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Franz Reichelt; The Man That Plunged To His Death From The Eiffel Tower Testing His Homemade Flying Suit.
"Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all, Is never to feel the burning light." Franz...
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Otto Skorzeny: Hitler's "Most Dangerous Man in Europe" Becomes an Irish Farmer
Otto Skorzeny, a man once hailed as Hitler's favourite Nazi commando and infamously known as "the most dangerous man in Europe", became...
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The Chilling Tale of Pedro Lopez, The Monster of the Andes
Pedro Lopez, one of the most notorious serial killers in history, left a trail of devastation across South America in the 1970s and...
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Mark Essex: The New Orleans Sniper
Mark James Robert Essex, known as the New Orleans sniper, led a life marked by transformation, radicalisation, and ultimately, violence....
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Jack the Baboon: He Worked As A Railway Signal Operator For Nine Years And Never Made A Mistake
Railway history may not be the first thing people are interested in reading, but few railway stories are as extraordinary and...
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The Unmistakable Style of Inge Morath, One of Magnum’s First Female Photographers
Inge Morath, a trailblazer in the world of photography and one of Magnum Photos’ first female members, was renowned for her distinctive...
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Meet Boston Corbett, The Self-Castrated Hat Maker Who Killed Abraham Lincoln's Assassin, John Wilkes Booth
Boston Corbett, born Thomas P. Corbett, led a life marked by extreme religious fervour, personal tragedy, and an unyielding sense of...
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Eunice Spry: The Foster Mother That Got Away With Abusing Children In Her Care For 20 years.
Eunice Spry, born on April 28, 1944, is a British woman from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, whose name became synonymous with extreme...
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Dalia Dippolito, The Woman Who Accidently 'Hired' An Undercover Cop To Kill Her Husband
In the summer of 2009, a seemingly ordinary marital drama in Boynton Beach, Florida, turned into a sensational crime story when Dalia...
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The 10 Lysenko Brothers, All Sent To War And All Returned Home To Their Mother
The story of the Lysenko brothers is one that stands out in the annals of history. Ten brothers, hailing from a small village in Eastern...
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The Munich Massacre: A Photographic Examination of the 1972 Olympic Tragedy
The 1972 Munich Olympics, a global celebration of athletic prowess and unity, was tragically overshadowed by a brutal act of terrorism...
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Heroism in the Pacific: John F. Kennedy and the PT-109 Rescue Mission
John F. Kennedy, born into the prominent Kennedy family, faced significant health challenges from a young age. Despite a chronically bad...
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George Harrison and Friends, and their Concert for Bangladesh: A Musical Response to a Humanitarian Crisis
In the early 1970s, the world witnessed a humanitarian disaster unfolding in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, amid the Bangladesh...
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A Quick Rundown Of The Great Train Robbery, 1963
On the evening of Thursday, August 8, 1963, a Travelling Post Office train departed from Glasgow bound for Euston. The train's staff were...
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Starting In The 1890s, People Tried To Domesticate Zebras.
The idea of taming zebras has long been an alluring yet frustrating endeavour for adventurers, naturalists, and colonisers alike. These...
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The Metropolitan Sepulchre: Thomas Wilson’s Grand Plan for London’s Dead
In Georgian and Victorian London, finding a place to live was a challenge for many, with the city’s rapid urbanisation leading to severe...
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Sunderland Museum’s Sessions for the Blind: A Century-Old Initiative of Inclusion
In 1913, Sunderland Museum witnessed the beginning of a truly pioneering initiative that reflected not only the progressive mindset of...
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The Sensual World of Joseph Apoux: Unveiling the 'Alphabet Érotique'
When it comes to the interplay between art and sensuality, few artists have blended the two as uniquely as Joseph Apoux. Born in 1846,...
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The 'Monowheel' - An Invention That Didn't Catch On
From the 1860s to the 1930s, the monowheel, also known as a monocycle, was often proposed as a viable new mode of transportation. Various...
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A Mad Day Out With Don McCullin And The Beatles
During the recording of "The White Album" on July 28, 1968, the Beatles dedicated the day to racing around London for a photoshoot,...
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The Porn King of Soho: The Life and Legacy of Paul Raymond
Paul Raymond, a name synonymous with the glitzy yet seedy world of Soho’s entertainment scene, was a figure who rose from humble...
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Opium, Laudanum And The Other Drugs That Played A Big Part In Victorian Life.
"There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of...
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Antonin Personnaz’s Autochrome Of 1907-1914 France
Art collector Antonin Personnaz captured the essence of France’s Oise Valley through a series of autochrome photographs taken between...
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The Short Life and Internet Fame of Phyllis Stalnaker, A 'Weedhead Tramp'
Phyllis Stalnaker appears on the internet from time to time, but there is limited information available about her personal life. It is...
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