455 results found for "paris"
- Dr James Barry: The Army Surgeon Who Lived a Secret Life
Margaret’s mother, Mary Ann Bulkley, moved the family to London in hopes of improving their circumstances patients • successful surgical innovation These accomplishments helped improve medical care in several parts
- The Ace with the Bass: Phil Lynott’s Life of Swagger, Soul and Sadness
hangers-on, friends, freeloaders, fans, all waiting for the moment when the rock star opens up the party performance, part coping mechanism. Phil certainly played the part. Lynott understood the need to play the part. His substance use — once part of the rock ’n’ roll theatre — was no longer manageable.
- The Relentless Fury of Paddy Mayne: War Hero and SAS Founder.
These rugged, fast vehicles were fitted with Vickers K machine guns—often in pairs—enabling devastating
- Murder in the City: New York, 1910–1920 - Unveiling a Forgotten Crime Scene Photo Archive
As part of these changes, the police began documenting crime scenes with photographs as a way to record A skeleton fitted with features made from wax in order to identify the slain party, New York, circa 1910s a building engineer, right, found lying at the bottom of an lift shaft November 24, 1915, after the pair addition, the book serves as a stark reminder of the realities of crime and violence that have always been part
- The Horrific Crimes of Albert Fish
Grace Budd He persuaded the parents, to let Grace accompany him to the party that evening. Part of the naked body of a boy or girl would be brought out and just what you wanted cut from it. Every part of his body was Cooked and eaten except the head—bones and guts. On the pretense of taking her to a party. You said Yes she could go. Another defense witness was Mary Nicholas, Fish's 17-year-old stepdaughter.
- Adeline Watkins: The Woman Who Claimed to Love Ed Gein
Theodore Gein, they found not only her remains but a grim collection of objects fashioned from human body parts Once printed, her words, whether misquoted or embellished, became part of Gein’s mythology. The prosecution focused entirely on the murder of Bernice Worden and the earlier killing of Mary Hogan
- Merle Oberon – The Hollywood Star Who Hid Her True Origins
She was the product of violence, her part-Sinhalese, part-Maori mother Constance had been raped by a Parish, James Robert. The MGM Stock Company: The Golden Era. Arlington House, 1973. Harris, Dana.
- John Steinbeck Asking Marilyn Monroe for Her Autograph (1955)
There were fans with cameras and autograph books snaking around Park Avenue. The Steinbeck letter fetched $3,520 at that sale, which sounds respectable until you learn that a pair
- How The Beatles Made Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The final push came from a pair of incidents that made touring feel actively dangerous. When they wrapped their final concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on 29 August 1966, The Beatles The band's ability to work creatively within these constraints was a major part of what made the album's Blake proposed that the cover show the band just after a concert in the park, with the crowd they'd just
- The Little Rock Nine and the Struggle for School Desegregation
School is today a National Historic Site, home to a Civil Rights Museum managed with the National Park Sources National Park Service – Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site https://www.nps.gov Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.
- The Macabre Journey Of Eva Perón’s Corpse
Perón envisioned showcasing his beloved wife's body as part of his ambitious plans to enhance the revered copies in matching coffins at various locations in Buenos Aires and securing the genuine Eva in a truck parked McManners claims that Eva Perón consciously incorporated aspects of the theology of the Virgin and of Mary
- The Billionaire Athletes of Ancient Rome: Charioteers Who Out-Earned Modern Sports Stars
It was part sporting event, part carnival, part singles’ mixer, and wholly central to Roman public life Beard, Mary. The Roman Triumph. Harvard University Press, 2007. Coleman, Kathleen.













