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for me this url redirects to the home page of https://www.historylatam.com/ which seems to be some kind of ufology and did-the-aliens-build-the-pyramids channel. probably the domain should be banned as malicious content

this is not the kind of content that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity

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Unfortunately the official History channel website always redirects you to the Latin American version, preventing people with a Latin American IP address to access any US content.

That's actually what the History Channel airs on cable in the US. It was originally a serious channel that covered history but now shows conspiracy nonsense and shows about pawn shops. It's one of the most infamous examples of network decay along with "Music Television" which now plays crappy reality shows instead of music videos. Before the History Channel became the conspiracy nonsense channel, it was basically the Hitler Channel because talking ad nauseum about World War 2 brought in more ratings than other historical topics.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/t6wmv8/when_did... and https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/437715-grassley-mocks-th... for evidence of the channel's current reputation in the US.

I once drew a comic that parodied the History Channel. It involved "Unicorns of the Third Reich".

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