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On the morning of 11 May 1996, Beck Weathers was officially declared dead. High on the slopes of Mount Everest, in freezing temperatures...

This series reunites vintage album covers with the locations where their original photos were taken. Photographed by Alex Bartsch , the...

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...

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...

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...

They tore through the streets of Mayfair in gleaming motorcars, flung pearls around their necks like confetti, and threw parties so...

The year is 1988 and the Iron Curtain is slowly crumbling. The Soviet Union, a nation long known for its austere ideology and strict...

While the grim history of capital punishment is filled with clinical efficiency and tragic inevitability there are also rare and strange...

Between 1870 and 1910, a rather curious and creative tradition emerged at the University of Tartu in what is now Estonia. Known as...

On 29 April 1863, in San Francisco, California, William Randolph Hearst was born into a world already steeped in ambition, fortune, and...

In the roaring tide of Prohibition, when the United States tried to legislate temperance and wound up inspiring a decade-long national...

If you could step back in time and sip whisky to the beat of a double bass, Copenhagen’s Storyville Club in 1957 would be the place to...

Tucked into the corners of busy train stations, bustling department stores, and lively seaside piers, photo booths once offered a little...

Of all the ways to start your career in music, having a future legend turn up at your parents’ doorstep isn’t the usual path. But that’s...

Diane Arbus had a way of seeing people that most others overlooked. Through her lens, the outsiders and the unusual figures of New York...

In the ever-evolving landscape of visual communication, few projects have captured the playful spirit of rebellion quite like Belles...

Long before CGI explosions and green screens, Buster Keaton was flinging himself off buildings, leaping onto moving trains, and surviving...

James and Margret Reed “Are you men from California, or do you come from Heaven?” These were the stunned words of an emaciated Mrs...

Before Jackie Chan jumped off buildings for a living, his parents dodged bullets, smuggled linen, flirted with espionage, and argued over...

In the frozen darkness above the Eastern Front during the Second World War, German soldiers faced many fears. But one of the most...

Before stadium tours, before MTV, and long before digital sampling made it possible to fake a perfect drumbeat, one man played the real...

Imagine scrolling through a world without the internet, no Google search, no YouTube explainers, and certainly no AI assistants. In this...

Discover the legendary tale of Romulus and Remus, the twin brothers who founded Rome in 753 BCE. Explore their mythic lineage, divine...

It sounds like the setup for a surrealist joke: Salvador Dalí walks into a party and meets Walt Disney. But what happened next wasn’t a...