Martin Chalakoski
Martin Chalakoski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Martin Chalakoski:
The Ravens of the Tower of London: Guardians of the Crown & Her Majesty’s Royal Palace
Chang and Eng Bunker: The original Siamese twins had 22 children by 2 sisters
Moondyne Joe, the escape artist that no prison could hold, not even a specially designed concrete “escape-proof” cell
“Evacuate the children, put up the blackout curtains, kill the cat”: The mass pet killings of 1939
In 1885, a Victorian barmaid’s suicide attempt was thwarted by her own crinoline
The remains of the Winchester Palace: once one of the largest and most important buildings in all of medieval England
In 1982, 150 Icelanders went to the NATO base in Keflavík to protest the treatment of Elves
Despite what everyone thinks, bank heists were almost nonexistent in the Wild West
In 1965, a Man’s Car Was Hit by a Piece of Meteorite and His Insurance Company Called It ‘An Act of God’
Shot and blinded, a pigeon named Cher Ami continued her flight and saved 197 American soldiers at the end of World War I
