Law changes history. There are plenty examples of that: The Magna Carta, the Napoleonic Code, the United States Constitution. So do criminal trials. In 1985, Fritjof Haft, criminal law professor at the University of Tübingen in Germany, published a...
An Interview with Ron Franscell, Coauthor of the New Book, “Morgue: A Life in Death” Vincent van Gogh’s death is one of greatest mysteries of the art world. Historians can tell you this much for sure: The Dutch artist was staying in...
Did the church usher mistake him for a duke? And did Mark Twain mistake the empress for someone else? Mark Twain’s account of an encounter with Empress Augusta of Germany counts among his most hilarious sketches of Baden-Baden. It appears in A Tramp...
The thing that scares me most about the Jack the Ripper case is not the murders. Oh, no. It’s the number of suspects! The list of men accused of the world’s most famous serial killing spree now far outstrips the number of victims, and fresh suspects...
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