Uncover the mystery of David Ferrie's ties to Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA, and JFK's assassination. Explore David Ferrie's intriguing connections.

The winning scene at the finish of the first Tour. In the middle on the right: the winner, Maurice Garin, to his left: most likely Leon Georget. The 1903 Tour de France marked the inaugural cycling race organized and sponsored by L'Auto, predecessor of the present-day daily, L'Équipe. Spanning from July 1 to 19, it comprised six stages covering a distance of 2,428 km (1,509 mi), with Maurice Garin emerging victorious. Conceived to bolster L'Auto's readership amidst competitio

From aristocratic excess to the unsolved 1941 murder of Lord Erroll, the Happy Valley set reveals the deeper realities of British rule in Kenya’s White Highlands.

"What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?" "Get your hands off my penis!" If you've spent any time online in the last decade, you've probably heard those lines even if you didn't know where they came from. The man behind them had been a mystery for years, with people guessing he was everything from a Hungarian chess grandmaster to an international fraudster. The real story turned out to be stranger, sadder and a lot more interesting than any of the guesses

Joseph Ducreux, a painter hailing from Nancy, France, emerged onto the canvas of history during the waning years of the Ancien Régime. Born in 1735 into a milieu of minor aristocracy, Ducreux embarked upon his artistic journey amidst the tumultuous backdrop of pre-revolutionary France. His brushstrokes brushed against the contours of monarchy, as evidenced by his poignant depiction of Louis XVI in what would be the monarch's final portrait before the guillotine claimed his fa

"Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always" - IRA statement to Margaret Thatcher. Three weeks before Margaret Thatcher's cabinet checked into the Grand Hotel in Brighton, a stranger had already checked out. He'd paid cash, given a false address and left behind a bomb hidden inside a bathroom wall, built to sit quietly counting down while the hotel filled and emptied around it. When it finally went off, it came within f

Between the years of 1484 and 1750, Western Europe would bear witness to a staggering toll: over 200,000 women faced torture, burning, or hanging following accusations of witchcraft. This period was marked by a fervent pursuit of alleged witches, driven by religious zeal, societal anxieties, and political instability. In a single year, between 1645 and 1646, the notorious Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins, orchestrated a campaign of terror in England's East Anglia, resulti

Lee Miller in a photograph she staged in Hitler’s bathtub in Munich in 1945. After documenting the harrowing scenes of liberation at Buchenwald and Dachau, including piles of human bones and the haunting presence of barely surviving prisoners, Lee Miller, accompanied by Life photographer David E. Scherman, ventured to Hitler' s Munich apartment. She removed her dusty boots, leaving traces of the horrors she witnessed Buchenwald and Dachau on a clean bathmat, before posing in

On February 4, 1974, a 19-year-old newspaper heiress named Patricia Hearst was dragged out of her Berkeley apartment by a small, self-styled revolutionary group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. Nineteen months later she was arrested for armed robbery, having spent part of that time recording propaganda tapes under a new name and part of it robbing a bank at gunpoint. The basic shape of that story is well known. What tends to get left out is almost everything tha

The notion of the British conquest of India masks a deeper truth. In the late 18th century, it wasn't the British government, but a perilously unregulated private company, located in a small London office and led by an unstable sociopath named Robert Clive, that seized control. Established in 1600, The East India Company stands as one of the most influential yet controversial entities in British history. Originally chartered for trade with the East Indies, its dominion eventu

One of the finest achievements of European furniture making, this cabinet is the most important product from Abraham (1711--1793) and David Roentgen's (1743--1807) workshop. A writing cabinet crowned with a chiming clock, it features finely designed marquetry panels and elaborate mechanisms that allow for doors and drawers to be opened automatically at the touch of a button. Owned by King Frederick William II, the Berlin cabinet is uniquely remarkable for its ornate decoratio

If you've worked in retail you'll know how boredom can often kick in. These industrious bookshop employees from The Librairie Mollat have found a novel way to combat this boredom, these are a sample from their Instagram feed.

Many composers like to handwrite their sheet music, but there have been so many machines invented to help print music. Perhaps one of the most interesting to look at is the Keaton Music Typewriter. First patented in 1936 , it definitely doesn’t look like an ordinary typewriter. Robert H. Keaton from San Francisco, California created the machine, which is now a rare collector’s item. The original patent was for a 14-key typewriter, which was then upgraded to 33 keys in an

Self Portrait, aged 17. Before 2001: A Space Odyssey, before The Shining, before Kubrick was even old enough to vote, he was a Bronx teenager who talked his way into becoming the youngest staff photographer in the history of Look magazine. Between 1945 and 1950, he shot somewhere north of 13,000 photographs of New York City, of which fewer than a thousand were ever published. The rest sat in storage for decades until the Museum of the City of New York began digitising them, r

I can't claim to know much about motorsport, but Ayrton Senna's life transcends just the sport. The death of Ayrton Senna on 1 May 1994 remains one of the most tragic moments in Formula 1 history. A three-time world champion, Senna was not only revered for his exceptional driving skills but also for his fierce competitive spirit and dedication to the sport. His passing during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, Italy, marked the end of an era and raised serious concerns about

In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for atomic espionage on testimony their own family later admitted was a lie. A Jell-O box, a prosecutor named Roy Cohn, and a recantation that came decades too late.

The Denmark Place arson attack stands as one of London’s most tragic and devastating incidents, occurring on the night of August 16, 1980. This horrifying event unfolded in two unlicensed bars situated on the top two floors of 18 Denmark Place: The Spanish Rooms and Rodo’s, also known as El Dandy. The Scene The Spanish Rooms was a late-night bar frequented by locals, including Irish and Jamaican immigrants. Rodo’s, a vibrant salsa club popular with South American immigrants,

In August 1959, a teenage George Harrison and Paul McCartney took an impromptu hitchhiking trip to Wales, captured by Paul’s own camera. This rare journey shows the friendship and wanderlust before Beatlemania.

Albert Kahn envisioned his Les Archives de la Planète (Archives of the Planet) as a comprehensive snapshot of the world, aiming to immortalise all aspects, practices, and methods of human activities destined for inevitable disappearance. Commencing in 1909 and concluding in 1937, the Frenchman deployed photographers worldwide, armed with the revolutionary Autochrome Lumiere – the inaugural true colour photographic process developed by the Lumière brothers in 1903. With over

On the evening of 28th February 1986, Sweden’s prime minister Olof Palme and his wife, Lisbet, were making their way home through central Stockholm. They had just been to the cinema, an impromptu outing, and, as they often did, they had decided against bringing bodyguards. Palme prided himself on living as close to an ordinary life as possible. He didn’t want his role as leader of the country to create a barrier between him and the people. “You saw him in the streets all the

The photographs shown here were taken during the Modoc War sit lightly on the page, but they carry the weight of a conflict that was brief, brutal, and deeply revealing of the United States’ approach to Native American resistance in the late nineteenth century. The images of captured Modoc warriors, made by Louis Herman Heller, are not scenes of combat or dramatic clashes. Instead, they show the aftermath. Faces turned towards the camera, bodies arranged by military authority

Gene Kelly, born Eugene Curran Kelly on August 23, 1912, was an American dancer, actor, singer, and director whose innovative and...