Mount Rushmore Pt. 1

Mount Rushmore Pt. 1

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Painted with Poison: The Radium Girls Cover-Up

They called them the "ghost girls" – young women who glowed in the dark after painting watches with radium. The company told them it was safe. They knew it wasn't. When the women started dying, the cover-up began: forged reports, fake doctors, lies on death certificates. The cons ...  Show more

Priests vs. Presidents: Who Really Orchestrated the Lincoln Assassination?

We’ve all heard the story of John Wilkes Booth firing a bullet in Ford’s Theater… but maybe you haven’t heard the theory he was a puppet, with his strings pulled by a much bigger organization. In the 1800s, a massively popular story circulated that the Jesuit Order orchestrated t ...  Show more

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The Statue of Liberty Almost Lived in Egypt
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The Sons of Liberty Pt. 2
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Some of America’s most historical figures, from Samuel Adams to John Hancock to Paul Revere, were members of the Sons of Liberty. But their methods for securing independence weren’t always pure. Alternate histories suggest they may have incited the Boston Massacre and sold opium ...  Show more