G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 1031
September 4, 2013
Postcard found here
The dress is courtesy of the Met, Dress...
'Five o'clock tea.'
Cassell’s Magazine, 1879.
'Five o'clock tea.'
Cassell’s Magazine, 1879.
Pretty Lady Marcelle Lender in 1904
Photo by Reutlinger (also...
Pretty Lady Marcelle Lender in 1904
Photo by Reutlinger (also painted by Toulouse-Lautrec)
September 3, 2013
More things should be like this.
More things should be like this.
Bandra Ohm 140m residential tower (named the Parinee Ism by the...
Bandra Ohm 140m residential tower (named the Parinee Ism by the architects), currently under construction in Mumbai, is designed to evoke the ripple effect generated by water droplets.Each unit features a narrow vertigo-inducing infinity pool
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861– May 7, 1896), better known...
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861– May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which four were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 200.He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, which was less than two miles away, to his “World’s Fair” hotel.
The case was notorious in its time and received wide publicity through a series of articles in William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. Interest in Holmes' crimes was revived in 2003 by Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, a best-selling non-fiction book that juxtaposed an account of the planning and staging of the World’s Fair with Holmes’ story. His story had been previously chronicled in The Torture Doctor by David Franke (1975), Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America’s First Serial Killer by Harold Schechter (1994), and chapter VI “The Monster of Sixty-Third Street” of Gem of the Prairie: An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld by Herbert Asbury (1940, republished 1986).
