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  • Marjoe Gortner: The Evangelist Who Pulled Off the Ultimate Hustle

    A former child evangelist turned adult superstar preacher, Gortner let a pair of hippie filmmakers infiltrate A bizarre fusion of Mary and Joseph, which already suggests that this kid was set up for something biblical He appeared in a string of B-movies and TV guest roles through the 1970s and 1980s, including Pray for

  • The Portraiture of William Bullard: Photographing a Community of Colour

    Massachusetts, pose in the parlour of their home at 4 Dewey Street with children Thomas, Margaret, and Mary Hattie, Louis, Clarence, and James Harold Ward were the children of Mary Elizabeth Ward Wilson, a migrant Posing on the porch of their home on Park Avenue, these Virginia migrants arrived in Massachusetts in His mother, Frances, was part of the New Bern, North Carolina, migration to Worcester. This photograph was likely taken at a firemen’s muster in Worcester’s Elm Park.

  • Say Hello To Ada Lovelace, One Of The World’s First Computer Programmers

    Mary Somerville and the Scientific Network One of the most important figures in Ada’s intellectual formation was Mary Somerville. These salons were not casual parties. They were part of a culture of public scientific display. She was interred at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.

  • Woody Guthrie’s List of 33 New Year’s Resolutions From 1943

    Send Mary and kids money 25. Play and sing good 26. Dance better 27.

  • Adolph Coors III: The Heir to the Coors Brewing Company, His Kidnap, and His Murder.

    Coors married Mary Urquhart Grant in November 1940. Adolph Coors’ wife, Mary, received a typewritten note that day demanding a ransom for the return of her Corbett parked his car on the bridge, pretending it had broken down, and when Adolph Coors approached

  • The Language of Flowers: A Victorian Secret

    In An Alphabet of Floral Emblems, each flower is paired with a specific feeling, message, or virtue. Here are just a few pairings from the Alphabet of Floral Emblems: Carnation – Fascination Geranium – Even the absence of parts, thorns stripped away, leaves plucked, changed everything.

  • The Gibsons of Scilly: The Family Who Captured Cornwall’s Past in Glass and Silver

    with a Lens The story begins with John Gibson (1827–1920), born in Penzance and later moving to St Mary By 1860, Gibson had set up a photographic studio in St Mary’s. This was no small feat. The family studio on St Mary’s became a hub of both art and commerce. In 2013, Royal Museums Greenwich acquired a large part of the Gibson shipwreck archive, paying more than

  • The First Great American Road Trip: Horatio Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and Bud the Bulldog

    The pair stuffed the Vermont with gear: spare parts, coats, blankets, a block and tackle, canteens, firearms done, he had spent around $8,000 (the equivalent of over $250,000 today), scattered a trail of broken parts and discarded tools across the continent, and lost more pairs of eyeglasses than he cared to admit. Crocker became a master of improvisation, once convincing a farmer to part with the wheel bearings from The alkali dust burned the dog’s eyes so badly that Jackson fitted him with his own pair of goggles,

  • The Lonely Hearts Killers: The Strange and Deadly Partnership of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck

    Although the pair were only convicted of one killing, investigators believed they might have been responsible Later that year the pair targeted Myrtle Young, whom Fernandez married in Chicago on 14th August, 1948 Instead the pair were extradited to New York, where they were charged with the murder of Janet Fay. Newspapers across the country published photographs of the pair and described their relationship as a The pair had spent nearly two years on death row after being convicted of the murder of Janet Fay, the

  • Anthropodermic Bibliopegy – The Macabre Practice of Binding Books in Human Skin

    These books were bound using the skin taken from the thigh of a single female patient, Mary Lynch, who

  • Why Do Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Tiny Old Men?

    The Christ Child’s mature face therefore became part of a widely understood visual code. In Coppo di Marcovaldo’s Madonna del Bordone (1261), the infant Christ sits stiffly on Mary’s knee with Mary bends over the child in a recognisably maternal gesture, and the surrounding figures respond with are artefacts of a worldview in which symbolism mattered more than realism, and where the infant in Mary

  • The Extraordinary Life of James Davis: From Convict to Duramboi

    James Davis, born in Glasgow in 1807 to blacksmith Walter Davis and his wife, Mary McGrigor, led a life The tribe passed them along to Toorbul Point , then to the Mary River . He was allotted a flat named Toon about eight miles off the Mary River. According to one of Petrie's party, Wargandilla, "blacks in hundreds followed along the bank of the river of the strangest experiences that have ever fallen, perhaps, to any man in this colony, and are on a par

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