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- Dolours and Marian Price: The Belfast Sisters Behind the 1973 Old Bailey Bombing
involvement in the abduction of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten who disappeared from her Belfast home In 1983, she married Irish actor Stephen Rea, who later became internationally known for his role in After a lengthy legal dispute in the United States courts, some recordings were eventually released to Dolours Price died on 23rd January, 2013 at her home in Malahide, County Dublin.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Patterson and the Man-Eaters of Tsavo: The Lions That Stopped a Railway
Patterson himself was not spared suspicion; some believed his arrival had somehow brought the curse. The skins, originally made into rugs in Patterson’s home, were restored and mounted for display. “Tooth Damage and Its Role in the Man-Eating Behaviour of Lions.”
- Grace McDaniels: The Remarkable Life of the “Mule-Faced Woman” Who Made a Living in the Sideshows of America
commonly attributed to Sturge-Weber syndrome, though no verified medical documentation survives, and some Despite the harshness of the sideshow circuit, she carved out a home wherever she went, even if that home was a caravan or a tent pitched in a muddy fairground. Some later accounts complicate that picture considerably. He's said to have stolen from Grace and from her employers to cover gambling debts, and some sources
- The Horrific Crimes of Ilse Koch: The Bitch of Buchenwald
been remembered as the woman who had prisoners skinned for their tattoos so she could turn them into home testified that she picked out men with interesting tattoos, and that lampshades made from skin sat in her home prosecutor, William Denson, described her in court as "no woman in the usual sense but a creature from some Ilse had become increasingly paranoid, convinced that former concentration camp prisoners were coming
- “Kill Me Now”: The Horrific Story of Berlinah Wallace, Mark van Dongen, and the Acid Attack That Led to Euthanasia
This is where the line in the headline comes from. On 22 November 2016 he was discharged from Southmead to a care home in Gloucester. Kees offered to take him home instead.
- Elvis Presley's Funeral: The Body-Snatching Plot Nobody Talks About
been Elvis at all, but a wax dummy rigged with hidden fans and dry ice to explain the beads of sweat some Elvis's cousin Billy Mann was reportedly paid eighteen thousand dollars to smuggle a camera past funeral home Vernon Presley, Elvis's father and the executor of his estate, had no legal grounds yet to bring his son home Here's where the story gets genuinely murky, and where that legal technicality from Forest Hill comes
- Autochrome Lumière: When the World First Turned to Colour in the Early 1900s
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
- The Real Papillon: How Much of Henri Charriere's Prison Escape Was a Lie?
He became a safecracker and small time thief, and by some accounts worked as a pimp, a detail he spent His life sentence back home had never been overturned. Papillon Epingle (“Butterfly Pinned”), and researchers found no record of Charriere serving time in some Some of his most dramatic episodes appear to belong to other people entirely. He also took a small acting role in a 1970 French film.
- Cecil Chubb: The Guy That Bought Stonehenge But His Wife Hated It So He Gave It Away
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
- 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 Wall Street Bombing of 1920: America’s Unsolved Mystery in the Heart of Finance
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
- Homer Sykes And The Ordinary Britain He Paid Attention To
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.














