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The Survivors’ World: How the Black Death Reshaped Society

With labor scarce, wages rose. Even unskilled workers found themselves earning more than previous generations. Diets improved. Living standards, in some areas, followed.

Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler (July 20 Plot)

The Plot That Almost Changed History

The Vatican Secret Archives

The Vatican Apostolic Archive (formerly called the Vatican Secret Archives) is the central archive of the Holy See.

When paleontology was just getting started.

We have fragments. We tell stories. Sometimes we’re very wrong.

The Emperor Who Changed the World

Constantine the Great, Philosophically Inaccurate.

Erased From History, Philosophically Inaccurate

The Time Stalin Erased People from Photographs

The Library That Didn’t Burn

The Library of Alexandria Didn’t Burn Down, History That Challenges “Official Narratives”

When Rome put a corpse on trial

January 897 AD Rome had one of the strangest legal proceedings ever.

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