The Hardy boys' investigation of a museum robbery in England arouses the anger of a coven of black witches. There is no time for explanations when Mr. Hardy telephones Frank and Joe from the West Coast and sends them flying off to England to help his old friend Professor Rowbotham. Their stay in East Anglia begins with a weird omen, as they witness the bizarre funeral of an old witchmaster. From then on, strange things happen. They are shadowed,...

The man who would come to be known across the world as John Wayne was not born to be a superstar. He was born Marion Robert Morrison in a small wooden house in the state of Iowa. In his early years he rode a horse to school and swam with his younger brother in a nearby ditch. He was a promising athlete and began a degree in law, but both pursuits would end in frustration. So how did he climb the slippery rungs of the Hollywood ladder to become

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Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’d been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreath maker, and a circus acrobat, but that was just the beginning of her adventures. Here is her story, along with Ellie's, a modern woman a century later...