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Diogenes was one of the more eccentric of the Greek philosophers. Homeless and irascible, scandalous and obscene, he still inspired later generations.

Catherine Monvoisin was allegedly a poisoner who practiced human sacrifice. Her fall shoke the court of Louis XIV to its foundations.

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Joseph Fouché was a bloody-handed architect of the French Terror; but he avoided any backlash for it. There's always employment for a man without scruples.

Noticing gender inequalities, calling out mansplaining, & losing friends. Aisling Walsh tells us how "feminism ruined my life".

David O'Donoghue, our resident W.B. Yeat's fanboy, writes about the great poet and his interest in Fascism.

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John Bodkin Adams was at one time the richest doctor in all England. To gain that fortune he took advantage of his patients - but was he a murderer?