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  • The Cicero Race Riot of 1951: When 4,000 People Attacked a Family Over an Apartment

    Instead, for the better part of a week, thousands of his new neighbours turned up outside the building Clark was a World War II veteran who'd moved north from Mississippi, and by 1951 he was working as a spread around town that there was going to be, in the phrase used at the time, some "fun" at the Clarks' new She joined CBS News and became the first Black woman to work as a network television correspondent in longer American pattern of white mobs responding to Black families simply trying to live somewhere new

  • The Profumo Affair: The Sex, Spies and Scandal That Brought Down a Government

    BBC News, "Christine Keeler obituary: Life of the Profumo scandal model" 2. BBC News, "In search of the real Christine Keeler" 3. Gulf News, "The Profumo redemption" 7. Gulf News, "Lloyd Webber's 'Stephen Ward' seduced critics" 11. Gulf News, "Everyone in the Profumo scandal got redemption — except Christine Keeler" 18.

  • Anita Ekberg: The Swedish Bombshell Who Conquered Hollywood and Fellini's Rome

    Howard Hughes signed her, and Universal Pictures put her to work. Ekberg at 20 years old. The tradition Ekberg was working in had deep roots. played a visiting American celebrity, endlessly photographed and pursued, a walking embodiment of the new La Dolce Vita needed Ekberg to work. She was the gravitational centre of the whole film. She worked steadily through the 1960s but the quality of roles dropped.

  • How the CIA Helped Kill a Dictator—And Failed to Kill Another

    Work. Castro, on the other hand, emerged from the Sierra Maestra as the face of a new threat: Soviet-aligned A mechanic who worked in the garage where Trujillo’s 1957 Chevrolet was kept tipped off the conspirators—Antonio The New Press, 1998. U.S. The New Yorker, 1998. Rabe, Stephen G. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F.

  • Illustrations from the Soviet Children’s Book 'Your Name? Robot', by Mikhail Romadin

    and digitising Soviet-era children’s literature, these enchanting, often surreal volumes are reaching new of the 20th century extended deep into the minds of artists, writers, and designers, who imagined a new Robot are the work of Mikhail Romadin, a multifaceted Soviet artist who brought the same visionary design In his best works what often happens is that the outward characteristics of barely ordered dynamism and In his best works what often happens is that the outward characteristics of barely ordered dynamism and

  • Alberta Jones: The Trailblazing Lawyer and Civil Rights Leader Whose Murder Remains Unsolved

    By 1963, the new administration passed the first public accommodations ordinance in the South, a landmark According to Flora, Wyckoff teased Jones, saying she had become “uppity” since taking her new position family and supporters, this decision felt like a final insult, a refusal to follow through even when new https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/09/who-killed-alberta-jones-louisvilles-first-black-woman-prosecutor / The Courier-Journal – Researcher: Reopen prosecutor’s 1965 murder https://www.michigansthumb.com/news

  • Ginggaew Lorsoungnern: The Thai Lady That Survived Her First Execution

    From Housekeeper to Kidnap Conspirator Ginggaew was born in 1950 and worked as a housekeeper and childcarer existing criminal record, persuaded her to take part in a kidnapping plot targeting the family she'd worked Ginggaew's role was the one that mattered most to the plan working. “She was all over the news, like some kind of film star,” Chavoret later wrote, describing coverage that The first execution under the new system took place in 1935, using a Bergmann submachine gun mounted

  • The Forgotten Treehouses of Paris: Rediscovering Les Guinguettes de Robinson

    contemporary food critic in 1855 observed, “Lavish tables were set and lovebirds without feathers but forks Backed by French cultural figures including singer Johnny Hallyday, a new Robinson Village was launched—but examination of popular Parisian entertainment in the early 20th century, including guinguettes and other working-class “Guinguettes: A Tradition of French Working-Class Leisure” – France Today An overview of the cultural

  • The Little Older Lady That Knew All The BIG Stars.

    However, sharp-eyed viewers did some detective work and noticed that this person could be identified The good news is that now that Maria Snoeys-Lagler has been recognised, the compassionate individuals

  • That Time Joe Strummer Disappeared For Six Weeks, Later To Be Found Living Rough In Paris

    Despite the impending release of a new album and a busy tour schedule spanning Europe and North America away to Texas to spend time with his friend, fellow musician Joe Ely, allowing the media frenzy to work On the contrary, fans were even more hesitant to buy tickets after news of Strummer’s disappearance surfaced Soon, the entire UK tour was postponed, even as The Clash’s new album, Combat Rock, hit the shelves. Working alongside a detective, Vinyl eventually located Joe’s favourite pub in Paris.

  • “Kill Me Now”: The Horrific Story of Berlinah Wallace, Mark van Dongen, and the Acid Attack That Led to Euthanasia

    bought the acid, Van Dongen dialled 999 and told police that Wallace had been harassing him and his new flat to reiterate that their five-year relationship was over - and to say he was moving in with his new Sources BBC News – Acid attack victim told police ‘Kill me now’ before dying https://www.bbc.co.uk/news The Guardian – Woman jailed for life for killing man in acid attack https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news /2018/oct/12/berlinah-wallace-jailed-for-life-for-killing-mark-van-dongen-in-acid-attack Sky News – Acid

  • Say Hello to “White Death” Simo Häyhä The Deadliest Sniper In History

    Häyhä worked from a snow pit dug well before dawn, dressed in full white camouflage against Soviet soldiers Häyhä and his new rifle, a gift from the Finish army. None of it worked. As farm work grew too demanding, he eventually rented it out and moved into an apartment in the town A Legend for a New Generation Häyhä's story found a new audience decades after his death through Sisu

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