With Black Lives Matter protesters focusing on toppling Confederate monuments, and talking heads on the right calling efforts to legislate the removal of these monuments to slavery an attempt to "destroy history," and Trump making executive orders to protect them, this episode from 2017 is especially relevant again. Thanks Diane for suggesting I rerelease it! 
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Jubal Early's Lost Cause (rerelease) #BlackLivesMatter

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In this volume of my long-running series on the history of magic, the Encyclopedia Grimoria, I talk about a cult leader who is remembered as a great mathematician, whose real lasting contribution to the world is the nonsensical divination "magic" known as numerology
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Other music, including "daemones," "daedalus," and "Remedy for Melancholy," are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons.
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All Is Number: Pythagoras and Numerology (An Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)

Does a secret code embedded within the Torah really predict events in modern history? No, and I'll tell you why in this episode, looking at the claims of kabbalist sages, the dubious work of certain mathematicians, and the predictions of sensationalist Michael Drosnin.
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Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Leatherbound," "Cicle Deserrat," "And Oddly Formal Dance," "Preston and Carle," "Brer Krille," and "Tarte Tatin."
Other music, including "daemones" and "Remedy for Melancholy," are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons.
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Scatterbrained: The Bible Code Craze

In the final installment of my weekly series on the Shakespeare authorship question, accept the burden of proof that anti-Stratfordians refuse to meet and present the case that Shakespeare, after all, did indeed write Shakespeare.
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Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Cicle DR Valga," "Delicates," "The Cornice," "Invernen," and "The Gran Dias."
Other music, including "Remedy for Melancholy," "daedalus," and "daemones" are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons.
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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part Four: "The Truth Will Out."

In the penultimate installment of this weekly series on the Shakespeare authorship question, I bring the debate up to the modern day, to the most successful claim that someone else wrote the works attributed to the Bard, which also has relied on conspiracy and hidden codes and even on talking with ghosts.
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Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Delicates," "Tarte Tatin," "The Gran Dias," "Borough," and "Sudden Courier."
Other music, including "Remedy for Melancholy," and "daemones" are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons.
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"An Idle and Most False Imposition"; The Shakespeare Authorship Question - Part Three: Oxford's Ghost

In the second part of a special WEEKLY 4-part series on the Shakespeare authorship controversy, I look at the first candidate put forward as being the person who supposedly wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare, and the madness that this theory engendered.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
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Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!  And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts! 
Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness.
Some music on this episode was licensed under a Blue Dot Sessions blanket license at the time of this episodes publication. Tracks include "Cicle Deserrat," "Cherry Heath," "Brer Krille," "The Gran Dias," "Bauxite," "The Griffiths," and "Borough."
Other music, including "Brooks" and "Remedy for Melancholy," are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons.
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Jubal Early's Lost Cause (rerelease) #BlackLivesMatter

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