” a.k.a. aspiring 22-year-old actress Elizabeth Short, was found cut in half in a Los Angeles-area open field. Still unsolved to this day, her slaying remains one of the most infamous murder cases in the history of Hollywood. It’s a spectacularly gruesome crime that has gone on to...
Brief history of the World's Fair World's Fairs originated in the French tradition of national exhibitions, a tradition thatculminatedwith the French Industrial Exposition of 1844 held in Paris. It was soon followed by other national exhibitions in continental Europe, and finally came to London w...
“Austria’s Tuscany” was my destination: the wine region of Sudsteiermark, or Southern Styria, in the foothills along the Slovenian border. But in this small country known for alpine sports, high culture, and Weiner schnitzel, all roads lead toVienna. So the day before I set out on a ...
This 3-story townhouse in the Hudson Valley looks unassuming from the outside, but it has a TON of rich history. It was once the home of Jack "Legs" Diamond, a notorious bootlegger who was killed in his upstairs bedroom in 1931.
Her journey with lettering started when her oldest son was in the hospital as a baby. Her sweet mama gifted her a spot in an online calligraphy class to help her have an outlet when life was stressful and hard and she was hooked.
" the 12-ounce bottle of the notoriously named ale, is manufactured by the Anchorage Brewing Company. When the six separate barley wine ale series was released in 2017, it was suggested the company's owner might have sealed a deal with Satan in order to produce the pleasurably sinful pint...
”10Far more believable, unfortunately, was the complete unavailability to the aspiring woman artist of any nude models at all, male or female. As late as 1893, “lady” students were not admitted to life drawing at the Royal Academy in London, and even when they were, after that date, ...