A quote from Marilyn Monroe about wanting to become an actress
“When I was five I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was ki...
Author: Historical Snapshots
Shabbat service at Buchenwald
“I walked into the Kinohalle (Cinema Hall) on Friday evening and there were at least 1000 people packed to the rafters. I got up on a small platform. I ha...
Amelia Earhart learns to fly
“By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly,” said Amelia Earhart of her first flying experience. But flying wasn’t a p...
Annette Kellermann, the first woman to wear a one-piece swimsuit
“My early physical misfortune has turned out to be the greatest blessing that could have come to me. Without it I should have missed all the grim struggle upwar...
Elizabeth Taylor quote about first marriage
“I left home as soon as I could, when I was 18. I thought I was in love and got married—the press called it Prince Charming and Cinderella. He was a Hilto...
The love of Oscar Wilde and Bosie
In 1891, Oscar Wilde fell in love with 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate Lord Alfred Douglas, or as friends affectionately called him, “Bosie.” Their...
The legend that was Mary Fields
She drank whiskey, swore often, and smoked handmade cigars. She wore pants under her skirt and a gun under her apron. At six feet tall and two hundred pounds, M...
A quote from Marie Curie
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.” – Marie Curie, the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and t...
Happy birthday, Susan B. Anthony
“We shall someday be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just ex...
Dr. Rogozov performs surgery on himself
Antarctica, 1961. Dr. Leonid Rogozov is there as part of a small team of Russian researchers. One day he feels weak, nauseous, and pain in his abdomen. He diagn...
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