Biographies

He Wanted to Fly Among the Clouds. He Ended Up Repairing Radars. And That Is Where the Story of Morgan Freeman Began
Article But his journey did not begin in Hollywood. It began with a boy from Mississippi who dreamed about flying, ended up in the military as a mechanic… and for a long time had no idea that his greatest strength would not be in the cockpit, but in a voice that one day the whole world would recognize.
By Lenka Čihařová18 days ago in History
The Boy in the Box: After 65 Years, He Finally Had a Name
On February 25, 1957, a man in Philadelphia discovered something he would probably remember for the rest of his life. An ordinary cardboard box was lying beside a road in the Fox Chase neighborhood.
By Lenka Čihařová20 days ago in History
She Was 12 When the Plane Crashed Into the Sea. She Was the Only Survivor to Spend the Night in the Ocean
Then, as the aircraft came in to land, it began to shake violently. Moments later, Yemenia Airways Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean. There were 153 people on board. Bahia was twelve years old and could barely swim. Yet she was the only person to survive the crash. She found herself alone in the darkness of the ocean, clinging to a piece of wreckage and waiting to see whether anyone would find her. At that moment, no one knew that a little girl was still alive among the wreckage and bodies.
By Lenka Čihařová20 days ago in History
Anatomy of Evil: How the Tragedy of Child K. Helped Hitler Legitimize Mass Murder
In the summer of 1939, a request reached Hitler that might, at first glance, have appeared to be a desperate attempt by parents to end the suffering of a severely disabled child.
By Lenka Čihařová20 days ago in History
Radithor worked great until his jaw fell off: the insane story of eben byers
Meet Eben Byers. He was the kind of man who seemed to have everything. He was a wealthy American millionaire, the son of a powerful industrialist, a successful businessman and even a national golf champion. He lived the life of a 1920s playboy, surrounded by money, beautiful women, expensive parties and all the privileges that came with being rich.
By Lenka Čihařová21 days ago in History
QUEEN history: dwarfs with cocaine trays and the brutal loneliness of Freddie Mercury
Back in the 1980s, queen was hitting the absolute top of music world. freddie was around forty, making insane money, and his managers were literally tearing their hair out over how he spent it.
By Lenka Čihařová21 days ago in History
Marilyn Monroe Wasn’t Just a Beautiful Blonde: Stories, Gossip and Secrets of the Woman Who Bewitched Hollywood
When people hear the name Marilyn Monroe, most picture the white dress billowing over a subway grate, platinum-blonde hair, red lips, and that unmistakable smile.
By Lenka Čihařová21 days ago in History
Eugene Field, the Poet of Childhood
Eugene Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 2, 1850, although he liked to claim September 3 as well. The joke was that if his friends forgot his birthday on the first day, they would have another chance to remember it on the second. That small joke says something about the man Field became. He was a poet, a newspaperman, a humorist, and a man who enjoyed playing with the expectations people had of him.
By Tim Carmichael23 days ago in History
I Remember 9/11. But My Memory Has Been Rewriting It for 25 Years.
You Remember September 11. Your Memory Has Been Rewritten. On September 11, 2001, I was in a living room in Boston. The television was on. My mother answered the phone, listened, hung up, and said, "Something has happened."
By Jin23 days ago in History
Johannes Gutenberg: The Man Who Changed the World, But Lost His Own Life
It is the restless, flickering light of a secret workshop, where a heavy smell of molten metal, thick ink, and omnipresent nervousness mixes together. Johannes Gutenberg stands over a wooden press, his hands black from soot and his mind paralyzed by fear. Every movement of his tired body is accompanied by a heavy sigh of the machine. If it does not work out today, tomorrow morning creditors will knock on the door and he will have nothing to pay his growing debts with. And if it does work… maybe he will manage to change the world in a way that none of his contemporaries can even imagine.
By Lenka Čihařováabout a month ago in History
Alternative Reconstruction and Assumption Sensitivity (The Global Catastrophe Prediction Framework - Part 2). AI-Generated.
The Global Catastrophe Prediction Framework distinguishes presently observed evidence from the historical conditions, mechanisms, and rate histories used to transform that evidence into a reconstruction of the past.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcastabout a month ago in History
The Japanese Soldier Who Fought World War II for Twenty-Nine Years
Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer sent to garrison an island in the Philippines in 1944 towards the end of World War II. He left twenty-nine years later.
By Sam H Arnoldabout a month ago in History