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Fouad Ashraf
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Articles By Fouad Ashraf

Donna Summer the queen of disco – Part 2

This article is a continuation of ‘Donna Summer the queen of disco – Part 1.’ In the U.S., the Casablanca label heard it and the issue went beyond all expectations. We therefore intend to record a version of almost 17 ??minutes under the name of "Love To Love You Baby." Summer signed a contract with […]

Donna Summer the queen of disco – Part 1

The queen of disco 80’s, Donna Summer, died this morning in Florida (USA) at 63 years after losing his battle against cancer, according to the U.S. portal specializing in ‘celebrities’ TMZ. The singer tried at all times to maintain the degree of his illness away from the focus groups, and while fighting the disease, was […]

Simo Haya – The White Death

Häyhä Simo was a known sniper and has to his credit over 500 Soviet casualties during the Winter War of Finland (1939-1940). He is considered one of the most lethal snipers. Häyhä Simo was born in 1906 in Finland near the Russian border. Before the age of 18 performed compulsory military service which already showed […]

The Norwegian black widow

Born in Selbu (Norway, 1859), where he lived until 1883. Shortly after living in America changed its name, married Mads Sorenson and adopted three children: Jennie, Mirthle and Lucy. The case of Lady Bluebeard, nickname by which he meets Belle Gunness, is a paradigmatic case of black widow. Killed two husbands and 4 dozen men […]

The Black Widow of Loudon – Part 1

  It was one of the best known black widows in the history of crime for its spectacular process. Followed by all the people as if it were a soap opera judicial lasted almost ten years and ended in unpredictable ways. Davaillaud Philippine Marie Josephine, better known as Marie Besnard, born in France on August 15, […]

The Pyramid scam in Cuba

Baldomera created a "financial kiosk" very similar to what today is known as a pyramid scam. Daughter of Mariano José de Larra but never knew his father because he had already committed suicide. She was married to a physician of the royal family, when Alfonso XII was restored to the throne of Spain in 1875 […]

Victor Lustig, the king of scam – Part 2

This article is a continuation of ‘Victor Lustig, the king of scam – Part 1’. In 1925 he returned to Paris and learns of the problems the city had to meet the costs of maintaining the Eiffel Tower. Posed as a government official and business sent an invitation to six industrial metal. Organized a meeting […]

Victor Lustig, the King of Scam – Part 1

Few characters were as curious as Victor Lustig, who is widely believed to be considered the king of the scammers. Lustig was born in what is now the Czech Republic in January 1890. He had an amazing charisma and a winning smile. While still young he left his country and was engaged to defraud travellers […]

The midwife that killed infants – Part 4

This article is a continuation of ‘The midwife that killed infants – Part 3’. For this reason she was sentenced to only 8 years in prison, while Takeshi, Dr. Nakayama and his assistant Masako Kishi received 4 years imprisonment for aiding in the murders. In 1952 the couple appealed their sentences and the Tokyo Superior […]

The midwife that killed infants – Part 3

This article is a continuation of ‘The midwife that killed infants – Part 2’. After performing autopsies on infants found that they had died from natural causes. Babies do not have food in their stomachs, lungs also showed signs of pneumonia and their bodies were malnourished. The researchers concluded that the death of the infants […]

The midwife that killed infants – Part 2

This article is a continuation of ‘The midwife that killed infants – Part 1’. The exact number of victims is unknown, but the confirmed cases indicate that Miyuki killed at least 103 newborns. His modus operandi was to deny care to infants until they died of hunger and thirst and exhausted by the constant cries […]

The midwife that killed infants – Part 1

The increased number of babies in the hospital, and lack of social services and low income of parents of babies, forced the midwife to do the unimaginable. In the early 40’s, Miyuki Ishikawa worked as director of the Kotobuki maternity hospital in Tokyo, Japan. The insane pressure Miyuki felt was left to die hundreds of […]

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