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  • Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Believed Hitler Was a Hindu God

    New Mercury reportedly got some of its funding from the German consulate in Calcutta, and Mukherji's The real deliverer, in her scheme, was still to come. years dressed plainly in white cotton saris, living in a modest flat near a rubbish tip, sharing her home Death, and an unlikely resting place Devi died in 1982 at a friend's home in Essex, England. Why she's still around Devi's ideas didn't die with her, and in some ways they've spread further since

  • Andrea Yates: The Lie That Won Her a Second Trial

    On June 20th, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned all five of her children in the bathtub of her Houston home, Afterward she called the police and asked them to send an officer, then called Rusty and told him to come home. Yates' own lawyer told the jury they'd “heard some evidence that she saw some show on TV and knew she pants,” a comment that didn't land well with a jury weighing whether anyone other than Andrea bore some

  • Plato's Retreat: The Notorious NYC Swingers' Club That Ruled and Fell With the '70s

    "I had some uglies there," he once said. Same Era as Studio 54, No Velvet Rope Plato's shared its DNA with Studio 54 in more ways than one. Both clubs opened in 1977, both rode the same wave of disco mania and post Woodstock permissiveness, Some blamed the chauffeur his partner Mary was rumored to be involved with. The IRS Comes Knocking The bigger threat turned out to be the IRS.

  • The Jim Twins: Two Men, Two Lives, One Crazy Story

    Forty miles apart, the two Jims grew up in different homes, with different parents, different schools Then, on February 9th, 1979, the Jim Twins met in person at Springer's home. When the Jim Twins' story broke, he famously told reporters: "This is the kind of opportunity that comes Some researchers have gone a step further, using the twins' story to explore the possibility of some Some things, it seems, genetics can account for. Others remain wonderfully, stubbornly strange.

  • Mary Nolan: The Ziegfeld Girl Hollywood Tried to Erase

    An American actress, model and dancer who rose to fame in the 1920s as a Ziegfeld Follies girl under The coroner ruled it accidental, though some suspected suicide. Mary was still young, and her father, unable to care for five children alone, placed her in a foster home Mary Nolan, she signed with Universal Pictures in 1928 and found real success, including a memorable role for Mannix's side allegedly threatened her with arrest over morphine possession after visiting her home

  • Thelma Todd and the Hollywood Death That Refuses to Be Explained

    Building a Career on Perfect Timing Todd's early roles leaned on her looks more than her talent, which Sources differ on exactly where that exchange happened, some place it at the cafe itself, others at the Peters drove her home. What happened after that has never been fully accounted for. Grauman called Roland West at Todd's request to let him know she was leaving the party and heading home A Career Cut Short and a Legacy That Won't Settle Todd's final film role was in Laurel and Hardy's The

  • 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

  • Gene Kelly: The Athletic Genius and His Moves That Revolutionised Dance on Screen

    American in Paris  and Singin’ in the Rain Although Kelly had already achieved major success, it was his role Kelly’s insistence on casting the French dancer Leslie Caron in the lead role was one of his many contributions His frustrations with MGM mounted, particularly after the studio refused to lend him out for key roles and commercial flop, Kelly, ever the gentleman, described it simply as "a good idea that just didn’t come

  • He Drove 14 Miles, Killed His Mother-in-Law, and Remembered Nothing: The Extraordinary Sleepwalking Case of Kenneth Parks

    And he drove roughly 14 miles from his home in Pickering, Ontario, to the Scarborough home of his in-laws Not home. To the nearest police station. When he arrived, officers immediately noticed the blood. "I think I have killed some people," he told officers. "My hands." Even with his shameful financial secrets about to come out, there was nothing to suggest he'd benefit Not groggy, not half-awake, not in some diminished state.

  • Walking for Justice: The Selma to Montgomery Marches

    Organised by nonviolent activists, these marches exposed the brutality of segregation and played a crucial role were also common—Black citizens who tried to register often lost their jobs, were evicted from their homes Police officers, some with the Confederate flag on their helmets, block the march in Selma. Activists faced ongoing resistance, and some, like Viola Liuzzo, a white mother from Detroit who came Patrol officer John Krok displays the burned cross that was found in front of the home of Anthony Liuzzo

  • Diego Maradona's Scandals: Cocaine, the Camorra, Women and a Death Still on Trial

    Somehow he still produced some of the best football anyone has ever watched, which tells you plenty about Several sex workers later came forward with their own accounts of cocaine-fuelled nights with him, some Maradona under arrest The Taxman Comes Knocking Maradona's financial mess with the Italian authorities Since his death, at least two more people have come forward claiming to be his children and pursuing on Trial Maradona died of heart failure on 25 November 2020, at the age of 60, while recovering at home

  • Thomas Edward "Black Jack" Ketchum: The Outlaw Who Went Out With a Bang (and a Snap)

    Ketchum didn't come up with "Black Jack" himself. It was, in hindsight, a small preview of things to come. They quit, stole some supplies, and rode to the small settlement of Liberty, north of present-day Tucumcari The Hangman's Rope The problem was that nobody in Clayton really knew how to conduct a hanging. The head rolled aside and the rope, released, bounded high and fell with a thud upon the scaffold from

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