Marquis de Sade, who lived from 1740 to 1814 and died in a mental asylum, were banned in France until 1957, and the diabolical aura around his literary output has lifted only gradually. In fact, according to Hugues, his ancestor’s very existence was erased from...
Roger’s band, The Detours, was a party band. They played Country & Western songs, ‘Hava Nagila’, the hokey-cokey, the conga, Cliff Richard songs and whatever was high in the charts at the time. Roger ruled The Detours with a characteristically iron hand. Judging by the faces of thos...
So that's how a fantasy, a whopper, saw the light of day. It was a million things. What began as teenage insecurity ended up morphing into one of the tallest tales in college football history. One calendar year ago, Kevin Hart, a no-name offensive lineman from Fernley, Nev., staged...
There were so many problems in the palace and Oedipus had faced many obstacles in his life because of his wrong deeds. However, Oedipus lost the love of his parents, because he unknowingly murdered his father, Polybus, and married his mother Jocasta. I believe it was not right for Jocasta...
Who was the biggest power couple the year you were born? The media is always enamored by the coupling of famous people, and so is the gossip-crazed public.
Tom Sandoval’s Inner Circle After Cheating Scandal: Tom Schwartz, Billie Lee and More of His Friends Tom Sandoval's friend group was in for a shakeup after his cheating scandal. Sandoval and his now-ex-girlfriendAriana Madixhad many of the same friends before his affair with the...
Olympian LoLo Jones went on Real Sports to reveal that she was a virgin, and she was waiting until marriage to have sex. She said, "If there's virgins out there, I just want to let them know, it's the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Harde...
Davies is recalling his account of the now infamous coughing scandal, which later saw contestant Charles Ingram, his wife Diana and accomplice Tecwen Whittock, who was waiting to play himself in the "fastest finger first" seats, convicted of cheating and handed suspended sentenc...
It was around midnight that the cataclysm began. Placidia would have heard distant sounds of Gothic horns and growing pandemonium around the Salarian Gate in the city’s northwest; not long afterward, flames could be seen rising from the nearby Gardens of Sallust. The Goths had breached the ...
She never had another child. She never stopped mourning for the one she lost. Over the years she would go to the cemetery and stand over the grave. But even as she wept and even as she prayed, Violet says she always wondered: Was it really her daughter who lay in the ground?