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And the head of Oliver Cromwell.

The same head they kept on a pike for three years?

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Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app. Hello, my friends like who are you, and welcome back to another episode of the history of everything.

My friends, it is a fun week this week, and by fun, I mean, oh my God, have I been just burdened with literally everything that I have to do?

I leave at the time that I'm recording this episode for Sweden in a period of about two days,

meaning there is, oh my God, there's been so many things I've had to create.

From history episodes on YouTube to gaming episodes for the gaming page, it's, yeah,

it's quite a lot.

And now, of course, there's the podcast with all these varying things to talk about.

In fact, one of the most embarrassing things here, for me personally, is that over the course of the Olympic Games, I did not talk about the Olympics.

But yes, okay, like once or twice I made two shorts or something about varying different aspects, but for the most part,

it didn't really pay all that much attention.

That's just something that I did not do, which is sad, really, because I was busy with so

many varying things, because when we talk about the Olympics, they have an extremely

rich history.

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