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The Bath School Disaster: America’s Deadliest School Massacre
“Criminals are made, not born.” That was the message painted on a charred wooden sign left behind on the fence of Andrew Kehoe’s farm in...
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Fela Kuti: The Revolutionary Force Behind Afrobeat and Musical Resistance
Few figures loom as defiantly or as colourfully in the history of music as Fela Anikulapo Kuti. His name evokes not just a sound, but a...
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Seeing Through the Blur: Aldous Huxley’s Vision, Psychedelics, and the Art of Perception
When you think of Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World , The Doors of Perception , and one of the most articulate advocates for...
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The 1937 Delahaye Roadster: A Rolling Sculpture of French Elegance
In the golden era of French coachbuilding, when cars were as much objets d’art as they were machines, one creation stood above the rest...
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The Hidden Wound: The Tragic Story of Vertus Hardiman and a Medical Betrayal
In a town where everyone knew your name, few ever knew the truth about Vertus Hardiman. He was always sharply dressed, polite, and...
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John Bonham’s Drumming Genius: And His 13 Minute Live Solo During Moby Dick
There are rock drummers, and then there’s John Bonham. The man would hit drums like they owned him money. Few musicians have so...
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The Killing of Derrick Robie: Eric Smith and the Juvenile Crime That Shook America
On 2 August 1993, in the sleepy village of Savona, New York, an act of violence so shocking in its brutality would forever alter the...
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Zorita: The Snake-Charming Star of American Burlesque
Zorita was more than a performer. She was an emblem of the rebellious, sensuous, and often subversive energy that defined American...
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Through Paul Strand’s Lens: Capturing the Soul of Mexico in 1932
In 1932, Paul Strand arrived in Mexico at a pivotal moment in the country’s modern history. He did not come as a casual tourist or...
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The Chilling Case of Tamara Samsonova: Russia’s Granny Ripper
In the quiet suburbs of St Petersburg, the image of a shawl-wrapped babushka rarely raises suspicion. Yet behind the door of one...
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From British Courtrooms to the Edge of the World: Life on the Convict Transport Ships and the Birth of Australia
It’s hard to truly grasp what it must have felt like to stand on the deck of a wooden convict transport ship in May 1787, looking back at...
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Daryl Davis and the Power of Conversation: How One Musician Helped 200 Klansmen Walk Away from Hate
Most people know Daryl Davis as a talented blues pianist who has played with legends like Chuck Berry and B B King. But off stage, Davis...
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Left for Dead on Everest The Astonishing Survival of Beck Weathers
On the morning of 11 May 1996, Beck Weathers was officially declared dead. High on the slopes of Mount Everest, in freezing temperatures...
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Alex Bartsch’s Vinyl Sleeve Photography Project Captures London’s Musical Past
This series reunites vintage album covers with the locations where their original photos were taken. Photographed by Alex Bartsch , the...
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Velma Barfield: America’s First Woman Executed by Lethal Injection
In 1969, a North Carolina home went up in flames. Inside, Thomas Burke, husband to Velma Barfield, was found dead. At first, no one...
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Operation Paperclip: America’s Harvest of Nazi Science
In the sweltering summer of 1945, as the embers of World War II cooled and the ruins of Europe still smouldered, a quiet convoy wound its...
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The Rio Lens of José Medeiros: Capturing the Soul of Brazil
In the quiet, sun-drenched city of Teresina, in Brazil’s Nordeste region, José Medeiros was born in 1921. By the age of twelve, he was...
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A Brief Indulgent History of Chocolate: Who We Have to Thank (and Possibly Blame)
Picture this: you’re curled up on the sofa after a long day, nursing a bar of chocolate like it’s the last form of pleasure available to...
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Seeing the World Through Sebastião Salgado's Lens
Sebastião Salgado’s photography doesn’t just document—it compels you to stop and take in the weight of what you’re seeing. One of his...
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The Boy Without a Penis: How Dr John Money’s Gender Experiment Ended in Tragedy
On 22 August 1965, in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, Janet Reimer gave birth to twin boys, Bruce and Brian. It was, by all appearances, a...
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The Crimes of Uday Hussein: Inside the Sadistic World of Saddam’s Son
Few names evoke as much dread in modern Iraqi history as that of Uday Hussein. Born into privilege as the eldest son of Saddam Hussein,...
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The Bright Young Things: Britain’s Decadent Generation of the 1920s
They tore through the streets of Mayfair in gleaming motorcars, flung pearls around their necks like confetti, and threw parties so...
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Jimmy Lee Gray: A Tale of Evil, Crime and the End of the Gas Chamber
In the early hours of 2 September 1983, a man named Jimmy Lee Gray sat strapped to a metal chair in Mississippi’s gas chamber. Within...
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The First Miss Soviet Union Beauty Pageant: When Gorky Park Turned into a Catwalk
The year is 1988 and the Iron Curtain is slowly crumbling. The Soviet Union, a nation long known for its austere ideology and strict...
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