The year is 1487!

Beer gets better (and safer), Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (and by all accounts sounds like someone who should actually be in a position of leadership), Magdalena de la Cruz is a living saint (and by all accounts sounds like someone who should not be in a position of leadership), and Lambert Simnel claims he's heir to the throne of England.

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Intro Music: "Horse Race" by EstherGarcia.

https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/7SMpZlapQl/

https://beerandbrewing.com/dictionary/JE21QkzMmR/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celebrating-500-years-germans-beer-purity-law-180958878/

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/26/the-reinheitsgebot-the-beer-purity-law-of-1516-is-still-in-force-in-germany-today/

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/piel-castle/history/lambert-simnel/

https://spartacus-educational.com/H7Content5.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_Simnel

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Plantagenet,_17th_Earl_of_Warwick

https://christusvincitsite.wordpress.com/2018/06/09/diabolic-stigmata-the-notorious-case-of-magdalena-de-la-cruz/

https://www.mysticsofthechurch.com/2011/12/sister-magdalena-of-cross-nun-who-made.html

http://www.mingtombs.eu/emp/09hongzhi/hongzhi.html

 

https://www.chinafetching.com/hongzhi-emperor-zhu-youcheng