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  • My Lai Massacre: The Cover-Up, the Song and the Men Who Stopped It

    . • How did it come out? Elsewhere in the hamlet, other soldiers set fire to homes, killed livestock and destroyed food stores A later inquiry, the Peers Commission, also found evidence that at least 20 women and girls, some as poster alongside one of Haeberle’s photographs, and it became one of the most reproduced images to come

  • The Liberation Of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, A Journey Through Horror

    . ● Around 5:10pm: A small reconnaissance patrol from the 6th Armored Division comes in from the Margaret Bourke-White shot some of the most famous images of the camp for Life magazine, and Vogue's The Boys of Block 66 One of the most remarkable stories to come out of Buchenwald belongs to a Czech Kalina went home to Czechoslovakia and died in 1990 without much fuss being made of him.

  • Richter’s Rocket Bike: When An Engineer Attached Rockets To His Bicycle In 1931

    the famed Avus race track in Berlin, and instead of a roaring sports car or a sleek motorbike, what comes

  • The Menéndez Brothers: A Tragic Tale of Wealth, Abuse, and Murder

    On Aug. 20, 1989, Lyle called 911 to report that his parents had been shot and killed inside the home and Erik lied and said they had been at the movies and found their parents dead when they returned home indictment was returned more than three years after Jose and Kitty Menendez were found slain in their home Some advocates argue that the case should be reconsidered in light of the evolving understanding of trauma

  • Christine and Léa Papin: A Tragic Case of Violence and Social Struggle

    violence On the evening of February 2, 1933, Madame Lancelin and her adult daughter Geneviève returned home When Monsieur Lancelin came home that evening and found he couldn't get through his own front door, he Benjamin-Joseph Logre, argued for some kind of shared contagion between the sisters and floated several Genet's characters are articulate, self-aware and given to elaborate role-playing games with each other

  • A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Daring DIY Stunts–and Keaton’s 5 Rules of Comic Storytelling

    As Keaton recalls in the interview accompanying silent movie fan Don McHoull’s edit of some of his most By the time of his first film role in the 1917 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle vehicle, The Butcher Boy, Keaton methods he steered clear of, from Bob Hope’s wordiness to director Billy Wilder’s deft handling of Some If some serendipitous snafu turned out to be funnier than the intended gag, he put that in instead. Films excerpted at top: Three Ages - Keaton swings from a rope between buildings in one of his earliest

  • Take The Utterly Ridiculous Literacy Test Louisiana Used to Suppress the Black Vote (1964)

    cast by Black voters and killing two Northern officials—commonly referred to as carpetbaggers—who had come

  • Crimes Against Fashion: The Murder Of Maurizio Gucci

    scion, clad in the finery emblematic of his lineage, embarked on his fateful journey from his Milan home was shattered in 1985 when Maurizio embarked on a purported business trip, but decided to not return home

  • The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: The Final Blow in Stalin's Vendetta

    , a Spanish communist and NKVD agent, killed Trotsky with an ice axe on 20 August 1940 at Trotsky's home directly with Stalin's doctrine of socialism in one country, which argued for consolidating communism at home and his wife Frida Kahlo, and the quiet suburb of Coyoacan became the closest thing to a permanent home He spent the rest of his life shuttling between Cuba and the USSR, and came close to going home to Spain

  • Jack the Baboon: He Worked As A Railway Signal Operator For Nine Years And Never Made A Mistake

    Jack's role, however, soon expanded far beyond mere transportation.

  • 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

  • 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

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