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  • The Dark Legacy of John Alexander Lawson: An Analytical Exploration of Pazuzu Algarad

    His home became a refuge for individuals on the margins of society. Krystal Matlock was also convicted for her role in the burial of the victims. Algarad’s transformation from John Alexander Lawson to a self-styled demon highlights the role of identity

  • Lee Miller: The War Photographer, Muse and Model That Did Things Her Own Way

    Miller’s notes on the back of some of her photographs were very telling of “the level of coldness and It was in Paris where Miller's path intersected with some of the greatest artistic minds of her time. Miller rented two apartments, one became her home, while the other became the Lee Miller Studio. In 1933, Miller had the the only solo exhibition of her life, some of the portraits displayed featured She sent her film off to Vogue, which published some of Miller’s most powerful and horrific work from

  • Karen Silkwood: Uncovering the Hidden Plutonium Hazards in America’s Nuclear Industry

    Texas, where she was born in 1946 and raised by her parents, Merle and Bill, alongside her two sisters, Rose Her role involved testing plutonium fuel rods in the metallography lab, an environment that demanded In her new role, Karen took on the responsibility of investigating health and safety concerns at the Tests on her gloves showed contamination on the inside, suggesting that the plutonium had not come from Traces of plutonium were even found in her home, particularly in her bathroom and refrigerator, and some

  • Nellie Bly, The Journalist That Beat Phileas Fogg's Journey Around The World

    and arranged a dedicated express train with priority over all other rail traffic for her final leg home front page on 26 January 1890 celebrates Bly’s feat "Start the man, and I'll start the same day for some Bisland's route home was in some ways the more interesting one on paper: after crossing the Pacific and Bly rode part of the way in the locomotive cab itself, picking up an impromptu lesson in how to drive Nearly a century later, Elspeth Beard rode a motorcycle solo around the world, and in 1908, a group of

  • Alice Roosevelt: From White House Daughter to Washington Fixture

    distance seems to have shaped her independence, and perhaps her resistance to authority within her own home If anything, it gave her greater freedom to shape her own role. Her home in Washington became a meeting place for politicians, diplomats, and journalists, and she had Her home continued to attract a steady stream of visitors, drawn as much by her conversation as by her There's some truth in that, but it is perhaps more accurate to say that she ignored her time altogether

  • Barbara Payton's Scandals: The Fight, the Blacklisting and the Scotty Bowers Rumours

    a week, dating Gary Cooper and Howard Hughes, and being talked about as the next big blonde star to come While the two of them were filming Drums in the Deep South together with co-star Guy Madison, Tone came home Her last real film role came that same year. fondness for Payton and would visit her for brisk twenty to thirty minute stretches before heading home Bowers named plenty of living and dead stars in his book, and while some details have been corroborated

  • Georgia Tann: The Baby Thief Who Called Herself the Mother of Modern Adoption

    The head of the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children's Home Society, who ran a black market baby She trained as a teacher before moving into that work herself, first for the Mississippi Children's Home How the children disappeared Early on, some of Tann's children genuinely were surrendered by desperate She had known about the cancer for some time. How many children total went through the Tennessee Children's Home Society under Tann?

  • The Ladies of Llangollen: Love, Liberty, and a Cottage in Wales

    In 1778, two Irish aristocrats ran away from home together, got caught, tried again, and eventually built On the night of March 30, 1778, Eleanor and Sarah slipped out dressed as men, carrying pistols, and rode It would be their only home for the rest of their lives. Eleanor's own diary records a daily ritual she called the Home Circuit, a short walk they took around Where is Plas Newydd, home of the Ladies of Llangollen?

  • Audrey Munson: The Rise and Fall of Americas First Supermodel

    It gazes down from fountains, arches, domes and state halls. Munson with Buzzer the cat in 1915 A Childhood That Gave No Hint of What Was Coming Audrey was born on Her figure appeared repeatedly in the Court of the Universe, on columns, domes and entryways. In it, Audrey continues the role of an idealised model, a kind of living statue. There were stories of her occasionally escaping the nursing home to visit a bar down the road.

  • Howard Unruh and the Walk of Death: America’s First Modern Mass Shooting

    Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church and read his Bible at home. He came home to Camden a decorated veteran. Then he made his way home. A couple of friends are coming to get me." The line went dead. I'm coming down."

  • David Funchess: The First Vietnam Veteran Executed in America — and the Uncomfortable Questions His Case Still Raises

    A wisp of smoke rose from an electrode on his calf. He was pronounced dead at 5:11 pm. Should a man who killed civilians under orders be shown mercy when he kills civilians at home? home? Coming Home: Foxholes, Heroin, and Unravelling Funchess returned to civilian life a changed man. They didn't murder anyone at home.

  • Viale dei Martiri: The Tragic Legacy of the Bassano del Grappa Massacre

    Instead of traditional ropes, telephone wire was used to make the nooses. Some were students and teachers, others were farmers and labourers. The women of Bassano Although no women were hanged on Viale dei Martiri , they played a crucial role Some, such as Giuseppina Scalet, were later imprisoned or deported for helping partisans. Giuseppe Moretto, from Romano d'Ezzelino Fiorenzo Puglierin, from Pove del Grappa Giovanni Battista Romeo

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