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  • Sam Giancana: The Madman of Chicago Who Knew Too Much

    When Antonia died in 1910, Sam's father remarried a local widow, Mary Leonardi, and the extended brood Frank Sinatra had introduced the pair in Las Vegas in 1960; within weeks, Campbell later said, she was The Island, a working-class pocket of Chicago, before upgrading to a comfortable brick house in Oak Park Back in Oak Park, Giancana found his old neighbourhood changed. He returned to Oak Park under FBI surveillance, his health failing after recent gallbladder surgery,

  • Amazing Aerial Photographs by Alfred G. Buckham From The 1920's

    Castle Island, Loch Leven (Where Mary Queen of Scots was Imprisoned) Alfred G Buckham Scottish National

  • The Poet, the Bear, and the Dog: Lord Byron’s Extraordinary Menagerie

    His circle included not just Shelley but also Mary Shelley and Leigh Hunt. In the end, he was laid to rest at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Boatswain’s tomb, however, remains one of the most visited parts of the Abbey’s grounds.

  • Meet Caesarion, The Child Of Caesar And Cleopatra.

    She prepared him to rule independently, possibly as part of a contingency plan should she and Antony Earnest Cary, Loeb Classical Library, 1924. Plutarch.

  • The Capture Of Mussolini, His Final Hours And the Strange Journey His Body Went On After His Death.

    To ensure their safety, the partisans concealed the pair in a secluded farmhouse overnight. A note left by the “Democratic Fascist Party” denounced the Communist Party’s slanderous remarks. However, in 1957, newly appointed prime minister Adone Zoli sought the support of a far-right party.

  • Dick Turpin: The Butcher’s Boy Who Became England’s Most Notorious Highwayman

    He was one of six children born to John Turpin, a local butcher and innkeeper, and his wife Mary. They were aided by accomplices like Joseph Rose, John Jones, and Mary Brazier, who acted as their fence Rivernall refused to pay the postage, so the letter remained unopened until it reached the post office

  • The Tate Murders: Why Sharon Tate's Sister Still Says the Case Isn't Closed

    About a month earlier, Bobby Beausoleil had tortured and killed a Manson associate named Gary Hinman scene photos from that weekend are still some of the most reproduced images in American true crime, part Part of what detectives wanted was a set of tapes: hours of recorded conversations between Tex Watson The Story of the Murder of Gary Hinman, According to Convicted Killer Bobby Beausoleil, Oxygen 6.

  • The Habsburg Jaw: How Centuries of Royal Inbreeding Destroyed an Empire

    Marie Antoinette' Habsburg jaw wasn't as pronounced as some of the other royals, but she did have a protruding Charles ruled over lands that included Spain, parts of Italy, territories throughout the Low Countries Mariana of Austria (1634-1696) also had a similar jawline which was prominent in European families Marie It became part of the visual language of her legacy.

  • Elspeth Beard: The Architecture Student Who Rode Solo Around the World

    None of it stopped her, but it's a part of the story that tends to get left out of the shorter, tidier To reach parts of Ladakh in the Himalayas that were officially off-limits to foreigners, she forged her Her son was born in 1990, and in 1994 she got her pilot's license, later flying around parts of Australia That claim has gotten more complicated in recent years with the wider recognition of Mary Sievier, who RIP, World Traveler And Trailblazer Mary Sievier — Adventure Rider

  • The Day They Shot the Pope: The Attempted Assassination of John Paul II

    The shooting happened to fall on 13 May, the 64th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary slumped into the arms of his personal secretary, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, visibly repeating the words "Mary days after the shooting, still in his hospital bed, John Paul II recorded a message asking people to pray He placed his bloodstained sash at the feet of the statue of the Virgin Mary and donated one of the bullets John Paul II survived to play a significant part in dismantling Soviet control over Eastern Europe.

  • The Story Of Ruth Ellis, The Last Woman To Be Hanged In The UK

    son, Andy, acting as her next of kin, arranged for her remains to be reburied in the churchyard of St Mary The site of Ellis's unmarked grave in St Mary's Cemetery, Amersham.

  • MugShots From The 1800s And The Criminal Stories That Accompany Them

    The responses of these individuals to being photographed varied (see below). Upon close examination, authorities discovered a human hand, some hair from a man’s head, part of a coat Mary Shannon. Mary Shannon was sentenced to two years in the Nebraska State Prison for mayhem in May 1925.

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