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Alan Stacey was a promising English driver for an upstart Team Lotus headed by manager and owner Colin Chapman. A few years into the 1960s Team Lotus would compete as an equal with the great factory cars fielded by Ferrari and Porsche. Stacey landed a Formula One ride after winning events such as...

Andre Kertesz was a pioneer of nude photography. Arriving in Paris in 1925, he roamed the streets searching for spontaneous photographs of Parisians. Originally from Budapest, he enjoyed considerable commercial success in France, especially following his one-man show in 1927. In 1936 he was extended...

Andrea de Cesaris was a Formula 1 driver who debuted with two "guest races" with Alfa Romeo during the 1980 season. He got his first ride with McLaren before Niki Lauda returned to racing and took his job, alongside teammate John Watson of Great Britain. Andrea was the son of a well established Philip...

In the mid-16th century Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus touched off a revolutionary transformation of thinking about the universe. In 1543 the same man who introduced trigonometry to the world published "Concerning the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres". It was handwritten in Latin....

Marie Francois Sadi Carnot was bludgeoned by the dagger of an anarchist during a visit to an international exhibition in Lyons, France in June 1894. Sadi Carnot was riding to the theater around 9:30 p.m. when a man emerged from the crowd who was thought to be carrying a petition. Inside his sleeve...

Chris Bristow was a promising English racer who died very young while attempting to pass Willy Mairesse's Ferrari at Spa-Francorchamps during the Belgian Grand Prix of 1960. In doing so he took a line that caused him to veer off the circuit and was it impossible for him to recover from. Bristow's...

Judith Coplon was arrested in March 1949 with her Russian boyfriend, former United Nations employee Valentin Gubitchev. FBI agents had been following them when they rendezvoused in various places in Washington, D.C. Coplon was a political analyst for the Department of Justice. Both were charged with...

The Wylie-Hoffert Murders in the late summer of 1963 was a vicious bloodletting that remained unsolved until the spring of 1964. At that time two men were arrested, and one of them was eventually set free for the crime of murdering Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert. The young women were living in what...

Jimmy Hoffa, formerly Teamsters Union President, disappeared suddenly without a trace in the summer of 1975. My e-book looks at the circumstances of this event and points an accusing finger at two men, one of them a mobster who was based in Detroit, Michigan. The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes...

Cora Livingston was exceptional as a female wrestler. She stood 5'2" in her stocking feet and never weighed more than 135 pounds. When she captured the title as world champion female wrestler, in 1914, wrestling for women was very much an outlaw sport. Cora was trained in the scientific methods...

Frank "Blinky" Palermo was a prominent force in boxing from the 1940s through the mid 1980s. He formed a triumvirate with gambler Frankie Carbo and St. Louis underworld figure John Vitale. They dominated the careers of such fighters as Ike Williams, Johnny Saxton and Charles "Sonny" Liston. Having...

Molly Pitcher is an American heroine about which there is much historic debate. Researchers have argued whether she was of German, Dutch or Irish ancestry. Also debated is the who the real Molly Pitcher is. A Margaret Corbin relieved her wounded husband, as did Molly, in a battle during the American...

Leon Czolgosz was inspired to shoot and kill President William McKinley by Emma Goldman and other anarchists. At the beginning of the 20th Century leaders of France and Italy had been murdered by anarchists whose philosophy was similar to that of Czolgosz. Leon's family immigrated to the United States...

Hope Charlotte Hicks was an integral lynch pin in the 2016 campaign to elect billionaire businessman Donald Trump President of the United States. A native of Greenwich, Connecticut, Hicks had political aspirations from her youth. Hope and her sister modeled for preppy fashion designer Ralph Lauren....