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A simple translation error is all it takes to make humanity lose its collective mind. When Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observed natural channels…
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A disorganized mob of zealots marching thousands of miles without proper supply lines should have been an absolute disaster. Yet, through a sheer combination…
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Humility is supposedly a spiritual virtue, but Boniface completely skipped that chapter. He issued an official decree asserting that entirely every single…
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Why march an army all the way to a different continent when there are perfectly good heretics to burn right next door? The Papacy essentially declared a holy…
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Age was completely irrelevant to this word. In early texts, you could be a gray-haired sixty-year-old man, but if you were sweeping the floors of a castle,…
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Because dealing with rogue wizards is definitely part of the papal job description. Convinced that his enemies were using wax dolls to hex him, the Pope…
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