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  • Autochrome Lumière: When the World First Turned to Colour in the Early 1900s

    Making fringes for knitted shawls, Galway, Ireland, 1913. (Albert Kahn Museum.). Galway, Ireland, 1913. (Albert Kahn Museum.). Two fishermen and a boy, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland, 1913. (Albert Kahn Museum.).

  • Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt: The Gilded Age Millionaire Who Died a Hero

    On the morning of 7 May 1915, as the RMS Lusitania cut through the waters off the coast of Ireland, Alfred Eighteen Minutes By 7 May 1915, the Lusitania was nearing the coast of Ireland. She wired contacts across Ireland and England and posted a $5,000 reward for any information. It included residences in Rhode Island, Manhattan, and London, and supported a substantial staff.

  • The Marquis, the Island, the Diary, and the Deal: The Casati Stampa Murders and Everything That Followed

    She had the title, the penthouse overlooking Villa Borghese, a private island, and a social life that The Island That Nobody Lives on Anymore For years before the murders, the Casati Stampas had a summer The island was common knowledge to the locals. Fishermen talked about it. Nobody complained. The island's only inhabitants are wild sheep. And Anna Fallarino, the girl from Amorosi who climbed all the way to a title and a private island and

  • Napoleon’s Island Escape: How the Emperor of Elba Outwitted Europe

    When British writer William Crackanthorpe stepped off the boat on the small Mediterranean island of Elba He reorganised the island’s administration, improved roads, and opened iron mines. Her visit, meant to be discreet, caused a stir on the island. Islanders whispered of lavish banquets, secret meetings, and passionate arguments. This time there would be no comfortable exile, no self-governed island. He was sent to St.

  • Mustique: The Caribbean Island Playground of Royals, Rockstars, and Runaways

    A Tiny Island with a Grand History The small island of Mustique is located in the West Indies and is the island's homes, including Tennant's own residence. Les Jolies Eaux The 1970s were a lively time for the island. Tennant and Margaret formed the core of the island's social life. island retains its appeal.

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

    slipped out dressed as men, carrying pistols, and rode toward Waterford intending to catch a boat out of Ireland down by the effort of trying to keep the two women apart, on the condition that the two women leave Ireland The Irish Ladies of Llangollen: 'The Two Most Celebrated Virgins in Europe', History Ireland 2.

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

    His father had acquired US citizenship in 1894, but by 1909, the Joyces had returned to Ireland, settling With the help of Captain Patrick Keating of the Intelligence Corps, he was spirited out of Ireland and

  • The Beast of Jersey: Edward Paisnel and the Masked Terror Who Haunted an Island

    There’s a peculiar stillness to the island of Jersey after dark. , hunger, and control, but those memories were fading into routine island life again. The island’s police were overwhelmed. Jersey was only forty-six square miles across. He told islanders bluntly, “Someone on this island knows this man. You all must turn detective.” When Paisnel was finally unmasked, the island felt both relief and shame.

  • The Death of Lord Mountbatten: Royal Power, India and the Bomb That Killed Him

    Lord Mountbatten and his wife, Edwina, having a picnic with Prince Charles and Princess Anne on the island estate near the village of Cliffoney on the Mullaghmore peninsula in County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland , just across the border from a Northern Ireland that was, by the late 1970s, deep into a decade of bombings He repeatedly turned down offers of a full security detail while on holiday in Ireland, preferring to spot where his great-uncle had died as part of a wider effort at reconciliation between Britain and Ireland

  • The 1984 Brighton Bombing: The Near Death Of Margaret Thatcher And Her Cabinet

    Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war." Released Under the Good Friday Agreement Magee served fourteen years, including time on remand, before release was hard to accept, and then Home Secretary Jack Straw tried to block it, but the Northern Ireland strategy of portraying the IRA as mere criminals while attempting to confine the Troubles to Northern Ireland

  • Shane MacGowan Is One Of The Greatest Writers Of Modern Times. Exhibit A: The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn

    Of course, going in the other direction, if you want to get from London to Ireland without flying or

  • How George Harrison Saved Life of Brian: The Most Expensive Cinema Ticket Ever Bought

    Banned in Harrogate, Norway and Ireland The British release followed on 8 November. Ireland held out for eight years. An awful dump: The Ireland that banned Monty Python's Life of Brian, The Irish Times 16.

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