John Churchill ( First Duke of Marlborough ) deserted James for William of Orange who became King William 3rd. The King came to see that Churchill was the man to lead the fight against King Louis 14th and appointed him Commander in Chief of the English Army. Diana lived with Charles in their grand country house... Highgrove... surrounded by 400 acres. Alas, by the time Harry was born in 1984, the marriage was over. In 1986 Diana began an affair with James Hewitt. Pinewood Studios were set up in 1936 Please Sir... the movie ... was made in 1971... by that time Duffy, one of the school kids... was age 27 At one point, Lionel Bart... writer of the hit musical... "Oliver "... was earning £50,000 per week. fings began to go downhill with the musical... "Twang " (1965) which closed after 6 weeks. Lionel ended up living in a dingy flat above an off licence in Acton. Queen Mary 1st died after a reign of only 5 years..... long enough to burn 500 protestants at the stake . Pythagoras ( 582- 497 BC ) believed that mathematics holds the key to the universe. At the age of 40 he set up a religious community in Southern Italy... The Pythagorean Brotherhood.. His ideas became important to the philosopher Plato. Walter Raleigh became a favourite of Elizabeth 1st when he arrived at court in 1581. He helped prepare Englands defences against the Spanish Armada. He never went to America. In 1595 he went to South America in search of El Dorado. King James 1st distrusted him and locked him in the Tower for 12 years. In 1616 King James allowed him to travel to South America again. In 1618 the King ordered his execution and he was beheaded by axe. Raleigh's head was embalmed and presented to his wife. By the time "William Tell " was produced in Paris in 1829.... Rossini had written no fewer than 39 operas........ sometimes he wrote 3 or 4 operas a year. Spartacus... a humble slave captured in Thracia ( Greece ) led a slave revolt in 74 BC. His army of slaves grew to 90,000 men. The movie ... ET...(1982 ) went on to make $700 million ! Crusade.... from the spanish word.... Cruzada meaning ... marked by the cross. The operas .....Othello and Falstaff ......are considered Verdi's masterpieces yet he wrote them between the age 74 and 80 ! he died age 87. Voltaire was imprisoned for a year as punishment for criticising the French Monarchy. In 1754 he travelled to Switzerland where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1775 James Watt went into partnership with Mathew Boulton to begin manufacturing his improved steam engine. This steam engine went on to power and transform British industry. In 1913 Frank Woolworth built the Woolworth Building in New York. For many years it was the worlds tallest skyscraper. By the time Frank died, there were more than 10,000 stores in the Woolworth chain. The magician.... Houdini and the magician Paul Daniels, were both born on the same date April 6th The Mae West movies and their success was a lifeline for Paramount studios. Hounded by the Hays office and Hearst newspapers Mae eventually gave up the movies and returned to the stage. At age 68 she starred in a cabaret act.... surrounded by musclemen.... a show that ran for 3 years. Jean Harlow was Hollywood's sweetheart and a sex symbol. In 1932 she married Paul Bern. Three months after their marriage he shot himself. She went on to marry a cameraman 16 years her senior. She fell in love with co star William Powell... 20 years her senior.... but he refused to marry her. She was far from the dumb blonde portrayed on the screen.... she even wrote a more than passable novel before her early death at age 26 . Bugsy Siegel was one of the major figures in Murder Inc. By the time he was 25 he had his own suite in the Waldorf Astoria.. Lucky Luciano was living 2 floors above. Bugsy was driving through the quiet town of Las Vegas in 1945 when it struck him that this would be the ideal location for a casino. He raised $6million and built the Flamingo Hotel. On 20th June 1947 assassins burst into Bugsy's Beverly Hills home and filled him with lead. No one was ever charged with the murder. |
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