Tantalizing Facts About Lauren Bacall, The Irresistible Screen Siren Is there another star who defines the idea of an Old Hollywood screen siren better than Lauren Bacall? Doubtful. With her femme fatale looks and iconic low voice, Bacall was a staple of Golden Age cinema. Her life is ...
I no longer care about my glory. At twenty-nine I have exhausted everything." Unfortunately, the letter was intercepted by the British and then all of Europe knew of Joséphine’s unfaithfulness and the emperor’s changed feelings. Photo: Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau/Bar...
Facts About The Tudors 1. It Takes Two, Baby It all began with one couple: Edmund Tudor and Lady Margaret Beaufort. In fact, Lady Margaret Beaufort is the stuff of historical novelist dreams. As a child during England’s Wars of the Roses between the Lancasters and the Yorks, she gave...
At the time, women weren't supposed to be educated. Gertrude Bell didn't care about the social norms of the time, however, and went to college anyway. She was the first woman to earn a degree in Modern History at Oxford, but she wasn't allowed to go through with the g...
One of the first video game characters to get their own animated series was Sonic the Hedgehog. Spin into these facts about 1993's animated TV series.
Paris, city and capital of France, situated in the north-central part of the country. People were living on the site of the present-day city, located along the Seine River some 233 miles (375 km) upstream from the river’s mouth on the English Channel (La Manche), by about 7600 bce...
the basement of a new office building, next to London Bridge, where about two-thirds of the foundations of the ElizabethanRose Theatrecan barely be made out. A little farther to the west, the new Globe rises up on theBankside, asserting definite knowledge of William Shakespeare’s theatre ...
He continued, in part, gushing, “She saved me in one of the darkest times of my life. She has been nothing but supportive. I remember her sitting at our kitchen table and her talking to me about the vision she had to start the ‘Dumb Blonde’ Podcast, and how it was her means to...
10. Sacha Baron Cohen lied about adapting a romance novel written by Saddam Hussein to avoid being targeted by a dictator. When Baron Cohen and Larry Charles were developingThe Dictator, they were worried that the main influence for his Admiral General Aladeen character, Libyan dictator Muammar al...
When Snoopy becomes the World War I Flying Ace, he transforms into an excellent fighter pilot who is out to hunt down his arch nemesis, the Red Baron — much like a beagle hones in on a target when hunting prey. Beagles are also known for their excellent sense of smell, which is one...