Nuns on the Run
miss bunkley's book
Josephine Bunkley wanted to raise awareness of problems wit the convent system... but her "allies" just wanted to use her story to win elections.
Categories: History, Series 13
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"Boston, MA"
Famous for Baked Beans, Dunkin’ Donuts, and some of the strangest things that have ever happened in America.
Nuns on the Run
Six Months in a Convent
In August 1834 Bostonians burned down a convent full of nuns, thanks to religious prejudice and the suspicious testimony of a lazy teenager with a grudge.
Categories: History, Series 13
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Kings of Pain
who gets the credit for an important discovery?
In October 1846, the world discovered surgical anesthesia. Four men would spend the next two decades fighting over which one of them deserved the credit.
Categories: History, Series 12, The Marvels of Science
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Westward Huss
in which America asks the question: whither Vinland?
For years, archaeologists have searched in vain for the location of Leif Eriksson's Vinland. They should have just asked the good people of New England.
Categories: Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, People & Places, Popular Facts & Fallacies, Series 8, The Quest for the Past
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Spirit Princess
one woman, thirty aliases, forty years and too many crimes to count
The greatest and most notorious Spiritualist swindler of all time was a woman from Kentucky who looked a bit like Lola Montez (if you squinted).
Categories: Biography, Hoaxes, Frauds & Forgeries, Series 3
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