Executed By The Nazis At Age 17, Lepa Radić Was Tougher Than All Of Us.
The Conflict That Killed Lepa Radić In the act that would eventually propel Lepa Radić into the history books, Hitler launched his...
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The 1991 Mortar Attack On Downing Street
The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on February 7, 1991. The IRA launches...
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The 2000 Year Old Portland Vase That Was Smashed By A Drunk
Unique, priceless and irreplaceable, the Portland Vase, thought to date back to the first century BC, was shattered into more than 80...
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Charles II: The Party King, The Merry King, Or Just Too Randy to Rule?
Charles II is one of the most enigmatic and colourful monarchs in British History. Forget the Tudors, the Stuarts are where it’s at for...
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Belgium’s King Leopold II: The Man Responsible For The death Of 15 million People In The Congo
Belgium may not be the first European country that most people think of when they hear the words “blood-soaked colonial tyranny.”...
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Sarah Goodridge And One Of The Earliest Examples Of 'Sending Nudes'
It is a painting so seductive, so intriguing, we cannot help but want to know the story behind it. Adding to the seductiveness is the...
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The Kidnapping And Indoctrination Of Heiress, Patty Hearst
In 1974, a group of left-wing radicals calling themselves the “Symbionese Liberation Army” stormed into the Berkeley, California...
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Franz Reichelt; The Man That Died While Testing His Homemade Flying Suit.
They say “pride cometh before the fall.” In few circumstances can this be applied so literally as in the case of parachute inventor Franz...
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Wallace Hartley's Violin; The Violin That Serenaded the Doomed Titanic Voyagers
As passengers frantically piled into the lifeboats or gazed down at their doom in the icy waters, the Titanic band continued to play on...
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The Mysterious Death Of The Most Interesting Old West Outlaw You Might Not Have Heard Of
ON JULY 14, 1882, A local labourer from Turkey Creek, Arizona, came across the body of a dead man sitting against a tree. A bullet wound...
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Brenda Ann Spencer: The Girl That Didn't Like Mondays
n Monday, January 29, 1979, a journalist from The San Diego Union-Tribune got the quote of a lifetime from 16-year-old Brenda Ann...
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Nellie Bly, The Journalist That Beat Phileas Fogg's Journey Around The World
With his 1873 classic Around the World in Eighty Days, master raconteur Jules Verne skilfully captured the excitement of an era in which...
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Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, The Japanese Soldier Found Hiding In The Jungles Of Guam 28 After The War Ended
Upon returning to Japan, and after surviving in a Guam jungle for nearly three decades, Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi was given a hero's welcome -...
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The Ghost That Testified Against Her Husband
How could a young, healthy woman drop dead of an “everlasting faint”? This question was one of the things keeping Mary Jane Heaster, of...
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Rudyard Kipling: The Early Opium, Sex Workers And Booze Years
Kipling was born in India but shipped back to England when a child, as was the custom back then. But he returned aged 16 for seven...
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The Great Brinks Robbery Of 1950: A Perfect Crime...Almost.
On January 17, 1950, 11 men steal more than $2 million ($29 million today) from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston, Massachusetts....
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The 'Natural Born Killers', Caril Ann Fugate And Charles Starkweather
When she was just 13 years old, Caril Ann Fugate met Charles Starkweather. Though he was five years older than her, Fugate was enamored...
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The Murder Of 'The Black Dahlia' And The Man That Is Convinced His Father Was The Killer
10 AM. January 15, 1947. Betty Bersinger, a mother out for a morning walk with her child, they were walking down Norton Avenue in Los...
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"Let It Be Known, Homosexuals Are Not Cowards" The Brave Story of Willem Arondeus
One evening in March 1943, a building burst into flames in Amsterdam. By dawn, scattered pieces of paper shone through the charred...
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Dead Popes; Do They Still Hit Them On The Head With a Hammer To Make Sure They're Dead?
Following the death of a pope, the camerlengo has the duty of “safeguarding and administering the goods and temporal rights of the Holy...
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The Death Of Rasputin, Poisoned, Shot Twice, Beaten And Drowned...Or Was He?
Sometime over the course of the night and the early morning of December 29-30, 1916, Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a self-proclaimed holy...
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The Macabre Journey Of Eva Perón’s Corpse
Such was the outpouring of public grief following the death in July 1952 of Eva Perón, wife of Argentine President Juan Perón, that...
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David Ferrie And His Connection To Lee Harvey Oswald, The CIA And The Assassination Of JFK
For most of his life, David Ferrie struck those who knew him as an oddball. Bouncing from job to job, attempting to conceal his alopecia...
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Menno Huizinga’s Sensational Photographs of Dutch Boys After Liberation From Nazi Germany – 1945
In 1945, photographer Menno Huizinga (October 28, 1907 – 14, 1947) took these photos of excited Dutch boys hanging onto the doors of a...
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