Aside from the historical significance of these images and their interesting subject matter, I am also laying the foundation for a future article with this post… So, first of all, who was Roddy Scott? Roddy Scott was a talented and dedicated freelance journalist/photojournalist who was, by all accounts, a genuinely decent person of the sort … Continue reading
One of my childhood heroes was Gary Gabelich and I always wanted to know more about him. So, I decided to finally get around to this project and to post the results of my research. Gary Gabelich was born on August 29, 1940 in San Pedro, California although he was of Croatian descent. He began … Continue reading
One of my favorite authors, Anthony Loyd, describes being in an automobile accident in Africa… A few miles before Makeni, the surface of the road improved and Twin put his foot down. The sun shone from a cloudless sky. We moved faster and faster. I leaned back and began to doze in the heat. The … Continue reading
Countess Elizabeth Bathory has gone down in history as Die Blutgrafin (The Blood Countess), who tortured to death over six hundred women and girls, sometimes biting chunks of flesh from their necks and breasts – the origin of legends that she bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her own skin white and translucent. … Continue reading
Fifteenth-century Wallachian prince Vlad Tepes is all too often credited with being Dracula, the vampire-count featured in the classic Gothic horror story Dracula (1897) written by Anglo-Irish novelist Bram Stoker. The association of these two unholy figures – one historical, the other fictitious – is nothing more than a product of popular imagination though. But … Continue reading
A prehistoric mammoth hunter A Greek hoplite who fought the Persians A soldier of Alexander the Great who fought at the siege of Tyre Hannibal A Roman legionary under Julius Caesar An English knight during the Hundred Years War A Napoleonic marshal Continue reading
The owner of the estate at 3620 Sweetwater Mesa Road, which sits high above Malibu, California, calls himself a prince, and he certainly lives like one. A long, tree-lined driveway runs from the estate’s main gate past a motor court with fountains and down to a 15,000-square-foot mansion with eight bathrooms and an equal number … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 