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2381) The Lady Killer
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These serial killers had a disdain for women behind their charming facades. Ricardo Caputo was a handsome young man, a sketch artist who was fluent in various languages. His dark hair, dimpled chin, and deep eyes, accompanied with his charming personality, drew people to him. He enjoyed the attention he received from women and tended to seek out intelligent partners who he could hold a conversation with, and preferred women who would sympathize with...
2382) The Internet Black Widow
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Melissa hasn't always been a danger to men. She was born, Melissa Ann Russell, on the 16th May 1935 in New Brunswick, Canada. Melissa's first marriage, to Russel Shepard, seemed relatively normal. The marriage lasted over two decades, before eventually ending in divorce. Perhaps this experience turned Melissa cynical, because every relationship that followed was anything but normal. Melissa and Shepard had been living in Prince Edward Island for 25...
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Masaaki Hiroi is an extremely renowned craftsman, who earned his status to be recognized as an artist. Masaaki Hiroi makes Edo tops, toys played by both adults and children not only in present-day Japan but also all over the world. He has created numerous Trick tops out of his imagination and creativity which use the spinning motion to move wooden dolls or other wooden items. Masaaki Hiroi's trick tops have unique movements and tastes. His versions...
2384) Félicien Rops
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Félicien Rops (1833-1898) est un artiste très surprenant. Graveur et dessinateur d'exception, Félicien Rops capte et anticipe le corps féminin avec un talent étonnant et une grande modernité. Abandonnant les formes conventionnelles de l'époque, l'artiste crée un monde plein d'humour, de tendresse et, parfois, d'insolence pour la jubilation de l'œil du spectateur. Nombre des œuvres les plus célèbres de Rops traitent de thèmes érotiques...
2385) La leyenda de Pirosmani
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Drama histórico, acontecimientos que se tuvieron lugar en la región de Tiflis del Imperio ruso a finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX.
Con motivo del centenario de la muerte del gran pintor Nikó Pirosmani.
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What is counterculture?
— It's an alternative lifestyle...
— The ideas that spread a revolution...
— A movement that changes the world...
This new collection of essays celebrates the incredible originality of British post-war culture. British Art, film, theatre, dance, literature and music have attracted international recognition, from the Angry Young Men to the Sex Pistols to Grayson Perry. Now gaming, the internet and social media enable...
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An anthology of True Crime detailing the exploits of murderous women, young and old. This anthology is headlined by "The Prom Mom". If ever there was a case where the facts tell just a fraction of the story, then it is the one of Melissa Drexler.
The bare details-teenage woman attends the school prom, gives birth to a baby, murders it, and returns to the dance floor-suggest a woman of such callousness that she should still be incarcerated twenty...
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PORN STARS, STRIPPERS, ESCORTS AND PORN PURVEYERS ALL COMMITTING MURDER IN THESE LURID TALES OF TRUE CRIMEAMANDA LOGUE: Amber Logue had a double life. She was married with a young daughter. But only her husband knew what she was doing on the side to earn money.
Prostitution. Pornography.
She headlined several adult films under the stage name of "Sunny Dae". Together with her bisexual partner, Jason Andrews, the two would reach heights of sexual...
2389) They Married to Kill
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They killed... and they didn't give a damn... When these women said "I do" on their wedding day they really meant "I kill." Two killer mistresses are profiled here in Tania Herman and Amy Bosley. Tania Herman felt jealous of her boyfriend's wife so she decided to strangle her and stuff her in the trunk of her car. Amy Bosley stole millions from her husband's roofing business but when he found out about it she didn't want to argue about it... she just...
2390) Arcimboldo
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Si, selon l'expression connue, vous êtes ce que vous mangez, alors Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) fut le peintre parfait de l'âme humaine. Cet artiste était un dessinateur de talent. Dans cet ouvrage fascinant, Liana de Girolami Cheney se penche sur la critique historique du travail d'Arcimboldo, à partir des débuts de son succès et de l'obscurité tragique qui entoure sa mort, jusqu'à la redécouverte de son travail, en particulier par les...
