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Polly Bartlett is said to have killed 22 people, Wyoming’s first serial killer. That is, if she ever existed. Source: soliozuz / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
7 NOV 2024 · 5 MIN

The Legend of Polly Bartlett, the Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch

The Wild West was a lawless land. As the US settlers pushed west from the original territories of the United States towards the Pacific coast they encountered many dangers. The countryside was…
The skeleton recovered from the well in 2016 has been confirmed as the man mentioned in Sverris Saga. Source: iScience; doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.111076.
29 OCT 2024 · 3 MIN

800-Year-Old Skeleton Confirms an Ancient Norse Saga

Much of the history of the Norse is captured in their sagas, epic poems and stories which detail these hardy people, their gods and kings, their history and their beliefs. Much would…
Bezoar stones in the Munich Residenz (Schtone / CC BY-SA 3.0)
2 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Bezoar Stones, the Universal Antidote: More Than a Mistake?

It is fair to say that the history of medicine has been something of a hit and miss affair. Without modern technology to aid in our understanding of the root causes of…