From Ten To Thirty-Five Years, These Celebrity Couples Have Many Years Separating Them
Once forbidden from speaking their native language, Navajo troops developed an unbreakable code from it.
LIFE.com presents rare photos from America's most famous entry point for immigrants -- Ellis island, a.k.a, "the island of hope and tears."
From Henry VIII to Lord Nelson, Queen Elizabeth I to Marie Antoinette and William Shakespeare, these five portraits imagine giants from history with a distinctly 21st-century twist.
Enchanting Colorized Photos Breathe New Life Into History
The lives of the beautiful and gifted Mitford sisters read like fiction. They were strong, gifted and their lives entwined and infiltrated every aspect of society. In a Forest Gump sort of way, they were always on the edge of history and sometimes actively involved.
Admit it: Most of your perception of history comes mostly from Hollywood blockbusters and skewed textbooks.
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The Tuskegee Airmen, the first black pilots in U.S. history, didn’t just excel in combat in World War II—they also broke racial barriers. This is their story.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: L.A. Phil -Barenboim-DuPre – Saint-Saens – 1968 Something special for the holiday – a portion of a concert from The Hollywood Bowl, featuring The Los Angeles Philharmonic, guest conducted by Daniel Barenboim and featuring Jacqueline DuPre, cello in the Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto. Recorded live in concert on […]
Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) [Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1589-1624] Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Hungary Although the museum maintains that this painting is by Fetti, this attribution has been disputed and remains uncertain. Several experts in Tuscan art have attributed the work to Sigismondo Coccapani
Frederick Herzberg was a clinical psychologist and is one of the major writers in motivational theories like the Two-Factor theory.
Jenny Lee & Elvira Snow Freaks has earned its place in history as one of the all-time great cult films, though it wasn’t always beloved. The film was reviled by both critics and audiences upon release in 1932. It was a career-killer for Tod Browning, who had previously been a Hollywood golden child with a string of Lon Chaney hits under his belt and who had just come off the enormous success of Dracula. The film shocked audiences with its use of actual sideshow “freaks” as actors: Among the characters featured as “freaks” were Peter Robinson (“the human skeleton”); Olga Roderick (“the bearded lady”); Frances O’Connor and Martha Morris (“armless wonders”); and the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton. Among the microcephalics who appear in the film (and are referred to as “pinheads”) were Zip and Pip (Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow) and Schlitzie, a male named Simon Metz who wore a dress mainly due to incontinence, a disputed claim. Also featured were the intersexual Josephine Joseph, with her left/right divided gender; Johnny Eck, the legless man; the completely limbless Prince Randian (also known as The Human Torso, and mis-credited as “Rardion”); Elizabeth Green the Stork Woman; and...
Pose creator Ryan Murphy's latest series imagines a Golden-Era Hollywood that empowers marginalized players
Admit it: Most of your perception of history comes mostly from Hollywood blockbusters and skewed textbooks.
Here you can find all my resources, including many free downloads – KaiserScience TpT resources This is what I tell my daughter. Reality TV and nonsense websites waste your time with “news…
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The promise of suggestive sexual content lured many warm blooded men to curiosity displays, carnivals, and sideshows. The Cooche Shows (exotic or
A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx. ~ Ronald Reagan By Gary P Jackson This should come as a surprise to absolutely…
Allan Grant's portraits of the stars of the Fifties' and Sixties' highlight his ability to capture something genuine in Hollywood.
Idyllic color photos of Ireland in 1927
The absence of women in history is man made.
America’s sweetheart, The girl with the curls, Little Mary – these are some of the nicknames for Mary Pickford, a silent film actress who recently captivated me. *** Before I started wr…
Un regard de braise, une voix chaude, un cranté légendaire... Lauren Bacall menait les hommes de sa vie, Humphrey Bogart en première ligne
With U.S. tabloid and gossip culture drifting—and Harry and Meghan moving to North America—a quintessential British tabloid is filling the void.
The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh looked the part of a British royal at King Charles’ coronation, but it was their daughter, Lady Louise, who stole the show! Making a very rare appearance alongside her 15-year-old brother James, the St. Andrews University student, 19, was a breath of fresh air in her floral silk Suzannah London dress and white fascinator.
Dear Lord, please find it within your heart to forgive me for calling our grandmother an out-and-out liar. When she said that she was directly related to Nicholas Cage I asked her to prove it . . .…
