During WW II, broadcasts in the language of a hostile power were especially important to try to confuse enemy soldiers. America found her secret weapon in psychological warfare.
If there is an unlucky number in the world of music it has to be the number 27, as an unusually large number of the greatest talents in 20th and 21st century rock music died at this age.
In 1920 Prohibition kicked in, but the majority of congressmen were not “dry”. Infamous bootlegger George Cassidy supplied them with booze and even set up a shop on the Capitol Hill.
During WWII Eleanor Roosevelt joined the Foster Parent Plan, becoming “foster parent” no. 200, and supported 10-year-old Paulette Le Mescam who fled Guernsey to England.
Bisexual duelist, star of the Paris Opera, recipient of the death penalty. Mademoiselle Maupin lived a life worthy of a 20th century rock star in Louis XIV’s France.
The painter Claude Monet spent his early twenties as a soldier in French North Africa, yet none of his works or writings from this period survive.
This story reveals how, during a rare period of tolerance, homosexuals served the armed forces with distinction during the Second World War.
The Volstead Act forbade the consumption of alcoholic beverages between 1913 and 1933.
This is a story of two agents – Izzy Einstein and Moe W. Smith – who, with surprisingly effective ingenuity and acting performances tried to enforce the law during Prohibition.
Cats could face a terrible fate in Europe during the Middle Ages, as they were regarded as representatives of the Devil.
The American supernatural horror film “The Exorcist” scared to death movie goers all around the globe.
Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tutankhamun on November 22, 1922, in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. His stunning discovery sparked Egyptomania in the Western world.
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