Redford reportedly wanted to do his own jump, but the studio wouldn’t allow it, fearing injury. In classic fashion, the pair decided to make the best of it, turning the moment into a joke with Newman teasing, I’m just too valuable.
Among the funerary offerings to a woman who died around the age of 40 was a delicate bottle carved from quartz crystal, sealed with a bitumen stopper and with its congealed contents preserved inside.
1. Estonia is one of the most digitally advanced countries in the world, with e-residency and e-voting systems. 2. Over 50% of Estonia is covered by forests. 3. The country has one of the highest literacy rates in the world at 99.8%. 4. Estonia has one of the […]
What if, on the ancient day of Samhain, now known as Halloween. A festival celebrated by our ancient earth-based peoples, ignited by their understanding of the cycles of life, a love of the earth and sacred celebration. We didn’t celebrate it by misrepresenting the ancestors, the witches, and […]
Wandering through art galleries and museums, bookshops, parks and gardens, why not pause to consider who it was or what it was that inspired the creation of each work of art.
One day, Russian writing legend Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was standing on the platform of the Tula station when a courier train made a brief stop. A gentleman quickly exited a first-class carriage and dashed toward the buffet. Moments later, a lady emerged from the carriage and called after […]
You are the same talented person as you will be when you are a household name. Never forget your true worth is not dependent upon tomorrow but on what you are today.
Visually, the film is stunning. Leone’s attention to detail, from the sepia-toned streets of 1920s New York to the lavish interiors of gangster hideouts, immerses the audience in a bygone era.
Sir Thomas Beecham, one of England’s great conductors, on finishing his Australian tour was asked by a reporter when he would be returning. He replied: ‘Does anyone ever return to Australia?’
The most enduring love marriage was that of Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti. Described as the most beautiful woman on earth they met when she was sixteen and he was a thirty-seven-year-old married man.
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