The Heist Of The Century: How The Brinks-Mat Robbery Has Been A Curse To All Those Involved
November 1983, a robbery took place at the Heathrow International Trading Estate. A record £26 million (approximately £86 million today)...
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Ashtar Galactic Command: The Time In 1977 When TV In England Was Hacked For 6 Minutes
On 26th November 1977, viewers in the Southern television area (viewers from Newbury and Reading to Winchester and Andover) lost sound...
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The Remarkable Life And Death Of Alberta Williams King, The Mother Of Martin Luther King
Though Alberta Williams King is often viewed as a footnote to the Martin Luther King Jr. story, she played a crucial role in shaping her...
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The Man Who Hijacked A Plane, Got A Ransom of $200k, Then Parachuted Out Mid-Flight With The Cash
On November 24, 1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane headed from Portland to Seattle, collected an enormous ransom, and then...
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Unit 731, Japan’s Horrific Human Experiments Program During World War II
World War II devastated the lives of more than 100 million people around the world. And out of all the areas in which World War II was...
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The Bizarrely Successful History of People Mailing Themselves in Boxes
Like stowaways on ships, trains, and planes, people have attempted (and sometimes succeeded!) in mailing themselves as recently as just a...
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The Death Of Blackbeard The Pirate And How His Skull Became Something People Drank Rum From
On a sunny winter day some three centuries ago, British warships fired their cannons in celebration as Lieutenant Robert Maynard sailed...
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Yuri Knorozov, The Man Who Deciphered The Mayan Script In The 1950s And Named His Cat As Co-Author
It was Yuri Knorozov who found the key to reading the texts of this ancient civilization. And only 40 years after his epochal discovery...
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Paddy Mayne: The Irish Lion And The Great Destroyer
“Wild maybe, but he was definitely someone you would want on your side.” Colonel Robert Blair Mayne also known as ‘Paddy’ and as a...
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Harry Gardiner: The Human Fly That Dissapeared
One of the more odd phenomena of the twentieth century began as skyscrapers began to tower over cityscapes across the United States....
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Bass Drum Art From The 1920s And 1930s
The folks over at Polarity Records have put together a really in-depth and extensive article about the technicality of drum kits back in...
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Diving Horse Shows: Yes, They're As Awful As They Sound
Stunt shows featuring diving horses began in the 1880s and were a wildly popular attraction for decades, despite the obvious cruelty to...
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Bilbo and Gollum behind the Iron Curtain
First published in 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, has been translated into...
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The Awful Private Life Of Tiberius
The name Caligula is synonymous with depravity (thanks in part to the saucy 1979 film of the same name) But where did Caligula learn his...
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The Clutter Family Murders; This Is The Real Story Behind Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”.
In April 2020, the home with a dark history went back on the market. What was once home to the Clutter family was said to fetch between...
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Paul Grüninger; the Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during WW2.
Paul Grueninger was the Swiss border police commander of the St. Gallen region that borders with Austria. Following the annexation of...
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A Story Of Murder, Gambling Debts, And British Aristocracy. The Disappearance Of Lord Lucan
Born to George Bingham and his wife Kaitlin, who were staunch socialists, Lucan's early years were spent being cared for by his nurse...
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The Sex Pistols First Gig (Even Before The Manchester Gig Everyone Claims To Have Attended)
On Nov. 6, 1975, a small group of music lovers filed into the Common Room of Saint Martins School of Art. Most were there to see...
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The Iran Hostage Crisis And How It Was 50 Years In The Making
On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate...
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For Three Months In 1973, The Dutch Government Banned Cars On Sundays To Curb Oil Consumption
On the 4th of November, 1973 the Netherlands experienced its first 'Car-Free Sunday', this initiative was brought about to curb oil...
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The Final Robbery Of 'Black Bart'
November the 3rd 1883, authorities almost catch the California bandit and infamous stagecoach robber called Black Bart; he manages to...
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Theo Van Gogh And The Film He Was Assassinated For Making
Yes, he was from 'that' Van Gogh family, Vincent was his great-granduncle and his great-grandad was Vincent's brother. On November 2,...
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When People Evacuated New York Because Of Orson Welles
October 30, 1938 — The War of the Worlds, the science fiction novel by English author HG Wells telling of a space ship from Mars landing...
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Dr. Jonas Salk And The Cure Of Polio; "Can You Patent The Sun?"
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a...
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