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Sisters sitting in a garden tying roses together, 1911. (Photo by Etheldreda Janet Laing). A lemonade seller in Belgrade in the winter of 1913 Second, the image only really comes to life when And with understanding would come peace. Autochrome and the Printed Page Though Autochrome wasn’t well suited to mass printing, it still found a role

his prison-cropped hair, bell-bottom trousers, neckerchief, and the kind of cocky self-assurance that comes Whether in the slums of Aston, Perry Barr, or Balsall Heath, each gang defended its home ground with Some insisted they were hard workers who never troubled the public.

He promised to come right over with the keys. He never showed. When he was drafted into the French infantry in 1916 he was wounded, gassed, and sent to various rest homes Investigators at the time suspected the real figure was somewhere between 60 and 150, and some estimates

His wife sent him out for dining chairs and he came home with a 4,500-year-old stone circle instead. During the war he used his own home as overflow space for soldiers coming back from the trenches in a

Some of the men who'd fought in the trenches a couple of years earlier assumed it was an aerial bomb, since nobody in New York had ever heard anything like it come from street level. The flyers that turned an accident into a manhunt A postal worker found the proof that this wasn't some The agent found his sister instead, who could only confirm he'd fled the country, and came home empty-handed weights as shrapnel in earlier devices, and simply left the country for Italy that November, never to come

Finding subjects close to home Homer Sykes was born in 1949 and began photographing seriously while still Rather than travel far or seek out dramatic subject matter, he worked close to home. Mum reads a bedtime story; it was their first Christmas away from the family home.

The culinary world is no stranger to the bizarre, but when it comes to “people pies,” things take a delectably Fuller sources specialty tools and ingredients to make his pies come dead-alive, with details such as

Growing up in Troy, Michigan, Aileen’s home life was far from nurturing. Life at home was fraught with instability, as her grandmother struggled with alcoholism. jobs as a maid, Aileen continued to engage in sex work along the highways of Florida, often bringing home The brutality she exhibited in her killings has led some to view her as a cold-blooded murderer, while

Her role as a courier placed her at the intersection of mobility and knowledge. Italian fascist police played a central role, often conducting questioning themselves rather than deferring Some were forced to witness beatings or executions. Her story forces confrontation with uncomfortable truths: the central role of Italian fascists in Nazi

people packed into Opernplatz in central Berlin to watch Nazi students and paramilitary troops burn some The man was distraught, and had come to confess that he was an "Urning," a term used at the time for Conrad Veidt starred, Karl Giese played his character's younger self, and in a supporting role was Anita Warned that another wave of antisemitism was building back home, Hirschfeld extended it indefinitely, More than 20,000 books and manuscripts burned, some of them irreplaceable research going back decades

It was an open secret inside the family, tolerated with some affection, but kept hidden from the public One of the more candid accounts comes from Princess Nora Fugger, a contemporary memoirist who moved in local figure and patron of the city's arts society, well before his exile made the city his permanent home He reportedly joked, with some bitterness, that his wayward brother should be assigned a ballerina as Imperial Crypt alongside most of his relatives, but in the local cemetery at Siezenheim, near the Salzburg home

Republican operative Brad Blakeman disputed that account, telling reporters Stone had exaggerated his role FBI agents arrested Stone in a pre-dawn raid at his Florida home in January 2019, and in November of WLRN: '537 Votes' Explores Florida's Role in the 2000 Election