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- The Strange Life Of Timothy Dexter, Accidental Millionaire and Disappointed With His Own Funeral
Some called him the luckiest man in America. Others called him a fool. Some called it shrewd. Others called it luck. Dexter didn’t care. house has been an inn, a boarding house, and, after a fire in 1988, a meticulously restored private home
- The Man Who Fell to Earth: D.B. Cooper and the Hijacking That Vanished Into Legend
As the plane rose into the sky around 7:40 p.m., several Air Force jets followed at a stealthy distance Theories, Suspects, and Dead Ends Over the years, several suspects rose to notoriety. Perhaps his bones lie scattered in some forgotten corner of the Pacific Northwest. Or maybe, as Larry Carr once suggested, it’ll all come down to someone who “just remembers that odd uncle
- AC/DC’s And Their First Gig In London At The Red Cow in Hammersmith, 1976
At home in Australia, they were already stars. In the UK, they were nobodies. the youngest, hit upon the bright idea of dressing in a schoolboy uniform on stage, not because of some stage at the Red Cow, the audience looked like a random sample of 1976 Britain: a couple of punks, some
- Myrna Darby: The Ziegfeld Beauty Who Died at 21 After a Summer Sunburn
Her first taste of the stage reportedly came in a production of Abie's Irish Rose, the comedy that critics Some accounts also put her in Rosalie, the 1928 Marilyn Miller musical, though she doesn't turn up in After her death, some papers claimed she'd died of a broken heart. In 1956 she hosted a civil rights meeting at her home and had rocks thrown through her windows for it
- At Nuremberg with Göring: The Story of Dr Douglas Kelley and the Minds He Could Not Escape
Some claimed he had been manipulated by his subjects. The Final Collapse On New Year’s Day 1958, Kelley was at home with his wife, children and father. Some remember him as an innovative psychiatrist who confronted a unique historical moment with honesty
- Anne Askew: The Defiant Voice of Protestant Martyrdom in Tudor England
Despite having two children with Kyme, Anne was thrown out of the family home for her Protestant beliefs Foxe reports that of the four martyrs burned together that day at three stakes, at least some had gunpowder Some accounts say that a small barrel of gunpowder was used to speed things up, and a barrel of gunpowder
- John Howard Griffin: The Journalist Who Lived Life on Both Sides of the Colour Line
Some later researchers have questioned aspects of the story. ● Did the Ku Klux Klan attack Griffin during his time there, a marriage that effectively ended when he was reassigned and later returned home Some years later, a bout of spinal malaria left him temporarily paraplegic as well as blind, a period
- Diane Arbus: The Photographer Who Found Beauty Everywhere
but it's hard to find a documentary photographer working today who isn't still answering to her in some after Allan moved to California to chase an acting career that eventually landed him a long-running role retrospective of her work in 1972 that drew enormous crowds and split critics right down the middle, some
- E. J. Bellocq – The Secret Photographer of Storyville’s Decadence
Some were as wealthy as society ladies in the Garden District, and often better dressed. Credit: E. sitting in front of heavy drapes, or standing half-undressed with the kind of casual confidence that comes In some, the women's faces had been scraped out of the emulsion. Bellocq / Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013 Some believe Bellocq collection, after Bellocq's death in 1949, two New Orleans antiques dealers, Larry Borenstein and Al Rose
- The Painful Final Days of Alexander The Great
Cassander's Role: Antipater sent his son Cassander to Babylon with specific instructions on how to poison
- Huey P. Newton: The Revolutionary Mind Behind the Black Panther Party
He was named after Louisiana governor Huey Long, a populist figure admired in some Black Southern households examined these campaigns in his doctoral dissertation, arguing that state repression played a decisive role
- Behind Bars and Behind the Mic: The Story of The Prisonaires, Sun Records’ Most Unlikely Stars
The Prisonaires performing at Tennessee State Penitentiary warden James Edwards’ home, Nashville, Tenn














