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Star Wars Cast Photo From 1979

From left to right: Han Solo, Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Leia, Luke Skywalker and R2D2 And out of interest, Heights: Harrison Ford 6’1″ David Prowse 6’6″ or 6’7″ Peter Mayhew 6’9″ Carrie Fisher 5’1″ Mark Hammil 5’7″ ...

The Amazing Life Of Adrian Carton deWiart

Every now and again, God throws on this planet a human being who is so friggin’ crazy and whose exploits are so outlandish that it’s hard to believe he could have ever really walked on this ...

Inner-City Dublin In The 1980s

Meet the characters from Dublin’s inner city during the 1980s. Photographer Gerry Smith captured these compelling images in the Irish capital before it found a revitalization in the past decade as development opportunities took hold and ...

Marie Delphine LaLaurie

On April 10th, 1834, a fire broke out at a large mansion in Royal Street, New Orleans. It was the home of a local well known socialite called Marie Delphine LaLaurie – but what was found ...

Map Of US Ancestries By County in 2000

The following map depicts the dominant ancestries in each county in the USA based on the US census data from 2000. The majority of the 300 million people currently living in the United States are descended ...

The Last Faces Of American Slavery 1930s

In the 1920s and 1930s, domestic interest in US slavery was rekindled, and as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Progress Administration, more than 2,000 first-person accounts of slavery were collected, as well ...

Life In A Japanese Internment Camp – 1943 USA

Ansel Adams was an American photographer well known for capturing black and white pictures of the American West. The following images were taken in 1943 as part of a study on Manzanar internment camp at the foot of Sierra ...

London Street Markets 1980s

Colin O’Brien’s photographs of London street markets in the 1980s. The images below show life captured in Brick Lane, Shoreditch, Colombia Road, Cheshire and Street. Source - Colin O’Brien ...

The Count of St. Germain: “The Man Who Never Dies and Knows Everything”

The Count of St. Germain is perhaps one of the most interesting and intriguing figures in modern history. If you believe everything you can read about him online and in numerous books, this man possessed a ...

Catch Me If You Can – The Real Story Of Frank Abagnale Jr

He was the inspiration behind the hit movie Catch Me If You Can and the man who performed cons worth millions of Dollars before he even reached the age of 19, but today Frank Abagnale is ...