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  • Dirk Bogarde and his Experiences in Bergen-Belsen and his Wartime Service

    "I had known for some time that the camps existed – we saw them on our aerial photographs often enough This role brought him into close contact with the aftermath of many battles and skirmishes, providing I went through some of the huts and there were tiers and tiers of rotting people, but some of them were Coldstream writes on the extensive website set up by Bogarde's estate, dirkbogarde.co.uk , that "some I went through some of the huts and there were tiers and tiers of rotting people, but some of them who

  • Winston Churchill’s Daring Escape from a Boer Prison Camp

    Churchill rode the engine as far as Frere, then got off and walked back towards the fighting. We'll come back to it. He had some food, a pistol and a bottle of whisky. That detail comes from Tom Garner's telling for History of War. Churchill didn't go home to enjoy it.

  • “Germany Calling, Germany Calling”: The Rise and Fall of Lord Haw-Haw

    His hardline imperialism alienated even some loyalists. It is said that the IRA tried to assassinate him on his way home from school. It would also play a role in the final act of his life, at the moment of his hanging. Joyce began to relish the role. To some, William Joyce remains a traitor and propaganda tool of a genocidal regime.

  • Alberta Jones: The Trailblazing Lawyer and Civil Rights Leader Whose Murder Remains Unsolved

    unsolved nearly six decades later, has left many convinced that racism and sexism played a decisive role Clay would later become Muhammad Ali, but Jones’s role in protecting his early career has often been In the 1961 elections, Black voters played a decisive role in ousting the mayor and several aldermen. Once again, she was the first woman and the first person of colour to serve in that role in Jefferson Her family has long maintained that both racism and sexism played a role in the inaction.

  • Halloween Traditions 1900 to 1930: Mischief, Costumes and Fortune-Telling Games

    It was tied to the rhythms of harvest, the fear of the coming winter, and the hope for prosperity in In some parts of Britain, apples were hung from strings and players had to try to bite them without using luck, echoing the ancient Samhain rituals where people lit great communal fires and carried embers home In some places, stones were placed in the fire to represent family members. The purpose was not always to look frightening, but to conceal identity, play a role, or invoke figures

  • Horace Roye: The Photographer of Nudes Who Beat Obscenity Laws Twice

    Some photographers just take pictures. He was murdered in his own home at the age of 96. Quick Answers ● Who was Horace Roye? He was stabbed to death by an intruder he apparently knew, at his home in Rabat, Morocco, in June 2002 Some of the sittings for the series took place at Farley Castle, home to Roye's friend F. A. Murdered at 96 On 11 June 2002, Roye was found dead in his Rabat home by his housekeeper.

  • Peter Gowland: The Photographer Who Built His Own Cameras to Shoot Hollywood's Pin-Ups

    Gowland spent more than six decades photographing some of the most famous women in the country, sold His father, Gibson Gowland, went on to land the lead role of McTeague in Erich von Stroheim's Greed, While he was gone, Alice kept selling their beach pin-up shots to magazines, so by the time he came home Rustic Canyon and the Final Years In 1954, Peter and Alice built a home and studio together in Rustic , beach cleanups, political volunteering, dancing, piano and swimming the coastal bluffs near their home

  • Sorosis and the Birth of America’s Women-Only Clubs

    The symbolism was perfect: many blooms coming together to form something stronger. a sturdy vitality, and really demonstrated its right to exist by a large amount of beneficent work… Some toast, given by Fanny Fern and biographer James Parton was: “Woman’s kingdom: if it is not kingdom come , it is kingdom coming.” Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad. 1884.

  • The Long And Cruel Persecution Of Billie Holiday

    Sadie was only 19 and had been thrown out of her own parents' home in Baltimore for getting pregnant, Producer John Hammond had come to hear Moore and left obsessed with the teenager who'd replaced her. Producer John Hammond had come to hear Moore and left obsessed with the teenager who'd replaced her. Fletcher went on to help arrest the woman he'd come to care about, then spent years afterward talking Here are some of the images he captured.

  • Steve McQueen's Final Months: The Cancer, the Mexican Clinic and the Death of the King of Cool

    Where the Asbestos Came From McQueen tried to work out where his exposure had come from, and the honest It's a grim twist for a man whose whole image was built on chasing danger he could see coming. McQueen went home to his ranch in Santa Paula for what was described as a rest. By midday McQueen's body was at the Prado funeral home in Juárez, where Santos Vargas carried out an El Paso Times photographer Carlos Rosales ended up riding in the funeral home's station wagon, which

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

    next night, Watson, Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten killed Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in their own home The crime scene photos from that weekend are still some of the most reproduced images in American true Leno and Rosemary LaBianca The Motive Everyone Repeats The version most people know comes from Vincent His argument was that Manson believed an apocalyptic race war was coming, that he wanted to speed it Closed cases don't usually come with this many loose threads still hanging off them.

  • The Tragic Events at Mockingbird Hill: Ronald Gene Simmons

    However, at home, the dynamic was very different. Several adult children had left home. Becky had stopped sharing a bedroom with Simmons. Loretta, still at home, openly expressed her desire to escape as soon as she graduated. As the remaining children returned home from school, one by one, Simmons separated them. The adult victims were shot repeatedly, some as many as six or seven times.

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