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  • The Good Maharaja: How a Princely State in India Became a Refuge for Polish Children During the Second World War

    Along with millions of other Polish civilians in 1940, his family was forcibly removed from their home mother, brother, grandparents, aunt, and our nanny,” Scazighino recalled many decades later from his home Those who survived the gulags and labour camps were released, but with nowhere to go and no home to return With assistance from the Polish Armed Forces, some were evacuated through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan It was designed as a home, carefully planned with dignity and cultural preservation in mind.

  • Marilyn Monroe’s Last Possessions: The Story Her Artefacts Still Tell

    The brown cabinet, removed by Joe DiMaggio several years later, was eventually brought to Melson’s home Some items were unassuming yet profoundly revealing.

  • The Cat’s Meat Man: London’s Forgotten Street Trader

    Nobody agrees on exactly how the cat's meat man's cry sounded once someone tried to write it down, but some The now-standard claim that those traders were feeding some 300,000 cats almost certainly doesn't come Some cats'-meat sellers were born into it and grew up learning a parent's route before taking it over Some period slang dictionaries record "cat's meat shop" as separate slang for a cheap eating house, and recent research reads it as a literal cats'-meat trade, but the honest answer is that both readings have some

  • The Final Day of the Romanov Family: What Really Happened in That Cellar

    involvement in the war had led to enormous casualties, estimated at over two million by early 1917, while the home While some within the new regime favoured exile or a public trial, others feared that the Romanovs would However, the family was still able to spend time in the garden and maintain some semblance of routine I took twelve revolvers from the sentries as well as from some other of the guards and brought them to

  • Project X-Ray: The Dentist, the Bats, and the Bomb That Burned Down America's Own Base

    fisherman turned Marine; and two high school lab assistants named Jack Couffer and Harry Fletcher, who had come With no bats to photograph, Signal Corps photographers asked if the team could stage some additional Some had never woken from hibernation. Others had flown into the desert and were never found.

  • Oskar Dirlewanger: The SS Officer Whose Own Side Found Him Too Brutal

    Warsaw 1944: The Worst Week in the War In August 1944, the Polish Home Army launched the Warsaw Uprising Some SS officers described the brigade as undisciplined and beyond control. by historians as the most notorious Waffen-SS unit in both Poland and Belarus, and is considered by some

  • Bessie Coleman the first African American, and the first Native American woman pilot

    Embracing her role as a trailblazer, Coleman embarked on a nationwide tour, imparting flight instruction Assuming the role of pilot, Wills guided the aircraft while Coleman occupied the passenger seat.

  • Ettore Bugatti: A Life of Art, Engineering, and Unyielding Ambition

    Bugatti, a factory that would go on to produce some of the most remarkable cars in history. This included some of the most prestigious events, such as the Targa Florio in Sicily, which was among Jean was an immensely talented engineer and designer in his own right, responsible for some of the most Without Jean, Bugatti’s future seemed uncertain, and Ettore struggled to come to terms with the loss.

  • 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

  • The Profumo Affair: The Sex, Spies and Scandal That Brought Down a Government

    scathing summing up that all but told the jury how to rule, Ward went quiet and withdrawn on the ride home

  • Gary Heidnik: The Basement Horror That Inspired 'The Silence of the Lambs'

    Some sources say schizophrenia, others say schizoid personality disorder. What he did next has been reported different ways across different accounts, some describing an oven Heidnik's name has come up again recently for an unrelated reason. Some outlets describe it as demolished, others as still standing under different ownership, and it's Some say he was diagnosed with schizophrenia during his Army discharge in 1962, others cite schizoid

  • Beslan School Siege: The Story Russia Still Struggles To Tell

    Some people thought at first it was a training exercise by special forces. Parents, grandparents and even younger siblings had come to watch. Some 50 people managed to flee. A handful hid in the boiler room. A hole blew out in one wall, and some hostages tried to run. Militants opened fire. Some want the remains of the gym preserved forever as a warning.

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