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Just before Christmas 1908 wealthy 82-year-old spinster Marion Gilchrist was found bludgeoned to dea..

On 17th July 1918 the whole of the Russian Imperial Family was murdered. There were no miraculous es..

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At 12.16am on Wednesday June 5 1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the s..

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Once upon a time a burnt-out Claire Dunn spent a year living off the grid in a wilderness survival p..

For four months and five hundred miles Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon following track..

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Robin Hood Dick Turpin Ronnie Biggs the Krays. . .All have become folk heroes glamorised and romanti..

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