History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian
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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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Why You’d REGRET Joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show | History For Sleep
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why Being a Gentleman in the 18th Century Was a Slow, Expensive Death | History For Sleep
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Renaissance Executioner | History For Sleep
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Medieval Street Urchin | History For Sleep
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive Crossing the Bering Strait in the Ice Age | History For Sleep
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWI Tunnel Digger | History For Sleep
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Stay In a Victorian Workhouse | History For Sleep
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Attend the First Thanksgiving | History For Sleep
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Constable in Tudor England | History For Sleep
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Why It Sucked to Be a Medieval Serf | History For Sleep
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Be a Female Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt? | History For Sleep
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Soviet Sniper in WWII | History For Sleep
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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What Was It Like to Be the Last Samurai? | History For Sleep
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Servant in Colonial Singapore | History For Sleep
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of an Incan Llama Herder | History For Sleep
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Gravedigger During the Black Death | History For Sleep
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Persian Soldier under Xerxes | History For Sleep
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as a WWII Truck Driver | History For Sleep
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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 | History For Sleep
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Woman in Feudal Japan | History For Sleep
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Attending a Tudor Banquet | History For Sleep
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Being a Scottish Mercenary in the Hundred Years’ War | History For Sleep
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Be Homeless in Ancient Greece | History For Sleep
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a 1960s Soviet Cosmonaut | History For Sleep
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Cholera Victim | History For Sleep
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Be a Child Laborer in Industrial Britain | History For Sleep
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of Charles II of Spain (The Last Habsburg Disaster) | History For Sleep
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Woman Warrior in Feudal Japan | History For Sleep
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Roman Legionnaire in the Teutoburg Forest | History For Sleep
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a WWII Comfort Woman | History For Sleep
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Night with the Bloody Benders | History For Sleep
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Bedlam Royal Hospital | History For Sleep
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Why You’d REGRET Being Henry VIII’s Physician | History For Sleep
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Why You’d Regret Being a Noble During Vlad the Impaler's Reign | History For Sleep
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Roman Peasant During the Fall of Rome | History For Sleep
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Flight 571 Disaster | History For Sleep
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Jul 28, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Locust Swarm of 1875 | History For Sleep
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Loyalist in the American Revolution | History For Sleep
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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The Horrifying Fate of the Man in the Iron Mask | History For Sleep
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Trying Street Food in 14th-Century Delhi | History For Sleep
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Pyramid of Giza | History For Sleep
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive Inside a WWII Tank | History For Sleep
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Cowboy on a Cattle Drive | History For Sleep
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Female Pirate | History For Sleep
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Christian Missionary in Feudal Japan | History For Sleep
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Life of a Medieval Irish Bard | History For Sleep
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Vestal Virgin in Ancient Rome | History For Sleep
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a CIA Mind Control Test Subject (MK-Ultra) | History For Sleep
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Why Being a Victorian Chimney Sweep Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a British Opium Factory in Colonial India | History For Sleep
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Truth About the Marian Persecutions | History For Sleep
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Woman Captured by Genghis Khan | History For Sleep
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Slave | History For Sleep
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Survivor in Hiroshima | History For Sleep
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Spanish Flu Victim (1918) | History For Sleep
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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You’re a Comanche Warrior When the World Still Fears You | History For Sleep
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Tasmanian Islander During British Colonization | History For Sleep
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Plague Outbreak at the Tudor Court | History For Sleep
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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) | History For Sleep
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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You Wouldn’t Survive the Bronze Age Collapse | History For Sleep
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the D-Day Landing | History For Sleep
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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) | History For Sleep
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Congolese Rubber Worker Under King Leopold | History For Sleep
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Continental Soldier | History For Sleep
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire | History For Sleep
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The Bloody Life of a Maid in Anne Boleyn’s Household | History For Sleep
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Truth About Medieval Gynecology | History For Sleep
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Fate of a Beast Fighter in the Colosseum | History For Sleep
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of WWI's Canary Girls | History For Sleep
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Lobotomy Patient in the 1940s | History For Sleep
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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The Delicate Brutality of Chinese Foot Binding | History For Sleep
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The DISGUSTING Life of a Rat-Catcher in Georgian London | History For Sleep
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Geisha in Edo Japan | History For Sleep
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Torture Chamber | History For Sleep
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Horrifying Fate of a Child Sacrificed to Baal | History For Sleep
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to be Trapped in Jonestown | History For Sleep
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Panama Canal | History For Sleep
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Why Being a Harlot in 1890s New Orleans Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Why Being a Castrato Was a Beautiful, Horrifying Prison | History For Sleep
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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The Miserable Life of a Renaissance Noble Woman | History For Sleep
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Tsunami in 15th-Century Japan | History For Sleep
