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The World Inside of Rudolf II's Cabinet of Curiosities
Episode 154
Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor, was an obsessive collector — of art, of rare and expensive artifacts, of scientific equipment, of natural curiosit…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Tabloid Sacrifices of the Spare, Princess Margaret
Episode 153
Princess Margaret, Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister, was one of the most famous and glamorous women of the 20th century. But her life was lived in…
2 years, 5 months ago
Eleanor Cobham, Necromancer Witch
Episode 152
After marrying the Duke of Gloucester, Eleanor Cobham became one of the wealthiest and post powerful women in England. She and her husband were a hea…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Thrift-Shop Pope
Episode 151
After Vatican II, many traditionalist Catholics around the world decided that the heresies of the Pope meant that the papal throne was actually empty…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Cage of the Ottoman King
Episode 150
When Mehmed III, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, died, his young son Ahmed took the throne. Tradition dicrated that Ahmed should have killed any rivals…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Stories of the Tsar Monk
Episode 149
In 1836, a stranger arrived to a remote Russian town on a snow-white horse. The man spoke fluent French and had a noble bearing, but he refused to gi…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Hidden Life of Henry VIII's Fool (With Peter K. Andersson)
Episode 148
William Somer (or Will Summers), Henry VIII's fool, became known to history as a famous wit, the man who spoke truth to power and advocated for the c…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Arsenic Wife (Part 2)
Episode 147
Marie Lafarge's trial was a sensation. But when chemists begin to disagree on their conclusions, who's to say what the real story is? NOTE: This is t…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Arsenic Wife (Part 1)
Episode 146
In 1840, the trial of Marie Lafarge scandalized France. Marie was a woman from noble birth, raised in all of the right social circles in Paris, who e…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Tragic True-Crime Life of Lady Lucan
Episode 145
[CONTENT WARNING: this episode contains depictions of violence and spousal abuse.]
On November 7, 1974, John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan committed a h…
2 years, 7 months ago