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Before the legendary crooner, before the Rat Pack, before the tumultuous marriages and Hollywood scandals, Frank Sinatra was just another...

In the heart of Victorian London, amidst a society obsessed with propriety, decorum, and rigid social structures, an unusual profession...

Francis James Mortimer was not just a photographer; he was a pioneer in pictorial photography, an adventurer at heart, and an artist with...

Tibetan Buddhism has a rich artistic tradition, with intricate thangka paintings and elaborate sculptures forming an essential part of...

On the evening of August 28th, 1922, Ethel Geller Yeldem was about to step onto a streetcar at the southwest entrance of the Ohio State...

They say fortune favours the bold, but sometimes it also favours those willing to crawl through sewage. Albert Spaggiari certainly...

On the night of August 7, 1930, the town of Marion, Indiana, witnessed a spectacle of racial violence that would become one of the most...

In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the verge of something big. With  The Magnificent Seven  already cementing his place in...

When you think of Allied espionage, you probably picture daring spies with hidden explosives, sneaky wiretaps, or maybe even weaponised...

In 1965, the small town of Selma, Alabama, became the epicentre of a movement that would shake the foundations of American democracy. The...

For centuries, the Romani people have existed on the fringes of European society, a people without a homeland, constantly moving,...

The pages of musical history are littered with figures who operated just outside the limelight—people whose names may not be instantly...

In a tiny, unincorporated Appalachian community called Jolo, West Virginia—population 824 at last count—there exists a religious practice...

In the shadow of the most oppressive regime in modern history, a band of teenage rebels emerged—not armed with guns or political...

If you’ve never seen Marjoe , the 1972 Academy Award-winning documentary, consider this your sign from on high to watch it. Produced and...

In mid-19th century Manhattan, the Five Points neighborhood had gained international infamy as a crowded, disease-ridden, crime-infested...

In the heart of the 19th-century Habsburg Empire, Archduke Ludwig Viktor Joseph Anton of Austria stood out as a nonconformist in one of...

Meyer Harris "Mickey" Cohen is one of the most infamous figures in American organised crime, a man whose journey from a Brooklyn newsboy...

In the heart of San Francisco, where activism and counterculture have long thrived, an elderly woman in polyester pantsuits became one of...

The debate surrounding gun control continues to be one of the most contentious and polarising issues in the United States. Today, the...

Photography is often described as a way to freeze time, but for James Van Der Zee, it was much more than that. His images didn’t just...

There are eccentrics, and then there is Dame Edith Sitwell—an aristocratic poet, critic, and all-around formidable presence in...

Royal families have long been known for carefully controlling their public image, often keeping anything deemed unseemly out of sight....

In the dimly lit corridors of the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine, a peculiar relic sits preserved in a glass jar—a severed...