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Jag öppnade nattduksbordslådan i min mors rum tre timmar efter att hon förklarats död och fann en trasig radbandskrans och ett brev från min farbror där han skrev att han skulle vara hemma samma kväll. Doften av stearinljus och medicin fyllde fortfarande rummet. Det var då jag förstod att en mardröm värre än döden precis … Read more

A man walks through the streets of a small Greek town, roughly ten years after the pass at Thermopylae ran red with blood. His name is Ephialtes, and there is a price on his head. To understand how a local farmer came to be remembered as the most hated traitor in Greek history, the story … Read more

On the morning of July 3, 1863, Private Frederick Archbald of the 137th New York Infantry was killed in the trenches he had helped build on Culps Hill at Gettysburg. He was 29 years old, and he left behind a wife, Helen, back home in Otego, New York. Archbald was initially buried in a mass … Read more

In the spring of 1926, an 81-year-old widow opened the doors of the largest private residence ever built in Manhattan to ordinary New Yorkers for a small admission fee. For three days, visitors climbed the grand staircase of Alice Vanderbilt’s 130-room mansion on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, walking through the music room, library, picture … Read more

The Louvin Brothers were one of the most influential harmony duos in country music history, shaping the sound of acts from the Everly Brothers to the Beatles. But the angelic blend of Ira Louvin’s high tenor and Charlie Louvin’s smooth baritone was forged alongside a brutal personal war, as Ira’s alcoholism and violent temper steadily … Read more

The 1979 film *Escape from Alcatraz* was the fifth and final collaboration between Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel, a partnership that had produced the *Dirty Harry* series. Shot inside the actual abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, the picture is still regarded as one of the finest prison films ever made. … Read more

The diamond was free. That is the part America never heard. When Donald Trump Jr. proposed in a New Jersey shopping mall in November 2004, a jeweler had given him the $100,000 ring at no cost because the store wanted photographs. The cameras were booked in advance. The proposal was advertisement. Thirteen years and five … Read more

Frank Sutton, remembered by millions as the explosive Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter on the hit CBS comedy *Gomer Pyle, USMC*, died far too young in 1974. The actor suffered a fatal heart attack backstage while preparing for a performance at the Beverly Barn Dinner Playhouse in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was just 50 years old. Born … Read more

Herman Fegelein had been missing from the Führerbunker for almost two days, and Hitler was growing suspicious. On the morning of April 27, 1945, the Führer asked for his SS liaison officer and was told the man was nowhere to be found. Fegelein had missed six military briefings without explanation. Hitler ordered his security chief, … Read more

Actor Jack Lord, best remembered as Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running series Hawaii Five-O, died on January 21, 1998, at his home in Hawaii at the age of 77. The cause was congestive heart failure, and he had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in his final years. Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan on December … Read more