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It is an amusing yet historically revealing episode that, in 1940, a young Fidel Castro—yes, that Fidel Castro—decided to write a letter...

Adolph Coors III was a low-key and well-liked beer executive. His father, Adolph Coors Jr., was a hard taskmaster, who ultimately gave control of the brewery to his 3 sons (Adolph III and his brothers, Bill and Joe). The brothers were expected to join the family business, although Adolph’s dream was to own a cattle and horse operation, and his brother Bill once confessed he had wanted to be a violinist until they both succumbed to “the family responsibility.” Ironically, muc

An artist's studio is a crucial space. Our creative studios may sometimes appear cluttered or chaotic, yet this is where remarkable...

Lepa Radic stands still as a German official prepares the noose around her neck just before her execution in Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia on Feb. 8, 1943. In the heart of what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the small village of Gašnica near Bosanska Gradiška, a girl was born in 1925 who would come to embody the spirit of resistance against fascism. Lepa Radić was not destined for an ordinary life. By the age of 17, she would become a symbol of defiance, courage, and unwavering c

In the late 1950s, Władziu Valentino Liberace, the flamboyant American pianist and entertainer known simply as “Liberace,” was at the...

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 cells by a white mob. They were taken to a bridge over the North Canadian River, where they were lynched, strung up and left hanging as a warning to the Black community. The next day, a local photographer captured their lifeless bodies suspended over the water, with white onlookers standing below. The image was printed onto postcards and dist

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...

Discover the thrilling tale of the Hot Air Balloon Escape from East Germany. Learn how two families defied odds in this daring Hot Air Balloon Escape.

There are few figures in organised crime as infamous, feared, and mythologised as Griselda Blanco. Depending on who you ask, she was...

Waylon Jennings (left) in the last photo of Buddy Holly. The 1950s had been a golden era for rock and roll, filled with energetic performances, new sounds, and rebellious spirits that captivated young audiences across the United States. One of the brightest stars of the era was Buddy Holly, a bespectacled, Texas-born musician whose innovative songwriting and distinctive voice helped shape rock music as we know it today. But in early 1959, at the height of his career, Holly em

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 modern British and Irish history. What began as a peaceful civil rights march ended with thirteen unarmed civilians shot dead and at least fifteen others injured after British Army paratroopers opened fire on the demonstrators. Another man, John Johnston, would succumb to his wounds four months later. The events of that day, known ever since as

Shortly after 8.30am on 29th January, 1979, the school day at Grover Cleveland Elementary in San Diego, California, had barely begun. Children were gathering outside the gates, waiting for them to open, when gunfire suddenly erupted from a house directly opposite the school. Within minutes, the scene descended into confusion and panic. Principal Burton Wragg, aged 53, and school custodian Mike Suchar, aged 56, were both fatally shot while attempting to protect pupils. Eight c

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 underworld of criminal prisons. His journey into the world of Russian criminal tattoos began in a most unlikely way. As the son of a so-called "enemy of the people," Baldaev's early years were marked by displacement, orphanages, and the deep scars left by Stalin’s purges. Yet, after World War II, fate directed him into the cold, harsh environm

If you’ve ever come across the tension between scientists and philosophers , you might be forgiven for assuming the two fields have...

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.

The year 1934 marked a turning point for British photography. As Adolf Hitler’s regime tightened its grip on Germany and restricted press...

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...