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From Pyjamas to Shampoo: Indian Words That Became Everyday English in the UK

The Fantastic Fashion Worn By Sydney's Criminal Ladies in the 1920s

Howard Unruh and the Walk of Death: America’s First Modern Mass Shooting

Sorosis and the Birth of America’s Women-Only Clubs

The Day Squeaky Fromme Pointed a Gun at President Ford

The Little Rock Nine and the Struggle for School Desegregation

Sir Harold Gillies The Father of Modern Plastic Surgery

AC/DC’s And Their First Gig In London At The Red Cow in Hammersmith, 1976

Beslan School Siege: The Story Russia Still Struggles To Tell

The Wrightsville Fire of 1959: How 21 Black Boys Were Burnt To Death In An Arkansas Reform School

Jack the Ripper and His Victims: Why the Prostitute Myth Is Wrong

Roger Stone: A Life of Scandals, Controversies and Crimes

Women Armed With Household Weapons: The 1900 Chicago Tribune List

John Howard Griffin: The Journalist Who Lived Life on Both Sides of the Colour Line

Emmett Till: The 14 Yr Old Boy Who Was Abducted, Tortured, And Lynched In Mississippi In 1955

Portraits of People in Kerala, India Taken by Egon von Eickstedt in the 1920s

The Billionaire Athletes of Ancient Rome: Charioteers Who Out-Earned Modern Sports Stars

The Lost Identity of Steve Carter: A Childhood Mystery Solved After 34 Years

The Bradens and the Wade House Bombing: Defying Segregation in 1950s Kentucky

Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. and the Houston Mass Murders

Nicolae Minovici: The Romanian Doctor Who Hanged Himself for Science

The Champion Text Book on Embalming 1897 and the Strange Documenting of Early Mortuary Science

The Execution in Kabul: Alain Mingam’s Haunting Photograph of the Soviet-Afghan War

Ruby Ridge 1992: A Siege That Left Blood on the Mountain

The Night Witches of World War II: How an All-Women Soviet Bomber Regiment Haunted the Nazis

King Zog Named Himself The King Of Albania, Then Survived Over 50 Assassination Attempts

The Death of Rasputin: Poison, Bullets, and One of History’s Strangest Endings

Armando Normand and the Atrocities of the Putumayo: A Forgotten Genocide in the Amazon

A Day in the Life of a Medieval Executioner: Blood, Bread and Brotherhood