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History’s First Financial Bubble: Tulip Mania
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In seventeenth-century Holland, beauty became a currency. This is t…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The TERRIFYING Fate of a Vestal Virgin Who Breaks Her Vow
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Tonight, we walk slowly into the heart of ancient Rome — into marbl…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The DARK History of the Asylum
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From the medieval almshouses where faith and fear mingled, to the t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The HORRIFYING Life of a Cocaine Addict in 1970s Miami
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Under the sweltering Miami sun of the late 1970s, you arrive chasin…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The HORRIFYING Fate of a Krokodil Addict
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Tonight’s story drifts into one of the darkest corners of modern hi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The HORRIFYING Fate of a Russian Famine Survivor
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Tonight, we descend into the famine-ravaged Russian countryside, wh…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Quiet Horror of Medieval Medicine
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In the candlelit world of the Middle Ages, medicine was as much rit…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The HORRIFYING Experience of Childbirth in Ancient Rome
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Childbirth in ancient Rome was never a promise of life. For Roman w…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The STRANGE Things Victorians Did
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The Victorians liked to think of themselves as the pinnacle of prog…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The TERRIFYING Effects of Thalidomide (Birth Defect Scandal)
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Tonight’s story is not set on a battlefield or in the ruins of an e…
5 months, 4 weeks ago