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Perkin Warbeck
10 cases
The Hidden King
5 cases
The False Czar
2 cases
The False Dauphins
5 cases
Princess Olive
7 cases
Paracelsus
4 cases
Cagliostro
6 cases
Mesmer
3 cases
The Wandering Jew
4 cases
The Mississippi Scheme and Its Antecedents
7 cases
The Period
2 cases
Doctor Dee
2 cases
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Highlights
Bisley
The place known to the great public as Bisley is quite other than that under present consideration. Bisley, the ground for rifle…
The False Dauphins
ON 21 January, 1793, Louis XVI of France was beheaded in the Place de la Revolution, formerly Place de Louis Quinze. From the…
Hannah Snell
Hannah Snell is a good instance of how the life of a woman who was not by nature averse from adventure was moulded by chance in…
Chevalier D'Eon
IN all the range of doubtful personalities there is hardly any one whom convention has treated worse than it has the individual…
Dean Swift's Hoax
One of the most beautiful hoaxes ever perpetrated was one for which Swift was responsible. He caused a broad-sheet to be printed…
Matthew Hopkins
THERE is one thing more evil than oppression in the shape of wrong-doing, and that T is oppression in the guise of good…