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Simo Häyhä, after the war. His face was scarred by his wartime injury. Simo Häyhä, also known as “The White Death,” stands as one of the...

It’s the mid-1980s, and Phil Lynott is deep in a Soho recording studio, working on his second solo album. The room, as usual, is full to...

In October 1972, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page travelled to Bombay to jam with Indian musicians. This is what happened… Led...

I'm seriously addicted to deconstructing well known songs, I've no idea why. I think it stems from playing around with the mixing levels...

From the Michael Palin interview with Cahal Milmo in 2001 George Harrison was the man who saved Life of Brian for the simplest of...

On a damp evening of May 7th, 1964, a crowd of super excited music lovers gathered on a rain-soaked disused railway station platform in...

Voyaging through the cosmic expanse carries inherent hazards, with myriad challenges capable of imperilling the mission from launch to...

Picture this: it’s the sweltering summer of 1974 in New York City. Graffiti bleeds across the brickwork, the Bowery still reeks of...

When the Imperial Camel Corps thundered into the dusty port town of Aqaba in the summer of 1918, they rode not only into a...

In the depths of the 19th century, amidst the coal fields of Lancashire, a remarkable group of women emerged, challenging the societal...

When Valerie Solanas entered Andy Warhol's sixth-floor office at 33 Union Square West on June 3, 1968, armed with two guns and consumed by a massive, paranoid grudge, things went south as quickly as you'd expect. Solana had gone to Warhol's office because she firmly believed he intended to steal her manuscript, he had ignored her calls so she went for a 'face to face'.

Once a prominent figure but now largely overlooked, Johan de Witt held a pivotal role in Dutch politics. Elevated to the position of...

In the evening of July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh returned to his small room at the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, located north of...

High in the rugged folds of the Peruvian Andes lies one of the world’s most recognisable archaeological sites: Machu Picchu. Often draped...

When Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in March 1917, it marked not only the end of the Romanov dynasty but the close of centuries...

When north Wales exploded into open revolt against an exploitative English elite.  Countless towns were laid waste, their populations...

Once upon a time, there was a lady named Catherine II, who ruled over Russia with sass and scandal for a whopping three decades....

The wonderful people over at Pop Sonnets have spent so much time putting a old spin on modern songs. They're absolutely wonderful.

When Feliks Scazighino was just six years old, the world as he knew it collapsed. Along with millions of other Polish civilians in 1940,...

Edward Hopper's masterpiece, "Nighthawks" (1942), transcends mere representation to encapsulate a profound sense of mid-century urban...

François-Marie Arouet, celebrated under his nom de plume Voltaire, stands as a preeminent figure of the Age of Enlightenment, an era...

Steve Vistaunet’s Pinterest is a treasure-trove of photos of exuberant cassette spine designs from the gilded age of the mix-tape,...

Death is a natural conclusion to all life, yet when it claims our beloved entertainment icons, disbelief often follows. From John Lennon...