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Classic headlineMiners Refuse to Work After Death
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OddlyTrue News Stand — December 5
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Weird history on December 5
1484 Oddly truePope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, which gave the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer the explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
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- 1484 Oddly true
Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany.
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1807 Oddly trueNapoleonic Wars: British ships began a raid on Griessie after the Dutch captain refused a British demand for surrender.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1901
Grant County herald (Lancaster, Wis.), December 5, 1901, (Part One)
Page 3 · mentions "strange" · printed on this very day
“A Tennessee Trial How a J adge Excused Himself For Discharging a Prisoner In one of the valleys to the east of the main spur of the Cumberland I stopped at a huddle of houses for the night I was given a bed in a chamber …”
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