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An Extraordinary Map of Battle Death-"Body Density Maps", 1916
[Source: John Hughes-Wilson, The First World War in 100 Objects, Firefly Books, 2014.] The Battle of the Somme, fought from July to...


Issei Sagawa: The Cannibal Who Walked Free
On a quiet summer day in Paris, 1981, Issei Sagawa—a seemingly unassuming Japanese student—invited his classmate Renée Hartevelt to his...


When John Lennon and Paul McCartney got Drunk and Played in the Bar of the Marietta Hotel in 1965
Imagine sipping a drink in a cosy Austrian hotel bar, surrounded by the chatter of fellow skiers and the warm hum of a live musician. Now...
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