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The Harpe Brothers: America's Inaugural Serial Killers

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Jack London: The Call of Resilience

Jack London: The Call of Survival 12 Mar 2024 --- Jack London was arguably America’s first celebrity author. His life, though short, was one of adventure and often controversy. He was a poacher, a failed gold miner, worked in a cannery, spun jute, and rode the rails as a hobo, all before reaching the age of eighteen. He became a world-famous writer, an outspoken advocate for animal rights, workers’ rights, eugenics, socialism, and atheism. His work as a writer made him fabulously rich, and he flaunted his wealth shamelessly. A lifelong unashamed love of drinking led to his admitted addiction to alcohol, and a frank discussion of alcoholism in his memoir/novel John Barleycorn. London wrote of the titular character, a euphemism for whiskey, “He gives clear vision, and muddy dreams. He is the enemy of life, and the teacher of wisdom beyond life’s wisdom”. In his book, he gave a new term to the English lexicon, describing the drunkard, whom, stupid with drink, “…falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants”. Seeing pink elephants has been a metaphor for drunkenness ever since. London’s work was marked with a realism the reader often sensed and the writer had often experienced. His most evil character, the sadistic sea captain Wolf Larsen in The Sea Witch, was based on a seafarer he had known in his youth. The Yukon characters of White Fang and The Call of the Wild were based on people he knew during his own adventures in the north. Though he exuded a hale and hearty appearance, his health was often frail, and he was subject to several illnesses, most of them aggravated by his chronic drinking. He rose from rags to riches, though he never lost sight of the rags. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Check out Eric's Stuff: Storytelling Deep Dive Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/EricMalikyte Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/318/318-h/318-h.htm https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/heinolds-first-and-last-chance-saloon https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/goldrush.htm http://exhibits.lib.usu.edu/exhibits/show/jacklondon/russojapanese https://www.americanheritage.com/tr-and-nature-fakers https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/love-of-life https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/evolution-today/social-darwinism https://www.who.int/health-topics/yaws#tab=tab_1 https://jacklondonpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Death-of-Jack-London-Fact-and-Fiction-by-Lou-Leal-2016.pdf https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28/four-legs-good Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen: A Notorious International Murder Mystery

Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen: A Notorious Transatlantic Murder Mystery 28 Nov 2023 --- Check out NordVPN and get 4 months EXTRA on a 2-year plan by going to https://nordvpn.com/bio. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39420 https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/30/mode/2up?view=theater https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39420 https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/10/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/12/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/42/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/44/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/46/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/50/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/54/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/worldsmostinfamo00gall/page/16/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/94/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/94/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/100/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39420 https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/36/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/worldsmostinfamo00gall/page/20/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/46/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/96/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/mildmurderert00cull/page/124/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/58/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/drcrippen0000wats/page/60/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/worldsmostinfamo00gall/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/worldsmostinfamo00gall/page/24/mode/2up?view=theater https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-10802059 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/execution-dr-crippen Oxford Dictionary of National Biography History Today Katherine D. Watson - Dr Crippen Tom Cullen - The Mild Murderer The World’s Most Infamous Crimes and Criminals PBS - Secrets of the Dead Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Lucille Ball: The Red Head With Guts Who Changed TV Forever

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Charles Cullen - America's Most Notorious Angel of Death

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