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Father Ernetti built a time machine to watch history

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A Vatican priest claimed to have invented the Chronovisor, a device resembling a television that could tune into the past. He conveniently used it to watch historical tragedies unfold, though he somehow never managed to produce the blueprints for anyone else.

Father Ernetti built a time machine to watch history
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