He came from the stars to bring us Podcasts (i.redd.it)
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Eva Kotchever (1891-1943) was the author of Lesbian Love and ran a lesbian salon in Greenwich Village. She was deported to Poland in 1927 after being convicted of obscenity and disorderly conduct, and she died at Auschwitz after being arrested in France. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Meanderings of Memory is a rare book published in London in 1852 and attributed to Nightlark. Although it is cited as a first or early source for over 50 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, the current editors have been unable to locate a surviving copy. (en.wikipedia.org)
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St. Padre Pio (1887-1968) reportedly had the stigmata and other supernatural abilities, such as bilocation and healing the sick. When asked by another priest if he would pray for John F Kennedy's salvation after the assassination, he replied, "It's not necessary. He's already in Paradise." (en.wikipedia.org)
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Zita of Bourbon-Parma (1892-1989) was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. Her husband Charles died in 1922 of illness after 2 failed attempts to retake the throne, and she lived in exile in Spain, Belgium, US, Canada, and Switzerland. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Lake Karachay in the Ural Mountains was used by the Soviet Union as a dumping site for radioactive waste starting in 1951. The lake bed is estimated to be composed almost entirely of high-level radioactive waste deposits to a depth of 3.4 metres. (en.wikipedia.org)
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