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Jarmomir Petricek. Suddenly they weren't funny
Jarmomir Petricek. Suddenly they weren't funny

Jarmomir Petricek. Suddenly they weren't funny

Date10/6/1964
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0132065F
They all screamed, says William Dalziel recalling the moment when the kitchen of his Niagara Falls home suddenly exploded into flame. He's holding pictures of his burned wife, and four of six children. In photo, from left: Linda, 3, David, 6, Carmen, 5, and William, 8. Other two children escaped injury.
They all screamed, says William Dalziel recalling the moment when the kitchen of his Niagara Falls home suddenly exploded into flame. He's holding pictures of his burned wife, and four of six children. In photo, from left: Linda, 3, David, 6, Carmen, 5, and William, 8. Other two children escaped injury.
12/20/1968
Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
Thousands of prisoners who died at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during World War II weren't deliberately starved to death but died from a rash of diseases, according to a psychiatrist who was there in 1945. Russell William Barton, 61, of Rochester, N.Y., said that when he entered the camp on May 2, 1945, he had heard and believed that prisoners were deliberately starved to death by the Nazis.
2/7/1985
Labor of love: Pamella Amster and Gerald Beeston, owners of After Dark, started their specialty store because We used to go to video stores and we used to get angry because there weren't any videos that we liked, Amster says.
Labor of love: Pamella Amster and Gerald Beeston, owners of After Dark, started their specialty store because We used to go to video stores and we used to get angry because there weren't any videos that we liked, Amster says.
1/29/1989
Jake Howard: Chains weren't trying to avoid head-to-head competition, lawyer says.
Jake Howard: Chains weren't trying to avoid head-to-head competition, lawyer says.
10/14/1983
Cashing in on comics - it's not a funny business
Cashing in on comics - it's not a funny business
8/11/1987
Alan Rickman: Veteran British actor who played the wickedly funny bad guy in Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves, just finished a stage play and two movies before starting a third
Alan Rickman: Veteran British actor who played the wickedly funny bad guy in Robin Hood, Prince Of Thieves, just finished a stage play and two movies before starting a third
11/7/1991
David Ogilvy. Funny commercials out
David Ogilvy. Funny commercials out
5/22/1974
It's a big hit for fan, The Blue Jays weren't winners in their first game in the Skydome, but Norman Grill was
It's a big hit for fan, The Blue Jays weren't winners in their first game in the Skydome, but Norman Grill was
6/17/1989
Autograph letter in Arthur Conan Doyle's handwriting. 
Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex; "Dear Sir; You will be sorry to hear that Ashton Johnson died suddenly last Friday..."
January 11, 1907
Mrs. Djurdjo Szing opposes critics of sudden immigration crack-down. How can one stop abuses if not suddenly? she asks in letter
Mrs. Djurdjo Szing opposes critics of sudden immigration crack-down. How can one stop abuses if not suddenly? she asks in letter
3/30/1973
Suddenly it's not spring, A spring wedding was what Debbie Read, a telephone operator from Scarborough, and Gerry van Pelt, an apprentice electrician (...)
Suddenly it's not spring, A spring wedding was what Debbie Read, a telephone operator from Scarborough, and Gerry van Pelt, an apprentice electrician (...)
1/26/1975
John Gilbert, 39, actor, writer, producer, and once known as the great lover of the screen, died suddenly from a heart attack to-day. His death was re(...)
John Gilbert, 39, actor, writer, producer, and once known as the great lover of the screen, died suddenly from a heart attack to-day. His death was re(...)
1/9/1936