In January 2020, a wedding took place deep in the mountains of Sinaloa, Mexico, involving the daughter of Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, El Chapo. NaN
In January 2020, in the mountains of Sinaloa, Mexico, a wedding took place that would soon dominate global headlines. Within 48 hours of the first images appearing online, millions of people across the world were sharing the same claim: this was a one hundred million dollar wedding. The celebration belonged to Alejandrina Guzmán Salazar, the … Read more
In November 1944, in eastern France, Black soldiers of the 761st Tank Battalion sat in the rain eating cold food while white soldiers ate hot meals inNaN
In November 1944, in a rest area behind the lines in eastern France, rain settled over the land like a permanent cold weight. Inside the mess hall, white soldiers ate hot food at wooden tables, steam rising from the trays, light holding back the dark. Outside, in the rain and mud, black soldiers from the … Read more
In 1680, a six-year-old girl weighing around 65 kilos was brought from rural Spain to the royal court of Charles II in Madrid. Eugenia Martínez Vallejo had grown alarmingly fast, and her parents,…
The invitation came to the family home as a knock on the door, and when the messenger from the royal court spoke, the request was not really a request at all. He asked whether the girl could be taken before Charles II of Spain, the king known to his own people as the Bewitched. She … Read more
In 1973, Frank Amato walked away from a divorce from Connie Castellano, the only daughter of Paul Castellano, the most powerful mob boss in America. HNaN
On the night of September 20, 1980, a thirty-eight-year-old man named Frank Amato walked into a neighborhood bar at the corner of East 41st Street and Flatlands Avenue in Brooklyn. The place had a jukebox, neon beer signs, and a back room where the lights never came on. Amato believed he was there to discuss … Read more
On July 12, 1943, around the village of Prokhorovka, Soviet tank crews charged down the slopes toward the advancing SS Panzer Corps, hoping to close tNaN
The massed Soviet tank formations came charging down the slopes in front of Prokhorovka on the morning of July 12, 1943, firing on the move with infantry from the Ninth Guards Airborne Division clinging to their hulls. Over five hundred tanks assaulted the southern outskirts of the town, held by the First SS Panzer Division, … Read more
In 1887, Sheriff Thomas Hargrove entered an abandoned farmhouse in Washington County, Arkansas, and found the Blackwood family’s belongings neatly folNaN
In the autumn of 1887, authorities in Washington County, Arkansas were alerted to a troubling situation. A small farmhouse on the outskirts of Crow Hollow had been abandoned. The property belonged to the Blackwood family, who had settled there nearly thirty years earlier. Ezekiel Blackwood had purchased the land in 1858, shortly after marrying Martha … Read more
In 1903, at the Delhi Durbar, Mary Curzon stood before 70,000 spectators in a gown embroidered with gold peacocks and thousands of beetle wings, weighNaN
Mary Victoria Leiter was born in Chicago in 1870 into a house of walnut and discipline, the daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter, a quiet man who had walked away from his Maryland village at nineteen and built a fortune in the city that was still half swamp and half speculation. When the Great Chicago Fire … Read more
On June 4, 1942, five Japanese dive-bomber pilots returned to the carrier Hiryu and reported that the American carrier they had just attacked was burnNaN
At midday on June 4, 1942, five Japanese dive bomber pilots returned to the carrier Hiryu after striking an American carrier northwest of Midway. They reported their target burning, dead in the water, and sinking. Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi received their report and nodded. It was the second time in twenty-seven days the Imperial Japanese Navy … Read more
In 1897, a 16-year-old showgirl rode a bicycle across a Broadway stage and caught the eye of William Randolph Hearst, the most powerful publisher in America. He returned night after night. Her…
On December 5th, 1974, Millicent Veronica Wilson Hearst died at her home at 4 East 66th Street in Manhattan at the age of 92. She had outlived her husband by 23 years, his mistress by 13. She had outlived the scandal, the gossip, the art sales at department stores, the conservation committee that stripped William … Read more
In 1871, Jamestown, New York, buzzed with industry, but at Charles Marlow’s brewery, shadows were gathering. A wealthy-sounding immigrant named WilliaNaN
In August 1871, Jamestown, New York, was a thriving industrial town on the shore of Chautauqua Lake, filled with workshops, mills, and foundries. At its western edge stood a brewery run by Charles Marlow, a German immigrant who had owned the business for about two years. He lived there with his wife Augusta, their two … Read more