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In 1838 Frenchwoman Henriette d'Angeville set out to climb Mont Blanc despite almost universal opposition.
For nearly 50 years, Martin Couney ran a sideshow in which babies were displayed in incubators.
In 1945, a group of American soldiers set out to rescue hundreds of horses from a Nazi farm in Czechoslovakia.
In 1844, New Orleans slave Sally Miller claimed to be a free German immigrant pressed into bondage.
Waldemar Haffkine is largely unremembered, despite developing vaccines against both cholera and bubonic plague.
Italian physicist Ettore Majorana disappeared mysteriously in 1938.
Fraudster James Reavis claimed to own 18,000 square miles of the American West in the 1880s.
In 1901, two English academics came to believe they'd passed through a memory of Marie Antoinette.
Some New Englanders in the 1800s believed that tuberculosis symptoms were caused by the dead.