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  • Anita Berber: A Portrait of Excess and Intrigue in the Roaring Twenties

    Whether this ritual was embellished by gossip it became part of her legend. The pair also performed these dances in nightclubs, enacting the texts in front of live audiences.

  • William Randolph Hearst: The Man Behind Modern Media and the Roots of “Fake News”

    George didn’t just dabble in mining; he was part of three of the biggest gold and silver discoveries He had to pay rent for living in his castle at San Simeon. In 2020, David Fincher directed Mank, starring Gary Oldman as Herman J. According to Hearst Over Hollywood, John and Jacqueline Kennedy stayed at the house for part of their He was interred in the Hearst family mausoleum at the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California

  • Dennis Nilsen: From Quiet Boy to Muswell Hill Murderer

    unremarkable man who blended into everyday London so well that he got away with murder for the best part He later called those first three years "the happiest of my life," and even took part in a ceremonial him with a set of headphone cords back at Melrose Avenue and kept listening to music through the same pair Without a garden, Nilsen turned to boiling body parts in a large cooking pot and flushing what remained In 2020, ITV adapted it into Des, a three part drama starring David Tennant as Nilsen, with Daniel Mays

  • Emmett Till: The 14 Yr Old Boy Who Was Abducted, Tortured, And Lynched In Mississippi In 1955

    In the article, the pair gleefully admitted to murdering the 14-year-old boy and expressed no remorse Merely a few months following Emmett Till's tragic demise, Rosa Parks took a stand by refusing to yield “I asked Miss Rosa Parks [in 1988] why she didn’t go to the back of the bus, given the threat that she The Los Angeles Times put it in perspective, saying, “If Rosa Parks showed the potential of defiance, At the time of her interview, Carolyn Bryant was in her 70s and seemed to feel some remorse for her part

  • The Photographer Who Might Have Been a Serial Killer: The Chilling Case of William Bradford

    The pair crossed paths at a Los Angeles singles bar tellingly named “The Meet Market,” a venue known Instead, it seemed to be part of a wider pattern of control — a desire to command the narrative, even The images varied in tone and setting — some were posed and clearly part of a photo shoot, others candid The lack of identifying features, the varying ages and appearances of the women, and the sheer size of Others barely did — they had attended parties or events in the 1970s and 80s, where Bradford had taken

  • Arthur Barry: The Gentleman Thief Who Dazzled the Jazz Age and Robbed Its Richest with a Smile

    blend in yet sharp enough to be noticed for all the right reasons, he would stroll through lavish lawn parties Crime In an era known for its extravagance, Arthur Barry had a knack not only for getting into the party Barry took the future King Edward VIII on a tour of Manhattan nightclubs Before long, the unlikely pair In 1925, he set his sights on the Plaza Hotel, that marble edifice overlooking Central Park, the kind

  • Jack “Legs” Diamond and the Myth of the Man Who Would Not Die

    His parents had emigrated from Ireland in 1891, part of a working class migration driven by stability One involved dumping liquor barrels overboard near Long Island and paying local children a nickel for Whether bravado or genuine belief, the statement circulated widely and became part of his growing legend The pair remained at the club into the early hours of the morning, drinking and talking as the room gradually

  • 'Major Bob' - Idi Amin's Trusted Advisor And The 'White Rat' of Uganda

    McKenzie, whose light aircraft was blown out of the air by a bomb after Amin had presented him with a parting ‘Amin was always, even in his early days, capable of controlling and exploiting this part of his personality He pretended to be furious, but he had not lost his temper, it was part of a deliberate plan, as was His wife Mary Ssenkatuuka, a Ugandan national who is still in the country, obtained a writ of habeas

  • The Death of Lord Mountbatten: Royal Power, India and the Bomb That Killed Him

    Winston Churchill and the Queen's grandmother Queen Mary blocked the idea flat, and the Queen formally Mountbatten, for his part, carried on a decades-long affair of his own with the French socialite Yola the royal family to visit Mullaghmore, standing at the exact spot where his great-uncle had died as part

  • How Alcoholics Anonymous Started: The Unlikely Story Behind the World's Most Famous Recovery Programme

    Steps, There Were Six Something most people don't know about the Twelve Steps is that they weren't part We prayed to whatever God we thought there was for power to practice these precepts. He prayed for guidance before writing, and in reviewing what he had written and numbering the new steps hours, and a chain of desperate, unlikely people who passed something fragile and important from one pair

  • Fawzia and Fathia of Egypt: Two Royal Sisters, Two Marriages, One Murder

    A bachelor party across Europe before his first wedding reportedly cost him more than a hundred and fifty Not long after settling in California, she converted to Catholicism and took the name Mary Elizabeth, Her ex-husband held onto the Iranian throne for another three decades, surviving in large part because Mara House Luxor: Queen Nazli of Egypt, Her Story, Part III 10.

  • Alan Turing: Code Breaker, Computer Visionary, WW2 Hero, and Persecuted Gay Man That Died A Criminal

    Bletchley and the Bombe When war came in 1939, Turing went straight to Bletchley Park, the Victorian Bletchley was a strange place, part country manor, part makeshift village, with huts hastily built on The working rebuilt bombe now at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park. camp, Bletchley Park was a surprise. Small Wonders: The Quirks and Daily Life of Bletchley Park While Bletchley Park was serious work, it

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