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  • Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the Most Successful Female Sniper in History

    Some named her Lady D eath. To Adolf Hitler 's men, she was "the Russian bitch from hell." bitch from hell," were so desperate to stop her that they blared radio messages: “Lyudmila Pavlichenko, come

  • Outlines of Various Countries – Funny Maps From The 1860s

    Rose. It’s a bit like Harvey coming up with the punchline but Rose doing the comedic timing. wield the pen himself, he was the guy laughing loudest in the corner, probably encouraging artists like Rose Rose is the name most closely associated with these creations. But Rose wasn’t the only artist having a laugh—satirical mapmaking was a small but lively industry.

  • The MOVE Bombing of 1985: The Day Philadelphia Dropped a Bomb on Itself

    By the end of the day, sixty one of those homes would be gone, eleven people would be dead, and Philadelphia Sixty one homes were destroyed across two city blocks. By 1995, inspections found all sixty one homes were not up to code.

  • Harry "Haywire Mac" McClintock and The Dark Side Of 'Big Rock Candy Mountain'

    “When I was fourteen I ran away from home to join the Gentry Bros. The biography at the radio station KFRC where he became established states: “He ran away from home as It was Jack Walsh who hit upon the idea of using I.W.W. parodies, some based on Salvation Army tunes, And he had sung the Wobbly version of "Casey Jones" and some other Joe Hill songs at that meeting. Fiddler Asa “Ace” White and drummer Buck Buck holtz played at some of the 1928 sessions.

  • The Storm, the Stars, and the Sea: John Lennon’s 1980 Sailing Voyage to Bermuda

    Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" had caught his ear and was driving him, as he jokingly complained, "crackers Atlantic Lennon had been living a quieter life with Yoko Ono and their son Sean at their waterfront home Come on up here, big boy. You've got to drive this little puppy 'cause I gotta go to sleep."

  • Vasily Blokhin: The Most Prolific Executioner in History

    Blokhin’s role was unique. While some executions were performed by Senior Lieutenant of State Security Andrei Rubanov, Blokhin was Blokhin was forcibly retired, ostensibly due to poor health, though his role in Stalin’s repressive apparatus He died on 3 February 1955, officially of a heart attack, though some accounts suggest suicide.

  • Belgium’s King Leopold II: The Man Responsible For The Death Of 15 Million People In The Congo

    During the zenith of European imperialism in Africa, a historical period marked by Belgium's prominent role distinguished by its magnitude and severity, surpassing, and even eclipsing, the transgressions committed by some Leopold II's early life offered no indications of his future role as a perpetrator of mass atrocities The expeditions led by Stanley and Livingstone played a pivotal role in facilitating the penetration sense, the establishment and sustenance of colonial control typically necessitate the utilization of some

  • The Women of the Bauhaus: The Artists History Nearly Forgot

    Marianne Brandt She kept at it anyway, and the results became some of the most recognisable objects to come out of the entire Bauhaus. the Bauhaus, Then Gets Written Out of It Almost everything the world knows the Bauhaus looked like comes working for another four decades, moving into printmaking in her sixties, and remains, of everyone to come

  • Carl Emil Pettersson: The Swedish Sailor Shipwrecked on a Cannibal Island Who Became Its King

    But the plantation had declined badly during his absence, and he came home to near-bankruptcy. Pettersson himself left Tabar the same year, intending to follow her home.

  • Zorita: The Snake-Charming Star of American Burlesque

    Some later sources list her birth name as Ada Brockette, but contemporary records and the majority of Several magazines featured staged photographs, and in 1942 Pictorial Movie Fun ran a feature on her home The article framed women like Zorita as morale builders on the home front, reminding soldiers what they identity of the child's father has never been publicly confirmed, though the birth is understood to have come

  • Frankie Yale: The Brooklyn Don Who Taught Capone the Game

    Circa 1890 Under Torrio’s guidance, young Ioele began learning the ropes of extortion, gambling, and Simultaneously, he co-ran a funeral parlour—Uliano & Yale Funeral Home—conveniently located across from He claimed he had come to Chicago for the funeral of Mike Merlo, the recently deceased president of the Another interpretation, supported by some contemporary accounts, suggests a spontaneous shootout sparked At the graveside, 112 mourners dropped roses into the open grave.

  • Nick Cave, Mark E Smith and Shane MacGowan at the NME Pop Summit in 1989

    It was not exactly the spiritual home of delicate pop craftsmanship. Some of my best friends are Irish Catholics.” It was absurd. It was provocative. “I think you do a pretty good job of it in some of your songs.” If you’re paying them a wage tell them to stay at home and behave themselves.” Have you had some sort of bloody revelation about Acid House?” SM: “Hah!

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