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If you’ve ever rummaged through a box of old postcards or found yourself squinting at an antique Christmas card, you may have noticed something… peculiar. Where you might expect jolly Santas, twinkling trees, and cute robins, you instead find frogs brandishing sticks, insects pulling children in carts, and dead birds. Yes, dead birds. Victorian Christmas cards were, by modern standards, downright bizarre. Sometimes they were unsettling, occasionally grotesque, and frequently

On the evening of 18 December 1994, Alison Botha, a young woman living in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, faced a harrowing ordeal that would forever alter her life. She endured one of the most brutal attacks imaginable and, against all odds, survived. Her story is not just about what happened that night, but also about how she rebuilt her life, becoming a symbol of resilience and an advocate for hope. The Attack: A Night of Unimaginable Violence Alison Botha was 27 years old a

In the summer of 1959, photographer Bruce Davidson embedded himself with The Jokers , a street gang from Brooklyn, New York . What...