The Murder Of Maurizio Gucci
A scion of the Italian fashion empire, on the face of it, Maurizio Gucci had it all. He was raised in luxury that would eventually take...
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Portraits Of Bedouins: Photographed By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898
In 1898, American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service, named after G. Eric Matson), took these pictures of Bedouins...
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Victorian Burlesque Dancers And Their Bizarre Costumes
The term “burlesque” means a literary, dramatic, or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of...
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Rebel With a Cause: When Percy Shelley Got Kicked Out Of Oxford
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792, the eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley, a Member of Parliament, wealthy landowner and Justice of...
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Mug Shots From The 1800s And The Criminal Stories That Accompany Them
Mug shot photography revolutionized crime investigations and enabled the police to keep visual records of the arrested criminals....
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Bhagat Singh: A Fighter For Indian Independence
Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) was an Indian revolutionary and socialist who played a significant role in India's struggle for independence...
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Heaven's Gate And The Mass Suicide Of Its 39 Members.
It was one of the strangest and saddest news headlines of 1997. Inside a San Diego mansion, authorities discovered the remains of 39...
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The Lumière Brothers And The Birth Of Film
The Lumière brothers were born in Besançon, France to Claude-Antoine Lumière and Jeanne Joséphine Costille Lumière. They moved to Lyon in...
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Rural Life In England, Photographed By William Morris Grundy In 1855
These photographs, taken by William Morris Grundy, capture the rural life in England during the Victorian era. Born in Birmingham in...
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Will and William West: The Identical Inmates That Showed The Need For Fingerprinting
On May 1, 1903, a man named Will West entered the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. Like any other new prisoner, West was...
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A Thug's Life in 19th Century India
Thuggees, from the Sanskrit word meaning “concealment”, were an organised gang of professional assassins – sometimes described as the...
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The Tragic And Ridiculous Story of the Berberovs, a Soviet Family Who Raised Pet Lions at Home
The Berberov family from Baku of Azerbaijan became famous throughout the Soviet Union in the 1970s, holding two pet lions inside their...
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Remembering The Brief, Prolific Career & Death Of Guitar Master Randy Rhoads
On March 19th, 1982, a joyride went horribly wrong, and the music world lost one of the most explosive players to ever pick up a guitar,...
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Bonkers Reasons For Divorce That Made US Headlines Between 1910 And 1920
This photo collection shows historic newspaper clippings that feature weird and, sometimes, funny reasons for divorce in the US that made...
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The Grim World Of 'The Mamas And The Papas' Singer, John Phillips
John Phillips is best remembered as the catalyst behind one of the most memorable bands of the 1960s, The Mamas and The Papas. It was...
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Street life of Victorian London Shown In John Thompson's Historical Photographs, 1873-1877
These historical photographs were taken from 1873 to 1877 and are part of Street Life in London, a book that was one of the first...
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The Day A 17-Year-Old Marcus Sarjeant Shot Blanks At The Queen In 1981
On 13 June 1981, Marcus Sarjeant joined the crowds for Trooping the Colour, finding a spot near the junction between The Mall and...
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London’s East End. Life Through The Lens Of American Author, Jack London, 1902
In 1902 the American author Jack London visited his namesake city – at the time when it was still the largest in the world. In a book...
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Belles Lettres: The Naked Alphabet (1971)
In 1971, Dutch artists, photographers and graphic designers Ed van der Elsken, Anna Beeke, Pieter Brattinga, Anthony Beeke, and Geert...
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The Two Kashmir Giants Posing With The American Photographer James Ricalton, 1903
The Durbar of 1903 was held in Delhi to celebrate the succession of the British monarch King Edward VII (the great-grandfather of the...
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The My Lai Massacre: One Of America's Darkest Days
My Lai will forever remain a haunting event in America’s conscience and will burn to the surface in any discussion or appraisal of this...
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How Nicholas Winton Saved 664 Children From The Nazis
It was the spring of 1954 and Nicholas Winton was in the middle of an ultimately fruitless campaign for a seat on the borough council of...
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Mugshots And Petty Crimes Victorian Children Were Jailed For In The 1870s
These pictures were taken in the 1870s and originate from Oxford Gaol, a prison that later became HMP Oxford. During this time, children...
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Early Tourists Climbing All Over The Pyramids And The Ruins Of Ancient Egypt, 1860-1930
By the late eighteenth century, Egypt had been reduced to nothing more than an impoverished and neglected corner of the Ottoman Empire,...
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