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  • The Rajah from Tipperary (the tale of how an Irish farmer ended up ruling his own kingdom in India)

    Known as the "Jehazi Sahib" he briefly created a whole new state, with himself as a rajah, in the wild George was hired as a cavalry commander and was now able to begin a new life, all respectable and secure Meanwhile his ex the Begum Samra found her new lover had begun alienating many of the army and the good But it worked for him. In 1801 while George was away to the north of his new kingdom kicking ass, his enemies invaded to the

  • The Assassination of Spencer Perceval: The Only British Prime Minister Ever Murdered

    American trade suffered, British exports withered, and whole industries in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Birmingham London reacts News of the assassination spread through Westminster and across the city within hours. This is the announcement made by the Lord Chancellor to the House of Lords upon receiving news of the At home the new administration of Lord Liverpool slowly moved away from some of Perceval’s hard line A new ministry took shape. Monuments went up. A family grieved and was supported.

  • Peter Basch: The German Émigré Who Shaped Mid Century Fashion and Hollywood Portrait Photography

    His early work appeared in major publications, and he developed a reputation for polish. There is a subtle ease in his work. A hand rests lightly. Whether or not that quote survives verbatim, the philosophy is evident in his work. His later work retained control while acknowledging changing tastes. Though his career had been rooted in analogue craft, he saw the medium transition into a new era.

  • The Mexican Repatriation: Immigration Raids and Deportations in 1930s America

    By 1933, nearly a quarter of the workforce was out of work. They worked in railroads, farms, steel mills and packing houses. Hoover’s administration did not pass a new deportation statute aimed specifically at Mexicans. Lines of men wearing work clothes, waiting to board trains. The images do not shout. They record. It demonstrates that large scale removal can occur without sweeping new legislation.

  • A Timeline of Dr. Martin Luther King's Assassination

    from which the shot was fired Timeline of the Day – Part 1 On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray awoke to news Ray, lodging at the nearby New Rebel Motel, quickly recognised that Bessie Brewer’s Rooming House was The bathroom from which Ray fired the fatal shot Half an hour later, around 4:00 pm, Ray went to the York But the news also unleashed fury across the country.

  • The Lindbergh Kidnapping: Inside the "Crime of the Century"

    March 1932, one of the most sensational crimes in American history unfolded in a quiet rural estate in New Hopewell police and the New Jersey State Police arrived quickly, followed by fingerprint experts. Trial of the Century Hauptmann was charged with extortion and murder and taken to Flemington, New Jersey Appeals and Execution New Jersey Governor Harold G. In the 1980s, Anna Hauptmann sued the state of New Jersey, claiming wrongful execution.

  • Rubber Soul: How the Beatles Plastic Soul Album Changed Music

    the same period they met Bob Dylan again, heard the Byrds take folk and Beatles style jangle into new They still faced a tight deadline to have a new record ready for the Christmas market, but crucially When a session had to be cancelled because Lennon and McCartney did not yet have enough new songs, Martin Taking control of the studio Musically, Rubber Soul marked a new sense of control in the studio. New Musical Express praised the recording artistry and sense of adventure.

  • William Leslie Arnold: The Teen Murderer That Escaped Jail and Reinvented Himself

    boy in Omaha, Nebraska, committed an unthinkable crime, fled justice, and somehow built a completely new Over as John Vincent Damon Unbeknownst to the authorities, Arnold was very much alive, and crafting a new Marshal Matthew Westover, who worked on the case. /article_540dc7de-f0d5-11ed-a2a4-9f4f2c4410a1.html US Marshals Service – News Release (October 2022) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-leslie-arnold-prison-escape-identified-after-death/ Find A Grave

  • Walter Yeo: The First Plastic Surgery Patient and the Birth of Reconstructive Surgery During Wartime

    Sir Harold Gillies and the Dawn of Modern Plastic Surgery Sir Harold Gillies , a New Zealand-born otolaryngologist Sir Harold Gillies Gillies was inspired by the work of French and German surgeons, but he sought to push Gillies meticulously documented his work, taking before and after photographs of his patients—images Gillies and his contemporaries worked tirelessly to develop new techniques that would allow soldiers The work done on Yeo and other soldiers by Sir Harold Gillies laid the foundation for modern plastic

  • Project X-Ray: The Dentist, the Bats, and the Bomb That Burned Down America's Own Base

    December 7, 1941, a 60-year-old dentist from Irwin, Pennsylvania, pulled his car over to the side of a New Then the news came over the car radio. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. The test was taking place at the Carlsbad Army Air Corps Base in Carlsbad, New Mexico, a brand new facility The Carlsbad, New Mexico Army Air Base, post bat bomb test. In the New Mexico heat, the supposedly hibernating bats woke up before they were supposed to.

  • Jackie Chan's Parents: The Spy, the Smuggler and the Lives Behind the Legend

    During one unfortunate incident, while handling a new automatic rifle, he accidentally pulled the trigger Reinventing himself once again, Charles took up work on a Mitsubishi cargo ship in Wuhan, where he led a former Nationalist spy with a suspicious number of bullet wounds and a history of smuggling, the new Lee-Lee, who joined him in Hong Kong in 1951, also found work at the embassy as a maid. He went ahead first, working long hours to save money for an airline ticket for Lee-Lee.

  • Martin Gusinde and the Vanishing Worlds of Tierra del Fuego

    A Missionary Ethnologist Though a missionary by training, Gusinde’s ethnographic work was guided less Even in his sixties, his fieldwork continued: in 1956, he led an expedition to New Guinea to study the Yet his work became a foundation for future generations of anthropologists and ethnomusicologists. His isolation, spiritual as much as geographical, gave his work a profound sense of purpose. In an age when Indigenous cultures across the world face new forms of displacement and erasure, Gusinde

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