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On 7 April 1926, a slight, grey-haired Irishwoman in a black shawl fired a revolver at Benito Mussolini, the strutting, bare-chested...

Jacques Mesrine wasn’t just any criminal—he was a one-man crime wave, a walking, talking, bank-robbing spectacle who made law enforcement...

Emma Goldman was never one to shy away from controversy. A fierce advocate for women’s rights, free speech, and anarchism, she dedicated...

In the grand tradition of over-the-top adventurers who defied both death and common sense, few figures stand as tall—literally and...

It is often said that war brings out the best and worst in humanity. But in the case of Corporal Wojtek, it also brought out the best in...

It is an amusing yet historically revealing episode that, in 1940, a young Fidel Castro—yes, that Fidel Castro—decided to write a letter...

Adolph Coors III was a low-key and well-liked beer executive. His father, Adolph Coors Jr., was a hard taskmaster, who ultimately gave...

New York City in the 1970s was a city on the edge—financially broke, crime-ridden, and in many ways, abandoned to its own chaos. Entire...

An artist's studio is a crucial space. Our creative studios may sometimes appear cluttered or chaotic, yet this is where remarkable...

Lepa Radic stands still as a German official prepares the noose around her neck just before her execution in Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia on...

In the late 1950s, Władziu Valentino Liberace, the flamboyant American pianist and entertainer known simply as “Liberace,” was at the...

On the night of 24 May 1911, in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, Laura Nelson and her teenage son, L. D. Nelson, were dragged from their jail...

On 6 February 1958, the world of football was left in mourning as British European Airways Flight 609 crashed on its third take-off...

Tourists take tea atop the Great Pyramid. 1938. By the mid-19th century, Egypt had become one of the world’s most fascinating...

It was a cold, clear night on 16 September 1979, when two East German families—the Strelzyks and the Wetzels—stood in a secluded forest...

There are few figures in organised crime as infamous, feared, and mythologised as Griselda Blanco. Depending on who you ask, she was...

Waylon Jennings (left) in the last photo of Buddy Holly. The 1950s had been a golden era for rock and roll, filled with energetic...