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AnecdotesMichael Jackson: Artist of the Millennium

At one point during the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (broadcast live from New York`s Radio City Music Hall),

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AnecdotesChurchill`s Lion

During the Yalta conference in 1945, Winston Churchill and the British delegation were housed in the Alubka palace,...

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AnecdotesRockin` Pope

In September 1999, Pope John Paul II hosted a debt relief concert in Italy featuring such celebrity musicians as Bob...

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AnecdotesWilliam Randolph Hearst asks astronomer for 1000 words on Mars

William Randolph Hearst, always in search of sensational stories, once sent a telegram to a leading astronomer: "Is...

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AnecdotesLiebermann

In the early 1930s, despite the growing anti-Semitism in Germany, emissaries were sent to Max Liebermann to commission...

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AnecdotesCold Comfort

"Pitt had been urging Parliament to approve the immediate dispatch of the British fleet against the French. In order...

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AnecdotesRussell Crowe: Friendly Gesture

One day on the set of A Beautiful Mind, a 21-year-old Princeton undergrad snapped Russell Crowe`s picture as...

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AnecdotesNo Canvassing?

J. M. Barrie valued his privacy and was known to react violently when it was invaded. One day, a reporter materialized on...

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AnecdotesCavalleria Rusticana

One day an organ-grinder, stationed outside Pietro Mascagni`s apartment, began playing tunes from his opera

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AnecdotesSASE Sentiment

One day during the Civil War Abraham Lincoln received a letter from a female admirer requesting not only an autograph...

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