Did The Bloody Fourth Day Of Christmas Actually Happen? | King Herod

Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold explore the festive season as it would have been celebrated during the reign of the first Tudor King, Henry VII.

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This documentary unveils the monumental engineering and scandalous history behind the Château de Chambord, a structure so ambitious it was once deemed impossible. Commissioned by the young, visionary King Francis I and designed in collaboration with the legendary Leonardo da Vinci, this "stone giant" was built on a treacherous swamp using revolutionary 3D-like geometry, including its famous double-helix staircase. From hiding the Mona Lisa during WWII to bankrupting the French treasury, the video explores the construction secrets, the "coded messages" in its architecture, and the 500-year-old mystery of its missing floor plans. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.

His name has become synonymous with the term "womanizer". But a new perspective may shed a more positive light on the life of Giacomo Casanova. A true son of the renaissance, Casanova was a musician, a cleric, a spy and a lover. He led a tempestuous life where he amassed and lost fortunes, invented the National Lottery, fought duels with Counts, and had the most famous love life of all time. This dramatised documentary series is based upon a collection of letters left by Casanova in the library of Duchov Palace where he died at the age of 73, all but forgotten by a world that he had charmed, amazed and shocked only a few years before.

Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 but what actually happened to her is still a mystery. Her story and achievements however still captivate, thanks in no small part to her younger sister Muriel. Their bond, forged in childhood and tested in adulthood, could not be broken by death.

Since Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city of Pompeii, it has been frozen in time. But now, more secrets behind the ancient Roman city are being revealed with the help of new technologies in Science Channel's Lost World Of Pompeii. Pompeii is a delicately conserved attraction that is under constant threat from the wear and tear of extensive tourism, the specter of landslides, and the possibility of another devastating eruption from Mount Vesuvius.