For decades, schoolchildren the world over have learned about Anne Frank. The teenager who hid with her family from the Nazis, in an attempt to escape the concentration camps where …
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Last month William Ash died at age 96, bringing to a close a life too strange to be made up.
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For more than six decades until her death in 1984, Anna Anderson maintained that she was the lost Grand Duchess Anastasia…
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Decades after his death, Samuel Goldwyn’s name is still associated with Hollywood: He’s the “G” in MGM.
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When Eartha Kitt died five years ago at 81, her New York Times obituary called her “a seducer of audiences.” One of the first widely known African-American sex symbols, Kitt …
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Frank Zappa was a prolific composer and musician. When he died 20 years ago, the New York Times called him “rock’s most committed iconoclast.”
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Her devoted father called her “chryso mou,” or “my golden one.” And from the outside, Christina Onassis seemed to have a golden life …
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The intriguing life of the man behind the Nobel Prize…
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Who was Agathe von Trapp? You might know her as Liesl.
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Grace Kelly was living proof that sometimes fairy tales aren’t just stories…