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Hare-brained History Vol. 135: The Hope Diamond — Sex, Poison, Theft & Death (opens the original)
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Welcome to the 135th installment of Hare-brained History, a blog in which your intrepid host treats you to absurdities, follies, mind-fucks, and everything in between from the world of history. Today, we move to another subscriber suggestion, one that will take us, at least in part, back to Bourbon France, and to the neck of Marie Antoinette. According to some (idiots. Sorry, breaking immersion already), the fate that befell her and her husband was tied to their ownership of a certain stolen jew
Hare-brained History Vol. 134: Sanson-The Revolution Through the Eyes of Its Executioner (opens the original)
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Welcome to the 134th installment of Hare-brained History, a blog in which your intrepid host treats you to absurdities, follies, mind-fucks, and everything in between from the world of history. Today, we are inspired by work. They say that if you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. Actually, upon looking it up, apparently Marc Anthony said that, the singer, not the Roman politician who was fucking Cleopatra.Anyway, today’s story explores one of the most prolific men in his fi
Hare-brained History Vol. 133: Roanoke-The Lost Colony (opens the original)
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Welcome to the 133rd installment of Hare-brained History, a blog in which your intrepid host treats you to absurdities, follies, mind-fucks, and everything in between from the world of history. Today, we are inspired by a suggestion from my mother. As I begin writing this, 426 years ago, a group of buckle-hat-wearing religious freaks left Plymouth, England, on “a prosperous wind.” Dissatisfied with the Church of England, these separatists had first moved to the far more religiously to
Hare-brained History Vol. 132: Triangles (opens the original)
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Welcome to the 131st installment of Hare-brained History, a blog in which your intrepid host treats you to absurdities, follies, mind-fucks, and everything in between from the world of history. Today, we jump into spooky season. I can’t take full credit for this idea, though I have thought of it in connection to this blog before. Today, we look at the scariest shape of them all: triangles!While in the midst of one reputed Triangle this past Thursday, one of my classmates claimed to have witnesse
Hare-brained History Vol. 131: Houdini (opens the original)
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Welcome to the 131st installment of Hare-brained History, a blog in which your intrepid host treats you to absurdities, follies, mind-fucks, and everything in between from the world of history. Today, with spooky season officially here (I declared it), I turned the choice over to my subscribers before diving headlong into historical horror. I love me some macabre.We aren’t quite there yet, but of the scant suggestions I received (please, give me more), this man
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