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Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of
The inspiration for Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” was a beautiful woman he met on a Greek island
The real “Sound of Music”: Moody Maria married a man 25 years her senior, the family lost their wealth before WWII, and she sold her autobiography to Hollywood for $9,000
Before the Cultural Revolution, many Iranian women followed fashion trends, wore makeup, and favored elaborate hair styles
Why questions linger about Natalie Wood’s 1981 drowning death off Catalina Island
Vinnie Ream won the competition to create a sculpture of Lincoln, but whispers and doubts shadowed her efforts at carving a “man of sorrow”
The tradition of hanging Christmas stockings was introduced by St. Nicholas, the patron of children
Humbug indeed: Countries that banned Christmas, past or present
John L. Sullivan was the first gloved-boxing world champion, and saw the world as his Fight Club
Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature
