Henry VIII was the first king to put a bath in his castle. They were not the cleanest of people. "It may look fabulous in high-definition on a 68-inch screen, but in reality, it was a very dirty, stinky, syphilitic age." Roles in Mission: Impossible III, Alexander, Velvet Goldmine...
Of multiple pregnancies and several births, the only child to survive was Henry and Catherine’s daughter, Mary, born in February 1516. Catherine remained at Henry’s side for 23 years and is even thought to be the only woman the king ever truly loved. “Henry viewed her as a model ...
Jack Welch was married three times. In 1959, he married Carolyn B. Osburn. The two, who had four children, divorced in 1987. He married Jane Beasley in 1989 and divorced her in 2003. He married his third wife, Suzy Wetlaufer, in 2004. Welch died in 2020 of renal failure.1 What W...
Cons:Having originally run for mayor as a Republican, Bloomberg considered previous presidential runs as an independent, including in 2020 when he criticized President Barack Obama’s economic policies. It was only in October of this year that he re-registered as a Democrat. On 2020:Dropped out ...
She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. ANTENOR PATIÑO - (1896-1982). Bolivian tycoon - called "the King of Tin". With his fortune, amongst other things, he...
A third officer, Alec Iurato, was wounded but expected to recover. (Connecticut State Police via AP) BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut police officer who was wounded in an apparent ambush that killed two of his fellow officers fired the shot that killed the attacker, police said....
was fueled by easy credit meant that many settlers lost their property during the financial panic of 1837 and five years of ensuing depression.8Van Buren, who railed against central banks, could do little to stop the economic mess, and he was defeated in 1840 by William Henry Harrison, who...
Stephen King is a prolific author. To date, he has written 54 novels and over 200 short stories, many of which have been adapted for the screen. Predominantly, King has specialised in the horror genre, as The Shining, Misery and Salem’s Lot (to name but three) attest. Nevertheless, th...
which was used to determine depressive symptoms in this study, was not based on a clinical diagnosis but on a self-report of five question items. However, the validity of the GDS5 has previously been verified [23]. Third, as mentioned above, the specific activities that the health promotion...
1895: Rudolf Diesel, a French inventor, patented the diesel engine that was an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine. Karl Benz: The pioneer who revolutionized automobiles Karl Benz (right), inventor of the first practical, modern automobile, pictured next to his wife Bertha ...