence
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Why Being a Castrato Was a Beautiful, Horrifying Prison
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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The Miserable Life of a Renaissance Noble Woman
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Tsunami in 15th-Century Japan
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Why Being a Spartan Helot Was a Nightmare
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Aboard a WWII U-Boat
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Spend a Day in a 19th-Century Parisian Café
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The UNTHINKABLE Reality of a Slave Ship Crossing the Atlantic
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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You're Accused of Sorcery in Ottoman Istanbul
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Camel Caravan Across the Sahara
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Hannibal's March Over the Alps
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Work in the Library of Alexandria
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Reality of Locked in Syndrome
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of the Radium Girls
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Roman Sewer Worker
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Why Being a Medieval Midwife Was a Death Sentence
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Pharaoh's Servant
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Dust Bowl
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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You're in Pompeii When the Volcano Erupts
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of an Opium Addict in Colonial Shanghai
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Napoleonic Soldier
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Industrial Revolution
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why It Was BRUTAL to Be a Woman in Tudor England
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Soviet Gulag
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Titanic
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Why Tudor Food Was Disgusting and Deadly
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Children’s Crusade
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Being a Chernobyl Liquidator
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Peasant With Stone Man Disease
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Why It SUCKED to Be a Teen in Medieval England
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Why Life Was BRUTAL in Medieval Ireland
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Tower of London
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of an Ottoman Prince
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Reality of Surgery Before Anesthesia | History For Sleep
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Tudor Lady-in-Waiting
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Why It Was TERRIFYING to Be a Woman in Jack the Ripper’s London
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being Marco Polo's Assistant
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Burn Victim in 18th Century Paris
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Wall of China
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in Unit 731
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Early Jamestown
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Tuberculosis Victim
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Silk Road
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Why Medieval Childbirth Was a Death Sentence
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Harem Slave in the Mughal Court
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Heretic in the Spanish Inquisition
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Eunuch in Imperial China
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of an Accused Witch in 1600s Europe
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Trenches of WWI
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Gladiator
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Syphilis Victim
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Why the Crusades Were a Total Disaster for Everyone
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Concubine in Imperial China
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The BIZARRE Food of the Aztecs
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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What Medieval Feasts Were REALLY Like
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Molasses Flood (Yes, That Really Happened)
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as Bonnie and Clyde
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Medieval Rabies Victim
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Why Food SUCKED in Ancient Rome
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Viking Slave
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Plague Ship
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The BIZARRE Laughter Epidemic That Took Over a Country
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Reality Native Americans Faced in the 1800s
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May 31, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Plague that Made You Dance Until You Died
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May 30, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive an Australian Penal Colony
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May 29, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't "Survive" the Cadaver Synod
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May 28, 2025 |
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Why You'd Regret Joining the Donner Party
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May 27, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as Henry VIII’s Wife (Most Didn’t)
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May 26, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Stone Age
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Salem Witch Trials
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Victorian Asylum
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You'd Regret Becoming a Viking Raider
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Black Death
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Oregon Trail
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May 24, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Leper
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May 24, 2025 |
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Why Medieval Justice Would've DESTROYED You
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May 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Pirate
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May 24, 2025 |
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Why it Sucked to Be a Roman Soldier and more
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May 22, 2025 |