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- George Mallory and the Mystery of Everest: Did He Reach the Summit — and Die on Top of the World?
Some experts think it's possible. Others think it's impossible. Nobody actually knows. The location of the find gave some mountaineers a specific theory: the axe marked the spot where one The broken, frayed end of a climbing rope was still tangled around his body. Mallory's own son John put it simply: "To me the only way you achieve a summit is to come back alive. He never came home.
- The Japanese Pornstar and Ultranationalist That Committed Kamikaze.
over the radio moments before steering the plane into Kodama’s home in Tokyo’s Setagaya Ward.
- Jane Asher's Fancy Dress: The 1983 Costume Book Full of 80s Actors in Homemade Chaos
pulled in well over 100,000 likes, introducing the book to an entirely new audience who'd never have come
- The Soviet Patrol That Turned to Cannibalism in WWII
The Twist Nobody Sees Coming Here's where the story takes a turn that almost never makes it into the
- The USS Indianapolis: The Full Story of the Navy's Worst Disaster at Sea
Flagship of the Fifth Fleet The Indianapolis wasn't some anonymous cargo hauler pressed into a secret Two, possibly three, struck home. The first tore off the bow. Some historians point to Navy records suggesting three separate stations received a distress call that On November 6, he shot himself with a revolver at his home. Some accounts say he was found holding a small toy sailor, while others, including the USS Indianapolis
- The Human Be-In: A Day that Sparked the "Summer of Love"
Dubbed the "Human Be-In", this gathering would come to symbolise the ethos of the 1960s counterculture These flowers, held aloft against the bayonets of National Guardsmen, produced some of the era’s most
- My Good Friend Roosevelt: The Time Young Fidel Castro Wrote to the U.S. President (and Asked for 10 Dollars)
Castro's postscript offering Roosevelt access to iron ore deposits wasn't some random flight of childhood López-Fresquet, “I don't want this trip to be like that of other Latin American leaders who always come
- The Chilean Coup of 1973: The Rise of Pinochet and the Shadows of CIA Involvement
By 1973 truckers, shopkeepers and even some traditionally left-leaning unions were striking against a The Caravan of Death: Executions in the Coup's First Weeks Some of the regime's worst violence happened role, witting or not, in Horman's death. She'd hosted him for tea at her own home just two weeks before his arrest, and once he was in custody When the Home Secretary finally released him on health grounds in 2000, plenty of observers saw that
- 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
- The Rajah from Tipperary (the tale of how an Irish farmer ended up ruling his own kingdom in India)
army- and a proper one with infantry units, artillery and a brace of European officers helping install some George immediately rode back. That's some serious real estate. And what's more? He had the army and the balls to do it. Some say George was seeking death at this point. He decided it was time to return home (this is Ireland in the early 1800's- if he had any idea how bad
- Bettie Page Between Innocence and Transgression: The Long Life of an American Icon
United States postal system containing small black and white photographs of a smiling woman bound with rope After returning home, Page was sexually abused by her father, a fact that emerged later in her life and One image in particular, showing Page gagged and bound in a web of rope from the film Leopard Bikini “We used to laugh at some of the requests that came through the mail, even from judges and lawyers and The resulting Jungle Bettie photographs became some of the most celebrated images of Page’s career.
- Deconstructing Led Zeppelin’s ‘Ramble On’ Track by Track: Guitars, Bass, Drums & Vocals
Jimmy’s riffs were coming fast and furious. Some swear he whacked a shoe sole with his sticks, others say it was a plastic bin lid. Robert Plant's main vocals: At around 1:14 in Ramble On, Jimmy Page’s guitar comes snarling in. He later said that working on Led Zeppelin II was when he finally felt properly at home fronting the













