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When winter was really winter: the legendary Frost Fairs of the River Thames

5 years ago Leo S

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The casket girls and the vampires of New Orleans

5 years ago Leo S

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The “Witch Cake” – a 1600s forgotten recipe you probably won’t try

5 years ago Leo S

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The world’s oldest grape vine that has been around for nearly 500 years

5 years ago Danijel90

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The insane, inconclusive truth behind Rat Kings, the grotesque tangled Super-Rodents

5 years ago Leo S

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The Protest Pig: a rare breed designed to be a living (and breathing) flag

5 years ago Pavel

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Döllersheim: the austrian village that Hitler destroyed to crush a rumor

5 years ago Pavel

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Erdstalls Tunnels: Central Europe’s last great mystery

5 years ago Pavel

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The mystery of Lady Dai, one of the world’s most preserved mummies

5 years ago Adam

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May 31, 1962: the Voghera massacre

5 years ago Anya

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A short story of English Witchcraft Acts

5 years ago Leo S

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May 14, 1983: the forgotten history of massacre of the Eros cinema in the suburbs of Milan, Italy

5 years ago Anya

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The princes in the Tower of London: one of the great mysteries of English history

5 years ago Leo S

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The oldest comic in the world? In a tomb in Jordan!

6 years ago Pavel

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The macabre forgotten profession of Sin-Eaters

6 years ago Robin

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Archduke Rudolf, the lovesick prince and his suicide pact

6 years ago Pavel

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That day when New York forbade lovers

6 years ago Leo S

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What were (really) the worst years in history?

6 years ago Pavel

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The day they banned Christmas

6 years ago Leo S

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The last flight: the tragic story of the worst aviation accident in Slovenian history

6 years ago Danijel90

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The fish dish that killed a King…

6 years ago Robin

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How to seduce a turkey: a bizarre sex experiments of the 1960s

6 years ago Leo S

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Horatio Nelson: from frail guy to National Hero

6 years ago Leo S

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Grace Darling, the Lighthouse Heroine

6 years ago Robin

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Stamford bull run: a custom demised after 700 years of cruelty

6 years ago Robin

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The true story of Lord Lucan, the British aristocrat who killed his maid and disappeared forever

6 years ago Robin

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The tragedy of Aberfan: what happened that fateful October 21, 1966

6 years ago Robin

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The sad history of London’s Speakers’ Corner

6 years ago Robin

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Edith Cavell: the heroine nurse of England

6 years ago Robin

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Lepanto: the battle that saved Europe

6 years ago Robin

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Phet and Ploy: the most expensive cat wedding in the world!

6 years ago Robin

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The days that vanished and the switch to the Gregorian Calendar

6 years ago Robin

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September 27, 1825: the first time in history that a steam locomotive carry passengers on a public railway

6 years ago Robin

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What was the first country to grant women the vote?

6 years ago Nathan

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Tomás de Torquemada: the mad monk burns 2,000 at the stake

6 years ago Robin

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The boy who made one of the most stunning archaeological discoveries of all time…

6 years ago Robin

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The ghosts of Cold Harbor battlefield – Mechanicsville, Virginia

6 years ago Leo S

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When London burned: 1666’s Great Fire

6 years ago Robin

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Battle of Cajamarca: how 200 conquistadors conquered an empire of 10 million

6 years ago Robin

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Krakatoa: the story of the world’s mightiest explosion

6 years ago Nathan

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Buried at 2,000 meters high: the inaccessible sarcophagi of Karajia in Peru

6 years ago Adam

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#August 14, 1936: America’s Last Public Hanging

6 years ago Robin