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In this episode of HOW IT WAS, we will tell you what vaccination looked like in the 16th century, who taught doctors to wash their hands, to whom we owe painkillers and how Wilhelm Roentgen showed death to his wife.

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Tour de France was founded in 1903 by Henri Desgrange, editor of the daily sports paper L'Auto, to increase the newspaper's sales. Today it is regarded as the world’s most prestigious and challenging bicycle race. In this episode of ‘How It Was,’ we will show you the first Tour de France in 1903. You will find out about the crazy fans whose antics threatened to end the race and about dangerous routes for which the organizers were called "murderers." At the very end, we will tell you what doping substances cyclists used in the past, while those were still legal.

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Billions of fans, huge stadiums and passion bordering on obsession. In this episode of HOW IT WAS we will talk about the history of football - the most popular sports game in the world. Why was football banned, how did English students brought football to the world? How did it happen that it became a religion in South America, but could not win the hearts of fans in North America?

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Mariana Trench is the deepest and one of the most unexplored places on Earth. The water pressure here is so immense it can instantly crush almost any living organism. Only the brave few managed to go all the way down. How did they do it, and what did they find at the bottom?  

In this episode of HOW IT WAS, we will tell you about the Challenger Deep discovery, which is the world's deepest known point, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench. You will learn about the first manned descent to the Challenger Deep by Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh and about journeys to the bottom by James Cameron and Victor Vescovo. You’ll also find out how deep-sea microorganisms and fish adapted to high pressure; and why Mariana Trench was proposed as a site for nuclear waste disposal

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WW1 inventions that make our lives easier | HOW IT WAS: Popular History  In this episode we’ll tell you about the most important inventions of World War I that we can’t do without anymore. Why teabags used to be called “tea bombs,” how vegetarian sausages saved Germany from starvation, and why women only started using sanitary pads in the 20th century.

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The Amazons in Real Life. Little-known facts and Archaeological finds | HOW IT WAS: Popular History  In this video we’ll look at popular myths about Amazons, reports from the Antique authors, and then we will compare them to the harsh reality.  

Greeks and Romans describe Amazons as beautiful maidens with waving long hair, wearing light helmets and sexy clothes. But according to archaeological shreds of evidence, women warriors didn’t have it easy —  when it came to actual battles they would be treated just the same as men were.

Henry McCarthy, aka Billy the Kid, died when he was only 21 years old but became one of the Wild West’s legends. A century and a half after his death, he still excites the minds of lovers of American history, and every find associated with him becomes a sensation.  

In this episode of ‘HOW IT WAS,’ we will tell you how a young cowboy became a famous gangster, what role he played in the bloody Lincoln County War, and why a close friend became his long-standing rival. You will find out why the seemingly banal death of Billy the Kid became a riddle and what is the real worth of a black-and-white photograph, accidentally discovered in a heap of old junk.

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In 1909, the South Pole remained the last major geographic trophy to be won. Captain Robert Scott, who led the British expedition, was not going to rush: he developed a three-year program that involved extensive scientific research and systematic preparations for the trip to the Pole. He had no idea how much the Norwegians would interfere with his plans.

In this episode of ‘How It Was,’ we'll tell you about one of the most dramatic confrontations in the history of geographical discoveries - the rivalry between the British and Norwegians for the title of the first conquerors of the South Pole. Who coped better with the task: strong and hardy Norwegians, dressed in animal furs, or British scientists, equipped with the latest science supplies? What mistakes can cost lives in Antarctica, and how can a literary gift turn defeat into victory? These are the topics explored in our new episode.

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Napoleon Bonaparte’s biography has been studied far and wide, yet many individual circumstances remain in the dark. There is still controversy among scientists and history buffs about what caused Napoleon's death in exile on the island of Saint Helena.

In the new episode of ‘How It Was,’ we will try to find out: did the emperor die of stomach cancer, or was he poisoned? You will also learn about what role Schweinfurt green pigment played in history, who was the most likely suspect for Napoleon’s poisoning, and what the green color has to do with all this.

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What people wouldn’t do for the sake of victory and sports passion! If in professional sports it is usually forbidden to injure rivals, there are many less well-known competitions that now and then turn into bloody battles.   

In the new episode of ‘How It Was,’ we highlight five of the strangest - and bloodiest - sports that never became professional sports but are rather popular in their homeland. You will learn how Florentine football differs from the ordinary one, what is the alternative to bullfighting in Spain, why Turkish wrestlers rub themselves with olive oil before the competition, and what the Battle of the Oranges represents for Italians.

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