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- Sophia Duleep Singh: The Princess Who Stood Outside a Palace and Demanded the Vote
Some sources suggest she also carried the name Jindan, after her paternal grandmother Maharani Jind Kaur For a time, Sophia embraced the role. The government had stalled on the Conciliation Bill, which would have extended voting rights to some Calls for an inquiry were dismissed by the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
- Weegee: The Lens Behind New York’s Darkest Hours
That's supposedly where the name Weegee came from, a nod to the Ouija board, as if he had some supernatural Weegee Archive/International Center of Photography The Distortion Years and a Late Career Twist Back home At Home on the Streets, and Always on the Job | The Mob Museum
- Alex Bartsch’s Vinyl Sleeve Photography Project Captures London’s Musical Past
"Some [of the locations] were easy to find while others took months of detective work. There were wild goose chases, and some unexpected finds. covers were shot cheaply and quickly, sometimes using locations close to record shops, studios, or homes
- Steve McQueen's Final Months: The Cancer, the Mexican Clinic and the Death of the King of Cool
interview a few months after his diagnosis in which he tried to work out exactly where the exposure had come It's a grim footnote to a life built partly around danger he could see coming.
- Harvey Glatman: The Glamour Girl Slayer's True Crimes
Three of them never made it home. writers rather than any surviving medical file, describe him experimenting with self-strangulation using rope Bridgeford was bound hand and foot and strangled with a rope looped around her neck. Ruth Mercado, the neglected parakeets, and the tightening rope His third confirmed victim, 24-year-old According to the California Supreme Court's own account of the case, Glatman used a single length of rope
- 1970s New York City Through the Lens of Camilo José Vergara
not just the struggles, but also the creativity and determination of the people who called New York home Unlike some photographers who focused on dramatic, one-off moments, Vergara looked for the bigger picture His work lets us see how some places bounced back, while others faded away.
- Operation Anthropoid: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the Price of Resistance
By early 1942, Heydrich was playing a central role in implementing the Final Solution, having chaired Many come to leave flowers. Heydrich’s successors carried on with the Final Solution, but some historians argue that had he lived
- Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and the Bloody End of Bonnie and Clyde
the gang a few weeks after the shootout but was turned in when his identity was discovered, and spent some There was smoke coming from the car, and it looked like it was on fire. He played a minor but notable role in the 1948 U.S.
- Dr. Serge: The Man That Made Millions in the 1920's Transplanting Monkey Testicle Tissue into the Ballsacks of Millionaires
Where did the idea come from? He claimed the procedure restored vitality, sharpened memory and, in some cases, even reduced a patient's Novelty ashtrays appeared in Parisian homes showing monkeys shielding their genitals, printed with a In the 1990s, some researchers speculated that Voronoff's primate experiments might have been an early More soberly, some historians now credit his early, if badly mistaken, work on endocrinology and glandular
- The Kray Twins Myth: Why Britain Still Romanticises Ruthless Gangsters
until the twins’ increasing unpredictability began to alienate their associates that witnesses started coming Some visitors to London’s East End still pose outside the Blind Beggar, pint in hand, as if it were a But it’s worth remembering that legends often come at someone else’s expense. So, while it’s tempting to look back through rose-tinted glasses and imagine them as part of some romantic
- The Hidden Wound: The Tragic Story of Vertus Hardiman and a Medical Betrayal
Radiation, in limited forms, had been used to treat ringworm in some medical circles, but what happened He worked for decades in Los Angeles County’s General Hospital and later in administrative roles.
- Krystyna Skarbek / Christine Granville: One of Britain's Most Fearless WWII Spies
Accounts differ on exactly how she placed, some say she was runner-up, others put her in sixth, but either made, Christine later argued, successfully, that Waem shouldn't be arrested by the British for his role Christine moved in some of the same circles as Ian Fleming, and the two are widely believed to have known each other, with some accounts describing an affair. Why Krystyna Skarbek's Story Still Matters Plenty of women resisted the Third Reich and never made it home













