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Joseph Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father and stepfather, a reliable son and brother, a generous and considerate neighbour and patron. He was also a criminal willing to consider any type of crime, provided it supported his lifestyle and his ego. Squizzy graduated from teenage pickpocket to adult murderer, from organizing smash-and-grab raids on jewellers to corrupting juries and suborning witnesses.

Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist—extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1933. Arendt is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that surrounded her 1963 New Yorker series on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a kidnapped Nazi war criminal. In this comprehensive biography, Anne C. Heller tracks the source of Arendt’s contradictions and achievements to her sense of being a “conscious pariah”.

Welcome to Fireside Mysteries, the podcast that pulls you into the world of UFO sightings, uap encounters, high strangeness, conspiracies, alien abduction and cultural myths. Each week, we dive deep into the cases that blur the line between fact and the unexplained — from legendary UFO sightings, uap encounters and alien abduction stories to conspiracies, high strangeness, and the mysteries of cultural myths. If you’ve ever wondered whether the Battle of Los Angeles UFO incident connects to the Pentagon’s UAP videos, or if the Mothman Prophecy was a warning from something beyond human ...