Nicknamed "the Napoleon of the criminal world", and he is commonly referred to as "the Napoleon of Crime." Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Professor Moriarty? Addison Mizner - (1872-1933). American resort architect whose Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style interpretations left an ...
He was nicknamed "Poosh 'Em Up" by Italian-speaking fans, from a mistranslation of an Italian phrase meaning to "hit it out" (hit a home run). Lazzeri is one of only 14 major league baseball players to hit for the natural cycle (hitting a single, double, triple and home run in ...
I was outside our classroom talking to the form teacher for the final year, the redoubtable Mr Hamlyn, when Roger swaggered up in his Teddy Boy outfit, his hair combed into a grand quiff, trousers so tight they had zips in the seams. Mr Hamlyn welcomed Roger with the weary patience of...
while Chuck Klein notched 28 home runs, collected 120 RBI, and hit .368 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Like Philadelphians debating over Pat's or Geno's cheesesteaks, there was no wrong answer to who was the city's king of baseball in 1933. ...
Initially nicknamed "the Viscount" in parliamentary circles alluding to his landed gentry background, Leigh now has a reputation at Westminster for being a “serial rebeller” and an independent-minded MP, often voting against his own political party where it conflicts with his own principles. He...
After the war, comics about teens—specifically “bobby soxers,” girls nicknamed after the socks they rolled down when swing dancing—exploded. Most of them took inspiration from Hilda Terry’s innocent comic strip, “Teena,” which first appeared on Pearl Harbor Day in 1941. In postwar Ameri...
Anotherearly jazz pioneerwho succumbed to tuberculosis was the brilliant guitarist Charlie Christian. Born in Bonham, Texas, he took the electric guitar from the staccato rhythm swing style of Freddie Green to the more modern bebop and cool jazz sounds that were then taken up by Oscar Moore, Ta...
In other words, we didn't give up on tree-climbing and become bipedal overnight. One of the best-preserved skeletons from four million years ago, nicknamed 'Ardi,' shows that our ancestors at this time retained grasping toes and other features that would still allow them to climb remarkably...
With nowhere else to go, she joined the Belarus underground as part of a unit nicknamed the Young Avengers. They did a lot of good before Iron Man confiscated their weapons and told their parents. Being essentially kids, they started off small, distributing underground leaflets and occasionally ...
Some might say he would have been too soft. But seeing Ned behead a man of the Night’s Watch who was telling (what were believed to be) tall tales, ensuring that his sons saw the act and learned an important lesson (“the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword”) showed...