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Cocaine and Sigmund Freud, A Long Friendship.
Sigmund Freud’s early career coincided with his enthusiastic promotion of cocaine as a medical wonder drug. This is how the substance shaped the origins of psychoanalysis in late nineteenth century Vienna.


The Final Days of Ernest Hemingway: A Glimpse into the Troubled End of a Literary Giant
Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure,...


When The Beatles Played A Gig And Only 18 People Showed Up.
In December 1961, Sam Leach secured a series of performances for his musician friends from Liverpool at the Palais Ballroom in Aldershot,...
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