The dead link epidemic is more than a web maintenance problem. As news stories, court citations, scientific references, and government pages decay, historians lose the context that turns online claims into evidence.
Forgotten Episodes HistoryA fifteenth-century parody of the funeral mass became Brittany's favorite dance song. Three readings of La Jument de Michao, and why none of them wins.
Forgotten Episodes HistoryEvery civilization that encountered coffee tried to ban it. Every ban failed. How a psychoactive berry from Ethiopia became the most consumed drug on Earth, and convinced everyone it wasn't one.
Forgotten Episodes Health & ScienceZarathustra articulated heaven, hell, final judgment, and the cosmic battle between good and evil at least a thousand years before anyone else wrote them down. Then history buried the receipt.
Forgotten Episodes HistoryIn the 1920s, young women were hired to paint watch dials with radium-based paint and instructed to point their brushes with their lips. The Radium Girls and their legal fight established precedents that still govern industrial harm cases today.
Forgotten Episodes HistoryOn January 15, 1919, a tank holding 2.3 million gallons of industrial molasses collapsed in Boston's North End, killing 21 people. The company blamed anarchists. The Great Molasses Flood trial proved otherwise.
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