E.L. Hamilton
E.L. Hamilton is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by E.L. Hamilton:
Carrie Fisher, who joked about her mental illness, got in one last laugh at her own memorial service
The Wild West era, a period of myth-making cowboys, gunslingers, and saloon madames, actually lasted only 30 years
The inspiration for Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” was a beautiful woman he met on a Greek island
The cold-blooded Cocaine Godmother of Colombia invented the motorcycle drive-by shooting that killed her
The real “Sound of Music”: Moody Maria married a man 25 years her senior, the family lost their wealth before WWII, and she sold her autobiography to Hollywood for $9,000
Mystery: Hours before his death, Edgar Allan Poe was found in the gutter, disheveled and raving
One of the last autographs John Lennon signed was on December 8, 1980, the day he died, and it was at the request of his murderer
The Wacko Story Behind the Expression “It’s Raining Cats and Dogs”
Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line
In mid-1800s, the terrain and climate of American Southwest posed a daunting challenge, so a solution was found: Buy camels
