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Ukraine's Ancient Greek City
30 October 2022Located in modern day Ukraine, Olbia was the largest ancient Greek settlement on the coast of the Black Sea. A mix of Scythian and Greek culture,...
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Paranormal Technology
30 October 2022Welcome to Patented-Gone-Paranormal!! Thomas Edison tried to make a telephone that called the spirit world. One of the pioneers of radio believed...
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Vlad the Impaler
29 October 2022Vlad the Impaler - Vlad Dracula - is one of history’s most brutal figures, who has enjoyed a bizarre afterlife as a cult character. Although a...
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Seances
28 October 2022Everybody hold hands! We're going for a seance!
How long have we've been trying to talk to dead people for? And have we ever actually been...
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Blitzkrieg: How Britain Invented, Then Ignored It
28 October 2022Here’s a special episode of Cautionary Tales, a podcast from our friends at Pushkin Industries.
On Cautionary Tales, bestselling author...
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A Short History of Seances
27 October 2022From their origins in necromancy to their ritualisation in the religion of Spiritualism, seances have long been a staple in the occultist's...
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America's Psychedelic '60s: Timothy Leary and LSD
27 October 2022In 1963, a Gilded Age estate in Millbrook, New York, became a venue for academic research into therapeutic uses for LSD, led by psychologist...
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Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India
27 October 2022In 1611, the daughter of a Persian nobleman and widow of a subversive official, became the 20th and favourite wife of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir....
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Colosseum
27 October 2022Nicknamed the 8th wonder of the ancient world, the Colosseum still stands in splendour today. Located in the heart of Rome, nestled at the bottom...
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Elizabeth Báthory: The Vampire of Hungary
26 October 2022The inspiration behind countless gothic novels, Countess Elizabeth Báthory is said to be one of the most prolific serial killers of all time,...
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Nuclear Fusion Power
26 October 2022For almost a century we’ve been trying to build a star on earth. Not easy with temperatures reaching 150,000,000℃.
Today on Patented...
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Rasputin: Myth & Manhood
25 October 2022Was Rasputin really Russia’s greatest love machine? Did he have any healing powers? And why might his penis be pickling in a jar?
In this...
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