Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 31, 2023 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Music, 1960s, Mental Health and Insanity, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Lyttle, originally from Ireland, inherited a 20-room property in the London borough of Hackney. In the mid-sixties he dug out a wine cellar under his home. Having done so, he said that he had "found a taste for the thing" and kept on digging, for some forty years.[2] He created a network of tunnels, wide and narrow, on several levels. Tunnels led in all directions, some of them up to 18 metres (59 ft) in length, and reaching as far down as the water table.[3] One excavation connected with the Dalston Lane tunnel, and the railway line.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 24, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Eccentrics, Caves, Caverns, Tunnels and Other Subterranean Venues, United Kingdom, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 02, 2023 -
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Category: Animals, Eccentrics, Hollywood, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
He had to walk around the world to fulfill a bet that he lost. It required him to wear an iron mask (a helmet from a suit of armor) to conceal his identity, and he also had to push a perambulator (baby carriage) throughout his travels. He called himself "The Man with the Iron Mask" (inspired by the seventeenth-century Man in the Iron Mask), and the only way he could support himself during his journey was by selling postcards and pamphlets
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 01, 2023 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Eccentrics, Travel, Bets, Wagers, Challenges and Contracts, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 05, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Fashion, Movies, Pets, 1910s
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 29, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Engineering and Construction, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, 1950s
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 13, 2022 -
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Category: Domestic, Eccentrics, Emigrants, Immigrants and Borders, Air Travel and Airlines, Europe
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 01, 2022 -
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Category: Art, Eccentrics, Holidays, Music, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, Books
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 28, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Outsider Art, Books, Nineteenth Century, Blood
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 25, 2022 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Books
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