story + history
- Janet Maslin: A Quest for Knowledge Inspired by a Devastating Loss
- One in three of us will develop cancer in our lifetimes.
- 2010-01-02 to books, cancer, history, medicine, science, story by soobrosa
- Sex, drugs and shoulder pads
- The unbelievable story of the implosion of the Dallas Cowboys
- 2009-03-03 to american football, bestof, drugs, history, sex, sports, story by bagoly
- Mallory: The Everest enigma
- Eight decades after his ill-fated expedition, the legend of George Mallory is about to live again – on screen and in a novel by Jeffrey Archer. So will we ever discover whether this dashing, sexually ambiguous, bohemian adventurer reached the top? Ed Doug
- 2009-03-03 to adventure, bestof, enigma, everest, history, mountain, story by bagoly
- Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
- "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid stor
- 2008-11-28 to bestof, celebrity, frank sinatra, gonzo, history, music, profile, story by bagoly
- Earls, counts, even a future King - she had more than 200 lovers, some of them younger than her son. As a new documentary reveals, it's no wonder high society wits called Winston Churchill's wayward mother Lady Randy
- Her background is extraordinary. Descended quite possibly from an American Indian who had raped a white settler, she was born into a notoriously lascivious family, conceived in Italy and named after a popular singer who was probably one of her father's m
- 2008-11-07 to history, sex, story by bagoly
- Emily Nussbaum meets Ron Galella, the first true paparazzo
- Richard Burton sent goons to steal his film; Brigitte Bardot had her boyfriend hose him down. Most notoriously, Jackie Onassis won a lawsuit against him in 1973, a court order for him to stay 25 feet away from her and her children.
- 2008-10-29 to arts, history, photo, story by bagoly
- The Man Who Was Texas
- In the late 1940s, the press informed an astonished America that some of its wealthiest citizens were a group of oilmen that included H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Hugh Roy Cullen. Another of them, the swaggering, combustible Glenn McCarthy, would emer
- 2008-09-24 to business, fame, history, oil, portrait, story by bagoly
- Machiavelli The Florentine
- The man who taught rulers how to rule.
- 2008-09-17 to bestof, history, politics, profile, story, war by bagoly
- How the Web Was Won
- Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudg
- 2008-06-10 to bestof, history, internet, story, technology by bagoly
- Angelique Chrisafis: Ophelia of the Seine
- The calmly smiling, beautiful face of this young woman inspired Rilke, Man Ray and Nabokov. And eventually ended up as a first-aid resuscitation model. But who was she?
- 2008-02-11 to art, bestof, death, history, story by soobrosa
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