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A gentle breeze swept across the fields of McLennan County, Texas, on a spring afternoon in 1916. The Fryer siblings, a young man and his...

Michael Jackson often wore his influences on his sleeve, openly admiring figures who shaped his creative vision. Among them, Charlie...

In 1958, a teenage boy in Omaha, Nebraska, committed an unthinkable crime, fled justice, and somehow built a completely new life on the...

We all know about the historical moment when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface and delivered his legendary line. But did you...

[Source: John Hughes-Wilson, The First World War in 100 Objects, Firefly Books, 2014.] The Battle of the Somme, fought from July to...

On a quiet summer day in Paris, 1981, Issei Sagawa—a seemingly unassuming Japanese student—invited his classmate Renée Hartevelt to his...

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...

Maps are typically sober tools, designed to get you from point A to point B without plunging into a river or wandering into a field of...

In 1920s Paris, Yva Richard was more than just a lingerie boutique — it was the playground of Nativa Richard and her husband, offering daring leather, latex, and fetish designs that shocked polite society. Their flamboyant creations gave the city a kinky edge and left a lasting mark on fetish fashion.

Proposed by the founder of the Pan-European Movement in the 1920s, this map was designed as a solution to any one countries dominance...

The burial of Lee Harvey Oswald took place under peculiar and understated circumstances on 25 November 1963 at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort...

On a brisk day in 1934, Violet Hilton, a poised young woman with dreams of marriage, walked into a New York marriage licence bureau...

It's now been 50 years since Nick Drake left us, having never seen the success he sought during his lifetime. Though tragically short...

On 4 May 1978, Altab Ali, a young Bangladeshi textile worker, was murdered in a senseless act of racial violence in East London . His...

On Thursday, March 1, 1928, Mac McClintock and Virgi Ward entered Victor's Oakland, California studio to record their initial tracks....

Thanksgiving weekend in 1966 left an indelible mark on New York City’s history, not for the festive gatherings, but for a suffocating...

Howard Marks, famously known as “Mr Nice,” was a Welsh cannabis smuggler turned countercultural icon whose extraordinary life...

Frank Hamer’s story sits at a hinge point in American history, when frontier violence, personal reputation, and local justice were being reshaped by bureaucracy, publicity, and a growing national press. Born in 1884 in Fairview, Wilson County, Texas, he came of age at a time when the mythology of the Old West still lingered, even as the modern United States was taking form. His upbringing was practical rather than romantic. The son of a blacksmith and raised in a devout Presb

The summer of 1947 brought sweltering heat and an even more intense wave of shock to the quiet community of Newark, Ohio. The arrest of...

Peter Kürten, the so-called “Vampire of Düsseldorf,” terrorised Germany in the 1920s with a spree of brutal murders and assaults. From killing children to drinking blood, his crimes remain among the most disturbing in history, and his execution ended one of Europe’s darkest chapters.

Before there was Harvey Weinstein there was Don Simpson and if you were to ask anyone who knew Simpson for his wildest story, and you’ll...

Pop music has always blended spectacle and talent in equal parts, where image and artistry are intertwined to captivate audiences. Few...

The roots of the Peoples Temple lay in Jim Jones’ complex vision for social justice, combined with an intense desire for power and...