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History For Sleep with the Drowsy Historian, 603 episodes. Page 1 of 7.

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Fall Asleep as a Streetcar Conductor During the Great Blizzard of 1888

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Fall Asleep as a Silk Weaver in Ming Dynasty China

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Forester Protecting the King’s Hunting Grounds

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Fall Asleep as a Bronze Age Salt Trader Crossing the Alps

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Fall Asleep as an Opium Addict in Qing Dynasty China

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Fall Asleep as a Canal Boat Family Living Afloat in Victorian England

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Fall Asleep as a Spice Plantation Worker in Colonial Ceylon

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Illuminator Decorating Sacred Manuscripts

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Fall Asleep as a Roman Customs Inspector at the Port of Ancient Rome

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Fall Asleep as an Ice Age Hunter Crossing a Frozen Land Bridge During the Ice Age

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Fall Asleep as a Telephone Repairman During the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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Fall Asleep as a Lumberjack Floating Timber Down Canadian Rivers

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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Widow Touring Europe on the Grand Tour

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Fall Asleep as a Night Watchman Guarding Medieval City Walls

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Fall Asleep as a Servant Cleaning the Forbidden City During the Qing Dynasty

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Fall Asleep as a Potter Traveling Between Villages in Bronze Age Greece

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Fall Asleep as a Civil War Veteran Addicted to Morphine

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Wool Merchant Traveling Between English Market Towns

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Fall Asleep as a Roman Quarry Foreman Supplying Stone for an Aqueduct

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Fall Asleep as a Ice Fisherman Crossing Frozen Rivers in Prehistoric Scandinavia

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Fall Asleep as a Railway Signalman Working the Night Shift in Victorian England

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Fall Asleep as a Powder Monkey Aboard a Royal Navy Ship During the Napoleonic Wars

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Fall Asleep as a Merchant Living Through the Tulip Mania in the Dutch Republic

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Sheep Drover Walking England’s Great Roads

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Fall Asleep as a River Pilot Guiding Barges Along the Nile in Ancient Egypt

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Fall Asleep as a Mammoth Hide Tanner on the Ice Age Steppe

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Fall Asleep as a Keeper Caring for Patients in an Early 20th-Century Leprosy Colony

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Fall Asleep as a Bronze Age Amber Trader Crossing Northern Europe

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Fall Asleep as a Refugee Walking Across Europe at the End of World War II

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Fall Asleep as a Harbor Pilot Guiding Ships Through Dense Fog

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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Merchant Building a Mansion in Colonial Boston

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Fall Asleep as a Miller Grinding Grain During a Medieval Famine

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Fall Asleep as a Roman Census Collector Traveling From Village to Village

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Fall Asleep as a Victorian Cocaine Patent Medicine Salesman in the 1890s

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Fall Asleep as a Sailor Hunting Whales in the Arctic During the 1800s

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Fall Asleep as a Court Gardener at the Palace of Versailles

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Pilgrim Crossing the Alps in Winter

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Fall Asleep as an Ancient Chinese Potter Firing Ceramics in Ancient China

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Fall Asleep as a Laudanum Addict in Victorian England

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Fall Asleep as a Coal Trimmer Aboard a Steamship Crossing the Atlantic

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Fall Asleep as a Printer Working During the Protestant Reformation

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Falcon Trainer Preparing Birds for the Hunt

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Fall Asleep as a Roman Surveyor Mapping New Roads Across Britannia

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Fall Asleep as a Hunter Gathering Bird Eggs Along Ice Age Cliffs

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Fall Asleep as a Civilian Trapped Inside the Siege of Leningrad

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Fall Asleep as a Telegraph Messenger Delivering Urgent News During the American Civil War

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Fall Asleep as a Spice Merchant Crossing the Indian Ocean in the Age of Sail

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Bridge Keeper Collecting Tolls

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Fall Asleep as a Physician Treating Patients in Ancient Carthage

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Fall Asleep as a Flint Miner Digging Deep Underground in Neolithic Europe

