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  • Meet Boston Corbett, The Self-Castrated Hat Maker Who Killed Abraham Lincoln's Assassin, John Wilkes Booth

    He went home, took a pair of scissors, snipped an incision under his scrotum, and removed his testicles Corbett spent some time recuperating at a hospital in Annapolis, then rejoined his regiment. Concluding that their target was never coming out, a federal investigator named Everton Conger took a While some viewed him as a hero, others believed he had deprived the nation of the opportunity to learn But an investigation shed some doubt on the claim.

  • The Curious Rise and Fall of Dickens World: Kent’s Victorian Theme Park Experiment

    The Haunted House of 1859 was originally intended to be Ebenezer Scrooge's home, before being rebranded melodrama of Victorian stagecraft, theatricality and Dickens' own storytelling instincts finding a natural home For some, Dickens World was a curiously British oddity, ambitious but flawed, educational but disjointed

  • Metal in Soviet Russia: Monsters of Rock 1991

    They chose to build a line-up that featured some of the most high-profile and electrifying names in heavy Some arrived barefoot, others climbed fences. Closing the night was AC/DC, whose set became an ecstatic culmination of everything that had come before now American rock played freely on state and private radio, and MTV broadcasts beamed into Russian homes

  • The Macabre Journey of Eva Perón's Corpse: Stolen, Stabbed, Hidden in Milan, and Kept on a Dining Room Table

    The body was exhumed and taken to Juan Perón's home in Madrid, Spain, where he kept it on the dining Eva's hair daily, and Juan even encouraged her to lie beside Eva, in the hope that she might absorb some Eva's body had come back with them to Argentina in 1974, at the insistence of the left-wing Montoneros In many homes, the image of Evita is on the wall next to the Virgin." In many homes, the image of Evita is on the wall next to the Virgin."

  • Don Simpson: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Destructive Producer

    But offscreen, his life was a whirlwind of drugs, insecurities, and jaw-dropping antics, some laughably Some of the women who spent time with him left bloodied and bruised; some were hospitalised. During the writing of Top Gun, Simpson barricaded himself in his home, convinced the mafia was after UPI Archives: Body found at movie producer's home, August 1995. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/08/ 17/Body-found-at-movie-producers-home/8742808632000/ 4.

  • The Short Life and Internet Fame of Phyllis Stalnaker, A 'Weedhead Tramp'

    Marriage and a quiet domestic life At some point after her arrest, Phyllis married James Harris. It really took off the following October, when a journalist covering the museum's search for a new home San Diego Police Museum Seeks a New Home — San Diego CityBeat 3. Kolender v.

  • L.A. Woman: Why The Doors’ 1971 Raw, Ragged and Final Triumph is Their True Masterpiece

    “It was as if we had come full circle,” drummer John Densmore later wrote. The Doors had been a band in flux for some time. For some time, the band had been chafing under his strict approach. That “L’America” found a home on L.A. Woman is telling. “There were some mistakes,” Densmore told Modern Drummer in 2010, “but it had the feel.

  • The Man Behind The Succulent Chinese Meal That Demonstrates Democracy Manifest

    including Johann Kelmut Karlson and Cecil Gerry Edwards, before settling into the identity the world would come believed he was an international criminal, "which I'm obviously not," and that he'd assumed they were coming Karlson turned out to have brushed up against some of the most notorious names in Australian crime history That year's intake put Karlson's outburst in some unlikely company, alongside Missy Higgins' "Scar,"

  • Children Behind Bars: Mugshots from Oxford Gaol in the 1870s

    reformatory school aimed to “correct” his behaviour through strict discipline and isolation from his home Then there was 12-year-old Rose Halliday, who was imprisoned for 10 days on the charge of “false pretences Yet, despite her tender age, Rose was sent to gaol—her mugshot capturing a frightened child thrown into institutions were meant to rehabilitate young offenders by removing them from the “bad influences” of their homes man had been in and out of prison, but on this occasion, he was sentenced to 2 months for stealing some

  • The Porn King of Soho: The Life and Legacy of Paul Raymond

    , a name synonymous with the glitzy yet seedy world of Soho’s entertainment scene, was a figure who rose hardships, Maud was resolute, even forbidding the sensationalist News of the World from entering their home In 1979, Raymond expanded into the burgeoning home video market with the launch of the Electric Blue

  • Cheers to François Brunery and his Penchant for Painting Portraits of Pissed Priests

    Brunery’s works were immensely popular during his lifetime, with collectors snapping them up for their homes

  • Master of Puppets: The Story Behind Metallica’s Thrash Metal Masterpiece

    Heroes,” and “Damage, Inc.” were pugnacious bursts of speed, while “Master of Puppets” and “Welcome Home “That song has some of my favourite lyrics that James has written,” Ulrich said. “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” was inspired by Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , a haunting The title track tackled drug addiction with some of Hetfield’s sharpest lines: “Pain, monopoly / Ritual It eventually peaked at No. 29, boosted by Metallica’s role as the opening act on Ozzy Osbourne’s U.S

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