William Herschel discovered something bright, shiny and exciting two centuries ago in the night sky.

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Today's forgotten history comes from the West African Kingdom of Dahomey, where female warriors were very much in vogue.

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Nellie is on her way to the final destination!

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Alexei Leonov took the first spacewalk in orbit around the Earth in 1965. In case things went terribly wrong, he had an emergency plan...

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Malin Matsdotter was a principal defendant of the Swedish Witch Trials of the late 17th century.

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Declared insane!

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Does what it says on the tin!

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In which Nelly Bly is taken to the police for apparent lunacy.

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The second part of Nellie Bly's story of her intentional commitment to a New York insane asylum in the 1860s.

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"Ten Days in a Mad House" is the true account of one Nellie Bly, a 19th-century reporter for a New York newspaper. What was it really like inside those walls?

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