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Paul Brown

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Music and the Microbe

In 1936, newspapers reported a claim from Norway that “music played on the organ will prevent foodstuffs from going bad.” According to the reports, certain musical notes could kill microbes that cause food to decay. While scientists were “d...

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Countess as Dope Fiend

In September 1919, a young woman staying at one of the best hotels in Montreux, Switzerland, made the acquaintance of a “Hungarian adventuress”. The young woman was around 24 years old and either English or American. She became “bosom frien...

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The Boy in the Dustbin

A couple of weeks before Christmas in 1885, a domestic servant made an alarming discovery in a household dustbin. Upon opening the lid of the bin, in a front garden in Richmond, south west London, the servant “observed a human hand projecti...

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Crushed by a Steam Roller

The Illustrated Police News was a lurid Victorian-era weekly tabloid that presented gleefully illustrated accounts of grisly crimes and tragic accidents, like this one from December 1894, titled “Crushed by a Steam Roller”:

“A shocking f...

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Attacked by Weasels

“Many stories are told of the audacity and ferocity of weasels,” said the Berwick Advertiser in August 1840, “but we believe the following occurrence is nearly unequalled as an instance of their impudence and cool courage.” This story took...

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