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- How The Last Invasion of Britain Was Thwarted By Jemima the Great (Jemima Fawr)
French soldiers single-handedly and marched them back to Fishguard, where she locked them inside St Mary During the centenary of the invasion, a stone was placed in her memory at St Mary’s churchyard.
- The Human Be-In: A Day that Sparked the "Summer of Love"
On January 14, 1967, the polo fields of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park transformed into an ephemeral In a sly act of subversion, the organisers had secured a permit by claiming the event was a birthday party Gary Duncan of Quicksilver Messenger Service gets ready to play at the Human Be-In. Its success inspired a wave of similar events, from "Love-Ins" in public parks to the televised zaniness It opens with Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder chanting, Michael McClure follows, and the Grateful Dead
- The Women Who Kept America Drinking During Prohibition
As historian Mary Murphy observed, women involved in illicit liquor were “breaking both custom and the “Moonshine Mary”. “Queen of the Night Clubs”. “The Henhouse Bootlegger”. It was part parlour, part refuge, and part informal business hub. with Scottish distilleries, and supplied high quality Scotch to American buyers who were willing to pay “Moonshine Mary” Wazeniak Josephine Doody, known as the Bootleg Lady of Glacier Park, occupied an ambiguous
- Why English Is So Weird (and Why That Might Actually Be Fascinating)
Consider the ditransitive construction — a sentence that uses a verb with two objects: “John gave Mary You can flip it around (“John gave the flowers to Mary”), but that original structure — verb plus indirect
- Buried Alive for 83 Hours: The Kidnapping of Barbara Jane Mackle
Gary Krist Instead of a detective, two masked individuals forced their way inside. WE’RE SURE YOUR FATHER WILL PAY THE RANSOM WE HAVE ASKED IN LESS THAN ONE WEEK. WHEN YOUR FATHER PAYS THE RANSOM WE WILL TELL HIM WHERE YOU ARE AND HE’LL COME FOR YOU. SHOULD HE FAIL TO PAY WE WILL RELEASE YOU, SO BE CALM AND REST – YOU’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS ONE WAY Krist was captured just days later, sailing a speedboat off the coast of Florida, bought using part of
- The Omagh Bombing of 1998: What Really Happened
1998, the Provisional IRA, the British and Irish governments and most of Northern Ireland's political parties The original target was Omagh's courthouse, but the bombers couldn't find anywhere to park close enough Three Generations, Two Countries, Twenty-Nine Lives Among the dead was Mary Grimes, a 66 year old retired The inquiry has already taken testimony directly from bereaved relatives, including Mary Grimes's own Mary Grimes, 65, Beragh, Co Tyrone. Olive Hawkes, 60, Omagh. Julia Hughes, 21, Omagh.
- J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: The Partnership Washington Accepted
They attended family functions together and sometimes signed thank you notes as a pair. Nixon a personal note apologising that "Clyde and I" couldn't make a lunch date, the kind of casual, paired
- Hal Blaine: Possibly The Most Recorded Musician In History
a used set that included a wooden snare drum), a giant 28-inch bass drum, and a hi-hat pedal with a pair Blaine became part of an elite circle of LA session musicians known unofficially at first as The Clique Tambourine Man), The Mamas and the Papas (California Dreamin’), Gary Lewis & The Playboys, Sonny and
- The Intimate Male Portraits from Herbert Mitchell’s Collection
These photographs, now housed in the Met’s collections, show pairs of men seated with legs draped over
- The Gunpowder Plot of 1605: How Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes Tried to Blow Up Parliament
His mother, Mary Queen of Scots, had died for her faith, and many hoped her son might show mercy. Part of a confession by Guy Fawkes. Then he would be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of his body displayed so that they might become A crowd pressed close as the prisoners arrived, some jeering, some praying. Public Thanksgiving to Almighty God every Year on the Fifth Day of November,” it demanded that every parish
- Garry Hoy: The Man That Fell Out A Skyscraper Window To His Death While Trying To Prove It Was Unbreakable
It just wasn't the part of the system that failed. Gary Hoy (Not Garry Hoy) Well, the internet isn’t always great at distinguishing between people with There happens to be another Garry (or Gary) Hoy, an Australian businessman, whose photos often get incorrectly
- David Funchess: The First Vietnam Veteran Executed in America — and the Uncomfortable Questions His Case Still Raises
His sister Mary later told his appellate attorneys that the children's upbringing was defined not just He mouthed "I love you" to his attorney Susan Cary. He made no final statement. The Uncomfortable Part: Was He Owed Sympathy? David Funchess, Vietnam War veteran Florida Death Penalty Substack: Veterans on Florida's Death Row, Part Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997) Gary













