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  • The Wild History of the Tour de France: Cheats, Deaths and Utter Chaos

    A Newspaper's Cheap Trick to Sell More Papers The Tour de France wasn't dreamed up by some visionary She rode the entire 4,488km route anyway, unofficially, setting off about fifteen minutes behind the In 1975, with Eddy Merckx leading the race up the Puy de Dome, a fan jumped out of the crowd and punched Merckx staggered across the line vomiting, lost his overall lead that year, and still rode back down Racing to Come Last on Purpose Finishing dead last at the Tour earns a rider the lanterne rouge, named

  • The Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Days That Shocked the World and Changed Britain Forever

    They also attached abseil ropes to the chimneys for later use. Nobody inside noticed. At 19:07, the police commander signed over authority to SAS Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Rose. Thatcher meets with some of the team For Margaret Thatcher, the siege was a political gift. PC Lock personally wrote to the Home Office to oppose his release. Some could argue he deserved both.

  • Ken Rex McElroy: The Town Bully Who Was Shot Dead in Broad Daylight — and Nobody Saw a Thing

    pulled his pickup truck into town, residents reportedly called each other with a simple message: go home Sixteen days after Trena gave birth, she and Alice fled to Trena's parents' home. McElroy tracked them down, brought them back — and when Trena's parents were next away from home, he McElroy then sat outside the foster family's home for hours at a stretch, staring at it. Then they went home and kept their mouths shut."

  • The Rise of Motörhead: A Journey into Chaos, Grit, Excess And Lemmy's Wildest Escapades

    “In 1966, we were coming back over the Yorkshire Moors which, incidentally, was before I even drank beer , so it couldn’t have been some acid flashback,” Lemmy recalled. Lemmy joined them initially as a guitarist but quickly found himself thrust into a new role. With instructions to “make some noises in E,” Lemmy passed the audition and would go on to tour and record “Phil said, ‘Sure, I’ll fuckin’ come down and do it for you,’” Lemmy remembered.

  • "I Hope Your Ol' Plane Crashes" - The Death Of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson

    After the show, he decided to avoid the cold and rent a private plane to fly himself and some of the itself into a virtual ball, rolling nose-over-tail across the frozen field for 540 feet (160 m), before coming Holly's mother, on hearing the news on the radio at home in Lubbock, Texas, screamed and collapsed.

  • What Happened During John Belushi’s Final Hours at the Chateau Marmont.

    Belushi spent much of the week moving between nightclubs, restaurants, bathhouses, and the homes of friends friends in Los Angeles was Robert De Niro, who had recently achieved enormous critical acclaim for his role After Belushi’s death, the role eventually went to Bill Murray. the 9th of March, 1982 at West Tisbury Congregational Church on Martha’s Vineyard, where he owned a home For a brief period those appetites helped create some of the most memorable comedy of the era.

  • Imagining the Future: Hildebrands’ Postcards From 1900 and Their Vision of the Year 2000

    This postcard depicts families casually moving their homes, complete with chimneys and flower boxes, While today’s mobile homes are less about locomotion and more about minimalism, the idea of portability Of course, they also showed that some things—like a love of chocolate—are timeless.

  • Stanley Kubrick's Teenage Photos of 1940s New York

    He skipped school to develop it himself in the darkroom his father had helped him build at home. holds the negatives today, has publicly appealed for anyone with information about him or his family to come on to a respectable boxing record and a later career in film and television, including a recurring role

  • 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.

  • Paradise Lost: The Story of a Group of Europeans who Tried to Find Utopia on a Remote Galápagos Island in the 1930s

    The Wittmer's stone house-the most elaborate home on Charles Island, c. 1934. Some believed the Wittmers’ story about the yacht was simply a cover. Some suspected Lorenz. Others believed the Wittmers knew more than they were saying. A few even speculated that Dore and Ritter themselves may have had a role to play. self-serving, some speculative, all coloured by isolation and suspicion.

  • 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.

  • 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

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