Top Items About Offense
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Helen Walsh: erotic reading | Helen Walsh read from one of her books in public "only once, at this erotic reading in the south of England in this... | root | 84 | |
| Anecdotes | "Beast" Butler | While serving as commander of the Union forces occupying New Orleans in 1862, Benjamin Butler issued a notorious... | Anonymous | 73 | |
| Anecdotes | Katharine Hepburn: Pants | Katharine Hepburn almost always wore pants, even when doing so was decidedly unfashionable. "You`re famous for... | Anonymous | 55 | |
| Anecdotes | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison & Oprah Winfrey | Though often described as a gifted interviewer, the writer Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (famed for her early life as a... | Anonymous | 40 | |
| Anecdotes | Bah! | While still in his twenties, Augustus Keppel was enlisted to appeal to the dey of Algiers to restrain his corsairs, a... | Anonymous | 31 | |
| Anecdotes | Christ of the Andes | In March 1904, a large statue of Jesus Christ (see `christ of the andes`) was erected in the Uspallata Pass (high in... | Anonymous | 30 | |
| Anecdotes | Well of Loneliness | Because of its homosexual subject matter, Radclyffe Hall`s classic novel | Anonymous | 29 | |
| Anecdotes | M-My Generation | The BBC has a long history of banning hit songs from its airwaves - chief among them "A Day in the Life" (drug... | Anonymous | 27 | |
| Anecdotes | Contrarian | Though Kondraty Ryleyev, like the other Decembrist conspirators, was condemned to be hanged, the rope, rather... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Up in Arms | In July 2003, a new action figure, modelled on the Seattle Public Library`s own Nancy Pearl, appeared on store shelves... | Anonymous | 21 |
