May 4: the history they never taught you.

2 stories from the archive happened on this date—each drawn from published sources before it was written.

Sanctuary Failed the Last Lancastrian Prince

A prince of England ran into a church to save his life, and the men chasing him had recently invented a reason that wouldn't matter.

The Pope Who Split the World in Half

A single papal bull in 1494 sliced the entire planet between two Catholic monarchs—but the Pope forgot about one rather large continent.

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