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4/14

Cover of Wonderwall’s Witchcraft (2002)

Sometime between late 2000 and early 2002, the German pop trio Wonderwall entered a recording studio to record the songs that would make up their debut album, Witchcraft.

The musical style of Won...

a month ago
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Necks of the Woods

While researching Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s most prolific executioner, I noticed a recurring online error: he is often mistakenly credited as the hangman for the condemned war criminals at Nuremberg. In fact, this erroneous assertion ev...

3 months ago
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Hangman's Arc

I had read somewhere in passing that at one point in Albert Pierrepoint’s career as Britain’s chief hangman he had executed twenty-seven people in less than twenty-four hours. His obituary in The New York Times also mentioned it, as did new...

3 months ago
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Mabel's Bonfire

A local friend of mine recently posted online a passage from Susan Orlean’s 2018 non-fiction book The Library Book, about the unsolved 1986 arson at the Los Angeles Central Library, which reads:

“There have been a number of book bu...

5 months ago
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The Radioactive Rolex

I recently happened upon a Jacksonville, North Carolina, news story featuring the headline “Suspected Radioactive Watch Worn by Marine” from the December 20, 1959, edition of Charleston, West Virginia’s Sunday Gazette-Mail. The story begins...

6 months ago
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