History Dispatches

In November of 1520 the king of Sweden and Denmark, King Christian II, betrayed the Swedish nobility. After a feast, he imprisoned dozens of nobles and clergymen and then proceeded to execute 82 of them in the town square of Stockholm for heresy. This is the story of the Stockholm Bloodbath.

Sources

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2021/11/the-stockholm-bloodbath-of-november-1520/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Stockholm-Bloodbath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath

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In 1781, Rachel Wall and her husband desperate for a better life - turned to piracy. Over a two-year period, their small band of marauders captured a dozen ships - and murdered 24 men. This is the story of Rachel Wall - America’s first female pirate.

Sources

https://pastispresent.org/2025/good-sources/in-her-own-words-the-life-and-death-of-rachel-wall-massachusetts-female-pirate/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Wall

https://www.annebonnypirate.com/famous-female-pirates/rachel-wall/

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Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world, affecting over 500 million people. Today it is very manageable, and thanks to modern medicine most people can live a long, normal life. But that was not always the case. Before the 1920s diabetes was often a death sentence. At least until Frederick Banting and Charles Best found a way to isolate insulin from dog pancreases. This is the story of the discovery of insulin.

Sources

https://diabetes.org/blog/history-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6205949/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666970621000494

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On the morning of August 27, 1979, a bomb exploded on a fishing boat off the coast of Ireland. Two children were amongst the dead, as was British statesman and naval officer Lord Mountbatten. The bombing was one of the most polarizing moments in the conflict simply known as ‘The Troubles’. This is the story of the Assassination of Lord Mountbatten.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Lord_Mountbatten

https://www.history.com/articles/mountbatten-assassination-ira-thatcher

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On the island of Sri Lanka there is a mountain that is sacred to multiple religions. For thousands of years people have made pilgrimages to the summit of this peak to see the great rock formation that some say is the footprint of Adam - or Buddha - or St. Thomas the Apostle - or Shiva. This the story of Sri Pada - or Adam’s Peak.

Sources

https://sacredland.org/sri-pada-sri-lanka/

https://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhistworld/sri-pada/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_Peak

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