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- Larry Hillblom: The H in DHL, the Scrubbed Mansion and the Children He Never Named
In 1969 the pair, plus investor Robert Lynn, started hand-carrying shipping documents on commercial flights The Girls Behind the Fortune This is the part of the story that the charity that now bears his name doesn't
- Forgotten Insults From the 1700s: Georgian Put-Downs Worth Bringing Back
The fop part is a vain, showy man and the doodle part is an old word for a simpleton. The printseller Mary Darly built a thriving business selling caricatures of them.
- The Still Unsolved Disappearance Of New York Socialite Dorothy Arnold
Her mother, Mary Parks Arnold, moved comfortably within the rituals and expectations of high society. She purchased chocolates at Park and Tilford on 59th Street, a well known confectioner frequented by The two exchanged greetings and spoke briefly before parting ways. The deception came to light when her parents discovered she had pawned jewellery to pay for the trip. and her body thrown into the Central Park Reservoir.
- The Band Behind The Blues Brothers
Back in 1976 on Saturday Night Live, the pair appeared in full bee costumes to perform Slim Harpo’s “ bandmates Malone and Alan Rubin and future Blues Brothers players Steve Cropper and “Duck” Dunn) was part Fabulous might claim the most varied resume in the Blues Brothers band, but none of the members is more But Paul Shaffer knew that a big part of Aykroyd and Belushi’s act was tied not just to the blues, but He died in 2012 after a show in Tokyo, part of a tour with his old buddy Cropper.
- The Rajah from Tipperary (the tale of how an Irish farmer ended up ruling his own kingdom in India)
And NOW he was part of the Royal Navy. She rewarded him by arranging the marriage of George to an Indian-French girl later called Marie, and
- The Real Story Behind The Exorcist: The Strange Case of Ronald Hunkeler
Real cases feeding into horror classics is a recurring pattern; Gary Heidnik's Philadelphia basement
- Nick Drake: The Quiet King of British Folk
press was dominated by the news of Brian Jones' death on 3 July and the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park Part of what had made Nick’s earlier music so appealing was a balance between dark and light. Mary Magdalene Church in Tanworth-in-Arden, where he was buried in a simple grave.
- The Cop Who Robbed His Own Crime Scenes: The Extraordinary Double Life of André Stander
was committing armed bank robberies during his lunch break, then returning to his desk at the Kempton Park By the mid-1970s, Stander was a Captain in the Kempton Park CID in Johannesburg, a city whose social At a party in late 1979, Stander told Van Deventer about the robberies and asked him to get involved. For two months, the pair hid in Johannesburg, venturing out once to rob the United Building Society for Tomasello, who had a family, sought police protection while waiting for the South African government to pay
- Travelling the Grand Canyon in a Metz 22 Speedster (1914): A Brass-Era Endurance Test Like No Other
Today’s motorists might think twice before tackling the steep gravel inclines of national parks in a And so, in a move that merged equal parts adventure, engineering, and PR, Metz’s Los Angeles branch manager The Descent into the Grand Canyon Having survived that leg of the journey, the pair arrived at the El was a modestly priced car for early middle-class buyers, often sold in kit form or “assembled” from parts This part of the trip alone is a severe test of both automobile and man, as it involves long stretches
- Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition: The Imperial Trans Antarctic Journey That Became a Fight for Survival
There was no meeting of the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea parties. There were scientists, engineers, carpenters, cooks, sailors and a pair of surgeons. Not one life from Shackleton’s party was lost. The Elephant Island party. Sea party faced its own ordeal.
- The House Of Guinness: More Myths Than Malt
Arthur Lee left the partnership with £12,000 to buy a home at Stillorgan Park, where he lived in flamboyant He moved between Chelsea parties, Carnaby Street boutiques, and London clubs. They attacked the party, shot the chauffeur in the chest, and fired three shots at Moyne through the His novel Vile Bodies was dedicated to the pair. Guinness Book of Guinness by Edward Guinness (1988) – A massive collection of anecdotes about the Park
- Bad Luck, Starvation and Cannibalism. The Story Of The Donner Party And Their Doomed Journey.
Mary Murphy of the Donner Party The Fatal Decision: Hastings Cutoff Among the earliest and most consequential Frequently Asked Questions About the Donner Party What happened to the Donner Party? Who survived the Donner Party? The Archaeology of the Donner Party. Britannica: Donner Party.https://www.britannica.com/event/Donner-party PBS: The Donner Party (companion













