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1967 Lance Corporal Buddy Mann from De Valls Bluff, Arkansas talks about his experience in Con Thien, Vietnam. (Tiếng Việt: Cồn Tiên, meaning the "Hill of Angels") He was killed shortly after this interview.

There's a tree in Bükk National Park, Hungary that was cut down years ago. The big tree in the photo has been holding onto and feeding it ever since. They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn.

It's Woody Guthrie's birthday! His 1950s Brooklyn landlord was Fred Trump, whose Beach Haven complex enforced racial segregation. Guthrie wrote bitter, unrecorded protest songs about him, rediscovered in 2016. 👇🏼 utterlyinteresting.com/post/woody-gut…

Orson Welles removing his makeup after shooting the final scene of Citizen Kane, 1940

A petition to the Home Office for clemency was signed by 50,000 people, but was rejected by the Home Secretary and Ellis became the last woman to receive the death penalty in Britain. 5 days ago Ellis was granted a conditional pardon by the King. utterlyinteresting.com/post/the-story…

Ruth Ellis poses for Captain Ritchie (1954) probably in the flat above her club on the Brompton Road in Knightsbridge. Ellis was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, and hanged on this day in 1955, becoming the last woman to receive the death penalty in Britain.

In early 1900s NYC, women arrested for swindling, brothel-keeping, even homicide were measured and photographed under Bertillon's ID system, later exposed as flawed by two Kansas prisoners. Their cards are eerie time capsules. See them here - utterlyinteresting.com/post/pretty-gi…

Isabella Ziegler. Photographed upon her release from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility For Women, July 6th 1920. Her crime was listed as 'Grand Larceny'. Such a great look she's giving the camera, over 100 years later and that look could still kill.

The grave of an American pilot buried by Imperial Japanese troops. The sign reads "Sleeping here, a brave air-hero who lost youth and happiness for his Mother land. July 25 - Nippon Army". Kiska, Alaska, 25 August 1943.

In 1922, novelist W.L. George sat down and put his mind to envisioning what the world would be like 100 years later.

@IsabelOakeshott Just a thought, but what if they stopped exploiting Ann Widdecombe's murder? Might be worth a go.

The demonisation of Reform leaders -eg casually accusing them of “exploiting” Ann Widdecombe’s murder-has very real consequences for their safety. This could not be more serious. Please: just stop. It is NOT a game.

And it all started with a dream - utterlyinteresting.com/post/ormond-gi…

“The Girls in the Windows” photographed by Ormond Gigli in 1960. Possibly the most profitable photograph ever, it's made $12million so far.

This is a Chrysina limbata, a metallic silver beetle found in the tropical rainforests of Central America, including Costa Rica, and Mexico

She survived the Gestapo twice, once by biting her own tongue until it bled to fake tuberculosis, but the war never killed her. In 1952 a stalker stabbed her to death in a London hotel lobby. Hers is a brilliant story. 👇🏼 utterlyinteresting.com/post/krystyna-…

Meet the WW2 SOE Operative Krystyna Skarbek (also known as Christine Granville), one of her MANY bad ass moments was when she walked into a Gestapo-held French town, bluffed an SS officer into thinking she was a general's niece, and freed 3 prisoners hours before their execution.

@Glen_Binnie Wookie’s are famously anti-fur.

@UtterlyInterest Wot, No Chewbacca?

The November 1977 issue of US Vogue featured a pretty unique crossover: “The Force of Fur,” photographed by Eisuke Ishimuro and styled by Jade Hobson.

At dusk on 11 July 1951, a crowd began gathering outside the apartment building at 6139 to 6143 West 19th Street. Estimates of the size of the mob vary between sources, ranging from around 2,000 up to 6,000 people at its peak. 👇🏼 utterlyinteresting.com/post/cicero-ra…

On this day in 1951, 4000 white residents of Cicero, Illinois, began a riot after a Black family attempted to move into an apartment building in the town. The riot lasted several days.