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  • The Seven Wives of Jerry Lee Lewis: Rock's Wildest Marriage Record

    , known by relatives as Junior, died in a car accident near Hernando, Mississippi, according to The New York Times. In June 1982, according to the Associated Press (via the Tuscaloosa News), Pate's body was discovered That evening, Lewis called Shawn's sister to tell her the news. married wife No. 6: 21-year-old Kerrie McCarver, who made "the Killer" her second husband, per Action News

  • Unit 731: Japan’s Horrific Human Experiments Program During World War II

    According to a junior uniformed civilian employee of the Imperial Japanese Army working in Unit 731, The New York Times interviewed a former member of Unit 731. This was all in a day's work for the surgeons, but it really left an impression on me because it was He gave up the idea, left and locked the door, then later went on to his experimental work General Shiro Even within the unit, personnel were often kept in the dark about the broader scope of their work, with

  • The Secret Code Anne Lister Invented to Write About Sex

    Girlfriend Lister started the code around 1808, when she was about 17 and boarding at the Manor School in York It was patient, deliberate work, and the diaries record her running the same routine on a long list of the two women privately treated as a marriage, exchanging rings and taking communion together at a York Working with a friend, the antiquarian Arthur Burrell, John Lister finally cracked the cipher using a In the 1980s, historian Helena Whitbread began the long work of transcribing the coded volumes in full

  • Werner Herzog's Wild Youth, Before He Made a Single Film

    According to Duquesne University's own enrollment records and a personal essay Herzog wrote for The New Yorker in 2023, he actually arrived in Pittsburgh in September 1965 at 23 years old, not the 20 that rocket research, without a valid work permit. Charreada Rodeos, Gunrunning and a New Name in Mexico Herzog crossed into Mexico through what he later New Werner Herzog Essay Recalls Fox Chapel Family and Early Rolling Stones Concert in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

  • The Pit Brow Lasses: The Women Who Fought Parliament to Keep Their Jobs

    Huskar Pit disaster of July 4, 1838, when a violent thunderstorm at the Silkstone colliery in South Yorkshire Banned Underground, Not Banned From Work The 1842 Act didn't put women out of work. The Campaign to Ban Them Outright Trying to legislate pit brow women out of work wasn't a new idea by Looking back on the work itself, her verdict was simple: I really enjoyed it. Pit Girl Brow Workers at Work, The National Archives 6.

  • Sutherland Macdonald: The Michelangelo of Victorian Tattooing

    However, it remained largely confined to seafarers, soldiers, and the working class—until Sutherland Military Beginning and the Path to Tattooing Sutherland Macdonald was born on 25 June 1860 in Leeds, Yorkshire the craft and, by the time he left the military, he had acquired the skills to embark on an entirely new Macdonald’s prominence led to the creation of a new professional designation in 1894 when the Post Office The addition of new colours expanded the artistic possibilities of tattooing, allowing for more intricate

  • Dick Turpin: The Butcher’s Boy Who Became England’s Most Notorious Highwayman

    Suspected of horse theft, Turpin was transferred to York Castle. Smith travelled to York to identify “John Palmer” as none other than Richard Turpin. Trial and Execution On 22 March 1739, Turpin stood trial at York Assizes for horse theft, not murder. On 7 April 1739, at Knavesmire, York’s execution ground, Turpin mounted the gallows with apparent confidence Here, Turpin and his mythical mare Black Bess made their iconic overnight ride from London to York—a

  • Dennis Nilsen: From Quiet Boy to Muswell Hill Murderer

    For five years, one of the most dangerous men in Britain caught the bus to work every morning, sat behind AT A GLANCE Born: 23 November 1945, Fraserburgh, Scotland Died: 12 May 2018, York Hospital, aged 72 Known He would later write about "easing him into his new bed," a chillingly domestic phrase for what he'd His new home was a cramped attic flat at 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill, and this time, there was He died on 12 May 2018 at York Hospital, following complications from surgery, still officially an inmate

  • The Day Charlotte Brontë Mailed Jane Eyre to London

    On August 24, 1847, a parcel went out from Keighley railway station in Yorkshire, bound for a publisher's It meant every new publisher who received it could see, in ink, exactly how many people had already turned She'd already been working on Jane Eyre for close to a year by that point, and the promise turned out Anne's own publisher, a rather less scrupulous operator named Thomas Cautley Newby, tried to sell her new It turned out to be the only time Anne ever left Yorkshire.

  • The Story of Building (and Rebuilding) the White House

    When the first stones were laid, the United States was still finding its feet as a new republic. The Residence Act of 1790 had placed the new capital along the Potomac River as part of a careful compromise The broader layout of the new city had been designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant, who envisioned grand American forces had burned public buildings in York, present day Toronto, and the British responded in New reinforced concrete foundations were poured.

  • David Fuller: The Hospital Electrician Who Murdered Two Women and Abused 100 Bodies Hospital Mortuaries

    That reputation nearly cracked in 2015, when new safeguarding rules brought in after the Jimmy Savile Sources BBC News: Morgue crimes like Fuller's could be repeated BBC News: David Fuller pleads guilty to more mortuary sexual abuse BBC News: David Fuller sentenced over more mortuary sex abuse BBC News: Son of mortuary abuse victim speaks out BBC News: Hundreds call police phone line over corpse abuse assaulted bodies will die in jail AOL/PA News: Mortuary abuser David Fuller charged with 16 further

  • Studio Manassé: Olga Solarics, Adorján von Wlassics and Vienna’s Glamorous Photography Revolution

    Vienna studio became a creative powerhouse where pictorialist elegance, surrealist humour, and the new Two Hungarians Building a New Life in Vienna Both founders came from Hungarian backgrounds, a detail After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the city was alive with radical new ideas across every Studio Manassé took these ideas a step further, embracing the surrealism and visual innovation of the New expertise lay in artistic corrections, photomontage, retouching and painting over photographs to add new

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