Martin Chalakoski
Martin Chalakoski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Martin Chalakoski:
Many Icelanders believe that the Huldufólk, a race of elves, live among them but in smaller houses
Guy de Maupassant ate lunch at base of the Eiffel Tower everyday so he’d be spared from looking at it
“The Blues Brothers” mayhem: John Belushi fell asleep in a stranger’s house, Dan Aykroyd proposed to Carrie Fisher
From Avenger and Bond Girl in the 1960s to “Game of Thrones” today: Diana Rigg
How Léon Werth’s flight from France in 1940 influenced Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “The Little Prince”
Timothy Dexter sold coal to Newcastle, faked his funeral, caned his wife for not weeping
The Rocketeer, the Scientologist, and the Lady in between
In 1885, a Victorian barmaid’s suicide attempt was thwarted by her own crinoline
The heartbreaking story of Joseph Merrick, the real “Elephant Man”
Will and William West conundrum: How two unrelated but identical inmates showed need for fingerprinting
