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- Mickey Cohen: From Newsboy to Kingpin of Los Angeles
In 1949, a bomb was detonated at his luxurious Brentwood home, prompting him to transform the residence
- Charles Harrelson: The Hitman Father of Woody Harrelson
Houston: A Criminal in the Making Charles Harrelson was born on 23 July 1938 in Lovelady, Texas, though some Have Gun, Will Travel At some point in the early 1960s, Charles Harrelson made a decision that would By the standards of what would come later, it was small money. Woody Harrelson was seven years old when his father vanished from the family home in Houston in 1968. Charles Harrelson died of a heart attack at ADX Florence on 15 March 2007, aged 68, having never come
- A Very Decadent Rolling Stones Summer In Villa Nellcôte
The flow to which Taylor refers was the fragrant drifting in and out of some of the era's most interesting "Sometimes turmoil and trouble in art make it come out good," says Marshall Chess.
- The Day the Tide Turned in Liberia: Samuel Doe, a Beach Firing Squad, and the Fall of Americo-Liberian Rule
By the time the sun rose over Monrovia, President William R. Some say he was asleep at his desk, others that he was taken from his bed. Some were curious. Others were vindictive. Some in the crowd jeered. Others wept. Some accounts say Johnson appeared to be almost enjoying the moment, as if it were some twisted piece
- The Images of John Thomson, the First Western Photographer to Travel Widely Through China (1870s)
Lewis Carroll), who focused on highly stylised portraits of their social circles in the safety of their homes These volumes contained some of the earliest and richest photographic records of Chinese landscapes,
- Beheaded by the Nazis at Age 21, Sophie Scholl Died for Leading Anti-War Student Resistance
Scholl was a member of the White Rose, a small, anonymous group of mostly university students who hoped As Jud Newborn and Annette Dumbach explained in their book, Sophie Scholl and the White Rose , Sophie When they returned home in November, they were emboldened, and the White Rose increased the number of When the Germans admitted their loss to the Soviets in February of 1943, some White Rose members went They — some accounts say just Sophie — went to a balcony that overlooked one of the university’s main
- The Language of Flowers: A Victorian Secret
Some meanings still resonate today. A red rose, unsurprisingly, stood for love. But the details matter: a deep red rose? That meant bashful shame. Lily of the Valley – Return of Happiness Yellow Jasmine – Grace and Elegance Pansy – Thoughts White Rose Some verses were original, penned by lesser-known writers like Miss J. A. Fletcher or C. A. A sprig of forget-me-nots might come with a verse about memory and devotion.
- Sam Giancana: The Madman of Chicago Who Knew Too Much
Local bosses like Eddie Jones and Theodore Roe resisted fiercely. Roe even killed one of Giancana's made men in self-defence. It sealed his fate: Roe was murdered in 1952, clearing the path for the Outfit to run the lucrative South Roselli, no fool, roped in two old associates: Santo Trafficante Jr., who once ruled the Tampa-to-Havana They set up home in The Island, a working-class pocket of Chicago, before upgrading to a comfortable
- 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 1916 Waco Horror: A Barbaric Chapter in American History
The Fryer siblings, a young man and his teenage sister, trudged home across their family’s two-hundred-acre That night, sheriff's deputies traveled to Washington's home, finding him in front of the house wearing The crowd almost prevented some jurors from entering. Some brought their children to watch, describing the event as a lesson in justice. Although some Waco residents sent the cards to out-of-town relatives, several prominent local citizens
- The Men Who Built the Sky: The Untold Story of the Empire State Building’s Fearless Workers
heat steel rivets until they glowed red-hot, toss them across beams with metal tongs, and hammer them home The Empire State Building officially opened on 1 May 1931, some 45 days ahead of schedule.
- The Killing of Derrick Robie: Eric Smith and the Juvenile Crime That Shook America
Derrick Robie was on his way to a local summer camp programme in a park just a few streets from his home Smith then left the scene and returned home. They argued that some actions were simply too heinous to ever be forgiven or released. While some argue that Smith's release was a reasonable recognition of his age at the time of the crime














