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vuodesta 23. syyskuuta 2025
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Did Catherine the Great really die having sex with a horse? No. But the stranger question is: where did that story come from and why did anyone believe it? In the first installment of a new series on Historical Rumors, we’re going back to eighteenth-century Russia to look at the woman behind one …

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For more than six hundred years, societies have created institutions designed to rescue, protect, discipline, and reform children. Foundling hospitals took in abandoned infants. Houses of refuge promised to save children from crime and poverty. Reform schools claimed they could turn troubled boys a…
Today, Elvis Presley is the King of Rock and Roll. Jackie Robinson has an entire day dedicated to him across Major League Baseball. Mary Tyler Moore is remembered as one of the most influential women in television history. But before they became icons, they became arguments. In this episode, we e…
In this episode of This, Again, we pull back the curtain on the hidden infrastructure that made American independence possible. From communication networks and local committees to supply chains, intelligence operations, diplomacy, and the ordinary people whose names rarely appear in history books, …
Who gets to be believed? A fake doctor performs surgery without a medical degree. A fossil hunter makes discoveries that reshape science but struggles to be taken seriously. A physician uncovers a lifesaving medical practice, only to be ignored by much of the medical establishment. This week, we …
After every assassination, the same questions seem to follow. How did this happen? Why wasn't it prevented? What warning signs did people miss? From William McKinley in 1901 to John F. Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1981, and Shinzo Abe in 2022, each attack exposed vulnerabilities that suddenly…
This week on This, Again, we look at three figures from the 1600s whose stories became cleaner, simpler, and easier to pass down over time: Galileo Galilei Pocahontas Isaac Newton Galileo becomes the ultimate symbol of science versus religion, even though the reality was tangled up in politi…
What would it take to be labeled insane? In 1887, Nellie Bly checked herself into a New York asylum to find out. She got in with surprising ease. Getting out was something else entirely. Nearly a century later, David Rosenhan ran an experiment to see if anything had changed. Healthy people walked…
In 1962, a group of schoolgirls in Tanganyika began laughing and could not stop. The episode spread to multiple schools, eventually forcing closures and affecting hundreds of students. More than four centuries earlier, in 1518, residents of Strasbourg took to the streets and danced for days at a t…
In May 1536, Anne Boleyn was still Queen of England. Seventeen days later, she was executed. This episode looks at how that kind of collapse is even possible. Anne’s rise wasn’t just personal. Her marriage to Henry VIII forced England to break with the Catholic Church, reshaped the law, and requ…
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