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History Lessons for Misanthropes

Jul 20, 2021

In this episode we discuss the life of Mata Hari, a popular dancer in Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century. We tell the story of how a woman from the Netherlands pretended to be a dance from Java to gain popularity in the arts community, and how her string of international romances led her to be recruited...


Jul 6, 2021

In this episode, Mildred tells Lou about two girls in Cottingley, England, who staged some photographs with paper fairies. After the photos got in the hands of the Theosophical Society, the girls accidentally became embroiled in a 60-year-long hoax that had some very famous people declaring the photos were proof that...