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  • London’s 18th-Century Craze for Gin: A Spirited Journey

    government policy designed to promote English spirits over French wine and brandy also played a crucial role But those narcotics have come with social rules about when, where, how and why you ‘get blasted’.

  • Ruby Ridge 1992: A Siege That Left Blood on the Mountain

    describing visions of the apocalypse and the belief that God had chosen their family to survive the chaos to come Their homestead was less than 60 miles from Hayden Lake, home to the Aryan Nations compound. How about coming out and having some pancakes?” They didn’t realise Vicki was lying dead inside. Media members and federal agents tour the outside of Randy Weaver's home in 1992. To some, it’s a symbol of how government can crush the individual.

  • Michael Fagan: The Buckingham Palace Intruder the Law Couldn't Touch

    Born in Clerkenwell to a father he described as a violent “champion” safe-breaker, Fagan had left home According to a declassified Home Office file released decades later under the Freedom of Information The same internal Home Office briefing notes recorded, plainly, that the verdict had highlighted the Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw offered his resignation over the failures; the Queen refused to accept UK Home Office (National Archives, released under FOI): Intrusion, Palace, Fagan, 1982 3.

  • The Red Baron: The Real Story of Manfred von Richthofen, WWI's Most Feared Fighter Pilot

    Cavalry to the Trenches: A Soldier Without a Role When war broke out, Richthofen's regiment saw action But by late 1914, the front had solidified into trenches, and the role of the mounted soldier evaporated Some historians suggest he was inspired by French ace Jean Navarre, who had already become famous for Richthofen's all-red Fokker Dr.I Enemy pilots knew exactly who was coming when they saw a red aircraft Richthofen in the cockpit of his famous Rotes Flugzeug ("Red Aircraft") with other members of Jasta

  • The Collyer Brothers: The Harlem Hoarders Who Were Buried by Their Own Junk

    He brought everything home. Old newspapers and magazines. Broken furniture. Car parts. Some suspected that Langley himself had made the anonymous phone call, then slipped away. He'd been dead for some time, and rats had eaten part of his body. He waited for his brother to come back. In New York, their name became shorthand for a home stuffed so full of junk that it's dangerous.

  • Akku Yadav: The Serial Rapist Who Was Killed by His Victims in an Indian Courtroom

    After posting bail, he broke into the woman's home and beat both her and her husband. Over the following 13 years, Yadav raped more than 40 women and girls, some as young as 10. He'd arrive at homes at 4am, claim to be police, force his way in, stab husbands, lock them in bathrooms He cut off a woman's ears for her earrings and her fingers when her rings wouldn't come off. Yadav waited and then went to Bhagat's home.

  • Goldie Williams: The Defiant Face of Vagrancy, Race, and Respectability in 1890s America

    At the time of her arrest she was 5 feet tall, weighed 110 pounds, and listed her home as Chicago. Some criminologists even believed that a person’s features could reveal criminal tendencies, an idea Historian Christy Hyman provides some context. Some of these ordinances stayed in place until the 1970s, long after the moral language that created Cole, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1877–1945 Christy Hyman, “Mapping the

  • The Troubles: A Civil Rights Struggle Fueled by Discrimination

    owners could vote in local elections, meaning that Protestant communities, who were more likely to own homes loyalist paramilitaries like the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) rose The Role of Women in The Troubles: A Lens into the Conflict Amid this backdrop of violence and inequality , individuals played roles that defied expectations, including women who took up arms.

  • The Execution in Kabul: Alain Mingam’s Haunting Photograph of the Soviet-Afghan War

    Instead, they found themselves bogged down in a long and bitter guerrilla war that would come to be called But it also raised profound ethical questions about the role of the photographer in war: observer or execution placed him in the long, uneasy tradition of war photographers who have wrestled with their role

  • Danzig Baldaev and the Art of Russian Criminal Tattoos

    His role, though seemingly ordinary, allowed him the unusual position of being both an enforcer and a However, not everyone who wore the spider was a leader—some who wore it were merely attempting to gain criminal underworld, a ring tattoo signified allegiance to a specific criminal organisation, or, in some , it can indicate a thief who stole from church Images of the Madonna with Child mean "Prison is my home Baldaev’s Role and Legacy Baldaev’s role in preserving the art of Russian criminal tattoos cannot be

  • Charles Osborne: The Man Who Hiccuped for 68 Years and Set a Guinness World Record

    As neurologist Dr Diana Greene-Chandos has noted, prolonged hiccups that come on suddenly can be a sign To put the condition in some context: intractable hiccups, defined as bouts lasting more than a month That Osborne remained so consistently good-humoured is, in some ways, the most remarkable part of the Osborne's verdict: "It scared me some, but it didn't scare the hiccups out of me." Nobody has come close.

  • Flash Gordon (1980): The Gloriously Chaotic Behind-the-Scenes Story

    The Cast Was Mostly Accidental Kurt Russell turned the lead role down, calling the character too one-dimensional Jones had to bleach his dark hair blond for the role. childhood dream: Prince Vultan had been his favourite comic character, and he threw himself into the role When the Christmas break arrived, Jones flew to Los Angeles and didn't come back.

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