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In 1925 Eve Adams opened a small tearoom in Greenwich Village where lesbian women could gather openly. She also wrote one of the earliest books about lesbian life in America. Within a year she was arrested and deported. In 1943 she was murdered in Auschwitz.

For nearly 30 years after World War II ended, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda continued fighting in the jungles of Lubang Island in the Philippines. Convinced the war had not ended, he finally surrendered in March 1974 after receiving a direct order from his former commander.

Before making Once Upon a Time in the West, Sergio Leone spent months watching classic Westerns and rebuilding the genre from memory. The result was a slow, mythic film about the end of the frontier. Here is the remarkable story behind its making.

The disturbing true story of the Lonely Hearts Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck who used newspaper personal ads to lure victims before embarking on a deadly crime spree across America in the late 1940s.

In 1953, Bettie Page posed for a magazine article explaining the confusing striptease laws across different US states. Photographed by Nick de Morgoli, the feature served as a surprisingly practical guide for travelling burlesque performers.

On 05th March 1982, comedian John Belushi was found dead in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont. In the hours before his death Robert De Niro and Robin Williams had both briefly visited. The story of one of Hollywood’s most tragic nights.

In 1978, Soviet geologists discovered a family living 250km from civilisation in the Siberian taiga. The Lykovs had fled religious persecution in 1936 and survived famine, isolation and brutal winters for 40 years. One of them still lives there today.

In 1920 a journalist walked nearly 4,500 kilometres across Australia following the Trans Australian Railway. The following year he attempted something even bigger: walking around the entire continent.

On 03rd March, 1934, the most famous fugitive in America walked calmly out of a jail that had been publicly declared escape proof. He locked the guards in their own cells, secured real machine guns, and drove away in the sheriff’s car. According to his later claim, he did it with a wooden pistol. The escape of John Dillinger from the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana, was more than an audacious stunt. It marked a turning point in the national manhunt that followed, res

On 16th April, 1947, a wooden gallows stood in the shadow of the crematorium at Auschwitz I. A small group of witnesses, including former prisoners, gathered quietly. The man led forward had once commanded this camp. He had lived in a villa within sight of the chimneys. His children had played in a garden where ash sometimes fell from the sky. His name was Rudolf Höss . The story of Höss is not only a biography of a war criminal. It is a study in how ideology, bureaucracy, ob

In the mud of the Western Front, a cold nose could mean rescue. Mercy dogs searched no man’s land for the wounded, carrying first aid and guiding medics through shell craters. Thousands of lives were saved by instinct and quiet courage. Read the full story.

From witnessing the last public guillotine execution in France to recording heavy metal at 91, Christopher Lee’s life was stranger and richer than his most famous roles.

Electric cars feel like a thoroughly modern development, quietly gliding through city streets with an efficiency that would have seemed improbable not long ago. Yet more than eighty years before today’s EV boom, one French designer was already imagining a compact electric future. His solution did not resemble anything on the road. It looked like an egg. The L’Oeuf Electrique was created in the early 1940s by industrial designer Paul Arzens, and it remains one of the most unu

In the early hours of 18th February, 2014, a calm voice called emergency services from a flat in Grays, Essex. The young man on the line explained that there had been an altercation and that only one of them had come out alive. Within hours, officers would discover the body of 14 year old Breck Bednar lying on a bedroom floor. What had begun months earlier as online gaming between teenagers had ended in one of the most disturbing grooming and murder cases in modern Britain .

Mid century mugshots from Philadelphia reveal more than crime records. These 1950s and 1960s booking photographs capture fashion, social change and the human stories behind police archives.

On 14th February, 1779, Captain James Cook, one of Britain’s most celebrated navigators, was killed at Kealakekua Bay in the Hawaiian Kingdom. He was fifty years old. By the time of his death, Cook had already transformed European understanding of the Pacific Ocean, charting vast stretches of coastline and producing maps of remarkable accuracy. Yet his final encounter in Hawaii exposed the fragile and often volatile nature of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous soc

In 1942 at Fort Meade, the slight and scholarly Francois d’Eliscu ordered Rangers to charge him with fixed bayonets. Seconds later they were disarmed and pinned with a simple sash cord. Rejecting sporting rules, he taught ruthless, practical hand to hand combat that reshaped American military training during the Second World War.

Peter Basch fled Nazi Germany and went on to photograph the faces of mid century America. From fashion magazines to Hollywood portraits, his polished studio work helped define an era of glamour that still feels timeless today. A quieter name, but an important one.

During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent were removed from the United States in a campaign now known as the Mexican Repatriation. These stark photographs reveal the human reality behind the immigration raids of the 1930s.

On 12th February, 1993, a disappearance in a Merseyside shopping centre became one of Britain’s most consequential criminal cases. This in depth article examines the murder of Jamie Bulger and the legal and social questions that followed.

In the 1960s, a Chicago bellhop claimed he could project images from his mind onto Polaroid film. Psychiatrists believed him. Magicians called it a trick. The strange case of Ted Serios still raises questions about belief, evidence and illusion.

Born into Hitler’s inner circle, Martin Adolf Bormann was raised as a committed young Nazi. After the war he converted to Catholicism, became a priest and missionary, and later spoke publicly about the crimes of the Third Reich. A life shaped by belief rupture and reckoning.

John Everard was a First World War veteran turned photographer who quietly shaped British nude photography for over three decades. From Orange Street studios to Savile Row collaborations, his work focused on form, restraint, and persistence rather than provocation.