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  • Destino: When Salvador Dalí Met Walt Disney and the World Got Weird (Eventually)

    Dalí, in his usual performative style, said he had come to Hollywood to meet the three great American It didn’t come together easily, and it didn’t happen in their lifetimes.

  • Lawn Chair Larry: The Truck Driver Who Flew 16,000 Feet on a Garden Chair and 42 Balloons

    He served in the Army in Vietnam instead, then came home and drove trucks. The idea was that he could rise by dumping water and come down by shooting balloons. The plan was to rise slowly on a rope tied to Larry's Jeep, hang about for a bit while the authorities He kept the chair for more than three decades, still rigged with its ropes and its plastic jugs. Not everyone came home.

  • Walter Yeo: The Jutland Sailor Who Became One of the First Plastic Surgery Patients

    He came home convinced Britain needed a specialist unit for men whose faces had been shot, burned or By early 1918 it had around 1,000 beds, and over its life it treated more than 5,000 men, some of whom Those case-note details come largely from that one family history source, so they haven't been widely It comes from the Greek for shaping or moulding. Even the tubed flap itself has a disputed origin. His photographs are now some of the most widely shared images in medical history.

  • The Day Andy Warhol Was Shot By 'The Society for Cutting Up Men' (SCUM)

    members of Warhol's Factory circle, including Edie Sedgwick, Ultra Violet, Viva, Candy Darling, and Nico, rose Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist writer and activist, played a minor role in the Factory's sphere. Warhol never promised to produce the play, but he gave the perpetually broke Solanas a role in his 1967 At some point, Warhol misplaced the manuscript of her play (it later surfaced in a forgotten trunk, Diaz

  • Nellie Bly’s Bold Asylum Exposé: Ten Days in a Madhouse

    the other tenants the house was full of “crazy people” and insisted she couldn't remember where she'd come set foot on the island, proof that the overcrowding and institutional rot she found in 1887 wasn't some Earlier, back at the Temporary Home for Women where Bly first put on her act, a proofreader named Mrs as a Black man in the segregated South for the same reason Bly faked a breakdown on Second Avenue: some her around the world to try to beat the fictional 80 day journey from Jules Verne's novel, and came home

  • 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."

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • Ted Kaczynski and the Harvard Experiments: Did a 1950s Study Create the Unabomber?

    Some experts think it harmed him, but psychiatrists who examined him pointed to many other factors, and Some of those projects gave drugs to people who had no idea what they were taking. The volunteers didn't know in advance what was coming. Here's the honest answer: it probably played some part, but it didn't create him. Kaczynski's problems at school and at home started long before Harvard.

  • Behind The Scenes Of A Clockwork Orange

    Initially, the film was slated to feature The Rolling Stones, with Mick Jagger eager to play the lead role McDowell also cracked some ribs during the filming of the humiliation stage show.

  • The Curious Tradition of Clown Egg Registry: A Peculiar Intersection of Art and Intellectual Property

    The Modern Home of the Clown Egg Collection Today, 26 of Bult's original eggs are housed in the Holy

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