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- Jean-Claude Romand: The Fake Doctor Who Killed His Entire Family to Protect a Lie
Then, in January 1993, with the truth about to come out, he killed the five people closest to him rather his children Caroline (7) and Antoine (5) and his parents Aimé and Anne-Marie, then set fire to his home At the family home in Prévessin-Moëns in the Ain near Geneva, plus his parents' house in Clairvaux-les-Lacs He never invited a colleague home, for the obvious reason that he didn't have any. home complaining about the jet lag and handing out souvenirs from the airport shops.
- Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters: The Love Letters That Led to the Gallows
Arrest and the Letters Come to Light Edith's story didn't survive long. To the police it sounded like a woman who'd known something was coming. In 1932 he died by suicide at his home in Rochdale. Edith's mother had always wanted her daughter brought home. There are some grim little footnotes along the way.
- Madeleine and Mary Collinson: Playboy's First Identical Twin Playmates
Mary Collinson had been in Britain for barely eighteen months, hadn't landed a single credited film role Playmates of the Month for October 1970, the first time the magazine had paired identical twins in the role One of the earliest is genuinely tangled: a British sex comedy shot in 1969 as Come Back Peter, then Their last role before Hammer came calling was She'll Follow You Anywhere (1971), released in America IMDb, Some Like It Sexy (1969) alternate versions 20.
- Martin Lewis: The Forgotten Etcher Who Taught Edward Hopper and Drew New York After Dark
Some of those same prints sold for $28 when they were new. Where can you see his prints? His father, Evan Lewis, came from Pembrokeshire in Wales, which goes some way to explaining why Martin's Every effect had to come from work on the plate itself, never from wiping or fiddling with the ink at Ha'nted (1932) and The Passing Freight, Danbury (1934) both come from this stretch. He went back to New York in 1936, but the buyers hadn't come back with him.
- The Pit Brow Lasses: The Women Who Fought Parliament to Keep Their Jobs
three women traveled from the coalfields of Lancashire and Cumberland to London and petitioned the Home Female Collier from Rose Bridge Pits, Wigan, 1869 A Disaster That Rewrote the Rules Women and children In some pit villages the numbers were startling. Some of the cards were even double sided, showing the same woman in her work clothes on one side and Jean Millard's Pit Brow The best surviving firsthand account of the work comes from Jean Millard, born
- The Sullivan Brothers: A Legacy of Sacrifice and Symbolism
At home are, from left, Madison, Alleta, Albert and baby James, Albert’s son. The five Sullivan brothers at their home on Adams street in Waterloo. brothers, who had trained together at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, quickly settled into their roles The campaign was marked by fierce naval and aerial battles, and the Juneau played a critical role in As attention across the United States focused on the family at home, the service reframed the colossal
- Before Goodfellas: Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent Were in a Band Together
They beat each other up in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Casino, usually with Pesci coming off worse for Bookings were getting harder to come by. In 1969, Vincent put out an ad for a guitar player. Pesci, naturally quick-witted, could hold his own and then some. Some nights it'd be Vincent roasting the audience while Pesci played straight man. It was a supporting role, but it was exactly the right kind of role for the right kind of director.
- Gladys Pearl Baker: The Troubled Mother of Marilyn Monroe
The orphan who bounced between foster homes, invented herself out of nothing and became the most famous She was born into a family already coming apart Gladys Pearl Monroe was born on May 27, 1902, in Piedras with either child again until they were adults, and Berniece in particular would go on to play a major role little money, struggling with what would now likely be recognized as postpartum depression, and by some less held, though Gladys refused to let the Bolenders adopt her daughter outright, insisting she'd come
- The Capture and Execution of Ned Kelly: From Glenrowan to the Gallows
red scarf ruined everything, and within five months Australia's most wanted man was dangling from a rope The trouble was the train didn't come. Not for hours and hours. , some donated by friendly farmers and a few simply nicked. There's no official transcript, so everything we know comes from the reporters in the room. Their reports had him saying something closer to "Ah well, I suppose it has come to this".
- The Bizarrely Successful History of People Mailing Themselves in Boxes
Long before the age of biometric passports and full-body scanners, some travellers took a more... unconventional With airport security tight, some resorted to hiding in the wheel wells of planes, where temperatures Some of the more notable cases: ● Herman Zeitung and Ignatz Lefkovitz (1893): two Austrian men The man who posted himself home from the UK to Australia - BBC News 3. The Welshman who mailed himself home from Australia in a box - CNN 5.
- The Battle of Orgreave: Police Riot, State Power, and the Cover-Up That Never Ended
Previous to Orgreave,' he said later, 'you'd have your push, lorries would go by, and everyone would go home from my home to be beaten up, locked up and then charged with a 25-year sentence. Some officers had been assigned to cover arrests they hadn't actually made. In 2016, Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced there would be no inquiry. In July 2025, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that a full national inquiry would be held.
- The Thrilla in Manila: Ali, Frazier and the Fight That Nearly Killed Them Both
Back home, Ali's wife Belinda, who by then went by Khalilah, saw the coverage. Thirty years on he'd come round to Futch's way of thinking. There was even some confusion over when it actually ended. Before then, big fights from abroad often meant flying film home and showing it days later. More than half a million homes reportedly paid to watch, a pay-per-view record for the time.














