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Angela Lansbury moved her family to Ireland after her daughter met Charles Manson

Angela Lansbury recalled how her daughter fell under the spell of a Hollywood layabout who collected the girl from school and made her steal money and food from her parents. Alarmed, Lansbury moved the whole family to Ireland. The young man was Charles Manson. A badass story. *Manson was an

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Angela Lansbury, Legendary Actress of Hollywood's Golden Age, Has Died

Angela Lansbury, the legendary actress of Hollywood's Golden Age, has died. Her career on stage, television and film lasted eight decades. She missed her 97th birthday by only a couple of days.

Art · Society · People

Van Meegeren sold a forged Vermeer to Göring and confessed to the forgery in 1947

Henricus Antonius van Meegeren is regarded as one of the most ingenious art forgers of the twentieth century. For a long time, van Meegeren's fakes were esteemed in the art world as very nearly the finest examples of the work of such seventeenth-century painters as Johannes Vermeer

Black-and-white portrait of Jacques Brel in a jacket, chin resting on folded hands, gazing thoughtfully to the side.

People · Pop Culture · Humour

Portrait of Jacques Brel, French poet, singer-songwriter and actor

Humour Is the Healthiest Form of Mindfulness. The French poet, singer-songwriter and actor Jacques Brel

The East · Society · People

Ali Kemal Bey, ancestor of Boris Johnson and minister in the Ottoman government of 1919

Among the famous forebears of Boris Johnson is Ali Kemal Bey, a Turkish opposition politician of the early twentieth century, journalist and public figure, who for a brief time in 1919 even held a ministerial post in the post-war Ottoman government. As minister, he signed the order for the

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Lady Pamela Hicks, who at 93, after the death of Elizabeth II, became the oldest of Queen Victoria's descendants, told her daughter India on her podcast how Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice (1885-1969), asked Lloyd George to…

Alice, of course, modestly hinted that if the question of rescuing the unfortunate girls had anything to do with their future maintenance, lodging and provision, she would take all of it upon herself. Naturally, the matter lay quite elsewhere. And she was, of course, told that it was impossible. Princess

Black-and-white portrait of a man in round glasses with thick dark eyebrows and moustache, holding a cigar beside his cheek.

Cinema · People · Humour

Portrait of American comedian Groucho Marx with a cigar and round glasses

Inside every old man is a young man wondering what happened. American comedian Groucho Marx

People · Humour

Austrian composer Artur Schnabel at the piano in an archive photograph

The trouble with the piano is that every good note lies between two bad ones. The Austrian composer Artur Schnabel In life, incidentally, it is much the same

Medieval miniature of a funeral procession with a coffin under a blue pall with golden fleurs-de-lis, accompanied by men in red and dark robes.

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John I the Posthumous, King of France, lived five days in November 1316

John I was King of France for just five days in November 1316, from birth to death. He entered history under the name of John the Posthumous

Detail of the painting: a bearded rider in a red headdress, a horse’s head and a frightened fair-haired young woman with her mouth open.

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Arnold Böcklin’s painting “War”, created in 1896

Arnold Böcklin. War. 1896

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Self-Portrait of Horace Vernet in His Studio in Rome after His Return from a Journey through North Africa, 1835

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Thomas Schweicker (1540 - 1602) was an artist who had no hands

Thomas Schweicker (1540 - 1602) was an artist who had no hands. He worked sitting on the floor, holding a sheet of paper steady with one foot and guiding the pen with the other