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Alan Rickman: Cinema's Greatest Silver Tongued Devil #sponsored

Check out http://squarespace.com/biographics [http://squarespace.com/biographics] to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship. #alanrickman #diehard #snape → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1] Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw] TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet [https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet] Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb [https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb] Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant [https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant] OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint [https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint] Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ [https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/] Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine [https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine] Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ [https://www.youtube.com/] @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood [https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood] Further Reading: References: https://www.biography.com/actors/alan-rickman [https://www.biography.com/actors/alan-rickman] https://books.google.com/books?id=CJtVEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=madly+deeply+alan+rickman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJxZqXlpaTAxVpR_4FHakCLSYQ6AF6BAgKEAM [https://books.google.com/books?id=CJtVEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=madly+deeply+alan+rickman&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJxZqXlpaTAxVpR_4FHakCLSYQ6AF6BAgKEAM] https://www.rcasociety.net/content/alan-rickman-1946-2016 [https://www.rcasociety.net/content/alan-rickman-1946-2016] https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/the-rca-journal-the-alan-rickman-issues [https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/the-rca-journal-the-alan-rickman-issues] https://mugglenet.com/2012/01/ny-times-interviews-alan-rickman-discusses-his-unique-voice-and-potter/ [https://mugglenet.com/2012/01/ny-times-interviews-alan-rickman-discusses-his-unique-voice-and-potter/] https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/obituary-alan-rickman [https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--archive/obituaries/obituary-alan-rickman] https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1987/category/any/show/any/ [https://www.tonyawards.com/nominees/year/1987/category/any/show/any/] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpERkyv_yw [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpERkyv_yw] https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/25/movies/big-hollywood-salaries-a-magnet-for-the-stars-and-the-public.html [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/25/movies/big-hollywood-salaries-a-magnet-for-the-stars-and-the-public.html] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-17-ca-9545-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-17-ca-9545-story.html] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpG9YaPF-nM [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpG9YaPF-nM] https://www.bafta.org/awards/search/?search=alan+rickman [https://www.bafta.org/awards/search/?search=alan+rickman] https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/terrible-movie-script-alan-rickman-rewrite/ [https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/terrible-movie-script-alan-rickman-rewrite/] https://www.televisionacademy.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-lead-actor-in-a-miniseries-or-a-movie [https://www.televisionacademy.com/awards/nominees-winners/1996/outstanding-lead-actor-in-a-miniseries-or-a-movie] https://goldenglobes.com/tv-show/rasputin/ [https://goldenglobes.com/tv-show/rasputin/] https://oncodaily.com/stories/celebrities/alan-rickman-pancreatic-cancer [https://oncodaily.com/stories/celebrities/alan-rickman-pancreatic-cancer] https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64907196/ [https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64907196/] https://www.people.com/article/alan-rickman-married-rima-horton [https://www.people.com/article/alan-rickman-married-rima-horton] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-british-actor-died-from-pancreatic-cancer-a6814686.html [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-british-actor-died-from-pancreatic-cancer-a6814686.html] Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Boris Yeltsin: Russia's Inaugural President #sponsored

