Layout4 – The Retrospectors

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YESTERDAY:
The Nellie Bly Express
DAY BEFORE:
27 Years in the Jungle
DAY BEFORE THAT:
Rock N Roll’s Big Night
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
Lalli and the Axe

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
The Nellie Bly Express
DAY BEFORE:
27 Years in the Jungle
DAY BEFORE THAT:
Rock N Roll’s Big Night
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
Lalli and the Axe

OLLY MANN

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REBECCA MESSINA

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ARION MCNICOLL

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27 Jan: Let’s Embalm Lenin

The corpse of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, was placed on display in Moscow's Red Square on 27th January, 1924 - where, astonishingly, he remains viewable to this day. He’d wanted to be buried next to his mother in Saint Petersburg, but after he suffered a series of strokes,…

25 Jan: The Nellie Bly Express

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly returned from her 72-day trip around the world on 25th January, 1890. The final leg of the journey was upon a chartered train to New Jersey, nicknamed ‘the Nellie Bly Express’, and Bly was greeted by adoring fans as she traversed the country.Inspired by Jules Verne’s…

24 Jan: 27 Years in the Jungle

Japanese ‘holdout’ Shoichi Yokoi had been hiding out in the jungles of Guam since the Second World War when he was discovered by hunters on 24th January, 1972, dressed in clothes woven from tree fibre.The 57 year-old soldier had endured 27 years living in an underground shelter he dug himself,…

23 Jan: Rock N Roll’s Big Night

The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame welcomed its first inductees in a star-studded event at the Waldorf Astoria, New York on 23rd January, 1986. But the ceremony was not the glamorous HBO spectacular we have come to expect today: the audience was mostly music executives, and it was not…

20 Jan: Lalli and the Axe

According to Finnish legend, a peasant farmer named Lalli murdered the Christian missionary Bishop Henry on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi on January 20, 1156, dispatching him with an axe blow to the head.It is fair to say things didn’t go terribly well for Lalli after that. He met a…

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