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Fall Asleep as a Radar Operator During the Battle of Britain 1940

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Fall Asleep as a Lock Keeper on the Erie Canal in 1845

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Fall Asleep as a Noblewoman Spending the Season at a Venetian Carnival

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Shepherd Driving Sheep Across the Scottish Highlands

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Fall Asleep as a Courier Carrying Imperial Orders Across Ancient Persia

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Fall Asleep as a Seal Hunter Living Along the North Atlantic Coast During the Ice Age

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Fall Asleep as an Early 1900s Deep-Sea Diver

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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Roman Spending the Summer at a Seaside Villa

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Fall Asleep as a Civilian Living Through the Partition of India in 1947

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Fall Asleep as a Fur Trader Wintering at a Remote Hudson’s Bay Company Post

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Gong Farmer Cleaning the Castle Privies

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Fall Asleep as a Copper Miner Working in the Bronze Age Mediterranean

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Fall Asleep as a Bangkok Laborer During Thailand’s Yaba Crisis in the 1990s

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Fall Asleep as a Factory Worker Surrounded by Dangerous Chemicals in 19th Century Europe

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Fall Asleep as a Sailor Facing Keelhauling in the Age of Sail

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Charcoal Burner Living Alone in the Forest

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Fall Asleep as a Roman Animal Keeper Beneath the Colosseum

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Fall Asleep as a Prehistoric Fisher Crossing Arctic Waters in a Skin Boat

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Fall Asleep as a Field Medic Treating the Wounded During the Russian Civil War

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Fall Asleep as a Sewer Flusher Working Beneath Victorian London

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Fall Asleep as a Wealthy Sugar Merchant Living Lavishly in 17th-Century Amsterdam

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Leech Collector Wading Through Swamps for Medicine

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Fall Asleep as an Embalmer Preparing a Mummy in Ancient Egypt

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Fall Asleep as an Indigenous Farmer Watching Europeans Arrive in 16th Century North America

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Fall Asleep as a World War I Aviator Flying Over the Western Front

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Fall Asleep as a Zookeeper Caring for Exotic Animals in Victorian London

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Fall Asleep as a Woman Living Through the Salem Witch Trials (1692)

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Alewife Brewing Beer for an Entire Village

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Fall Asleep as a Servant Preparing a Roman Senator’s Lavish Dinner

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Fall Asleep as a Reindeer Hunter Surviving a Winter in Prehistoric Siberia

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Fall Asleep as an Airship Crewman Aboard the Hindenburg

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Fall Asleep as a Railway Porter Working Through a Gilded Age Winter

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Fall Asleep as a Sailor Being Punished Aboard an 18th Century Royal Navy Warship

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Rat Catcher in a Crowded English Town

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Fall Asleep as an Ancient Roman Sewer Cleaner Beneath the Streets of the Empire

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Fall Asleep as an Indigenous Kayak Builder on the Arctic Coast 1,000 Years Ago

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Fall Asleep as a Lighthouse Keeper During a Deadly Winter Storm

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Fall Asleep as a Neolithic Stone Mason Building Britain's First Monuments

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Fall Asleep as a 1940s Night Nurse Caring for Polio Patients

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Fall Asleep as an 18th Century Prison Clerk

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Fall Asleep as a Pilgrim Staying at Medieval Hospitals Along the Road

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Fall Asleep as a Roman Baker During a Citywide Grain Shortage

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Fall Asleep Working in a Chicago Morgue During the Roaring Twenties

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Fall Asleep as a Railway Worker During the Great Blizzard of 1909

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Fall Asleep as a Court Musician Entertaining the Nobility at Versailles

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Fall Asleep as a Medieval Barber-Surgeon Traveling from Village to Village

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Fall Asleep as the Grave Keeper of a Medieval Monastery

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Fall Asleep as a Caravan Trader Crossing Ancient Amazigh Morocco

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Fall Asleep as a Hospital Volunteer During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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Fall Asleep as a Victorian Match Factory Inspector