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- Seeing Through the Blur: Aldous Huxley’s Vision, Psychedelics, and the Art of Perception
That quote comes from The Art of Seeing (1942), Huxley’s own account of his visual rehabilitation. To this day, some have argued his apparent improvement could have been part of a natural fluctuation The inhabitants of Pala, some argue, are insufferably smug. But it’s fair to say he changed the way others would see the world for decades to come. As Martin Lee and Bruce Shlain recount in Acid Dreams, Huxley played a quiet but central role in spreading
- Irma Grese: Beauty, Power, and the Machinery of Cruelty
The organisation offered structure, praise, camaraderie, and escape from her home life. By her late teens she was already searching for a role that offered authority, status, and purpose. Although clerical, the role placed her close to decision making processes. Over the following months, Grese was rotated through a series of supervisory roles.
- Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Believed Hitler Was a Hindu God
New Mercury reportedly got some of its funding from the German consulate in Calcutta, and Mukherji's The real deliverer, in her scheme, was still to come. years dressed plainly in white cotton saris, living in a modest flat near a rubbish tip, sharing her home Death, and an unlikely resting place Devi died in 1982 at a friend's home in Essex, England. Why she's still around Devi's ideas didn't die with her, and in some ways they've spread further since
- The Goebbels Children: Childhood, Propaganda, and Murder in Hitler’s Bunker
especially close to her father and frequently waited up late so she could sit with him when he returned home Indoctrination took place not only in schools and rallies, but at home. In a letter sent from the bunker to Harald, she wrote that the world to come was not worth living in. in the evening, telling them they needed injections because they would be staying in the bunker for some They enter homes, shape childhoods, and, when they collapse, often destroy the very people they claimed
- The Cicero Race Riot of 1951: When 4,000 People Attacked a Family Over an Apartment
take long for word to spread around town that there was going to be, in the phrase used at the time, some it was a shame that American soldiers were dying in Korea for democracy while this was happening at home meaning that for the first time many viewers in and around Chicago watched a mob attack a family's home teenager named Jerome Huey was beaten with a baseball bat by three white men that same year simply for coming Harvey Clark died in 1998 at his home in North Carolina, aged 75.
- Mary Nolan: The Ziegfeld Girl Hollywood Tried to Erase
An American actress, model and dancer who rose to fame in the 1920s as a Ziegfeld Follies girl under The coroner ruled it accidental, though some suspected suicide. Mary was still young, and her father, unable to care for five children alone, placed her in a foster home Mary Nolan, she signed with Universal Pictures in 1928 and found real success, including a memorable role for Mannix's side allegedly threatened her with arrest over morphine possession after visiting her home
- The British Enthusiasm For Concentration Camps: A History of Hypocrisy
Over the past century, the British government has employed these camps during conflicts both at home during World War II, and the exploitation of forced labour, concentration camps have played a recurring role In addition to German nationals — the vast majority of whom were Jews who had fled their homes to avoid Some held political prisoners, including Marian Zyndram-Koscialkowski, former Polish prime minister, As the war continued, some members of parliament became uneasy about the Scottish camps and began asking
- Lebensborn: Birth, Adoption, and Kidnapping under the Third Reich
These homes were conspicuously comfortable. Within the homes, selected women were encouraged to socialise with SS officers. Some relationships developed over time, others were brief. Those deemed suitable were sent to Lebensborn homes or placed with German families. Some German families refused to return adopted children.
- The Brave Hearts of Dutch Resistance: Truus Oversteegen, Freddie Oversteegen, and Hannie Schaft
Aftermath Truus and Freddie survived the war, continuing to contribute to Dutch society through various roles “Hannie Schaft: Het Meisje Met Het Rode Haar” by Hanneke Verbeek 4.
- Alice Cooper and the Most Unexpected Address Book in Rock History
Come on over.” And Cooper would go. The domestic details make the story richer. “I’d put out his cigar, turn out the lights and go home.” If John Lennon was in town, he’d always be hanging out with Harry, so he’d come by too. Some would not survive the decade. Others would retreat from the chaos. And occasionally, about remembering to put out Groucho Marx’s cigar before you go home.
- The Young Pioneers of Leningrad in 1937: Guardians of Soviet Ideals
Schools played a central role in Pioneer activities, integrating the organization's goals with academic Stories from this time highlight the duality of their experience—pride in their role as future builders Reflection on Their Role Today, historians and former Pioneers alike reflect on the organisation with
- Carl Panzram: The Story of a Lifetime of Abuse and Violence
A few years later, while still a teenager on the run from home, he was gang-raped by four hobos. He drifted across the United States, hopping freight trains, breaking into homes, and robbing people. In his confession to this murder, he wrote: "His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him and Panzram was arrested in Baltimore for a Washington, D.C. burglary – stealing a radio and jewelry from the home He claimed to have committed 21 murders and over 1,000 rapes, although some of his confessions may have














