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Sideshow Bandit
1976. A film crew for The Six Million Dollar Man discovers something odd about a day-glo dummy hanging in a Laff-in-the-Dark ride at Long Beach, California. Setting up to shoot a scene, a techie tries to move the neon orange mannequin but its arm falls off, revealing sinew.
By Marie Wilson3 years ago in History
Why A Woman Killed Her Kids So Her Husband Could Die With Honour
Reliving this story as I feel it is so powerful and is a perfect entry into the new Vocal challenge. Before we start, I would like to warn you that this is a harrowing and heart-breaking true story of Commander Hajime Fujii and the distressing lengths that his wife went to so that he could further serve his country during World War Two. I wanted to take some time to look over why she did what she did and what his motivations were.
By Daniel Millington5 years ago in History
In The 6ix: A Black Baker Rises to the Top. Runner-Up in History Would’ve Burned This Page Challenge. Top Story - February 2024.
The man made good cakes. And following an apprenticeship, he got a job as a baker. It was 1861, he was nineteen years old. It wasn’t his first job - he’d been working since he was a kid to pay for school supplies - and it wouldn’t be his last. For the next sixteen years he kneaded dough, decorated cakes, baked pies. Then, he started driving horse-drawn cabs for his uncle’s livery stable. Years later, at the age of fifty-two, he became Toronto’s first Black elected politician.
By Marie Wilson6 years ago in History
