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A Slave’s Letter: Jordan Anderson’s Exquisite Reply to His Former Owner

A Slave’s Letter: Jordan Anderson’s Exquisite Reply to His Former Owner

  On August 7, 1865 Jordan Anderson (aka Jourdan Anderson and Jordon Anderson) wrote to Colonel ...
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You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

You’re the Top! The Connection Between Socialite Mrs Sweeny, PG Wodehouse and Mussolini

Margaret used to see one man for dinner, plead tiredness and go home, only then to go out with another young man to the Embassy Club or the Café de Paris. At closing hour she and her partner would then ‘float on’ to late nightclubs such as Kate Meyrick’s Silver Slipper. Her father’s only rule was that she absolutely must be dressed for the family breakfast at nine. ...
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Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter: Drawing Nixon and The President’s Men 1973–75

Watergate Courtroom Sketches by Freda L. Reiter: Drawing Nixon and The President’s Men 1973–75

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue” - Richard Nixon ...
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When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

When Albert Pierrepoint met Lord Haw-Haw, Albeit Rather Briefly

William Joyce, the man with the infamous nickname ‘Lord Haw-Haw’, had a catchphrase as famous as any comedian’s, and had a facial disfigurement in the form of a terrible scar that marked him as a ‘treacherous villain’ as if the words themselves were tattooed across his forehead. ...
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Riding The New York Subway – 1977-1984

Riding The New York Subway – 1977-1984

“When I get home, I say, ‘Thank God I made it’“ - Subway passenger to the New York Times - Bronx, NYC 1979 ...
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Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania

Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle, Pennsylvania

“These pictures are a precious record of people who would otherwise have been forgotten, and their stories give us a glimpse of a fascinating alternative history of America’s ‘greatest generation’.” Diarmid Mogg ...
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Photos Of Johnny Cash And June Carter At Folsom Prison

Photos Of Johnny Cash And June Carter At Folsom Prison

I shot a man in Reno Just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowin' I hang my head and cry ...
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The Gruesome Murders at 10 Rillington Place and the Beginning of the End of the Death Penalty

The Gruesome Murders at 10 Rillington Place and the Beginning of the End of the Death Penalty

At just before 9am at Pentonville Prison on 15th July 1953 and with his arms already pinioned behind his back, John Reginald Halliday Christie complained that he had an itchy nose. The hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, told him not to worry too much,  ‘it won’t bother you for long,’ he said. ...
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Miami in the 1970s and 80s: A Look at the Magic City’s Turbulent Years

Miami in the 1970s and 80s: A Look at the Magic City’s Turbulent Years

"Miami Beach is where neon goes to die" - Lenny Bruce ...
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Breaking News: Fascinating Original Reporting Of The JFK Murder

Breaking News: Fascinating Original Reporting Of The JFK Murder

"TWO PRIESTS STEPPED OUT OF PARKLAND HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY WARD TODAY AND SAID PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED OF HIS BULLET WOUNDS." ...
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Queues, Fumes, Crowds and Pickpockets – 100 Years of London’s Oxford Street

Queues, Fumes, Crowds and Pickpockets – 100 Years of London’s Oxford Street

Oxford Street, long before it became part of the A40, was once part of a Roman Road called Via Trinobantina which linked Silchester and Colchester via London. ...
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Convicts And Exiles In Pre-Revolution Siberia

Convicts And Exiles In Pre-Revolution Siberia

“As for me, my sympathies are with the Russia of the people, not the Russia of the tsars; with the Russia of the provincial assemblies, not the Russia of the secret police; with the Russian of the future, not the Russia of the past" - George Kennan ...
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