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  • Music, Baseball and New Orleans Pride: Louis Armstrong’s Forgotten Team, the Secret Nine

    Brass lines rolled across the levee, laughter rose from the stands, and somewhere behind second base In the middle of this new success he returned home for the first time in nine years, partly to play a Some called them the Smart Nine, a nod to how sharply they looked when they took the field. When the Mets arrived in the 1960s and built Shea Stadium only a few blocks from Armstrong’s home in https://sabr.org/latest/whirty-who-were-the-secret-9-on-louis-armstrongs-baseball-team Home Plate Don

  • Shaved for the Mailman: How America's Nudist Magazines Beat the Post Office and the Supreme Court

    He set up the organization's spiritual and literal home base at Sunshine Park in New Jersey, and ran study of the movement that included a handful of photographic illustrations of nude men and women, some magazines stopped being careful, and that's really where Marguerite Hamrick's shaved-for-the-shoot story comes It reportedly became such a normalized part of the process in some California nudist circles that showing Ilsley Boone A Second Fight Nobody Saw Coming The Post Office wasn't the only battle Ilsley Boone was

  • The Nine Days Paul McCartney Spent in a Tokyo Jail

    “I’d just come from America and still had the American attitude that marijuana isn’t that bad. “Paul is now in some kind of detention place and I have not been allowed to see him,” she said. Sleep… .and go home. Fallout and the end of Wings The arrest marked a decisive turning point. Marijuana is not as dangerous as some people make it. Some people thought McCartney had provided a bad example for his young fans.

  • Metallica’s Ride the Lightning Era: From Breakout Album to Global Stage

    Unlike some larger companies, Elektra understood that Metallica’s success came from their raw authenticity Though losing Metallica was bittersweet, they remained proud of their role in launching one of the most Metallica’s set—only raw speed, precision, and a grounded presence that eventually won over crowds who had come By the end of 1985, Metallica had laid the groundwork for what would come next: an album that would be

  • The Remains Of Baron Hill

    Founded in 1618 by Sir Richard Bulkeley, it served as the ancestral home of the prominent Bulkeley family

  • The Day Charlotte Brontë Mailed Jane Eyre to London

    was Charlotte Brontë, the book was Jane Eyre, and almost every part of how it got to London involved some The home Jayne Eyre was written in, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum Three Sisters, Three Fake Names Charlotte He sent for a sandwich and a glass of wine instead of coming down for lunch, rushed through dinner that turned into the literary event of the year, praised for its raw emotional directness and criticised in some trip, then walked straight to Smith, Elder's offices at Cornhill without any warning that they were coming

  • Rat Poison, Cheating, Close Deaths, The Bonkers Story Of The 1904 Olympic Marathon In St. Louis

    But then, spotting one of the official cars, he climbed in and rode for eleven miles, waving at spectators Len Taunyane, despite being chased off course by dogs, managed to come ninth. He surprised everyone when he returned to Havana months later, having simply taken longer to travel home

  • Margery Booth: The Opera Singer Who Spied on Hitler From Inside Berlin

    Adolf Hitler once sent Margery Booth 200 red roses wrapped in a sash printed with a swastika. By 1930 she was landing lead roles, including in the new opera Der Fremde Erde, an unusually rare honor Roses From Hitler In 1933, Margery performed in Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival, carrying the Holy Grail across the stage in one of opera's most reverent roles. Margery Booth at Genshagen POW Camp The Tiger Tank Secret The boldest story to come out of this period

  • Witold Pilecki, The Man Who Volunteered To Be Imprisoned In Auschwitz.

    Pilecki decided to break out of the camp with the hope of convincing the Home Army leaders personally Outside Pilecki made contact with Home Army units a few days later. A month after his escape he reached Warsaw (200 miles from Oświęcim) and met the Home Army intelligence However, the Russians showed no interest in joining forces with the Home Army and ZOW to liberate the

  • John Aspinall The Gambling Showman Who Built Zoos for Tigers and Dukes

    Once he found out, Aspinall tracked Bruce down living out his final years in an old people's home and Some of them were signing away family estates. Lucan, who'd go on to vanish in 1974 after murdering his children's nanny. 44 Berkeley Square, first home Aristocrats who thought they'd found a glamorous private club had, by some accounts, been playing a game Supporters point to that as the one unambiguous good to come out of his life.

  • Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson: Harlem’s Most Notorious Godfather and His Ties to the Mob

    While inside, he's also alleged to have played a small role in one of the most famous prison breaks in history: after Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers escaped Alcatraz in June 1962 and were never found, some Legacy and a Wife Who Told His Story Much of what's known about Bumpy's personal life comes from his "Playing Bumpy Johnson has been one of the greatest experiences of my career," Whitaker said of the role

  • The Capture, Trial and Death of Adolf Eichmann

    Malkin uttered the words to a balding Mercedes-Benz factory worker headed home from work on May 11, 1960 He rose swiftly through the ranks of the party, and by 1935 he was already helping the party plan its They decided to capture him as he walked back home after getting off of a city bus after work. The hidden home of Adolf Eichmann in San Fernando, Argentina, circa 1960.

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