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  • The 1937 Delahaye Roadster: A Rolling Sculpture of French Elegance

    Ironically, it was advice he may have come to regret. In 1938, the car returned to the Figoni & Falaschi workshop for some practical refinements.

  • The Surreal Sketches of Victor Hugo: When Coffee, Coal, and Genius Met Paper

    The blotchy stains added depth and mystery, seeping into the fibres of the paper like some kind of sepia Some even speculated about his potential as a professional artist. And contemporary viewers have come to appreciate how Hugo’s drawings reflect not just his talent, but

  • Portraits Of Tā Moko Tattooed Māori Women Before The 1907 Tohunga Suppression Act.

    Christian missionaries played a significant role in this cultural shift. sharp decline in the practice, and Māori culture was increasingly viewed as a relic of the past, with some Despite the cultural pressures and legal restrictions, some Māori women continued to receive moko kauae Some of the last women to bear moko kauae were born in the late 19th century and grew up in rural Māori Pere, Rose. "Urbanisation and the Decline of Māori Traditional Practices."

  • Stanislav Petrov: The Man Who Saved The World

    For many years, his role in averting nuclear war remained little known outside a small circle of experts

  • 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

  • From British Courtrooms to the Edge of the World: Life on the Convict Transport Ships and the Birth of Australia

    These convicts, most of whom had never travelled more than a few miles from their home parish, were now Fresh produce was rare, though port stops in Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, and Cape Town allowed for some While some arrangements were consensual or pragmatic, others involved abuse and manipulation. Some were even granted early pardons or conditional liberty in return for their skills. Some convicts went on to become free settlers, farmers, or tradespeople.

  • 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

  • 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

  • Naked As Nature Intended: The Cheeky British Film That Played In London Continuously For Two Years.

    It also lit the fuse on a decade of British exploitation cinema that would eventually produce some of The BBFC chief censor, John Trevelyan, was, according to some accounts, among the founding members of Critics in 1961 were not impressed by this ratio and said so at some length. The audiences came anyway, and kept coming. Some local councils around the country, operating under their own independent authority to override BBFC

  • 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

  • Jacques Mesrine: France's Most Audacious Criminal and His Relentless Game of Cops and Robbers

    Mesrine came home with the Croix de la Valeur Militaire and, by his own later telling, a taste for violence Some of the many faces of Jacques Mesrine The freedom lasted until 28 September 1973, when Commissaire Some of it was revenge, plain and simple. scrawled a message on a wall at Porte de Clignancourt saying Mesrine had fallen in battle there, and some Mesrine on Screen It didn't take long for the cinema to come calling.

  • Eugène-François Vidocq: The Convict Who Became the World's First Detective

    swapped regiments, briefly fought for the Austrians against France and drifted into the armée roulante, a roving Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round recounted some of his antics in 1860, and they're a mix For 21 months he sat in Bicêtre and La Force prisons playing the role of a harmless family man, gaining He died at home in Paris on 11 May, aged 81, having confessed to a priest beforehand.

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