2391) Serial Killing Sluts
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Sharon Kinne. Joan Shannon. Celeste Beard. Three of the most notorious female serial killers in modern times have also been the most promiscuous. Sharon Kinne slept with as many men as she could, killing those where she could make a profit. She would escape from prison and remain at large to this day. Joan Shannon ran her own "swingers club" before recruiting her own daughter to murder her husband for insurance money. Celeste Beard would marry over...
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Partez à la découverte de Wang Wei avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Choyé par la noblesse, il est poète de cour. Lauréat des concours impériaux et haut fonctionnaire, il est poète lettré. Cependant, hors de la capitale, il aménage une résidence de campagne et se réserve des jours de loisir et de méditation. Il partage les goûts de son temps pour la musique, la calligraphie, la peinture et la poésie, et excelle dans chacun de ces...
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF TRUE CRIME THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MAURA MURRAY The case of Maura Murray's disappearance is one that has left police and conspiracy theorists baffled for more than a decade. Her sudden disappearance is one that makes very little sense and the available information regarding who she is as a person and her motive behind her attempt to leave town prior to vanishing isn't easy to wrap our brains around. Maura has been missing since February...
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN GONE MISSING
AMY LYNN BRADLEY
For most people, a cruise to the Caribbean is an exhilarating, fascinating experience-but for others, the holiday can be memorable for the entirely wrong reasons. The Caribbean is one of the top cruise destination for many major cruise operators, and millions of people travel there each year. It's the perfect place to enjoy exotic sights, sounds, and flavors while taking advantage of the Caribbean's...
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Two harrowing true crime tales of women kidnapped by serial killers.
Jerry Brudos-A father, husband, son, an electrical engineer, and a murderer. Those words do not begin to describe serial killer Jerry Brudos (a.k.a. The Lust Killer). No one expected this average looking, middle-aged man to be a heartless murderer, but "serial killer" was not the only category that this evil man fell under. You'll also find Mr. Brudos' name under: "necrophiliac",...
2396) Hans Memling
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Little is known of Memling's life. It is surmised that he was a German by descent but the definite fact of his life is that he painted at Bruges, sharing with the van Eycks, who had also worked in that city, the honour of being the leading artists of the so-called 'School of Bruges'. He carried on their method of painting, and added to it a quality of gentle sentiment. In his case, as in theirs, Flemish art, founded upon local conditions and embodying...
2397) Hans Memling
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Memling (Hans Memling) (Seligenstadt, 1433 – Bruges, 1494)On sait très peu de choses sur la vie de Memling. On suppose qu'il était d'ascendance allemande et né à Mayence. Mais il est établi qu'il peignit à Bruges, partageant avec les van Eyck, qui avaient aussi oeuvré dans cette ville, l'honneur de compter parmi les artistes majeurs de l' «Ecole de Bruges ». Il perpétua leur méthode de peinture, lui ajoutant une touche de bon sentiment....
2398) The Missing Beauty Queen
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Tara Grinstead was a beauty pageant winner and high school teacher who strangely disappeared on October 22nd, 2005. The mystery of her disappearance is as baffling now as it was over ten years ago. Tara was a beautiful woman in a small town and drew the attention of many men. But as investigators peeled back the onion on her life, they discovered that she had a complex personal life, one with many lovers and layers of relationship any one of whom...
2399) Murdered Actresses
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A look back at the untimely deaths of some of the rising stars in the film world... When someone disappears, there is a whole mess of factors to consider. Sometimes, it's a simple as someone stepping out of their old lives and into a new one. Other times, the disappearance smacks of something much more sinister. In history, whole families have vanished out of thin air. Mothers and children have gotten into a car, and driven away, never to be seen...
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Thomas Stack's death didn't surprise a lot of people when it happened. He was an alcoholic, and everyone suspected that he accidentally poisoned himself. But once the small town of Farmington heard that Cynthia Galens was actually behind the murder and that she used a large amount of antifreeze to get rid of her husband, everyone was in pure shock. Cynthia was a lovely lady without prior charges, but she did complain a couple of times that Thomas...
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