The long history of coal mining in Pennsylvania John Collier, a photographer for the Office of War Information, took the photographs in this article. They show the hard lives of miners working in the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s Montour No. 4 Mine. Collier wrote about the miners’ lives underground, as they laid tracks, set up apparatus, drilled, and blasted with dynamite…
Mary Ann Bevan, a mother of four in England in the 1900s, got acromegaly and became known as “the ugliest woman in the world” to support her children. This is her sad story, which shows how cruel the world can be. The World’s Ugliest Woman wasn’t always the ugliest person in the world. Before she got acromegaly, Bevan was a…
Barbi Benton, whose real name is Barbara Lynn Klein, is an American actress, model, and singer who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. Benton had a big effect on the entertainment business during her peak. She was known for her stunning beauty and varied career. She was interested in modelling and the arts from a young age. She started…
The word “whipping” in American history makes people think of a harsh and scary punishment from the past. It was a cruel thing to do that hurt a lot of people physically and emotionally. Whipping is the act of hitting a person using particular tools such whips, rods, switches, the cat o’ nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, and so…
Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, better known as Natalie Wood, was born on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California. She was always going to be amazing. She would go on to become one of Hollywood’s most famous and loved actresses, winning over fans with her beauty, talent, and charm. Natalie’s path into the world of entertainment began when she was just…
Elizabeth Taylor was a British-American actress who was born in 1932. In the early 1940s, she started out as a child actress. By the 1950s, she was one of the most famous actresses of classical Hollywood movies. She went on to become the highest-paid movie star of the 1960s and became a well-known public figure for the rest of her…
June Wilkinson is a name that stands out in the world of glamor and beauty, where beauty is everything. Wilkinson wowed audiences in the late 1950s and early 1960s with her stunning appearance and obvious charm. She became one of the most photographed ladies of the time, receiving the distinction of “the most photographed nude in America.” Wilkinson’s rise to…
Hachiko, a dog who was always loyal, turned Tokyo’s Shibuya train station into the stage for his daily vigil from 1925 to 1935, hoping against hope that his dead owner would come back. Hachiko wasn’t simply a pet; he was the loyal friend of a university professor who waited for him to come home from work at the local train…
The saying “Behind every great man, there’s an even better woman” has a disturbing meaning when used to describe some of history’s worst people. Women who stood next to dictators like Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, and Francisco Franco often became caught up in the chaotic tides of ambition, ideology, and oppression. Some actively supported their partners’ governments, while…
On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States seemed like the safest place in the world to live. Since the bombing of Pearl Harbor six decades earlier, the country had not been attacked on its own soil. It looked like war was something that happened in other places. That might be what made the huge terrorist assaults that…