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[2]: 45 Serling later set several of his scripts in the Philippines and used the unpredictability of death as a theme in much of his writing. [2]: 46 In the 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Purple Testament", a prologue written by Serling stated, "Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Philippine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who ...
Tom Mix was the acknowledged "King of Cowboys" when Ronald Reagan and John Wayne were young, and the influence of his screen persona can be seen in their approach to portraying cowboys. When an injury caused football player Marion Morrison (later known as John Wayne) to drop out of the University of Southern California , Mix helped him find ...
Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
Richard Selig (1929–1957), was an American poet. Born in 1929, Selig attended the University of Washington and later Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. [1] He was introduced to Irish soprano and harpist Mary O'Hara by Irish poet Thomas Kinsella. [1] The couple married in 1956, and Selig moved to the United States with O'Hara. [1] [2]
Her horrific death shocked the city — and the nation. Illegal Guatemalan immigrant Sebastian Zapeta-Calil is charged with setting her on fire around 7:30 a.m. Dec. 22 on an F train in the ...
William N. Selig entered show business as "Selig the Conjurer" and morphed into the impresario of "Selig's Mastodon Minstrels," which featured Bert Williams, along with "five whites, four blacks, and a Mexican' who drove the horse team and played trombone" and then into the owner of the Selig Polyscope Company that made and licensed projection equipment.
Ron Ely’s cause of death was listed as end-stage heart disease (Getty Images) The actor was preceded in death by his wife, Valerie Lundeen Ely, who in 2019 was tragically stabbed to death in ...
Pete Rose still isn't going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. While the career hits leader's banishment from baseball 35 years ago was often referred to as a lifetime ban, and his death this week ...