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They flew 23,672 missions, dropped 3,000 tons of bombs, and destroyed over 300 enemy targets. All in outdated planes with paper maps, pencils and no parachutes. The Soviet Union’s all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment were absolutely hardcore. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-night…

Bad luck, starvation and cannibalism. The story of The Donner Party and their doomed journey. 👇🏼⛰🗻 dannydutch.com/post/bad-luck-…

Jackie Chan’s parents lived incredible lives, his father was a spy and smuggler who survived assassination attempts; his mother trafficked opium and ran with gambling gangs. They met when he arrested her. A story as old as time! 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-remar…

Current global geopolitics explained "Strength wins and defecates on Reason" A delightfully pessimistic detail from Sebastiano di Re's satyrical print "Questo Mondo è come una gabbia de matti" (this world is like a cage of fools), Rome, mid 16th century

Remembering Lee Miller on her birthday. 👇🏻 dannydutch.com/post/don-t-let…

In 1915 Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka commissioned a life-sized doll to be made of the love of his life, Alma Mahler. She had married someone else and he clearly didn't react well. Kokoschka’s butler suffered a stroke upon first seeing the creature. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-obses…

In 1971, Dutch artists, photographers and graphic designers created a human alphabet for Avant Garde Magazine No.14: Belles Lettres – an A-to Z in nudes. The nude Belles Lettres is based on the font Baskerville Old Face. Typography is art. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/belles-le…

Paul Grüninger saved over 3,000 Jewish refugees by defying Swiss orders in 1938–39. He lost his job, his pension, his reputation — and died in poverty. He wasn’t fully recognised until decades after his death. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/paul-gr%C…

Van Morrison was broke, trapped in a dodgy record deal, head-butted by gangsters, and still managed to write Astral Weeks in Boston gardens. Quite a story. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/van-morri…

Diane Arbus struggled with depression all her life and ended it in 1971 aged just 48, a short but brilliant career. I've compiled a small gallery of her work and a bit of a bio 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/diane-arb…

Slightly obsessed with passport booth photos from the 1930s - 1950s. They're little nuggets of stories. I've found loads of 'em! 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-golde…

In Vienna during the 1920s, Olga Solarics and her husband Adorján von Wlassics worked in their Studio Manassé to create some brilliantly surreal photography. (It's a bit NSFW) 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/studio-ma…

On this day in 1996 the Port Arthur Massacre in Australia began, 35 people were killed and 23 were wounded. Australia immediately went about reforming gun laws and around 650,000 firearms were collected and destroyed. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-port-…

In 1920, Bill McCoy turned to rum-running, selling pure liquor off New Jersey aboard his schooner Tomoka. Refusing to work with organised crime, he became a Prohibition folk hero. Captured in 1923, he later launched The Real McCoy brand. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-real-…

On this day in 2011, Prince William married Kate Middleton. Congrats! 🎉🎉

In 1968, heiress Barbara Mackle was kidnapped, buried alive in a box for 83 hours while her family paid the $500,000 ransom. Her abductors, Gary Steven Krist and Ruth Eisemann Schier, were eventually captured. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/buried-al…

In 1870–1910 Estonia, Tartu Uni frat students staged drag plays as initiation rites—costumes, makeup, the lot. They even took studio portraits in character. Here's a collection of the before drag and after drag images 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/drag-in-t…

In 1988 the first official Miss Soviet Union beauty pageant took place. These are some of the images of the run-up to the event. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-first…

Jimmy Lee Grey was executed in 1983 for the murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales. He died in a visibly agonising and prolonged manner, which in his case is no bad thing. It was so violent that Mississippi changed its execution laws. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/jimmy-lee…

In 1912 'Louis & Lola' became known as the Titanic Orphans, they had been out on a lifeboat on the night of the sinking without a parent or guardian. However, a month later their mother arrived from France. This is their story. 👇🏼 dannydutch.com/post/the-story…