History Obscura

The Great Fire of London

One night in 1666, it all started at a bakery in Pudding Lane....
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Plural Worlds: Alien Theory through the Ages

From the Ancient Greeks to modern extraterrestrial and UAP/UFO theory...is there really life out there?
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Lief Erickson’s Viking Saga

Chapter 20 of Henry Myers' amazing historical novel, The Utmost Island! You can now find the entire audio of the book at the Historical Fiction Book Club. More to follow, so subscribe to the feed!
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Hitobashira: Japan’s Human Pillars

Human sacrifice was an architectural feature of feudal Japan, it seems.
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Dickens & Hans Christian Andersen: The Bad Houseguest

Two great authors of the 19th century kept up a friendship writing letters for 9 years--until one day, the fairytale king came to stay with the London novelist.
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DNA & Migration to the Americas--Plus a Bonus/Bogus? Welsh Tale

The timeline for original human migration into the Americas is becoming more complex as researchers explore new ways to track early settlers.
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A True(ish) Viking Tale

Chapter nineteen of Henry Myers' The Utmost Island.
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A Brief & Pungent History of Cadaveric Dissection

Medical students were long prohibited from studying human anatomy from the naked form itself--especially when the subject was dead. Once the study was begrudgingly accepted, however, everyone wanted a first-hand look.
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Mysterious Airships from the Turn of the 20th Century

How many airships does it take to be called a "Flap?" You tell me.
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Humboldt’s Parrot: The Echoes of a Lost South American Language

18th-century explorer Alexander Humboldt found the vestiges of a dead South American language in the most unusual host!
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