I present herewith a case from my “Strange, but True” Department. ————— The Plaintiff: Peter Maxwell The Defendant: Peter Maxwell The Lawsuit: In the 1980s…

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London, UK (May 7, 2004)--George Michael has been revealed as the artist to have most dominated the British radio airwaves during the last two decades. He picked up the PPL Award for the Most Played Artist on British Radio in the last 20 Years at the Radio…

Over time, artists transformed these morbid songstresses from horrific bird women into seductive femme-fatales.

John Ryan's daughter Isabel was at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry to talk about her famous animator father

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A Honus Wagner baseball card, the most famous and among the rarest sports trading cards in the world, sold at auction Monday morning for a record $6.6 million. That blew away the previous record — a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card, which auctioned earlier this…

novella by the English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1843

When it comes to big-screen scares, for some viewers it can turn out to be too much of a good thing.

Every year on 4 May, the Dutch commemorate civilians and soldiers who have died in war situations and in peacekeeping missions, with two minutes of silence.

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22nd Jain Tirthankara

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The cancellation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19 is the first time since the Second World War that the international games have been postponed. In the past, sport has not always yielded its place to global crises – an extraordinary event known…

"Holy Diver" is a song by American heavy metal band Dio. It was released in August 1983 as the lead single from the band's debut album of the same name. Although it only reached number 40 on the Mainstream Rock chart at that time, it is one of Dio's most…

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Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror is an album produced by Mike Harding of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and released in 1977 by BBC Records & Tapes. It is the thirteenth instalment in the label's Sound Effects series and contains over 80 sound effects…

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Bonus Army, gathering of some 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.…