Hello and Welcome, I’m Spencer Seams. This Seams Interesting is a monthly column highlighting weird, overlooked, and ignored people and events throughout history. March’s topic is… HASEKURA TSUNENAGA: The Pope’s Favorite Samurai The Samurai, legendary warriors that actually did a lot more than fight with katanas. They were more or less government employees
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Hello and welcome, this is This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. October’s topic is… MONGOLIA UNDER BOGD KHAN: Two Revolutions for the Price of One When it comes to the Mongolian history, most people stop at the death of Genghis Khan
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Hello, I’m Spencer Seams and you’re reading This Seams Interesting. It’s a monthly column looking at weird, interesting, and overlooked people and events throughout history. July’s topic is… THE WALKER BROTHERS: 60 Years Before Jackie Robinson There Were The Walkers Moses Fleetwood Walker (nicknamed Fleet) and Welday Wilburforce Walker are two of the
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Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Seams Interesting. This will be a monthly series highlighting interesting, weird, and overlooked events and people throughout history. June’s topic is… EMU WAR: Birds of a Feather Stick Together What do you get when you combine the Great Depression, the Australian Wheat Board, the Lewis Automatic
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