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- 1914-1918: The British West Indies Regiment in World War I: A Forgotten Chapter of Valour
Consequently, those affected were deemed unfit for service and had to return home without receiving any
- North Wales Asylum, Denbigh
“So few of the lower class of the Welsh, except in some towns or the precincts of inns, speak English After parking, follow the road down towards the outskirts of town and you will come to the main gates
- Martin Adolf Bormann: A Life Shaped by Ideology, Belief, Flight and Reckoning
His father’s role still cast a long shadow. After questioning, he was returned to his parish. He spoke openly about the crimes of the Third Reich, his father’s role within it, and the dangers of
- Japan on Glass: How Yokohama Photographs by Herbert Geddes Captured Everyday Life 1908 to 1918
In the first decades of the twentieth century, visitors to Japan could already carry home luminous images They were the primary visual record of a journey that few people at home would ever make.
- John Dillinger and the Crown Point Escape of 1934: The Wooden Gun That Changed American Policing
Some accounts claimed that Dillinger’s attorney, Louis Piquett, played a role in planning the breakout Some deputies insisted the gun was real. Frechette played a practical role in his survival.
- The Mummies of Venzone and the Village That Lived With Its Dead
Some of the bodies were transported for study. Limestone, soil chemistry, and the role of chance Later researchers proposed additional factors. The fungus may or may not have played a role. Limestone may or may not have been essential.
- The Last Time Pink Floyd Met Syd Barrett
At some point during the recording session, Barrett, who had gained weight and shaved his head and eyebrows He just, for some incredible reason picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him The only art that lasts is art that comes from people who experience their connections with their fellow
- A Cheat’s Guide to Cheats: Exploring The London Guide and Stranger’s Safeguard Against the Cheats, Swindlers, and Pickpockets (1819)
Schemes and Scams: A Catalogue of Trickery The manual warns of countless schemes, some of which feel through London—pocketing your phone on the Tube or side-eyeing that overly helpful stranger—remember that some stranger first arrives in this overgrown city and finds upon alighting at the inn, that he has still some But if this be the ease with those who have got friends, what is the dread of such as have a home to To supply the place of a living friend, and in some cases to perform the necessary part of one, by directing
- 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
- Teenagers Who Refused to March: The Story of the Edelweiss Pirates in Nazi Germany
Some wore small edelweiss flowers pinned to their jackets as a subtle sign of identity. Some even wrote their own songs mocking the regime. Some even wore Union Jack pins on their lapels. In the Soviet occupation zone, some former Pirates faced even harsher treatment. In some cases they were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms.
- 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.
- 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.














