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  • Anita Bryant: The Orange Juice Queen Whose War on Gay Rights Backfired

    On 16 December 2024, at home in Edmond, Oklahoma, aged 84. The postwar Bible Belt was full of kids performing for congregations, some more sincerely than others Paper Roses, Bob Hope and the Sunshine Tree Her 1959 debut produced a modest hit with "Till There Was Squeeze a Fruit for Anita Bryant's win came at a cost she clearly hadn't seen coming. She'd come out to her grandmother on her 21st birthday.

  • Marianne Bachmeier: The Mother Who Shot Her Child's Killer

    Some people saw a mother finally getting justice the system couldn't give her. Her father had served in the Waffen-SS and came home a heavy drinker who spent more time at the local It's worth treating that detail with some caution since it comes from dramatised films rather than court At some point that day she crossed paths with Klaus Grabowski, a 35-year-old butcher who lived nearby Losing her, psychologists told the court, was in some sense like losing herself.

  • The Story Behind Dorothea Lange's Famous Depression Era 'Migrant Mother' Photograph

    She was cold, tired, and on her way home to San Francisco when she passed a handwritten sign on the side Arizona, picking 400 to 500 pounds of cotton a day by her own account, leaving before daylight and coming home after dark. She was 75 years old and living in a mobile home in Modesto. The FSA project she was part of produced some of the most powerful documentary photographs in American

  • In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut Writes a Letter to People Living in 2088, Giving 7 Pieces of Advice

    welcome words of wisdom from the past, and that several of us in the twentieth century should send you some John the Divine: 'Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment has come'? Our century hasn't been as free with words of wisdom as some others, I think, because we were the first It needed no help from us in taking the planet apart and putting it back together some different way him; perhaps the future will bring with it a utopia after all, one where "nobody will have to leave home

  • René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller’s 1953 Honeymoon Photographs In Paris

    What they photographed during those days was not intended as a project, yet it has come to be regarded Rita Dürmüller Behind the Camera For many years, Rita Dürmüller’s role in the Paris photographs was underplayed They remind us that some of the most revealing photographs emerge not from ambition, but from paying

  • Charles Whitman: The Full Story of the UT Austin Tower Shooting

    described his father as brutal and domineering, and accounts from those close to the family describe a home He went on to deny that his own behavior had played any role in what his son did, kept running the family fired on students, faculty and passersby across a wide radius of the campus and surrounding streets, some Some experts argued the tumor conceivably impaired his ability to control his emotions and impulses. Experts Still Disagree on Role of Tower Shooter's Brain Tumor — The Daily Texan 6.

  • Tarrare, The 18th-Century French Showman Who Ate Everything From Human Flesh To Live Eels

    What gets lost is how little of it we can actually check, and how much of it comes down to one doctor's he was suspected, but the sources say no record proves what happened. • Where does the story come Accounts of his youth say he was thrown out of the family home as a teenager because feeding him cost He was then released, and by some accounts subjected to a mock execution first. Some retellings say he went after corpses in the morgue too.

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

    The Scale of It When police searched Fuller's home after his arrest, they found millions of images and videos hidden across hard drives, discs and USB sticks, some of them stashed in a box hidden inside He'd organised the material into folders, some labelled with the names of the women he'd abused. Because bodies come and go from a hospital mortuary constantly, and because some of the footage offered He wasn't the only hospital worker to have used that trust for harm either; some cases, like that of

  • Café Lehmitz and the Photographs of Anders Petersen: A Portrait of Hamburg’s Red-Light District

    Petersen's picture of a couple known as Lilly and Rose is on the cover of Tom Waits' 1985 album Rain Uschi, Rose and the People Behind the Photographs The regulars weren't anonymous types to Petersen. The man had a rose tattooed on his chest, which earned him the nickname Rosenkavaljeren. Whether it comes back is anyone's guess. Bukowskis: Anders Petersen, Lilly and Rose, Café Lehmitz, Hamburg 1970 11.

  • The Last Public Execution in France: A Young Christopher Lee's Witness to History

    Some of that charm had a fairly mundane origin: during an earlier stretch in a German prison, Weidmann Add together everything the gang actually stole across all six killings and the total comes to roughly During one heated exchange with Million over the Le Blond killing, Weidmann snapped, come on, face the Lee never turned the experience into some grand origin story for his later career playing monsters and Lee's own path into horror properly began years later, once he'd landed the role that made him famous

  • Jimmy Lee Gray: The 1983 Execution That Turned Mississippi Against the Gas Chamber

    At ten past midnight on 2 September 1983, cyanide gas rose under a steel chair in the Mississippi State Deressa Jean Scales When she didn’t come home, her parents searched and then called the police. By the summer of 1983 more than 50 judges had heard some part of the case. Gray was buried at sunrise the same day in a location the funeral home wouldn’t disclose.

  • Mary Kenner: The Overlooked Inventor

    It's often said that some of the most important inventions slip quietly into the world without ceremony For the future inventor, it was a sign of what was to come. She later recalled, “I saw houses, cars and everything about to come my way.” her life largely outside the spotlight, working as a florist while continuing to design inventions at home

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