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Philadelphia MugShots From The 1950s and 1960s Mid century mugshots from Philadelphia reveal more than crime records. These 1950s and 1960s booking photographs capture fashion, social change and the human stories behind police archives.
16.02.2026 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Gruesome Death Of Captain James Cook On 14th February, 1779, Captain James Cook, one of Britain’s most celebrated navigators, was killed at Kealakekua Bay in the Hawaiian Kingdom. He was fifty years old. By the time of his death, Cook had already transformed European understanding of the Pacific Ocean, charting vast stretches of coastline and producing maps of remarkable accuracy. Yet his final encounter in Hawaii exposed the fragile and often volatile nature of first contact between Europeans and Indigenous societies. From...
14.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Francois d’Eliscu: The Little Professor Who Taught America’s Rangers to Fight Without Rules In 1942 at Fort Meade, the slight and scholarly Francois d’Eliscu ordered Rangers to charge him with fixed bayonets. Seconds later they were disarmed and pinned with a simple sash cord. Rejecting sporting rules, he taught ruthless, practical hand to hand combat that reshaped American military training during the Second World War.
13.02.2026 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Peter Basch: The German Émigré Who Shaped Mid Century Fashion and Hollywood Portrait Photography Peter Basch fled Nazi Germany and went on to photograph the faces of mid century America. From fashion magazines to Hollywood portraits, his polished studio work helped define an era of glamour that still feels timeless today. A quieter name, but an important one.
12.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Mexican Repatriation: Immigration Raids and Deportations in 1930s America During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of people of Mexican descent were removed from the United States in a campaign now known as the Mexican Repatriation. These stark photographs reveal the human reality behind the immigration raids of the 1930s.
12.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Murder of Jamie Bulger and the Case That Changed Britain On 12th February, 1993, a disappearance in a Merseyside shopping centre became one of Britain’s most consequential criminal cases. This in depth article examines the murder of Jamie Bulger and the legal and social questions that followed.
12.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ted Serios and the Mystery of Thoughtography In the 1960s, a Chicago bellhop claimed he could project images from his mind onto Polaroid film. Psychiatrists believed him. Magicians called it a trick. The strange case of Ted Serios still raises questions about belief, evidence and illusion.
11.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Martin Adolf Bormann: A Life Shaped by Ideology, Belief, Flight and Reckoning Born into Hitler’s inner circle, Martin Adolf Bormann was raised as a committed young Nazi. After the war he converted to Catholicism, became a priest and missionary, and later spoke publicly about the crimes of the Third Reich. A life shaped by belief rupture and reckoning.
10.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From the Military Cross to the Camera Lens: The Life and Work of John Everard John Everard was a First World War veteran turned photographer who quietly shaped British nude photography for over three decades. From Orange Street studios to Savile Row collaborations, his work focused on form, restraint, and persistence rather than provocation.
07.02.2026 20:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Explosive Rat and Britain’s Most Ingenious WW2 Sabotage Devices During World War Two, British saboteurs hid explosives in coal, wine bottles, and even dead rats. The explosive rat never detonated, but it caused panic across Nazi Europe. A strange story of fear, psychology, and wartime ingenuity.
06.02.2026 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hans Eijkelboom: The Artist Who Photographs Behaviour Hans Eijkelboom’s 1977 project With My Family saw him replace absent fathers in real family portraits. The images look ordinary, which is exactly the point. A quiet but unsettling study of trust, politeness, and social conformity in everyday life.
05.02.2026 17:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Karla Faye Tucker, Redemption, And The Limits Of Mercy In Modern Texas Karla Faye Tucker was guilty of a brutal crime, but her conversion on death row sparked a global debate about mercy, punishment, and redemption. Executed in Texas on 3rd February, 1998, her case still shapes how we talk about the death penalty.
03.02.2026 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Georges Courtois and the Nantes Courthouse Hostage Crisis of 1985 In December 1985, a robbery trial in Nantes turned into a televised hostage crisis. Georges Courtois seized the courtroom, demanded cameras, and confronted the French justice system live on air in a moment that reshaped media and justice.
02.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Final Days of Sid Vicious (The Death of a Punk) Sid Vicious left Rikers Island on 1 February 1979 and was dead the next morning. This article examines his final days in detail, tracing addiction, punk mythology, and a young life shaped by neglect, notoriety, and cultural collapse.
02.02.2026 13:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovers’ Eyes: The Secret Miniature Portraits of Georgian Romance Tiny, secret, and intensely personal, lovers’ eye miniatures were exchanged between Georgian lovers as private tokens of affection. Cropped to a single gaze, they reveal how romance found coded forms in an age of restraint.
