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- The Story of ‘Mercedes Benz’, Janis Joplin's Final Recording
Four People, Some Napkins and a Bar in Port Chester On Saturday 8 August 1970, Joplin and her Full Tilt At some point she rang McClure in San Francisco to ask whether he minded. coming back to the song. A mock prayer for material wealth had delivered some. FAQ How long is ‘Mercedes Benz’? Ragged and Final Triumph is Their True Masterpiece Kurt Cobain's Final Days: What Happened Between Rome
- The Death of Nancy Spungen and the Final Hours of Sid Vicious
Some time between six and seven on the morning of 12 October 1978, a five-inch folding knife went into There's Trouble in Room 100 At some point between 9.30 and 10am, desk clerk Herman Ramos took a call Some at the Chelsea claimed a man named Michael was later seen flashing a wad of notes held together They're still on T-shirts and bedroom walls as punk's Romeo and Juliet. The Final Days of Sid Vicious (The Death of a Punk) Kurt Cobain's Final Days: What Happened Between Rome
- Mary Surratt and the Lincoln Assassination: Her Involvement, Legacy and Execution
On 7 July 1865, four people were hanged at the Washington Arsenal for their roles in the conspiracy to , where she'd allegedly told tenant John Lloyd to have firearms and whiskey ready for men who would come The ropes went around their necks. Mary's rope had five loops, making it a more powerful and quicker noose than the standard three-loop From there he travelled to England and then to Rome, where he enlisted in the Papal Zouaves under the
- The Abernathy Brothers: The Wildly True Adventures of America’s Youngest Trailblazers
At one point, a note arrived at the Abernathy home scrawled on brown paper with a lead-tipped bullet, By the time the boys rode home they were minor celebrities, and their father had a clearer sense of what Bud and Temple arrived in New York, met Roosevelt, and rode in the parade. They completed the journey, turned around, and came home. Our piece on Juan Romero, the teenage busboy who cradled Robert F.
- Daryl Davis and the Power of Conversation: How One Musician Helped 200 Klansmen Walk Away from Hate
He shared meals, visited homes, and welcomed them into his own life. A Collection of Robes and Redemption As these men left the Klan, many chose to give Davis their robes The robes in his home are proof. It hasn't come out yet." He goes, "Well, that's stupid!" I said, "Well, duh. His robe was the first robe I ever got."
- Lillian La France: The Girl Who Flirts With Death
what happened to her memory decades later, when an experimental filmmaker tracked down La France's own home she was always alone, dreaming of adventures, imagining herself riding a pony out west and chasing some In 1916, at twenty two, she left home for good and joined a traveling carnival. She also rode hands free at full throttle, and in her own words summed up the whole appeal simply: it was the thrill of risking her life that made her take up drome riding in the first place, and she was
- The Greensboro Massacre: 88 Seconds That Left Five Dead and a City Covering Up
Outside the Morningside Homes public housing estate in Greensboro, North Carolina. How many died? in on meetings where the attack was allegedly discussed, and it was later claimed he'd helped supply some The two sides traded insults and some marchers kicked and hit the cars with sticks. He'd come to support the march and was shot in the head. He died two days later. It found that officers knew the Klan and Nazis were coming armed and chose not to act, and described
- When John Lennon met Paul McCartney. July the 6th, 1957.
The Man Who Made It Happen The person responsible for the introduction was Ivan Vaughan, and his role Ivan had been telling Paul about the Quarrymen and suggested he come to the fete. Paul decided to come. The song the Quarrymen were playing as he walked in was "Come Go with Me" by the Del-Vikings, a recent Lennon's conclusion, by the time he got home, was that the asset outweighed the threat.
- Taylor Camp: Inside Hawaii's Burned-Down Hippie Treehouse Village
land at the very end of the road in Haena, on Kauai's north shore, and drawn up plans for a modernist home Campers used the salvaged lumber to build multilevel treehouses connected by rope bridges, with old veranda pulled in surfers, runaway teenagers, young families, and a steady stream of Vietnam veterans who'd come home to a country that didn't especially want them back. 1976 map of the camp, and the material also became the basis of a 2010 documentary directed by Margo Romero
- Hans Eijkelboom: The Artist Who Photographs Behaviour
Masculinity as a visual placeholder With My Family also examines the symbolic role of the father within By stepping into that position, Eijkelboom reduces the paternal figure to a visual role rather than a Whether photographing strangers in their homes or crowds on the street, he shows how easily individuals step into expected roles. The discomfort they produce comes not from drama, but from recognition.
- Britain's Greatest Eccentrics: The Bizarre, the Brilliant, and the Completely Unhinged
They rode bears into dinner parties. They ate the heart of a dead king. The home doubled as both laboratory and menagerie. Robert "Romeo" Coates (1772-1848): The Worst Actor in England Robert Coates was a wealthy amateur actor Romeo Coates He favoured Romeo above all other roles and wore for the part a spangled cloak, a large When he died a particularly effective death as Romeo, he would sometimes bow to the audience and die
- The Starkweather-Fugate Crime Spree: A Dark Chapter in American History
Charles Raymond Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate remain infamous for their roles in a 1958 spree of Clara returned home first and was also stabbed to death. Upon Lauer Ward's return home that evening, Starkweather fatally shot him. Just then, Natrona County Sheriff's Deputy William Romer appeared on the scene. Starkweather fled in a car and engaged in a high-speed chase with three officers—Romer, Douglas Police














