He dreaded the number 13...and as he feared, he died on Friday the 13th.
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He dreaded the number 13...and as he feared, he died on Friday the 13th.
Lewis Carroll came up with an improvised tale that would one day morph into a classic book.
Jean-Baptiste Lully, the Italian composer whose fast-tempoed music livened up the court of France's Louis XIV, died on this day after a 3-month battle with an infection that started with a smashed toe.
The distinctive symbol was a combination of the letters N (for nuclear) and D (for disarmament) from the semaphore alphabet.
Her legendary mastery of the Cancan combined with her wild and unrestrained antics made her the toast of Paris!
He was perhaps the biggest force in science fiction fandom, and he spent his life promoting/elevating the genre as both an art form and a cultural movement.