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Why Being a Spartan Helot Was a Nightmare | History For Sleep
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Aboard a WWII U-Boat | History For Sleep
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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 | History For Sleep
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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The UNTHINKABLE Reality of a Slave Ship Crossing the Atlantic | History For Sleep
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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You're Accused of Sorcery in Ottoman Istanbul | History For Sleep
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Camel Caravan Across the Sahara | History For Sleep
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Hannibal's March Over the Alps | History For Sleep
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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What It Was Like to Work in the Library of Alexandria | History for Sleep
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Reality of Locked in Syndrome | History For Sleep
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of the Radium Girls | History For Sleep
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being a Roman Sewer Worker | History For Sleep
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Why Being a Medieval Midwife Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Pharaoh's Servant | History For Sleep
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Dust Bowl | History For Sleep
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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You're in Pompeii When the Volcano Erupts | History For Sleep
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of an Opium Addict in Colonial Shanghai | History For Sleep
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Napoleonic Soldier | History For Sleep
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Industrial Revolution | History For Sleep
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why It Was BRUTAL to Be a Woman in Tudor England | History For Sleep
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Soviet Gulag | History For Sleep
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Titanic | History For Sleep
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Why Tudor Food Was Disgusting and Deadly | History For Sleep
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Children’s Crusade | History For Sleep
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Being a Chernobyl Liquidator | History For Sleep
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Tunnel Rat in Vietnam | History For Sleep
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Life of a Medieval Peasant With Stone Man Disease | History For Sleep
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Why It SUCKED to Be a Teen in Medieval England | History For Sleep
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Why Life Was BRUTAL in Medieval Ireland | History For Sleep
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Tower of London | History For Sleep
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of an Ottoman Prince | History For Sleep
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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 | History For Sleep
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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 | History For Sleep
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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Why You'd REGRET Being Marco Polo's Assistant | History For Sleep
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Burn Victim in 18th Century Paris | History For Sleep
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Building the Great Wall of China | History For Sleep
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Prisoner in Unit 731 | History For Sleep
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive Early Jamestown | History For Sleep
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Victorian Tuberculosis Victim | History For Sleep
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Silk Road | History For Sleep
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Why Medieval Sieges Were a Living Nightmare | History For Sleep
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | History For Sleep
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Why Medieval Childbirth Was a Death Sentence | History For Sleep
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Harem Slave in the Mughal Court | History For Sleep
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The HORRIFYING Fate of a Heretic in the Spanish Inquisition | History For Sleep
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Eunuch in Imperial China | History For Sleep
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of an Accused Witch in 1600s Europe | History For Sleep
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Trenches of WWI | History For Sleep
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Roman Gladiator | History For Sleep
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Renaissance Syphilis Victim | History For Sleep
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Why the Crusades Were a Total Disaster for Everyone | History For Sleep
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Concubine in Imperial China | History For Sleep
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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The BIZARRE Food of the Aztecs | History For Sleep
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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What Medieval Feasts Were REALLY Like | History For Sleep
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Great Molasses Flood (Yes, That Really Happened) | History For Sleep
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as Bonnie and Clyde | History For Sleep
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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The TERRIFYING Fate of a Medieval Rabies Victim | History For Sleep
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Why Food SUCKED in Ancient Rome | History For Sleep
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Viking Slave | History For Sleep
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive a Medieval Plague Ship | History For Sleep
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The BIZARRE Laughter Epidemic That Took Over a Country | History For Sleep
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Reality Native Americans Faced in the 1800s | History For Sleep
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May 31, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Plague that Made You Dance Until You Died | History For Sleep
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May 30, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive an Australian Penal Colony | History For Sleep
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May 29, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't "Survive" the Cadaver Synod | History For Sleep
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May 28, 2025 |
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Why You'd Regret Joining the Donner Party | History For Sleep
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May 27, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive as Henry VIII’s Wife (Most Didn’t) | History For Sleep
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May 26, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Stone Age | History For Sleep
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Salem Witch Trials | History For Sleep
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive a Victorian Asylum | History For Sleep
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You'd Regret Becoming a Viking Raider | History For Sleep
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn’t Survive the Black Death | History For Sleep
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May 25, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive the Oregon Trail | History For Sleep
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May 24, 2025 |
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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Leper | History For Sleep
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May 24, 2025 |
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Why Medieval Justice Would've DESTROYED You | History For Sleep
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May 24, 2025 |
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Why You Wouldn't Survive as a Pirate | History For Sleep
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May 24, 2025 |
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Why it Sucked to Be a Roman Soldier and more | History For Sleep
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May 22, 2025 |