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  • The Monk That Lived For 82 Years And Died Without Ever Seeing A Woman.

    of a remote monastery high up on Mount Athos, the spiritual peninsula in northern Greece that’s been home

  • The Chilling Lens: Jerry Gay’s Photos of Ted Bundy

    When we think of notorious criminals, it is often their crimes, trials, or mugshots that come to mind These images offer a rare and haunting insight into Bundy’s complex persona, becoming some of the most

  • 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

  • The Birdman of Alcatraz: The Real Story of Robert Stroud

    His home life was miserable. When he was 13, the family fell apart and he left home. Some of his observations were genuinely ahead of their time. Some of them, known as the hole, were completely dark. Stroud's role in the battle depends on who you believe.

  • When Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe Played a Train Station in Manchester, England in 1964

    song in a way that drew attention from both the audience at the station and those watching later at home Some viewers later recalled that her guitar playing stood out in particular. Some responded immediately, while others required time to adjust to a style that did not follow familiar For some, it was simply an unusual and well produced broadcast. developing interest in earlier blues forms, providing opportunities that were sometimes less available at home

  • The Vintage Erotic Photography ofJacques Biederer and Studio Biederer

    The images created by Jacques and Charles Biederer would become some of the earliest examples of what Their studio became known for its unusual themes of domination, corsetry and playful role reversal. In some scenes women disciplined male partners using whips or riding crops. In others models played elaborate roles involving tight lacing, theatrical punishment or playful humiliation The images show a playful exploration of power, costume and role playing long before such themes entered

  • The Murder of Vincent Chin: A Turning Point for Asian American Civil Rights

    police officers who witnessed the attack described how Ebens swung the bat "like he was swinging for a home A Fight for Justice While local government officials and some prominent legal organisations dismissed Journalist Helen Zia and lawyer Liza Chan took on leadership roles in advocating for federal civil rights

  • The Portraiture of William Bullard: Photographing a Community of Colour

    wife, Margaret, a domestic servant and native of Newton, Massachusetts, pose in the parlour of their home after the Civil War from Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, alongside Nipmuc families and some This group may have been entertainers at an Old Home Days celebration, a popular event at the turn of The scholars who spent years researching him are explicit that they're not making him out to be some Posing on the porch of their home on Park Avenue, these Virginia migrants arrived in Massachusetts in

  • Tania Head: The Woman Who Claimed To Be a 9/11 Survivor But Wasn’t Even There

    Tania Head quickly rose to prominence within the network. Welles Crowther, a real-life hero of 9/11, who became known as the "Man in the Red Bandana" for his role By 2021, she had reportedly started a renovation company in her home city and was seen in Terrassa, a

  • The Gunpowder Plot of 1605: How Robert Catesby and Guy Fawkes Tried to Blow Up Parliament

    So he wasn't a loyal soldier turned rebel, as some tellings have it. The only evidence for it comes from the confessions of Fawkes and Thomas Wintour, both taken in the Tower cellar and examined at the Tower was found to have separated into its component parts, which has led some The blast blinded John Grant and injured Catesby and Rookwood, and some of the men took it as a sign Keyes didn't wait for the hangman and jumped from the ladder, but the rope reportedly snapped and he

  • The Violent Life and Even More Violent Death of James "Whitey" Bulger

    In 1956 he was convicted of bank robbery and handed a federal sentence that took him through some of Some of the killings tied to him include: Roger Wheeler, the Oklahoma businessman who owned World Jai Donahue was simply giving him a lift home. Some of it ended up in Britain. in advance he was heading to USP Hazelton in West Virginia, a violent and understaffed lockup, and some

  • Alfred Packer and the Colorado Cannibal Case: Murder, Survival, and One of the West’s Darkest Mysteries

    At some point near Provo, Alfred Packer joined them. He offered to come along as a prospector and guide, claiming he knew the Colorado territory well. Some men accepted the obvious wisdom of waiting out the winter or taking the safer river route. Forensic expert Walter Birkbey measures a femur of one of Packer’s comrades (some would say victims) Fibres found within some skull fractures even suggested that some victims may have had blankets over

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