Boris Yeltsin: The First Russian President #sponsored 17 May 2025 --- #biography #ussr #biography 🔒Remove your personal information from the web at https://joindeleteme.com/BIOGRAPHICS and use code BIOGRAPHICS for 20% off 🙌 DeleteMe international Plans: https://international.joindeleteme.com → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine 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: References Yeltsin’s Revolution by Leon Rabinovich Aron https://archive.org/details/yeltsinrevolutio00aron/mode/2up Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Democratic Transformation by Herbert J. Ellison https://archive.org/details/borisyeltsinruss0000elli_d6h2/mode/2up  References https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/07/11/yeltsin-sworn-in-as-russian-president/533c96df-a858-44a7-8827-eab25130a551/ https://archive.org/details/yeltsinrevolutio00aron/page/4/mode/2up https://www.britannica.com/money/collectivization https://www.britannica.com/topic/kolkhoz https://www.augb.co.uk/holodomor/dekulakisation-and-collectivisation https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/gulag https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin https://www.britannica.com/topic/Central-Committee-Soviet-political-body  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Congress-of-Peoples-Deputies https://www.britannica.com/topic/1991-Soviet-coup-attempt https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/coup-attempt-against-gorbachev-collapses https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/02/world/bush-and-yeltsin-declare-formal-end-to-cold-war-agree-to-exchange-visits.html https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/Post-Soviet-Russia https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/inflation-cpi https://www.google.co.za/books/edition/China_s_Rise_Russia_s_Fall/Nil-DAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=China%27s+Rise,+Russia%27s+Fall+peter+nolan&printsec=frontcover https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/boris-yeltsin#section_3 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-an-update-from-the-front-line-luke-harding-copy https://www.history.com/news/bill-clinton-boris-yeltsin-drunk-1994-russian-state-visit https://www.dw.com/en/with-a-little-help-from-his-friends-the-reelection-of-boris-yeltsin/a-62237636  https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/26/russian-election-interference-meddling/ https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/98-578.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/090999russia-launder.html https://jamestown.org/program/gorbachev-and-yeltsin-assess-putins-perestroika/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1059784.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1215204.stm https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9255088 https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/world/europe/24yeltsin.html https://youtu.be/ZVitEiKkRZ8?si=it6yZ6Xgo5cH2RSq&t=360 Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Leonid Brezhnev: The Dawn of the End of the Soviet Union #sponsored

Leonid Brezhnev: The Beginning of the End of the Soviet Union #sponsored 27 Apr 2025 --- #biography #russia #ussr Get an exclusive 15% discount on Saily eSIM data plans! Use code BIOS at checkout. Download Saily app or go to https://saily.com/bios → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine 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: Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman by Susanne Schattenberg, Bloomsbury 2022 Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Fiorello La Guardia: America's Cherished Mayor #sponsored

Fiorello La Guardi: America's Favorite Mayor #sponsored 20 Jun 2025 --- Check out http://squarespace.com/biographics to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship #biography #history #newyorkcity → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine 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: The Napoleon of New York by H. Paul Jeffers, John Wiley and Sons 2002 Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Harry Thaw: The Inaugural Killer Playboy

Harry Thaw: The Original Killer Playboy 7 Dec 2023 --- “Trial of the century” - it’s a short and snappy phrase that grabs people’s attention. That’s probably why the press has relied on it whenever dealing with a high-profile court case to drum up as much interest as possible for a juicy story that dominates the headlines. Hey, even we here at Biographics haven’t shied away from using that old adage when describing some of the stories we’ve covered such as the trial of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle for the murder of Virginia Rappe or the trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard who stood accused of killing his wife. But today we’re going back even further, to one of the first-ever cases to earn the moniker of “trial of the century” and, to this day, still one of the most intriguing and shocking - the 1906 murder of renowned American architect Stanford White at the hands of mentally-unstable playboy Harry Thaw, ostensibly to protect the honor of his wife, famed supermodel Evelyn Nesbit. So what made this case so compelling? One contemporary reporter listed all the qualities of this murder scandal that gripped the nation: "You see, it had in it wealth, degeneracy, rich old wasters, delectable young chorus girls and adolescent artists' models; the behind-the-scenes of Theatredom and the Underworld, and the Great White Way. . . the abnormal pastimes and weird orgies of overly aesthetic artists and jaded debauchees…" This is the story of a love triangle that ended in murder and became front-page news all over the country as America waited to find out with bated breath what fate would befall Harry Thaw, the killer playboy. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our 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: Paula Uruburu - American Eve Benjamin Atwell - The Great Harry Thaw Case Gerald Langford - The Murder of Stanford White Crime Library - https://web.archive.org/web/20121007084604/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/white/1.html Library of Congress - https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-stanford-white-murder PBS - https://web.archive.org/web/20160318043417/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/century/sfeature/sf_interview.html NYTimes archive - https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/02/23/171350602.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]