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The Murder Of Mary Pradd (Often Known As Old Mary Pradd, Sometimes Mary Pratt)
London Nomades, by John Thomson, in Victorian London Street Life (1877). Mary Pratt is sat on the steps of the caravan. Police Constable...
The Man Who Fell to Earth: D.B. Cooper and the Hijacking That Vanished Into Legend
The FBI sketch of D.B. Cooper It all started on a grey Wednesday afternoon—24 November 1971—when a man walked into the Portland...
Unit 731, Japan’s Horrific Human Experiments Program During World War II
A bacteriological experiment being conducted on a test subject in Nong’an County of northeast China’s Jilin Province by Unit 731 personnel. November 1940. Officially known as the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army, Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Located in the Pingfang district of Harbin, in the puppet state of Manchukuo (now Northeas
Yuri Knorozov, The Man Who Deciphered The Mayan Script In The 1950s And Named His Cat As Co-Author
Yuri with Asya When the Russian linguist Yuri Knorozov finally visited Mexico in the early 1990s, he was received with the reverence...
The Perverse Power of Tiberius Caesar — Rome’s Reclusive Emperor and the Scandal of Capri
Explore the notorious life of Tiberius Caesar, Rome’s second emperor, whose reclusive reign on Capri gave rise to enduring tales of sexual depravity, political paranoia and scandalous excess. Uncover the truth behind the myths with this deep dive into one of Rome’s most controversial rulers.
The Clutter Family Murders: An Examination of Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’
On 14 November 1959, the quiet Kansas town of Holcomb was shattered when Herb Clutter, his wife Bonnie, and their two teenage children were brutally murdered in their farmhouse. Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, ex-convicts chasing a rumour of hidden cash, left no witnesses. Truman Capote later immortalised the case in In Cold Blood, but his narrative blurred fact and fiction — leaving behind a legacy of controversy as well as tragedy.
Paul Grüninger: The Swiss Policeman Who Chose Humanity Over Bureaucracy
When the world slid towards chaos in the late 1930s, there were individuals who, faced with impossible choices, quietly chose to do the...
For Three Months In 1973, The Dutch Government Banned Cars On Sundays To Curb Oil Consumption
Imagine this: it’s a crisp Sunday morning in late 1973, and the usually bustling streets of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague are...
Black Bart: The Gentleman Bandit Who Robbed Stagecoaches with Poetry
Black Bart, the gentleman bandit of California, robbed Wells Fargo stagecoaches politely and left poems—until a laundry mark exposed him in 1883.
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