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Current time: 11:04, 8 October 2024 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 11 hours ago() |
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- ... that after a career as an opera singer and Broadway musical star, Winfield Blake (pictured) became a vaudeville comedian as one half of the duo Blake and Amber?
- ... that a Picasso sculpture at University Village was called "half as high and twice as sexy as the Great Sphinx of Egypt"?
- ... that country music singer Buck Owens bought a bankrupt TV station in California from his sister?
- ... that 13-year-old Nyah Mway is thought to be the first Karen person killed by police in the United States?
- ... that Ratnākara's Haravijaya is the longest extant Sanskrit mahākāvya?
- ... that 99-year-old swimmer Betty Brussel broke three competitive swimming records on the same day?
- ... that both scholars and activists believe that diet culture is often intertwined with racism and other forms of prejudice?
- ... that G. R. Pantouw supported the Dutch puppet state of East Indonesia because he wanted to push the Netherlands into abandoning colonialism?
- ... that a Cretan man found a 1st-century statue of Aphrodite while trying to drill a well, and then reburied it?