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Gulia Tofana Poisoned 600 Men - Beautiful Sicilian Woman And Her Deadly Mission

Giulia Tofana Poisoned 600 Men – Beautiful Sicilian Woman And Her Deadly Mission

AncientPages.com | February 22, 2018

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most of us would say it's difficult to understand how someone who deliberately killed hundreds of people could be hailed a hero. However, those

Portrait of the astronomer Giuseppe Piazziby Costanzo Angelini; Image credt: INAF - Public Domain

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On This Day In History: Ceres Discovered By Giuseppe Piazzi – On Jan 1, 1801

AncientPages.com | January 1, 2017

AncientPages.com - On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi (1746-1846), a Catholic priest at the Academy of Palermo, Sicily discovered a faint, distant object, correctly believing it to lie in

Rosalia Lombardo - She soon became one of the most well-known..

The Mystery Of Blinking Mummy Of Rosalia Lombardo

AncientPages.com | June 23, 2014

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Known as the 'Girl in the Glass Coffin' or 'Sleeping Beauty', Rosalía Lombardo is widely considered one of the best-preserved mummies in the world.