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AMC+ on Thursday (Dec. 9), showcases the famous doomed Queen’s story in a different way — with Jodie Turner-Smith, (“Queen and Slim”), a British actress of Jamaican descent, in the lead role.“We wanted to make sure the world of our Tudor court didn’t look exactly like period dramas that we’d seen in the past,” series writer Eve Hedderwick Turner told The Post. “Because it is such a well-known period of history and Anne’s story itself has been really well covered, we wanted to make sure that it felt fresh and alive and different.

Justus Rosenberg was a Holocaust survivor who worked with the French Resistance to help refugees escape the Nazi regime.A native of Danzig, in modern-day Poland, Rosenberg was sent by his parents to study in Paris in the years leading up to World War II. As the Nazi occupation of Paris neared, Rosenberg fled to Toulouse, in the south of France, where he became involved with the French Resistance.

a new movie, “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch, in select theaters now and streaming on Amazon Prime Video Friday, tells his story.“He made the cat his own,” the science-fiction writer H.G. Wells once said.

Fox reported. The post-World War II years were the birth time of two non-chocolate favorites: cinnamon-flavored Hot Tamales came out in 1950, and Pixy Stix in 1952. In a decade defined by hippies and the counterculture, three candy favorites also came onto the scene. Starbursts were introduced in the UK in 1960, initially going by the name of Opal Fruits and hitting US markets closer to the end of the decade, in 1967.

in the journal iScience.Study authors were able to determine ancient fashion trends based on 62 bone tools they found in a Moroccan cave, some of which appear to have been used not for food but creating garments.“I wasn’t expecting to find them. I was studying this assemblage initially to look at the animal bones to reconstruct the human diet,” lead author and postdoctoral scientist Emily Yuko Hallett told CNN.

on their website. “These activities progress players through the experience and bring to life important themes of Dr.

Side Door” and “One Lennox” restauranteur Istvan Nagy will continue to run the space as a bar, restaurant and entertainment venue under a new name, which is yet to be determined. It is slated to open in November or December, according to Katz & Associates, who represented Connolly in the transaction.

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CNN of the freshly restored “hypogeum,” as the underground corridors are known. “This restoration is absolutely important for the archaeological research, because it enables us to reconstruct its history.”The Colosseum — which is both the Roman empire’s largest amphitheater and Italy’s most popular tourist attraction — has been undergoing a comprehensive restoration since 2011.

“An American Marriage” (Pegasus), out now. “Lincoln may never have become president if his wife had not turbocharged the restless engine of his ambition,” Burlingame writes. And, he reveals, Mary’s madness would also open the door to her husband’s assassin in 1865. Born in 1818, Mary Todd grew up in material comfort yet called her childhood “desolate.” Six years old when her mother died, she felt rejected by her merchant-politician father and the stepmother he quickly married. “She came to think of herself as unloved and unlovable,” Burlingame writes. “Out of those feelings, it would appear, grew a hunger for .

his estate is pulling out of print). It was the name of one of Seuss’ fictional creatures, but soon took on the modern meaning.

How did this series come about?I stole this from James Burke, who was a famous English television presenter back in ’70s who hosted a show called “Connections.” It was the granddaddy of all history stylized fiction shows. He would spend an hour — he was like the professor you wish you had, Oxford-educated, white leisure suit, white hair flapping in the breeze — and he would stalk around the English countryside saying, for example, “Tonight, we’re going to explain why the tracks left by the original Roman chariots are the identical dimensions to those tracks left on the moon by the lunar landing.” An hour later you’re still watching.

Tasting History,” his popular YouTube channel that explores international cuisine — and the history behind it.Miller, 37, answered some questions about “Tasting History” and about turning his idea into a full-blown enterprise.Relatively recently, actually. Until six years ago, I’d never even boiled an egg.

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With former Prime Minister Tony Abbott being appointed as the President of the UK Board Of Trade in recent weeks questions have been raised about his suitability for the role, particularly in regards to questions around homophobia.In light of these questions an interesting document from the past has surfaced in Sydney. The document which appears to show Abbott was registered for the 2nd National Homosexual Conference at Sydney University in August 1976 has surfaced among the papers left behind by a gay activist.The registration form was found in the papers left behind by Lex Watson, gay rights activist and foundation member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP), who passed away in 2014.

tweeted Verzuz, which has organized battles between its co-founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, Erykah Badu and Jill Scott along with Teddy Riley and Babyface, among many others.Perhaps that means a new tour or single is on the horizon for the “The Boy Is Mine” duo? It may be wishful thinking, if Monica’s disposition Monday night was any indication.

announced plans to rename the park in February during a speech at the Human Rights Campaign’s Greater New York Gala.Other installments, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2021, include a new park house, shaped like an enclosed barge container, that will serve as an education center, housing classroom space, public bathrooms, a park ranger contact station, and a small storage area; an art installation celebrating various aspects of Johnson’s life on two parallel foundation walls, creating an outdoor gallery; and decorative exterior wall treatments that match the decorations on the park house and the installation.“Too often, the marginalized voices that have pushed progress forward in New York and across the country go unrecognized,

Laura Whitmore, an Irish presenter based in London, has come under fire for a social media post about the British army.

The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.“I didn’t know much about her. I knew about the horse rumour — which is sad,” Fanning, 22, confesses on a Zoom call from Los Angeles.

Elle Fanning wasn’t deeply familiar with the story of Catherine the Great, the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. But quickly after she agreed to lead Hulu’s The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.

Elle Fanning wasn’t deeply familiar with the story of Catherine the Great, the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. But quickly after she agreed to lead Hulu’s The Great, she learned there was more to the famed empress than the rumour she’d had sex with a horse.