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- Francis Day: The Starlet Time Forgot
Though their marriage ended, Alexander’s role in shaping her career was undeniable. However, as her star rose, so too did her eccentricities.
- 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
- 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.
- Albert Spaggiari: The Man Who Stole 45m Francs And Was Never Caught
But Albert despised his stepfather and left home at 17, joining the Parachute Regiment just as France If some accounts are to be believed, Spaggiari even brought a meal—complete with wine and pâté—and the
- Carl Akeley: The Taxidermist Who Wrestled Leopards, Got Stomped by Elephants and Saved Gorillas
Life or Death in the African Bush Carl Akeley didn’t just collect animals; he went through some wild His porters, convinced he was dead, left him in the mud, where he lay unconscious for hours before coming
- The Birth of Frankenstein and the Roots of Dracula: The Night Gothic Horror Was Born
Mary remembered reading “some volumes of ghost stories translated from the German,” which left a powerful Polidori initially struggled as well — as Mary noted, “Poor Polidori had some terrible idea about a skull-headed Its moral questions about science and humanity’s role in creation have since inspired countless adaptations
- Ayrton Senna: The Final Day of a Racing Legend
In his home country of Brazil, Senna is celebrated as a national hero, and the Ayrton Senna Foundation
- Recoil In Horror At The Story Of The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix
Leonid Rogozov in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) a few years after his return to Russia Home at Last — Some experts have even floated the idea that future Mars colonists should do the same — just in case.
- 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 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
- 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 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














