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Part One: Russian Nihilists: The Gender-bending Subculture that Blew Up the Tsar

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The First Zar's Life

Before anyone has tried the first attempt on the czar's life is 1866. The blue sunglasses they wore weren't sunglasses. They were reading glasses. When reading glasses were first invented, they were mostly blue and green because it was seen as favorable to the health of the eyes. But so for now, they're all crazy radical students. It took me a while to dig in through to figure this out.

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