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- The Oz Obscenity Trial: How a Magazine Made by Schoolkids Ended Up at the Old Bailey
Guest editors of Oz #28 - School Kids Issue, 1970 At a New Year's party in 1969, Neville reportedly turned reader under eighteen to come and edit an upcoming issue themselves, with total editorial freedom and no pay Mary Whitehouse protesting Oz magazine What the Case Actually Settled Despite everything, the Oz trial
- Frank Sheeran: The Irishman and His Secrets
His father, Thomas Sheeran Jr., was of Irish descent, and his mother, Mary Agnes Hanson, was Swedish. The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa On 30 July 1975, Jimmy Hoffa vanished from the parking lot of the Machus
- A Family's Descent into Tragedy: The Ethel Yeldem Story
Curious, she picked it up and, once settled into her seat, opened it to reveal an expensive-looking pair In 2012, the house where the tragedy took place was demolished as part of the city’s Vacant and Abandoned
- Elsa Sørensen: Miss Denmark, Dane Arden, and the Double Life of a 1950s Glamour Model
She also appeared in a second film, Intimate Diary of Artists' Models, working under her legal name Marie careers in a niche that was commercially significant but culturally marginal, and who navigated that with varying
- The Seven Wives of Jerry Lee Lewis: Rock's Wildest Marriage Record
In February 1952, when Lewis was 16 and Barton was 17, they went to the Concordia Parish Court House Through all that, according to Vulture, the pair lived together in the first month of the marriage and Pate petitioned a Mississippi court to force Lewis to pay spousal and child support — she was raising Lewis met Stephens there and invited her to a party in his room. A judge approved a financial settlement, to which both parties agreed in June 2005, in lieu of courtroom
- The Gorgeous Letters Jim Henson Wrote to his Children and Friends Before he Died
Henson grew up in nearby Leland before the family eventually relocated to University Park, Maryland, table tennis ball and fabric cut from one of his mother's old spring coats, with a denim sleeve from a pair Their pairing was described by Life magazine as a comedy duo as enduring as Laurel and Hardy or Burns Muppets at Walt Disney World, a TV special, developing Muppet Vision 3D, an attraction for the Disney parks By the time the letters were written, those characters had become part of the texture of childhood for
- Phil Spector: The Man Behind the Music Who Terrorised Everyone Around Him
The children he'd adopted without her consent, Gary and Louis, later gave their own accounts to the Daily Gary and his brother also made serious allegations of abuse by their adoptive father, allegations that night Spector placed a shotgun or rifle against her forehead when she tried to leave his home after a party famed record producer seemed to undergo a personality change as she tried to leave his mansion after a party Then there was the Christmas party at Joan Rivers' home, around 1995 or 1996, where a retired New York
- Ruthie the Duck Girl: The French Quarter’s Most Unforgettable Character
In a city long celebrated for its tolerance of the unconventional, Ruthie the Duck Girl was part of the Ruthie belonged to this tradition, a “holdover from a time when colorful characters were as much a part Budweiser and Kool cigarettes became as much a part of her identity as her ducks. enduring aspects of Ruthie’s story was her relationship, or imagined relationship, with a man named Gary Stories circulated among those who knew her, becoming part of local folklore.
- The Bizarre Plot To Kidnap Abraham Lincoln's Body
prove the theft was genuine, the gang planned to tear a foreign newspaper into irregular shapes, leave part Their solution was to cut away part of the stone casing so the coffin could be slid lengthwise toward When Mary Todd Lincoln died in 1882, her coffin was placed beside her husband during the public ceremony
- Halloween Traditions 1900 to 1930: Mischief, Costumes and Fortune-Telling Games
of the Atlantic was still closely tied to older folk customs, particularly in Ireland, Scotland, and parts In these areas, Halloween was not just an evening of fun but part of the yearly cycle of farming life part of Halloween well into the early 20th century. This practice, known as guising, was especially strong in Scotland and parts of Ireland. In Britain, Halloween parties in the 1920s and 1930s began to feature more decorative touches, often
- Elizabeth Magie and The Real Origins of Monopoly: A Legacy of Creativity and Theft
The Todds hosted dinner parties where the game was played, and in early 1933, one of their guests was Anspach’s research connected the dots: from Darrow’s dinner party with the Todds, to earlier versions Sources Mary Pilon, The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board
- Sorosis and the Birth of America’s Women-Only Clubs
editor Ellen Louise Demorest, New York Ledger writer Anne Botta, and the poet sisters Alice and Phoebe Cary Prospective members had to pass inspection, swear a loyalty oath, and pay an initiation fee of five dollars this memorable statement: “We willingly admit, of course, that the accident of your sex is on your part













