• Lesbian humorist Garbo once shared an apartment with two gay men, who were very open about their sexuality. Sometimes, one of Garbo’s straig…
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Editor’s note: This is a special Christmas edition of “WiseUp!”, a column that ran in The Athens NEWS for many years. Thanks, David!
• Mark Evanier, a blogger at newsfromme.com, ate frequently at the Farmers Market in Los Angeles. One day near Christmas, as a group of four y…
• A woman was walking down a street when a man working on a roof began to catcall her. She told him to stop, but he escalated the catcalling. …
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• Jane Seymour is best known for starring in TV’s “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” a series that fell to her by luck – bad luck. She was going thr…
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• An appearance on “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson could lead to fame and fortune and great success, and so of course many guests were u…
• In November of 1778, John Henderson (1747-1785) was playing Falstaff in Shakespeare’s “Henry IV, Part 1.” The previous Wednesday, a nobleman…
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• Mark Twain retained his sense of humor in his old age. When his wife, Livy, worried that his spending lots of time in bed reading and writin…
• For a while, Allen Pinkerton and his wife, Joan, lived in Montreal, Canada, but soon Mr. Pinkerton had earned enough money to buy them passa…
• The most famous pharaoh of ancient Egypt is King Tutankhamon, who died at age 18 after ruling for nine years. Although most Egyptologists re…
• As you may expect, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, loved nature. As a boy, he and other boys engag…
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• Lise Meitner, a pioneer of nuclear fission who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1878, had to overcome prejudice to get an education and to wo…
• Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine have performed all over the world. In El Salvador, civil war wracked the country, and three bodyg…
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• Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert became famous after they started to review movies on television (which is also when they became friends), and pe…
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of “The Scarlet Letter,” is not usually thought of as being funny, but he had his moments. When he finally felt …
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