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- Anita Berber: A Portrait of Excess and Intrigue in the Roaring Twenties
One of her most significant roles was in Different from the Others, a groundbreaking film that portrayed morphine she reportedly inhaled chloroform and ether from a bowl stirring the mixture with a white rose
- Amélie Élie: The Woman Who Started a Gang War in Belle Époque Paris
The area was home to artisans and industrial workers, and the combination of overcrowding and poverty She made some money from the attention and then, gradually, the spotlight moved elsewhere.
- Les Apaches: The Dandy Street Gangs Who Terrorised Belle Époque Paris
By the 1870s and 1880s, Paris was swelling with the children of rural migrants who'd come to the city
- Mirin Dajo: The Untold Story of Arnold Gerrit Henskes, the Man Swords Couldn't Kill
He was born Arnold Gerrit Henskes, and for about three strange years he convinced some of Europe's most sceptical doctors that he was, in some sense, invulnerable. The Swords Come Out Dajo's early assistants didn't work out, until he struck up a conversation with a According to de Groot, Dajo was run through as often as fifty times a day during this period, and on some of the internet, but for three strange years just after the Second World War, he stood in front of some
- Victor Hugo's Wild Life: Scandals, Affairs & Secrets
Hugo made Juliette give up her acting career entirely, moved her into a flat near his own home, and reportedly popular accounts, Parisian brothels closed for the day so the women who worked there could attend, some
- 'Colonel' Tom Parker: Elvis's Manager, Con Man, and Maybe a Murderer on the Run
He called the casino floor his “other office,” and he meant it, spending 12 to 14 hours a day there some citizenship or valid papers, was terrified of what might happen if he ever tried to leave the country and come
- Herb Ritts: He Photographed Physical Perfection for 25 Years While Living With a Secret
might be the August 1993 Vanity Fair cover of k.d. lang and Cindy Crawford, shot right after lang had come by the epidemic so people there could document their own lives and experiences, later photographing some
- The Tragic Death Of Virginia Rappe And The Trials Of Fatty Arbuckle
At some point she swapped the plain spelling of her surname, Rapp, for the French-looking Rappe, and He wanted to stay home and recover, and only agreed to drive up to San Francisco after his friend Fred him a rubber cushion to sit on for the ride, a detail that sits awkwardly next to the image of him as some At some point during the afternoon, Rappe was found in obvious distress, and accounts of what actually The other was that the industry now needed its own enforcer, which is exactly the role men like Eddie
- Meet Roland the Farter: Medieval England’s Celebrity Flatulist
Sources vary, some cite 30 acres, others as much as 110, roughly the size of a full hide, in the manor Some sources put it at 30 acres; the fuller Latin record in the Liber Feodorum suggests closer to 110 A Family Business The earliest firm documentation of Roland's role dates to 1159, during the reign of According to Saint Augustine, some people could control their flatulence to the point it could resemble had its own recognised class of entertainers, known as bruigedoire or braigetori, court farters who some
- The Bath School Disaster: America’s Deadliest School Massacre
Some carried wildflowers. The senior class president was rehearsing his valedictory speech. Township in the early 1920s was a quiet patch of farmland ten miles northeast of Lansing, Michigan, home skull with some heavy object. People nearby recognised him as a school board member and assumed he'd come to help. Some Bath residents found the influx unbearable in their grief.
- The Munich Air Disaster: A Tragedy That Shook Football
Spirits were high among the squad as they set off for home. Some players went shopping for gifts, while others engaged in friendly banter. Some discussed the idea of staying overnight in Munich, but the order soon came for them to board once Additionally, eight journalists lost their lives, including former England goalkeeper Frank Swift, Henry Rose
- Warren Jeffs: From Pulpit to Maximum Security Prison.
Some call him a monster who abused them as toddlers. Others still call him a prophet. than 400 of them were expelled from FLDS communities along the Utah Arizona border over the years, some He wasn't the only relative to come forward. records of his own conduct, dictated to his scribe and wife Naomie Jeffs, and prosecutors later read some What Were Some of the More Than 700 Pieces of Evidence Found in Warren Jeffs' Yearning for Zion Temple














