While working as a prop boy, John Wayne met Wyatt Earp; He later credited his walk, talk, and persona to his acquaintance with Earp
Hachiko: The dog who continued to wait his owner for more than nine years after his death
Three giant Viking swords stand buried in a stone in Hafrsfjord, Norway, recalling a mythic struggle for unity
The Good Cemeterian: Мan spends his Sundays cleaning forgotten veterans’ tombstones
Saltford Manor: The oldest inhabited private house in England
During WWII, Veronica Lake changed her trademark peek-a-boo look to encourage factory workers to adopt safer hair styles
Joanne Woodward said the key to her 50-year-long marriage to Paul Newman was he made her laugh “every day”
Cowry shell coins: an ancient monetary system based on sea shells used on almost every continent
Golden Girl Bea Arthur was a truck-driving Marine during WWII
Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American to win an Oscar for her role in ‘Gone with the Wind’, was requested to sit at a segregated table during the award ceremony
