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Everyone knows Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor behind the phonograph and the electric light bulb, but what you might not know is...

In 1929, Margaret Gibb, one half of the famed Siamese twins, got engaged to Carlos Daniel Josefe, a gentleman from Mexico City whom she...

In the spring of 1942, two parachutists pedalled frantically through the streets of Nazi-occupied Prague. One was bleeding from a grenade...

During a roundup in Eindhoven on Tuesday, May 16, 1944, a young girl was arrested. Three days later, she, along with her family, was...

Way back in 1990, Lindi St Clair, better known to Britain’s tabloid readers as “Miss Whiplash”, lost her long and rather colourful...

In the heart of the Holocaust, a grotesque paradox was unfolding. Just 30 kilometres south of Auschwitz, a place where over a million...

On 16th March 1978, along via Fani in Rome, a faction of the militant far-left organization called the Red Brigades intercepted the...