Hear what American industry experts of 1955 had to say about the world of the future in 1980!

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Today's reading is from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure novel, Treasure Island.

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Who was "Eadberg", and does she represent a lost class of literate women in medieval England's nunneries? We don't know much yet, but a spark of personality has been discovered in the pages of a 1,200-year-old text!

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The Mayan people did not disappear; in fact, they fought long and hard for their land and culture, which can once more be seen in Mexico's beautiful Quintana Roo and the Yucatan.

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King Henry VII had a lot on his plate after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, but he wasn't expecting a new plague to be one of them.

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A brief biography of autumn's favourite fallen deity...Satan, Lucifer, or the Devil, if you will!

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One night in 1666, it all started at a bakery in Pudding Lane....

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From the Ancient Greeks to modern extraterrestrial and UAP/UFO theory...is there really life out there?

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Chapter 20 of Henry Myers' amazing historical novel, The Utmost Island! You can now find the entire audio of the book at the Historical Fiction Book Club. More to follow, so subscribe to the feed!

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Human sacrifice was an architectural feature of feudal Japan, it seems.

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