He was said to embody the devil himself - extraordinarily tall with a wild black beard and hair tied up with lit fuses. His eyes, like embers, burned with a demonic glow and even the fiercest of men cowered at the sight of his flag. History paints Blackbeard as one of the most feared pirates of the seven seas, but did you know there’s no evidence that he actually killed anyone? Let’s fix that. 


Sources: 

• “The Republic of Pirates” by Colin Woodard
• "A Short History of…" podcast episode titled “Blackbeard the Pirate”
• https://www.britannica.com/event/Queen-Annes-War 
• "General History of The Pyrates" by Captain Charles Johnson

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Roughly 5 stories beneath the streets of Paris you’ll find the bones of over 6 million people stacked in neat rows and arranged in grotesquely intricate designs. The Paris Catacombs attract over 500,000 visitors each year, but do you know why such a shockingly morbid site exists? Let’s fix that.

Sources: 

• https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history
• ​​https://lister.history.ox.ac.uk/index-page_id=412.html
• https://mineralogicalrecord.com/new_biobibliography/hericart-de-thury-louis-e-f/
• https://www.sortiraparis.com/en/what-to-visit-in-paris/history-heritage/articles/248888-history-of-paris-the-holy-innocents-cemetery-and-what-remains-of-it
• https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/art-culture/paris-catacombs
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-people-eat-during-siege#:~:text=In%201590%2C%20Starving%20Parisians%20Ground%20Human%20Bones%20Into%20Bread%20%2D%20Gastro%20Obscura

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