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Salem Witch Trials, Neptune Discovered & Einstein's Relativity | Sep 21–27
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Eight people hanged in Salem's final witch trial executions, Einstein rewrites physics from a patent office, and Neptune is found exactly where the math predicted — all this week in history. From Balboa sighting the Pacific to Ford's Model T rolling off the line, this episode spans eight centuries of world-changing moments.
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On October twelfth, fourteen ninety-two, somewhere in the chain of islands now known as the Bahamas, a lookout aboard one of Christopher Columbus's three ships spotted land. Columbus had sailed west from Spain convinced he could reach Asia that way.
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