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  • Paul McCartney's Civil Rights Song: Blackbird

    June 11, he went into detail: “Maybe on Pepper we would have sort of worked on it until we could find some The only point where we were thinking of putting anything on it is where it comes back in the end… sort of stops and comes back in… but instead of putting any backing on it, we put a blackbird on it.

  • England, Through The Eyes Of Tony Ray-Jones

    Returning Home: A New Perspective on Britain Despite his growing success in America, Ray-Jones felt an By the mid-1960s, he was increasingly drawn to the idea of documenting his home country, especially its

  • The Blonde Tigress: How Eleanor Jarman Vanished, and Why Her Family Might Have Just Found Her Grave

    The roles were simple. Minneci drove the getaway car. Some reviewers have noted the case rests on a shared nickname, a shared profession, and an absence of The Family Comes to Denver What happened next is the part of the story that almost never happens in cases Colfax Avenue, a former co-worker, a regular customer, anyone with a photograph or a memory, might come "I keep hoping that she got some good out of life," wrote one columnist who covered her disappearance

  • Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts

    seemed light-hearted, they reinforce many of the biases and stereotypes that defined relationships and roles

  • When Aldous Huxley Was Dying And Took LSD in His Final Hours And Had The 'Most Beautiful Death'

    This had nothing to do with the idea that some of his friends put forward, that he wanted to spare me His mind was very active and it seems that this Dilaudid had stirred some new layer which had not often He thought he might be so sick for another three of four weeks, and then he could come back and start It was about nine o'clock, and he went to sleep and I told the doctor to come the next morning. up-setting convulsions towards the end, or some sort of contraction of the lungs, and noises.

  • Clifford Roberts and the Origins of Augusta National and the Masters Tournament

    This distinction has shaped much of the modern reassessment of Roberts’ role in golf history. “He had committeemen to do some of the dirty work for him, like all great leaders.” years Roberts stepped down as chairman of Augusta National in 1976 after more than four decades in the role His health had been deteriorating for some time. National installed a bronze plaque in his honour at the clubhouse entrance, formally recognising his role

  • The Dolly Sisters: The Hungarian Twins Who Gambled With Kings and Broke a Millionaire

    Then it all came apart, in a car crash outside Bordeaux and a length of rope in a Hollywood apartment professionally too, Jenny appearing in 1913's Honeymoon Express alongside Fox and Rosie taking the role He bought and furnished a Paris home for her, covered her gambling losses at the casino while letting The injuries were severe, including a fractured skull, and by some accounts her stomach was forced up Fame built entirely on being looked at rarely comes with an exit plan, and for one Dolly sister, it ran

  • The 1979 Hot Air Balloon Escape from East Germany

    Relatives of escapees could lose their jobs, their homes and in some cases custody of their children. Some recall a television programme about ballooning. Back at home, the sewing fell largely to Günter Wetzel’s wife Petra. They were shaken, exhausted and painfully aware of how close they had come to disaster. Purchases that might once have gone unnoticed were now logged and, in some cases, reported.

  • The 1956 Hungarian Uprising: A Long Fight for Freedom

    1956 Hungarian Uprising marked a significant turning point in the Cold War, as the people of Hungary rose A key revolutionary figure who rose to prominence during this time was General Pál Maléter, a Hungarian However, when the revolution was crushed, it became clear that no direct assistance would come. The uprising remained a powerful symbol of national resistance, and it played a key role in the eventual Shortly after, she agreed to switch roles, becoming a nurse for the Red Cross.

  • The Woman on the Eiffel Tower: The Rise, the Nudes, and the Quiet Disappearance of Fashion's First Supermodel

    In 1936, coming home after a long day to their apartment on the tenth floor, she stepped into the elevator He asked if she'd be willing to model some hats for him. He used to hold my face in his hands like some fragile flower, so gentle, to pose it in the right light The Exit Nobody Saw Coming Lisa Fonssagrives effectively retired from modelling in 1952, after the birth A photographer once asked her to model some hats. She was terribly shy but flattered.

  • The Orphan Train Movement: A Tale of Charity, Controversy, and Lost Childhoods

    Though the intention was to provide these children with new homes and opportunities, in reality, the Although some found loving and supportive families, others were not so fortunate. Moreover, many of the children who rode the orphan trains were not orphans in the strictest sense. In some cases, parents who believed their children would be placed in temporary care were horrified to

  • Tarrare, The 18th-Century French Showman Who Ate Everything From Human Flesh To Live Eels

    What gets lost is how little of it we can actually check, and how much of it comes down to one doctor's he was suspected, but the sources say no record proves what happened. • Where does the story come Accounts of his youth say he was thrown out of the family home as a teenager because feeding him cost He was then released, and by some accounts subjected to a mock execution first. Some retellings say he went after corpses in the morgue too.

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