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  • Anna Månsdotter: The Last Woman Executed in Sweden

    Whether it was jealousy on Anna's part, fear of exposure, or some mix of both, the investigators and The murder On March 28, 1889, Hanna Johansdotter was killed inside the family home in Yngsjö. A feature film adaptation was made in 1966 with some of Sweden's best known actors of the era in the lead roles, and the case was later revisited again as part of a television series covering notorious Both Anna and Per told different versions of events at different points, and some later writers argue

  • Suck: The Underground Sex Paper Germaine Greer Helped Launch

    The move gave the magazine its full title, Suck: The First European Sex Paper, and its new home became Dr G's Alter Ego Within Suck, Greer wrote under the name Earth Rose, dishing gossip about London's underground explicit and, at points, too troubling to be folded neatly into the feminist canon Greer would soon come

  • The Women Who Kept America Drinking During Prohibition

    Some were organised criminals. Many were not. In some communities, women drank more than before, not less. Some male agents were legally barred from frisking women. Some women served weeks rather than years. Her home evolved into a social centre.

  • Sex Magic: The Strange History, the Practices and the People Behind It

    The practices come in three broad flavours. In some Hindu and Buddhist Tantric traditions, ritual sex is known as maithuna. There's a striking modern edge to some of what he wrote. The orgasm link comes later. Some were sincere, some were hustlers and a few were both.

  • The Complex and Controversial Relationship Between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim

    near Jhansi, Karim was an educated man, taught in Persian and Urdu, who eventually secured a clerical role When Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), hosted an entertainment for the Queen at his home Rumours abounded, with some speculating that Victoria had lost her judgment in her old age. numbers of non-European subjects while maintaining deeply entrenched hierarchies of race and class at home

  • The Attack and Incredible Survival of Alison Botha

    On December 18, 1994, 27 year old Alison Botha was driving home after a beach day with friends in Port When she came home, she settled into work as an insurance broker and a quiet routine of friends, family Around 1am she dropped a friend home and returned to find her usual parking spot taken. hoping to talk her way out, gave him a fake name, Susan, and invented a boyfriend waiting for her at home She was eventually discharged from rehab and sent home, though attorney Tania Koen said she'd need close

  • The Dead Rabbits: The Irish Gang That Ruled New York's Five Points

    It sounds invented, the kind of thing a Hollywood screenwriter comes up with at 2am. Points was one of the most densely packed and reputedly dangerous neighbourhoods in the Western world, home what he saw in American Notes: "From every corner, as you glance about you in these dark retreats, some a war they saw as being fought on behalf of Black Americans, while Black New Yorkers were blamed by some

  • Flirtation Cards: How the 19th Century Mastered Subtle Courtship

    the 19th, the calling card served primarily as a polite instrument for announcing one’s presence at a home In some cases, a lady might carry cards herself to signal receptiveness or to brush off an approach politely The text was generally brief: some were as simple as “May I see you home?” Some editors claimed they encouraged wanton behaviour or offered unscrupulous men a veneer of gentility Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England. Gaskell, Elizabeth.

  • Gordon Parks and The Crime Photographs He Captured For Life Magazine

    In Chicago, he rode with two detectives he described as ethically questionable, accompanying them on It made no attempt to examine why certain communities were policed differently to others, or what role

  • The Iran Hostage Crisis: 444 Days of Tension, Diplomacy, and Rescue Attempts

    Over the coming days, the compound became a fortress. Despite the cruelty, some captors showed moments of humanity, offering cigarettes or small talk. speaking to one another, deprived of light and information, the hostages had no idea if they’d ever go home For the United States, it became a turning point — a moment of reckoning about its role abroad.

  • Napoleon’s Island Escape: How the Emperor of Elba Outwitted Europe

    that fiendish appearance… I doubt not that he breathed vengeance within himself against us for having come His choice was Elba, a rocky outcrop off the coast of Tuscany, just 86 square miles in size and home At first, Napoleon threw himself into the role of a benevolent local ruler. Some came out of sympathy, others out of morbid fascination.

  • Polaroids From Return of the Jedi and the Careful Art of Ending a Modern Myth

    Ultimately, Kazanjian, who had also produced Raiders, persuaded Ford to come back. The role of the Emperor had initially been offered to Alan Webb, who withdrew due to illness. McDiarmid’s performance brought a theatrical relish to the role, blending classical villainy with a modern

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