01.02.2026 21:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Goebbels Children: Childhood, Propaganda, and Murder in Hitler’s Bunker Six children raised as symbols of Nazi family life were murdered by their parents in Hitler’s bunker in May 1945. This article explores who the Goebbels children were, how they lived inside propaganda, and how ideology ultimately destroyed them.
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The Steiff Polar Bear and Fanta’s Wartime Mascot A smiling polar bear posed with soldiers and children in wartime Germany. Made by Steiff to promote Fanta during the Second World War, the costume reveals how normality was staged through advertising, even as violence and persecution shaped daily life.
30.01.2026 22:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Execution of Charles: I How England Killed Its King On 30th January, 1649, England executed its own king. The death of Charles I was the result of civil war, political failure, and an unshakeable belief in divine rule. This is how a monarchy fell on a winter’s afternoon in Whitehall.
30.01.2026 14:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Claudine Longet: From Soft Pop Stardom to One of Hollywood’s Most Unsettling Trials From soft pop stardom and Kennedy friendships to a fatal shooting in Aspen. The full story of Claudine Longet, Spider Sabich, and the trial that quietly ended her public life.
29.01.2026 14:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller’s 1953 Honeymoon Photographs In Paris In 1953, newlyweds René Groebli and Rita Dürmüller wandered Paris with a camera. Their honeymoon photographs captured love, movement, and everyday life in a city recovering from war, creating one of the most intimate photographic records of post war Paris.
28.01.2026 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tour Riders, The Stuff Of Legends Once upon a time, being a rock star meant you could pretty much do whatever you fancied. Smash up a hotel room? No problem. Drink like a sailor, smoke like a chimney, snort like a vacuum cleaner? All part of the job description. But times have changed. These days, throw a telly out of a hotel window and it’s not just the manager giving you grief – it’s someone from housekeeping live-tweeting it with the hashtag #RockStarOrJustJerk before TMZ has even sent a camera crew. The age of glamorous...
28.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson: The partnership Washington accepted J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson dined together, holidayed together, and were buried yards apart. They never defined their relationship, but Washington treated them as a couple for decades. Their story shows how uneasy modern labels can be when applied to the past.
28.01.2026 12:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Brixton Riots of 1981 and the Tensions That Led to a National Reckoning In April 1981, Brixton became the centre of one of Britain’s most significant episodes of civil unrest. This in depth account explores how long standing racial tension, economic decline, policing tactics and the aftermath of the New Cross fire combined to push a community to breaking point, and how the riots reshaped modern British policing and race relations.
27.01.2026 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Liberation of Auschwitz Birkenau and What the Red Army Found in January 1945 On 27th January, 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz Birkenau during their advance west. What they found was not victory, but silence, survivors, and evidence of industrial murder. Liberation marked the beginning of understanding, not the end of suffering.
27.01.2026 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Homer Sykes And The Ordinary Britain He Paid Attention To Before smartphones and social media, Homer Sykes quietly photographed everyday Britain. Weddings, village events, and ordinary gatherings from 1968 to 1983 now form The Way We Were, an unforced record of how people lived and met.
26.01.2026 21:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Beaumont Children Disappearance and the Day Australia Changed On 26th January, 1966, three siblings left home for Glenelg Beach and never returned. The disappearance of the Beaumont children became Australia’s most haunting cold case and quietly changed how a nation thought about childhood safety forever.
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Richard ‘Two Gun’ Hart: The Capone Who Lived the Law While His Brother Broke It While Al Capone ruled Chicago, his eldest brother rode the Midwest arresting bootleggers in a ten gallon hat. Richard ‘Two Gun’ Hart was a war hero, Prohibition agent, and master of reinvention on the American frontier.
25.01.2026 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Caligula: Power, Cruelty, And The Making of Rome’s Most Infamous Emperor A detailed historical examination of Caligula’s reign exploring cruelty humiliation religion spectacle and power. Separating hostile myth from evidence to understand how Rome created its most infamous emperor.
25.01.2026 11:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Tattooist Who Documented St Pauli: Herbert Hoffmann’s Hidden Hamburg Archive Working in Hamburg’s St Pauli district, tattooist Herbert Hoffmann documented sailors, labourers, and ageing tattoos, creating a rare social record of postwar port life.
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When New York Tried to Ban Women from Smoking in Public In 1908, New York briefly banned women from smoking in public. When Katie Mulcahey lit a cigarette anyway, her arrest exposed the absurdity of the law and helped bring it down within weeks. A small act that revealed bigger truths.
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