Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
Bo Derek is a Golden Globe-nominated American film actress and model.
Derek first came to prominence when she co-starred in the 1979 Blake Edwards film 10, in which Dudley Moore’s character is torn between his love for Julie Andrews and his fascination with Derek.
Her appearance shot her to instant stardom and status as a sex symbol. […]
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The Slansky trial was a show trial against elements of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia who were thought to have adopted the line of the maverick Yugoslav leader Josip Tito.
On November 20, 1952, Rudolf Slansky, General Secretary of the KSC, and 13 other Communist leaders or bureaucrats, 11 of them Jews, were accused of participating […]
National Review was first published on November 19, 1955 and is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. and based in New York City.
While the print version of the magazine is available online to subscribers, the web site’s free content is essentially a separate publication. Generally the magazine provides […]
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The Edsel was a make of automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company during the 1958, 1959, and 1960 model years. The car brand is best known as one of the most spectacular failures in the history of the United States automobile industry.
The Edsel was introduced amidst considerable publicity on “E Day”—September 4, 1957. It […]
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The Blasket Islands are a group of islands off the west coast of Ireland, forming part of County Kerry. They were inhabited until 1953 by a completely Irish-speaking population.
The inhabitants were evacuated to the mainland on 17 November 1953. Many of the descendants currently live in Springfield, Massachusetts and some former residents still live on […]
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Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama.
He is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, as the world’s most famous Buddhist monk, and as exiled leader of the Tibetan government in Dharamsala, India..
Gyatso was the fifth of […]
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Lionel Barrymore was an American Academy Award-winning actor of stage, radio and film,
Barrymore began his stage career in the early 1900s. In 1907, after spending many years in Paris, he came back to Broadway, where he established his reputation as dramatic actor. He and Doris often acted together when in the theater. He proved his […]
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In Cold Blood is a 1966 book by American author Truman Capote.
It details the 1959 slaying of Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas; his wife, and two children. When Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, he decided to travel to Kansas and write about the crime.
Bringing his childhood […]
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Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. usually credited simply as Tyrone Power and known sometimes as “Ty Power“, was an American film and stage actor who appeared in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often as a swashbuckler or romantic lead, in such movies as The Mark of Zorro, The Black Swan, Prince of […]
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Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A. in psychology, he would instead seek a life in music though he had no formal training and could not read a note.
After playing keyboards in local rock bands […]
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