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  • Jean-Pierre Laffon, The French Photographer That Captured Seminal Periods in American History

    Gradually, my past memories returned, some of them vividly. December 1, 1967 President Richard Nixon and his wife leave the White House in a helicopter, to their home

  • The Cross-Bones Graveyard: London’s Red-Light Graveyard and the Place of Southwark’s Outcast Dead

    The Winchester Geese and the Bishop’s Rule By the 12th century, Southwark had come under the control It is also a place for the living, a place where people can come together to celebrate their shared humanity

  • Eugene Lazowski and the Truth Behind the Fake Epidemic That Saved a Polish Town

    The Lazowski home bordered that area. As a doctor, he was permitted limited supplies of medicines. In those cases, authorities often responded with shootings and the burning of homes. Those villages were shielded from forced labour conscriptions and from some of the violent crackdowns He continued practising medicine in some form until 2004.

  • Four Irrational Behaviours Voltaire Warned Us About

    His view of philosophy and the role of a philosopher was first and foremost as that of a public citizen never actually doing anything; that Helen, for whom the war was fought but who barely has a walk-on role Some of the greatest books ever written convey a message that you’re simply not interested in. Some are relevant only because of the context in which they were written and the status quo they challenged

  • Cathy Smith: The Woman Who Injected John Belushi with a Speedball, Then Sold Her Confession for $15,000

    limelight — people whose names may not be instantly recognisable but who left an indelible mark on some connections with influential musicians was matched by a charisma that made her a sought-after presence at some Smith was named in his divorce proceedings, cementing her role as a disruptive force in his life. At 33, he was one of the most recognisable comedians in the world, having come to prominence on Saturday Smith had been at the centre of some of the defining cultural moments of the 1960s and 1970s: Levon Helm

  • Operation Entebbe: Codenamed Operation Thunderbolt

    Yonatan's younger brother Benjamin Netanyahu, then 26 and studying at MIT, flew home immediately. required extraordinary planning, accepted enormous risk, and were carried out thousands of miles from home Entebbe brought people home.

  • Mae West: The Woman Who Went to Jail for Free Speech — and Changed Hollywood Forever

    Her film debut came in Night After Night (1932), in a supporting role. West's actual line was 'Why don't you come up some time and see me?' — not the commonly cited 'Come up and see me sometime,' which reverses the emphasis entirely. I made a fortune out of it.” • “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” • “Is that

  • Napoleon’s Curious Relic: The Strange Journey of His Preserved Penis

    and continents, been displayed in museums, bought and sold at auctions, and hidden away in private homes Some suggested that Napoleon had been deliberately poisoned by arsenic, perhaps to silence him before Some believe it was a crude act of medical curiosity, others that it was simply opportunism, doctors hundred years after Napoleon Bonaparte’s death, his legacy continues to stir debate, not only over his role

  • Peter Rachman: The Notorious Slumlord of Notting Hill

    The hammer and sickle hangs over Rachman's home town during the short period before the Nazi invasion Notting Hill and North Kensington were full of large, decaying Victorian houses, some bomb damaged, occupied Crowds of white youths, some numbering in the hundreds, attacked the homes of West Indian residents over Radio 4 documentary examining his legend decades later, The Real Rachman: Lord of the Slums, found that some

  • Scotty Bowers: The Gas Station Attendant Who Claimed to Run Hollywood's Secret Sex Ring

    front, he'd spent nearly 40 years secretly arranging sex, gay, straight and everything between, for some described Bob Hope's visits to actress Barbara Payton lasting a brisk 20 or 30 minutes before Hope headed home Stars was published in 2012, co-written with the help of writer Lionel Friedberg and, according to some Scotty Bowers shortly before his death Death and Legacy Scotty Bowers died at his Laurel Canyon home

  • The Silent Sacrifice of Irena Iłłakowicz: Poland’s Forgotten Spy Heroine

    After Poland re-emerged as a sovereign nation in 1918, the family returned home. The unit, operating in tandem with the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ) and later the Armia Krajowa (Home

  • Fred Hampton: The Rise, Betrayal and Murder of a Black Panther Leader

    Some newspapers repeated the phrase. was a period when millions of Black families left the South in search of industrial work and, with some a young man who had been recruited by the FBI after an arrest, infiltrated the Chicago Panthers and rose On the evening of the 3rd of December, after Hampton led a political education class, he returned home Communications between the FBI and state authorities • Evidence that O’Neal had been paid and rewarded for his role

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