Stuff you Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Building Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 2
The second installment in the story of the Haunted Mansion ...
The second installment in the story of the Haunted Mansion going from concept to fully-realized theme park attraction covers the reboot the team went through after the World's Fair and the loss of their leader.
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Building Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 1
One of the most iconic Disney park attractions -- the ...
One of the most iconic Disney park attractions -- the Haunted Mansion -- had a development process that was anything but smooth. Budget and scheduling issues and creative differences dogged the project for almost two decades.
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Elsa Lanchester: Becoming the Bride Pt. 2
After her unconventional upbringing, Elsa's career as a performer began ...
After her unconventional upbringing, Elsa's career as a performer began to take off in the late 1920s, around the same time she met her husband. But the role that would define her image came in 1935.
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Elsa Lanchester: Becoming the Bride Pt. 1
You may not know her name, but her image is ...
You may not know her name, but her image is famous. As the love interest for Dr. Frankenstein’s monster in “The Bride of Frankenstein,” Elsa Lanchester became a film icon, but her life story is as interesting as any cinema fiction.
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Alan L. Hart
Alan L. Hart was a doctor, writer, and prominent figure ...
Alan L. Hart was a doctor, writer, and prominent figure in the fields of radiology and tuberculosis control. He was also one of the first people in the U.S. to have surgery in an effort to transition to a different gender than the one he had been born to.
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Was there a real Sweeney Todd?
Sweeney Todd is a well-known fictional character, a murderous barber ...
Sweeney Todd is a well-known fictional character, a murderous barber who colludes with a cook to bake his victims into pies. There are many instances of the demon barber story being touted as a tale based in real-life events, but how true is that?
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Grove Park Inn
Like any grand old hotel, the Grove Park Inn has ...
Like any grand old hotel, the Grove Park Inn has quite a history, involving real medicine, patent medicine, famous writers and inventors, several wars, and even a ghost story. The luxury spa exists thanks largely to two diseases: malaria and tuberculosis.
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New England Vampire Panic
Starting in the late 1700s and running for a century, ...
Starting in the late 1700s and running for a century, small rural communities in New England were sometimes stricken with a panicked fear that the dead were somehow feeding off the living, and many graves were exhumed in the hopes of ending the attacks.
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Luis W. Alvarez, Pt. 2
The second part of the Luis Alvarez episode covers his ...
The second part of the Luis Alvarez episode covers his time as part of the Manhattan Project designing detonators for atomic bombs. Beyond his controversial work, Alvarez also contributed to particle physics, mystery solving and paleontology.
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Luis W. Alvarez, Pt. 1
Luis Alvarez was a physicist whose broad interests connected him ...
Luis Alvarez was a physicist whose broad interests connected him to some of the 20th century’s most influential moments, including the bombing of Hiroshima and the assassination of JFK. His diverse work led to the nickname “the wild idea man of physics.”
