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The Third Version of History
Little-known episodes, surprising coincidences and perspectives that are rarely explored. Neither the official version nor its mirror image: a reasoned question, told with curiosity, historical humility and evidence.
Special investigations
Tarrare: The Man Whose Appetite Baffled Medicine
Revolutionary France, 1788–1798: a young man who swallowed stones, corks and live animals, an army surgeon who wrote it all down, and two centuries of retellings that added what the surgeon never said
Aimo Koivunen: The Soldier Who Survived a Wartime Overdose
Lapland, March 1944: a Finnish patrolman swallows his patrol's whole ration of methamphetamine and spends two weeks alone behind the lines. The legend counts kilometres; his own account counts what he could not remember
Michael Malloy: The Irishman Who Refused to Die
Bronx, 1933: four men insure a destitute drinker and spend two months failing to kill him. The legend remembers his stamina; the record remembers a crime
Franco and Pinochet: two lives that look too much alike
Baraka, wives, silence and the survival instinct of two soldiers who shared more than an ideology
Brief stories
Brief stories (a few minutes of reading, one or two archive images and their sources) will appear here soon.