This 2021 episode covers Lola Montez, a figure whose life is hard to pin down. That's not because of a lack of documentation, but because that documentation repeats the completely fictional backstory she made up for herself.
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Behind the Scenes Minis: Frank, Lizzie, and Noodles
Eponymous Foods: Oops All Noodles
Frank Duveneck and Elizabeth Boott
SYMHC Classics: Great Vowel Shift
Behind the Scenes Minis: Conjecture and Child Actors
The Clifton Star Chamber Case and Kidnapped Child Actors
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
SYMHC Classics: W.C. Minor
Behind the Scenes Minis: War of the Words
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 2
Webster, Worcester and the Dictionary Wars, Part 1
SYMHC Classics: Julian Eltinge
Behind the Scenes Minis: Square Dancing on a Wire
Square Dancing
Vander Clyde Broadway, aka Barbette
SYMHC Classics: George Sand
Behind the Scenes Minis: Music and Tomatoes
Nix v. Hedden and Tomatoes as Vegetables
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
SYMHC Classics: Frederick Douglass
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