Helen Keller never married or had children. However, she almost married Peter Fagan. When Anne became ill and had to take some time off, Peter, a 29 year-old reporter, became Helen’s secretary. Helen regretted never marrying, sadly saying later “If I could see, I would marry first of all.” They…
Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S. Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was an American woman tried and acquitted of the August 4, 1892, axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. For the novices out there, she killed her parents with an axe…or did…
Did Castle and Beckett get married? The answer to this question is no, but they were definitely married at one point in time. Castle proposed to Beckett on one knee the day before the big fight, telling her that he wanted more out of life than just a ring. When…
Today, they have two children who are prize-winning youth rodeo competitors and the family enjoys an abundant life on a ranch near Post. This week, their 16-year-old son, Aaron, competed in team roping at the Texas High School Rodeo Association Finals in Abilene. Josh’s brother, Joe Frost, is a three-time…
Let’s not forget, Zac played Phillip Carlyle in 2017’s The Greatest Showman, and provided vocals for ‘The Greatest Show’, ‘The Other Side’ and ‘Rewrite the Stars’. Aside from her acrobatics and stunts with Zac Efron, Zendaya’s character sings a number of songs in the film. That is, in fact, Zendaya…
Cole’s publicist said the singer’s death was the result of congestive heart failure, which her family said was a complication of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which she had been diagnosed with after her kidney transplant in 2009. Robert Yancy, son of the late R&B singer Natalie Cole, died suddenly at…
Did Mae Jemison have siblings? The answer is yes, but we’re not sure if she had any siblings at all. Jemison was born in Chicago and graduated from Morgan Park High School at age 16. She moved to California at 16 and attended Stanford University. While there, she was a…
Akbar took the policy of religious toleration even further by breaking with conventional Islam. The Emperor proclaimed an entirely new state religion of ‘God-ism’ (Din-i-ilahi) – a jumble of Islamic, Hindu, Christian and Buddhist teaching with himself as deity. Mughal religious tolerance was multifold. Firstly, the Mughals kept religious minorities…
He also said Sun Tzu was both flexible and had unlimited surprises for his enemies. Sima Qian wrote that in his nearly 40-years as a general, Sun Tzu never lost a battle, a campaign or a war. He also said Sun Tzu was both flexible and had unlimited surprises for…
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo Space program (1961-1975) and was supposed to be the third lunar landing mission, but the three astronauts aboard never reached the moon. Instead the crew and ground control team scrambled through a hair-raising rescue mission. On April 15, 1970, Apollo…