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On the night of 24 May 1911, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, Laura Nelson and her teenage son, L. D. Nelson, were dragged from their jail...

On 6 February 1958, the world of football was left in mourning as British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third take-off...

Tourists take tea atop the Great Pyramid. 1938. By the mid-19th century, Egypt had become one of the world’s most fascinating...

It was a cold, clear night on 16 September 1979, when two East German families—the Strelzyks and the Wetzels—stood in a secluded forest...

Waylon Jennings (left) in the last photo of Buddy Holly. The 1950s had been a golden era for rock and roll, filled with energetic...

Tucked away in a quiet, wooded area near Estonia’s Ämari Air Base, the Ämari Pilots’ Cemetery is an unusual and haunting memorial. Unlike...

On the cold afternoon of 30 January 1972, the streets of the Bogside area of Derry became the backdrop for one of the darkest days in...

On the morning of January 29, 1979, the school day at Grover Cleveland Elementary in San Diego, California, had barely begun when shots...

In the bustling streets of Edo (present-day Tokyo) during the 18th and 19th centuries, entertainment took many forms, from kabuki theatre...

Danzig Baldaev, born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatiya, Russia, led a life immersed in the dark complexities of Soviet repression and the...

Picture this: it’s 3 a.m. in a dimly lit dance hall in Wigan. The floorboards thud under the weight of dozens of dancers, their moves a...

Ah, cigarette dispensers—those ingenious little gadgets that somehow made the act of inhaling smoke a touch more refined, or at least a...

Discover the incredible true story of the Abernathy Brothers, America’s youngest adventurers, who rode horses, cars, and motorcycles across the nation.

Imagine walking along Riverside Drive in the early 20th century and encountering a mansion so grand that it dwarfed even the gilded...

When John Stith Pemberton was born on July 8, 1831, in Knoxville, Georgia, few could have predicted that this small-town boy would invent...

It's 1921, an impossibly clever French businesswoman and belle of the Parisian social elite has created a scent that is revolutionising...

Hogarth with his Pug William Hogarth, the celebrated 18th-century painter and engraver, had an eye for the bustling, bawdy heart of...

In the early 20th century, Władysław T. Benda was a name as recognised as Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, or Maxfield Parrish in the realms...

The life and assassination of Giuseppe “Joe the Boss” Masseria on April 15, 1931, has become one of the most compelling narratives in the...

On the evening of January 17, 1950, the streets of Boston’s North End were quiet under a winter sky. Inside the Brink’s Inc. security...

In the early hours of 18 March 1990, two men dressed as police officers rang the buzzer at the side entrance of the Isabella Stewart...

Discover the life of Albert Fish, one of America’s most disturbing criminals. From his troubled childhood in Washington, D.C., to his horrific crimes and eventual trial, explore how trauma and history shaped a man who became a symbol of darkness.

ChatGPT said: For decades, Alfred Cheney Johnston’s photographs of the Ziegfeld Follies lay hidden, their shimmering feathers, sparkling gowns, and occasional bare skin tucked away from public view. It wasn’t until after his death that the world rediscovered these luminous portraits, revealing the glamour, daring, and artistry of Broadway’s golden era.

The Turpin family case remains one of the most harrowing accounts of abuse and control to come to light in modern times. The story of...