The story of Vera Renczi, a stunningly beautiful Romanian woman, always dressed in black, was first published in the USA in May 1925. After that, the story surfaced repeatedly, without any documentary support about the specific dates of her birth, marriage, arrest or death. She reportedly confessed about poisoning 35
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PASSIONATE PAINTINGS – The Rape of the Sabine Women
MOVIE MANIA – A Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
''The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendlerâ' (2009), a television film directed by John Kent Harrison, focuses on Irena Sendler, a young Polish social worker, who smuggled more or less 2,500 Jewish children to safety during WW II. The background of the movie is the early 1940âs in Warsaw, Poland. Two years into the war and
DEADLY DAMES – Griselda Blanco Restrepo
Griselda Blanco Restrepo, the infamous drug trafficker, was born in Cartagena, on the country's north coast of Colombia, on 15th February 1943. In her later life she was popularly known as La Madrina or Godmother. Apart from that, she was also known as the Black Widow, the Cocaine Godmother and the Queen of
PASSIONATE PAINTINGS – Pan and Syrinx
MOVIE MANIA – Salon Kitty
DEADLY DAMES – Ilse Koch
MOVIE MANIA – Cries and Whispers
Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) is a 1972 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullman. The film is all about pain, death, love, lust, hate, and self-loathing which create almost a claustrophobic feeling. The story is set on
PASSIONATE PAINTINGS – Bacchus and Ariadne
Bacchus and Ariadne (1522â1523) is an oil painting by Titian based on the subject derived from the Roman poets Catullus and Ovid, about Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, the king of Crete. Ariadne is mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths because of her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus. Her father put